The Venture Collective (TVC)

The Venture Collective (TVC) is an early-stage venture firm founded in 2019 and headquartered in New York City, backed by a network of world-class entrepreneurs and business leaders. Unlike a traditional fund, TVC operates as a balance-sheet, permanent-capital investor with no fund maturity date, a structure that reduces its reliance on outlier exits and lets it back companies through long development cycles. Its strategy centres on writing high-conviction cheques at pre-seed and seed, typically between $100,000 and $2 million, while holding healthy follow-on reserves through Series A to increase ownership over time, and it is willing to lead. TVC concentrates on highly defensible, fast-growing companies tackling the world's biggest problems, organised around two core themes: Human Longevity and Health, including data-powered personalized care, novel therapeutics, AI-driven drug discovery and better-for-you consumer products, and Planetary Sustainability, including next-generation agriculture using computer vision and AI, sustainable materials and chemicals, advanced computing, and aerospace and defense. The firm runs a support-first, milestone-driven model and is led by founding partners Gina Kirsch and Nicholas Shekerdemian, alongside General Partner Cat Middleton and Partner Stephanie Sarelakos. TVC has built a portfolio of around 44 companies, including two unicorns, Axiom Space and X-Energy, with other holdings such as Builder.ai, HelixNano, Infogrid, Endpoint Health, Caravel Bio and Gravitics, and exits including SPARK Neuro, Violet and DIG Labs. By pairing permanent capital with a two-theme thesis spanning health and sustainability, TVC backs defensible, high-impact founders for the long term.