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Zachary Ginsburg is the Founder/General Partner at Calm Ventures. Prior to Calm, Zachary was an investor at Growth Equity Firm OCV Partners, headed by CIM ($31B+ AUM) Founder/Managing Partner and the prior J2 Global ($3B+ public internet holding co) CEO, and investment banker at San Francisco-based Viant Capital. Zachary received his B.A. from the University of Southern California and attended Columbia Business School before dropping out to pursue venture capital full time.
Zachary has personally invested in 300+ startups over a decade including FalconX (Seed), Coinbase (growth), AngelList (growth), Enable (Series A), Bear Flag Robotics (Seed+), Substack (Seed), Ava Labs, Turing (growth), Brex (growth), Mercury (Series A), Regent (Seed) and Airbnb (growth), among others.
Since starting Calm Ventures in 2020, Calm has grown to over $140,000,000 in AUM across 250+ companies and 6,000+ LPs, investing in some of the most prominent technology and services businesses globally including: Brex (B2B fintech), Bowery Farming (vertical farming), 30 Madison (D2C prescriptions), AllStripes (rare disease R&D platform), Enable (deal rebate software), Thrive Market (membership e-commerce for organic products), Excision Biotherapeutics (CRISPR gene therapy platform), Messari (crypto data and tools), Omaze (charitable sweepstakes platform), Ceramic Labs (web3 identity), Overtime (next gen sports platform), Cook Unity (meal delivery), Fetch Rewards (rewards app), Turing (talent cloud platform), Yumi (organic baby food), People.ai (sales productivity software), Bear Flag Robotics (autonomous farming technology), Caribou (auto-refinancing marketplace), Axiom Space (commerical space station), OpenSea (NFT marketplace), among 200+ others.
Our syndicate has invested in companies alongside top venture capital funds including: Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Initialized Capital, First Round Capital, Tusk Ventures, Khosla, Coatue, Greycroft, Multicoin Capital, Tiger Global, True Ventures, General Catalyst, Accel Foods, First Mark Capital, Insight Partners, Slow Ventures, Upfront Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Lone Pine Capital, Javelin Venture Partners, CAVU, Forerunner Venture Partners, General Atlantic, Draper Associates, 8VC, Softbank, Lowercarbon Capital, The Chernin Group, Lux Capital and ICONIQ Capital, among others.
Due to confidentiality, we do not offer LPs information rights on our deals.
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Select Investments*
Falcon X (153x multiple) - Seed in 2018. Backed by Accel Partners. Has since raised Series
Confidential (25x multiple) - Seed in 2020.
Enable Software (13x multiple) - Series A ext. in 2020. Backed by Insight, Menlo, Lightspeed. Has since raised Series D
Bear Flag Robotics (10x multiple) - Seed ext. in 2020. Back by True Ventures. Has since been acquired by John Deer for $250M
Our Place (11x multiple) - Seed in 2019. Backed by Dreamers. Has since raised Series A
Mercury (10x multiple) - Series A in 2019. Backed by a16z. Has since raised Series B
Ember Fund (8x multiple) - Seed back in 2020. Backed by Republic.
Caribou (7x multiple) - Series A ext. In 2020. Backed by Goldman Sachs. Has since raised Series C
Second Front Systems (6x multiple) - Seed+ in 2021. Backed by NEA. Has since raised a Series B
Minicircle (6x multiple) - Seed in 2021. Backed by Naval Ravikant. Has since raised Seed+.
Omaze (5x multiple) - Series A in 2020. Backed by First Mark Has since raised Series C
Pryon (4x multiple) - Series A ext. in 2021. Backed by Greycroft. Has since raised Series B from USIT
Sandbox VR (4x multiple) - Seed bridge in 2020. Backed by a16z
Jackpocket (4x multiple) - Series C in 2020. Backed by Left Lane Capital. Has since been acquired by DraftKings for $750M
*investments represent both syndicated + personal investments
We are a network driven VC firm in the truest sense of the word. We are venture partners at several funds, run an active scout program and frequently partner with many of the top VC GPs globally.
