VC  Haystack

https://haystack.vc/





     Office Locations:

727 Sansome St., Floor 3
San Francisco, CA 94111

 

Stages:

  • Early
  • Seed


 

Industries:

  • Information Technology
  • Software & Internet
  • Transportation & Distribution

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    Description:

    For nearly a decade, Haystack has been solely focused on the early chapters of company formation. Founded 2013, the firm typically invests $250K - $1.5M into pre-seed & seed rounds and are comfortable leading or participating. Its first five funds have made 200+ core investments at seed, and of those investments, 35 are valued over $100M and 8 are valued over $1B. Breakout companies include DoorDash, Instacart, Figma, Hashicorp, Carta, Applied Intuition, Opendoor, Filecoin, and Ironclad.



    Investment Firm Key

       VC = Venture Capital
       PE = Private Equity
       A = Angel
       I = Incubator
       MB = Merchant Bank
       VD = Venture Debt
       FI = Family Investment Office
       FOF = Fund of Funds
       ED = Economic Development Office   
       TT = Technology Transfer Office
       CVC = Corporate Venture Capital
       SEC = Secondary Purchaser
       HF = Hedge Fund/Mutual Fund
       
       
       
    COMPANY STAGEREVENUE
    Venture Capital
    Seed Stage
    (includes "pre-seed," or
    concept stage)
    No Revenue
    Early StageMinimal
    Revenue
    Growth Stage
    (also called Mid-stage)
    $2M-$7M
    Expansion Stage
    (also called Late-stage)
    $7M and greater
    Private Equity
    Lower Middle Market$10M-$249M
    Middle Market$250M-$499M
    Upper Middle Market$500M-$1B
    Large Cap>$1B
       
       
     

    Investment Team:


    Name   Title
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    Aashay Sanghvi Partner
    Divya Dhulipala Principal
    Semil Shah Partner

     

    Recent Funding Events (trailing 12 months):


      Date


      Name


      State


      Amount


      Stage


      09/12/2024


      Bounti


      CA


      $16,000,000


      Seed


      06/20/2024


      Pomerium


      CA


      $13,750,000


      Series A


     

    Portfolio companies include:


      Abbey Labs
        web link


      Applied Intuition
        web link


      Bounti
        web link


      Canvas Medical
        web link


      Cape Privacy
        web link


      Carta


      Databook
        web link


      Envoy


      Figma


      Finley
        web link


      Hangar
        web link


      Instacart


      Integral


      Ironclad
        web link


      MealPal
        web link


      New Knowledge
        web link


      nTopology


      Parabol
        web link


      People.ai


      Pomerium
        web link


      Prenav


      Redpanda
        web link


      Resolve


      Rutter
        web link


      Saildrone


     

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