Gotham Ventures

VC · New York (United States)

VC

Seed

Series A

Consumer

Services

Sign up free to access full profile and submit your pitch.

About

Gotham Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, start-up, and early stage investments. The firm primarily invests in information technology companies with a focus on digital and social media, advertising, mobile, e-commerce, API economy, education technology, financial technology, enterprise software and security, ad tech, data services, broadband, networking services, internet, communications, and software companies in both consumer and business markets. It also focuses on health, wellness, and education sectors. The firm typically invests in companies headquartered in New York, Northeastern United States, New Jersey, Connecticut, and East Coast of the United States including Greater New York Region. The firm also invests in companies founded in Israel, particularly when they are moving some or all their operations to the United States. It prefers to be the first institutional investor in a company, making its first investment in the seed or Series A round. Within seed stage, it typically invests between $0.1 million to $0.5 million in companies that have yet to complete the development of their products or are otherwise a bit early for a Series A round. Within seed investments, it invests from $0.1 million to $0.5 million and within Series A investments, the firm typically invests between $1 million to $3 million of the Series A round, in companies that have a demonstrable product. The firm usually invests $6 million to $8 million over the lifetime of companies that receive a Series A investment. It typically leads its investments and co-invests with other investors. It prefers to take a board seat in its portfolio companies. Gotham Ventures was founded in 1999 and is based in New York, New York.

Investment Criteria