Verdict Capital

Discord is a communication platform designed for creating communities, offering voice, video, and text chat features. It serves gamers and various interest-based groups, allowing users to connect and collaborate in a fun and engaging environment.

Mercor is an American artificial intelligence (AI) hiring startup that connects experts to train AI models and chatbots, managing a vast network of contractors across various fields.

Snap Inc. is the parent company of Snapchat, a multimedia messaging app known for its ephemeral content, including Stories and Lenses. The platform offers innovative features like augmented reality tools and advertising solutions for businesses, catering to a diverse audience of users and creators.

ClassDojo is a global community of more than 50 million teachers and families who come together to share kids’ most important learning moments, in school and at home—through photos, videos, messages, and more.

Remote.com provides global HR solutions and employment tools for distributed teams, facilitating payroll, contractor management, and HR services for businesses operating remotely.

Livongo provides online chronic care management solutions, focusing on diabetes, hypertension, and weight management through smart devices and expert coaching.

Audius is a community-run music platform that connects artists and fans directly, allowing for free unlimited uploads and an ad-free experience.

Saturn is a calendar app designed for high school and college students, enabling them to manage their schedules, activities, and connections effectively. It supports various scheduling formats and aims to enhance time management for students.

Anysphere is a company offering ubiquitous commerce services.

Hebbia is a leading AI platform for finance, known for its secure, proprietary AI architecture and pioneering retrieval augmented generation (RAG).

Ethos Life offers affordable online life insurance with instant quotes, providing various types of life insurance policies without the need for medical exams. They also offer estate planning services, including free wills and trusts.

Thrive Capital operates with a deliberately low-profile, secretive brand and attribution-free team model while making a small number of very large, high-conviction bets and stepping in as an anchor investor during market stress. The firm combines early-stage investing with multi-billion-dollar growth rounds from the same platform while maintaining a small, elite partnership and hybrid identity as both investor and operator through company-building efforts.

Seed-stage investor leveraging Aileen Lee's data-driven, category-shaping framework and a Mustang Fund structure that enables concentrated follow-on support for breakout companies. Cowboy Ventures is led by Aileen Lee, who coined the term 'unicorn' and created the analytical framework that defines billion-dollar startups, giving the firm a uniquely data-driven perspective on market dynamics and category-shaping outcomes. The firm backs founders re-imagining life and work through technology, with a distinct 'Mustang Fund' structure that allows them to double down on breakout companies while keeping their primary fund focused purely on seed investments.