QueensBridge Venture Partners

QueensBridge Venture Partners (QBVP) is a Los Angeles-based venture capital firm co-founded in 2014 by rapper and entrepreneur Nasir 'Nas' Jones alongside Anthony Saleh, Ajay Relan, Dee Murthy, Anand Murthy, and Craig Vaughan. Named after the Queens, New York public-housing neighborhood where Nas grew up, QBVP has become one of the most prominent celebrity-founded venture funds in the United States, investing in consumer products, technology, media, financial services, and entertainment. The firm invests primarily at Seed and Series A stages across 57 total disclosed investments. Four portfolio companies are unicorns. Notable investments include Lyft, Dropbox, Coinbase, Robinhood, Ring (where a $4.5 million investment returned approximately $40 million upon Amazon's $1 billion acquisition), Coupang, SeatGeek, Away, Bitfury, and LANDR, which raised a $6.5 million Series A in 2016. Recent portfolio exits include mParticle in January 2025 and Aptible, acquired by Opti9 in November 2025. The fund operates as a lean, high-signal vehicle rather than a traditional committed-capital platform, with no publicly disclosed AUM. General Partner Nasir Jones brings both cultural credibility and a rigorous deal network built across a decade of active investing, while Anthony Saleh — a longtime music-industry manager and partner at WndrCo — contributes deal sourcing and evaluation alongside the broader founding team. QBVP's track record of identifying breakout consumer and fintech companies early has made it one of the most closely watched non-institutional investors on the West Coast, with a portfolio spanning media, enterprise software, e-commerce, and digital assets.