Asymmetric Capital Partners

Asymmetric Capital Partners is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology companies, focusing on disruptive B2B technologies. The firm partners with founders defining their own trajectories, recognizing that building a company is complex and requires a broad diversity of skills. They support every part of the journey to building a sustainable business that can endure for decades. Asymmetric Capital Partners aims to be a different kind of venture capital firm, being helpful, optimistic, and respectful thought partners. They bring their past experience and networks to the table for every company they back, thinking they can help to create truly asymmetric outcomes. The firm is hyper-focused on maintaining a transparent, respectful, hardworking, informal, and fun culture, sharing it with their founders, Advisor Partners, co-investors, and limited partners. Companies who share that ethos, and truly understand the mechanics and broader trends affecting their space, are the best partners for them. They genuinely enjoy working together as a team and are excited to bring that dynamic to the companies they back. Asymmetric Capital Partners has raised over $240 million in assets under management and has backed nearly 90 companies to date, with Fund I ranking in the top 5% of its 2021 vintage. The team actively pursues investments in New York City, Boston, and San Francisco. They tend to disproportionately value structured thinkers who make decisions probabilistically, not deterministically, and are deliberate about testing specific hypotheses. They look for exceptional founders with contrarian insights, believing that disruption occurs when fresh thinkers re-examine the fundamental underlying assumptions that may have underpinned industries for decades. Integrity is the one quality they won’t compromise on, caring about scrappiness and intelligence just as much as the next VC, but integrity matters most. Asymmetric Capital Partners has a significant share of deal flow coming from existing founders, a testament to the firm's reputation among entrepreneurs. They aim to be tremendously helpful and positive thought partners on a weekly basis, believing that founders and early employees deserve honest, empathic capital partners who are supportive, emotionally invested, and transparent. They take extreme personal accountability for helping to make each of their portfolio companies successful. They participate alongside and after world-class investors and encourage their extensive network in the later-stage growth capital industry to follow behind them when companies have demonstrated successful scale. They believe the best founders come from diverse backgrounds and enter first meetings with no preconceived notions of the “correct” background for a founder. They reject wholeheartedly the growing sense that VCs should be hands-off cheerleaders; they want to be tremendously helpful and positive thought partners on a weekly basis. They believe founders and early employees deserve honest, empathic capital partners who are supportive, emotionally invested, and transparent. They take extreme personal accountability for helping to make each of their portfolio companies successful. They participate alongside and after world-class investors and encourage their extensive network in the later-stage growth capital industry to follow behind them when companies have demonstrated successful scale. They believe the best founders come from diverse backgrounds and enter first meetings with no preconceived notions of the “correct” background for a founder. They don’t compromise in one area, however: unquestioned integrity.