Rocketship Ventures

Rocketship Ventures is a venture investor run by people who have founded companies and work as data scientists. It says its edge comes from data mining and from a large database of startup activity.

What Rocketship Ventures offers

• Data-driven company search — using its database of startup activity to look for promising businesses.
• Venture investing — backing companies, with partners who have invested in firms across several countries.
• Founder experience — advice from people who have built companies themselves.
• Technical expertise — the team includes authors of a widely read data mining textbook, translated into fourteen languages.

Who it works with

The partners have invested in businesses such as Trocafone in Brazil, Apna in India, and Facebook and Lyft in the United States. The firm addresses startup founders looking for backing and guidance.

Key facts

• Approach: data mining and analytics applied to investing
• Geography of past investments: Brazil, India and the United States
• Team background: entrepreneurs and data scientists, including work on a NASA Mars rover mission