Since 2011, Red Swan Ventures has worked with magnetic, authentic, tenacious, and evolving founders to build great companies. 💫

We believe the best entrepreneurs seek truth tellers. Humans who tell them not what they want to hear, but what they need to hear. 🎧

If Black Swans are unforeseen calamitous events, Red Swans are great companies most of us never saw coming. 🔮

They are built by entrepreneurs who create joy for their customers, provide meaning to their employees, and scare their shareholders by passing on premature acquisition offers.

They are movements as much as businesses, and we are honored to be a part of them.

 

Our Approach

We aspire to be the entrepreneur’s first institutional investor, helping to craft the right mix of funds and individual investors for the round. Our check sizes range from $500,000 at Pre-Seed to $1 million at Seed, with reserves for later rounds.

We’re open-minded across industries but actively seek out businesses that create their own internal momentum via flywheel effects, network effects, and product-led growth.

Our Family

Team

  • Andy Dunn

    Co-Founder & CEO at Bonobos and Pie

    Twitter . Linkedin . Medium

    BURN RATE
    Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind
    "One of the most anticipated books of 2022." –Forbes

  • Sandy Cass

    COO/CFO at Artsy, VP Finance at Bonobos, Investor at D.E. Shaw, Reshape Ventures

    Twitter . LinkedIn

  • Liz Hartley

    Founding Partner at WeWork Creator Fund,
    Strategy & Product at Apple, VP at Beats

    Twitter . LinkedIn

  • Eric Rubin

    Founding Team at Pie, GTM at Second Measure, Goldman Sachs

    Twitter . LinkedIn