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Upside Partnership forms trusted relationships with early-stage Founders, prioritizing people over themes. They commit to early investments, offer meaningful support through a smaller fund, and foster a community-driven partnership where each Founder becomes a partner in the fund, promoting shared success.
Upside Partnership forms trusted relationships with early-stage Founders, prioritizing people over themes. They commit to early investments, offer meaningful support through a smaller fund, and foster a community-driven partnership where each Founder becomes a partner in the fund, promoting shared success.
Upside Partnership's mission is to form trusted partnerships with Founders during the early stages of building meaningful and enduring businesses. They focus on investing in the potential of the people behind the ideas, rather than specific business themes. Their approach is centered around creating a supportive community where each Founder becomes a partner in the fund, fostering shared knowledge and collective success.
Upside Partnership positions itself as a dedicated seed-stage investor by committing to Founders early, often in the absence of extensive data or social proof. They prioritize being the first institutional investor, demonstrating leadership with their funding commitments. This approach allows them to support inevitable Founders—those who are destined to create their companies—and to engage deeply during a company’s nascent stages.
A smaller fund model allows Upside Partnership to engage intentionally and deeply with companies at their nascent stages. This approach ensures that they can offer substantial support and resources in critical early phases, fostering close, collaborative relationships with Founders. The fund size is designed to build a community-driven partnership where each Founder backed becomes a partner, promoting shared success and mutual understanding.
Upside Partnership fosters a community-driven partnership by making every Founder they back a partner in their fund. This model encourages the sharing of knowledge, experiences, and challenges, creating an environment where all members can contribute to and benefit from each other's success. This communal approach helps build a robust support network, enhancing the collective growth of their portfolio.
Upside Partnership focuses on investing in people because they believe Founders have unique insights into future opportunities that extend beyond current market themes. They view Founders as the visionaries who can drive transformational changes. By prioritizing these inevitable Founders—those who are compelled to build their companies—they aim to invest in innovation and potential rather than fleeting trends.
Upside Partnership stands out from other VC firms by emphasizing relationships with Founders and being an early institutional investor without relying on extensive data or social proof. Their smaller fund allows for deeper engagement at the seed stage, focusing on community-building and shared success. They invest in inevitable Founders, offering a unique partnership model where backed Founders become partners, thus fostering a collective success mindset.
Early investors. Long-term partners.
We invest in Founders with Big Ideas, Building world-class, Technology-enabled Startups.
Our founders are changing the future with Unusual Ventures, empowering startups with hands-on support and expertise for early-stage success.
Cooperatives, timeless and modern with Web3 functionalities.
Rethinking the way we build companies.
Early-stage investments while opportunistically participating in later stages.
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Insight Partners is a global software investment firm targeting high-growth companies in web3, crypto, and blockchain, focusing on DeFi, NFTs, and infrastructure projects to improve blockchain scalability, security, and interoperability.
