Investing in the Digital Native Economy

Origin Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in software, consumer, and marketplace businesses in the Digital Native economy.

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Our team has lived scaling businesses as founders, operators, and engineers. With Partners in all four continental U.S. time zones, Origin Ventures is close to great founders, wherever they are located.

Investment Themes

  • Workplace of the Future

  • Commerce 3.0

  • Connected Humans

  • Seamless Software

Thesis

“The team at Origin have been friends and allies to Tock throughout the company's growth from the very start. In a very good way, the working relationship has been professional but casual and comfortable.”

- Nick Kokonas, Tock CEO

“The Origin team has brought us some of our more valuable team members. I like to say the folks at Origin that we work closest with are really just an extension of the team”

- David Rabie, Tovala CEO

“In raising the growth round, it wasn’t like someone on our board separate from the company.
We were working on this together: introductions & strategy & negotiations… everything.”

- David Hassell, 15Five CEO