Red Sea Ventures is a early-stage tech, venture firm based in New York City. We invest in seed and early stage technology companies across all industries typically alongside a syndicate of institutional investors. We're a small team that's committed to helping build companies with passionate founders creating solutions to big problems. You can get a sense for our investment process by checking out the portfolio page found at www.redseaventures.com.
As always, if you are an entrepreneur working on an exciting idea and would like to get in touch, please drop us a line at hello@redseaventures.com.
As always, if you are an entrepreneur working on an exciting idea and would like to get in touch, please drop us a line at hello@redseaventures.com.
Location: United States, New York
Employees: 1-10
Founded date: 2011
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Pre-Seed; Seed; Series A
Portfolio 44
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 15.06.2022 | Tango | tango.us | $19.7M | United Sta... |
| 11.05.2020 | Monument | joinmonument.com | $10.3M | United Sta... |
| 22.04.2020 | ByHeart | byheart.com | $445M | United Sta... |
| - | sweetgreen | sweetgreen.com | $789.5M | United Sta... |
| - | Electric O... | electricobjects.com | $1.7M | - |
| - | Universal ... | universalstandard.com | - | United Sta... |
| - | Elite Dail... | elitedaily.com | - | United Sta... |
| - | Clyde | joinclyde.com | $83M | United Sta... |
| - | Prose | prosehair.com | $23.2M | - |
| - | nucleuslif... | nucleuslife.com | $5.6M | - |
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News 16
| Date | Title | Description |
| 09.07.2026 | Red Sea Ventures 2026 Consumer Tech Summit | Second Annual Consumer Tech Summit: Event Recap April 29, 2026 This year's Summit returned with a sharper edge. More than 300 founders, investors, and operators spent the day debating where consumer technology is heading. Three ideas kept ... |
| 15.12.2020 | MBA Associate @ Red Sea Ventures | Red Sea Ventures, an early-stage Venture Capital firm located in NYC, is seeking an MBA Associate who will become an integral part of the fund’s day to day operations and investment process. The MBA Associate will work closely with the Red... |
| 06.02.2019 | MBA Associate @ Red Sea Ventures | Red Sea Ventures, an early-stage Venture Capital firm located in NYC, is seeking an MBA Associate who will become an integral part of the fund’s day to day operations and investment process. The MBA Associate will work closely with the Red... |
| 24.08.2018 | We're Hiring! - Platform & Operations | Position Description: We are searching for a full-time Platform & Operations role to support our ambitious goals. This is an incredible opportunity for someone gifted with an entrepreneurial spirit to be involved in the growth of a ve... |
| 31.05.2018 | RSV Community Newsletter - November 2017 | *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Here's the latest from Red Sea Ventures View this email in your browser NOVEMBER 2017 Red Sea Ventures leads Seed investment in Prose We’re excited to announce that we recently led the Seed round in Prose, which is ... |
| 31.05.2018 | RSV Holiday Gift Guide - 2017 | *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Happy Holidays from Red Sea Ventures HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE Enjoy these promo codes from the portfolio HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Red Sea Ventures --> --> 1. OUTDOOR VOICES With a New Year's resolution to be more active,... |
| 31.05.2018 | RSV Community Newsletter - February 2018 | *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Here's the latest from Red Sea Ventures View this email in your browser FEBRUARY 2018 Following Seed Round led by RSV, Universal Standard Raises $7M Series A from Imaginary, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Others Universal Sta... |
| 31.05.2018 | RSV Community Newsletter - March 2018 | *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Here's the latest from Red Sea Ventures View this email in your browser MARCH 2018 GV Leads $34M Funding in Athletic Apparel Start-up Outdoor Voices Using the latest round of funding, Haney said the company aims to ... |
| 25.10.2017 | MBA Associate Program @ Red Sea Ventures | Red Sea Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm located in NYC, is seeking a part-time MBA Associate to join the firm as an intern at the beginning of the Spring 2018 semester. The firm is seeking an individual who will become an inte... |
| 15.04.2017 | Scott's AlleyWatch Interview, Allbirds wool loungers, WayUp & Casetext Series B's, Fabric Launches | Subscribe Past Issues RSS Translate Here's the latest from Red Sea Ventures View this email in your browser APRIL 2017Inside the Mind of a New York VC: Scott Birnbaum of Red Sea Ventures Scott was interviewed by AlleyWatch as part of ... |
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Mentions in press and media 12
| Date | Title | Description |
| 03.03.2022 | London-based startup brings in $40 million to allow friends and family to invest together | The use of social networks has fundamentally changed how we interact with friends and family, what we talk about and how we make decisions. People are already using solutions like Whatsapp, Telegram and joining communities to talk about tra... |
| 14.10.2020 | Coa wants to bring an emotional workout into your fitness regimen | When’s the last time you worked out your soul? A mid-spin pep talk at SoulCycle might make you shed a tear, but not in the way that the co-founders of Coa, Alexa Meyer and Dr. Emily Anhalt, want. The founders, instead, want people to ask th... |
| 16.07.2020 | Стартапы в форме B-Corp: для кого и зачем | В этой заметке разберемся, почему все больше компаний в США учреждается в форме B-Corp, а инвесторы несут в них все больше денег. 4 4 комментария Форум 718 просмотров Что это за зверь Это обычная корпорация, учрежденная с дополнительной цел... |
| 03.08.2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, Aug. 3 | MARKDOWNS AGAIN After we wrote about mutual fund markdowns to Uber’s share price, a few readers wrote in asking how mutual funds determine their markdowns. Paid Content What you need to know about growing cyberattacks From ExtraHop • This i... |
| 09.06.2016 | Fundings-in-Brief: S2G Invests in Back to the Roots Series A, Ag Drone Company Raises $8m, Aussie Farmland Fund Closes on $200m, more | Ag Biotech Company Ginkgo Bioworks Raises $100m at Series C Ginkgo Bioworks, a genetically-engineered microbe manufacturer, raised $100 million in a Series C round of funding with participation from Y Combinator’s Continuity Fund, Senator I... |
| 23.11.2015 | Entrepreneur behind ZipDrug latest example of advertising tech veterans’ interest in healthcare | About five months after a financing through convertible debt over the summer, ZipDrug has raised $2 million in a Seed round led by the Collaborative Fund. The funding round also had participation from Lux Capital, Metamorphic Ventures, Mont... |
| 16.07.2015 | Get Your Prescription Meds Delivered On-Demand With Zipdrug | While on-demand startups have made it easy to get your food delivered or clothes washed, there has yet to be a company that lets you skip the monthly 45-minute wait in the pharmacy line. Just launched in NYC, Zipdrug is a on-demand prescrip... |
| 22.06.2015 | Bringing Eye Exams To The Palm Of A Doctor’s Hand, Smart Vision Raises $6.1 Million | Commercializing a new tool to bring the basic eye exam into the palm of a doctor’s hand could save the eyesight of nearly 1 billion people worldwide. That’s the goal that Zhou Yaopeng and Marc Albanese, two former photonics researchers who ... |
| 22.06.2015 | Daily funding roundup - June 22, 2015 | Dollar Shave Club raised $75M; Portworx debuted $8.5M; Dropoff scored $7M Dollar Shave Club, a subscription commerce company that home-delivers personal grooming products, raised a $75 million Series D funding round.The funding came from ex... |
| - | Peter Thiel-backed social and investing app Shares scores $10 million in seed round | Looking to deliver on its credo, “investing made social”, Shares has revealed its $10 million seed round raise and opened the waitlist for a UK launch slated for this autumn. With no minimum buy-in and a community-first approach, Shares is ... |
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