We are day zero investors who dedicate ourselves to being the best partners at the earliest stage. We run a concentrated strategy and invest a majority of our capital in the initial round so we’re the most aligned with founders for the long term. Our initial check size is typically $1.0-1.5m. We’ve seeded multiple companies that have reached billion dollar plus valuations and returned real money to LPs. We have also co-founded eight venture backed companies internally at Max and know what it’s like to build.
We Partner with world class Founders
Allon Bloch
CEO
Max has backed K Health since our seed round. The team is high energy with deep domain expertise in health care. Max has made several strategic intros to key people in our value chain and they are always available as a sounding board at key junctures of the company building process.
Joel Hellermark
CEO
Max ventures was the first fund to invest in Sana. They were valuable early stage partners and were especially helpful in connecting us to resources in the US, including potential customers and later stage investors.
Anshul Rathi
CEO
At seed stage, I was looking for value add investors who could help introduce us to early customers. Max Ventures introduced us to every portfolio company and helped get us to a successful Series A in just 4 months. Our earliest deals signed were introductions from their team. I would definitely recommend them to any entrepreneur.
Gavin Uberti | Robert Wachen
Co-Founders
Matt and Ryan have been great partners since our seed. They've walked us into major customer meetings, whether CEOs of major hedge funds or senior White House officials. They go above and beyond - we're super glad to have them on our cap table (and let them double down the past few rounds!).
Vera Kutsenko
CEO
Max was one of our first checks and has been a key support system since day one. They really support founders going from 0-1 - the fact that they incubate keeps them close to the early journey and empathetic to our experience as founders. They are generous with their time and were a critical resource during multiple fundraises.
Bobby Guelich
CEO
The biggest decision you make as an entrepreneur is who you choose to start your business with. With the Max team, I couldn't have asked for a better partner to build Elion from the ground up. From strategic advice to key introductions to tactical support on all critical initiatives… I would highly recommend them.
Akash Magoon
CEO
We've had the privilege to work with Max Ventures since the earliest days at Adonis. From day one, it was clear that they would be a tremendous addition, as both investors and trusted advisors. They have been incredibly generous with their time and vast healthcare network, which continues to provide immeasurable value as we accelerate growth.
Christian Ponder
CEO
Max Ventures has been a tremendous partner & co- founder from the earliest stages of The Post. The Max team was instrumental throughout the building and fundraising processes and have put forth a lot of effort to contribute to the success of our business. We could not have asked for a better partner.
We help build global successes
In 2014, we made our first seed investment as a single-LP fund. Over the next decade, we’ve raised 3 external funds, invested in over 85 early-stage startups, co-founded eight companies, and now manage over nine figures in assets under management. Our strategy has evolved along the way, but our core vision has remained the same: we’re day-zero investors who often commit to invest before a company is even incorporated, and we strive to be the best possible partners during the first 24 months of a company’s life. Our approach is a concentrated pre-seed strategy where we invest a meaningful percentage of our fund—typically 2–5%—in the initial check, ensuring our incentives are deeply aligned with the founding team.
We love the craft of early-stage investing, where everything depends on the founding team, the market, and the ability to make decisions with imperfect information. We also love incubating ideas ourselves. When we have strong conviction about a concept, we devote considerable time and effort to co-founding companies alongside talented founding teams. Since 2017, we’ve co-founded eight companies internally at Max Ventures. We do it because we genuinely love the process. We've also realized the process of incubation makes us better investors and partners to our founders. By building a pre-seed fund that incorporates craft incubation, we're able to offer a differentiated value proposition for founders.
The venture capital landscape has changed significantly since we made our first seed investment in 2014. Large funds have dramatically increased their assets under management, and much of the original “craft” of early-stage investing has become institutionalized. As Max Ventures has grown, we’ve consciously chosen to stay manically focused on our day-zero investing strategy and maintain a fund size that best fits that strategy. In the current environment, a vast majority of VCs don’t have real ownership in the fund they work at and as a result the process has become more transactional and short sighted. When you partner with us, you’re working with people who own the fund, speak for the money, and are 100% focused on the long-term outcome of the company instead of short-term metrics. We are a fund that is maximally aligned with the founders we invest in.
