Future Ventures

Seed and early-stage investing in mission-driven founders

Mostly at the seed and early stages, Future Ventures backs mission-driven founders. Its partners say they have spent about twenty-five years backing people who push at the edge of what is possible, and the firm focuses on entrepreneurs whose ideas could reinvent entire industries.

Frontier technology

Its interests run from robotics and quantum computing to blockchain, aerospace and new food technology. Its site names founding investments in companies working on fusion energy, quantum computing, space and cultivated meat.

Founding investments and claimed outcomes

The partners say they have led founding investments in companies that went public or were sold for very large sums. The firm presents these outcomes as its own record and says the value created by its founding investments runs into the trillions.

How the partners describe their approach

The partners describe a style of investing that favors founder-led, mission-driven companies at the frontier of disruptive technology and new industry formation.

Writing and podcasts

The firm publishes writing on subjects including deep learning and the manufacture of meat without animals, and it has a long-form podcast interview series.