Wasabi Ventures

Wasabi Ventures now trades as Wasabi Ventures Partners. The platform lets accredited investors invest alongside Wasabi Ventures itself: when Wasabi Ventures makes an investment in a startup, partners gain access to the platform, receive the accompanying due diligence, and choose which of those investments to add to their own portfolios. The firm says it only offers deals where there is a strong lead investor, and that every opportunity is vetted three times before being made available to partners, who then decide for themselves which investments suit them. Past investments accessible through the relationship with Wasabi Ventures include UStream, later acquired by IBM; RightNow Technologies, acquired by Oracle; EtherPad, acquired by Google within months of investment; and UserTesting.