Correlation Ventures

Correlation Ventures
Venture fund
Industry Finance
Genre Venture Capital
Founded January 2012
Founders
  • David Coats
  • Trevor Kienzle
Headquarters San Diego, California
Area served
 United States of America
Key people
  • David Coats (co-founder, Managing Director)
  • Trevor Kienzle (co-founder, Managing Director)
  • Grace Chui-Miller (Chief Financial Officer)
  • Anu Pathria (Partner, Analytics)
  • Jake Rosenfeld (Associate)
  • Miles Bird (Associate)
Website correlationvc.com

Correlation Ventures is a venture capital firm based in the United States with about US$330 million under management. The firm engages in investments only in the United States, does not take board seats, makes decisions within two weeks, and always "co-invests" with other investors rather than being the sole investor.[1]

Investments

Correlation Ventures has invested in a number of companies[2] including online peer-to-peer carsharing service Getaround, crowdfunding website for recent college graduates Upstart, digital publishing company SAY Media, virtual storage management service Virsto (acquired by VMware), and seasteading platform company Blueseed.[3]

Media coverage

Correlation Ventures has been covered in the venture capital blog of the Wall Street Journal,[4] MIT's Technology Review publication,[5] VentureBeat,[6] Forbes,[7] and in many other technology and business publications.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "About". Correlation Ventures. Retrieved 2012-12-03.
  2. ↑ "Our Portfolio". Correlation Ventures. Retrieved 2013-06-14.
  3. ↑ Banister, Cyan (2012-12-13). "Mike Maples Gets On Board Blueseed’s Sea Platform". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2012-12-13.
  4. ↑ Chapman, Lizette (2012-01-13). "Correlation Ventures Raises $165M For Data-Focused Investment Approach". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2012-12-03.
  5. ↑ Leber, Jessica (2012-07-09). "An Algorithm to Pick Startup Winners". Technology Review. Retrieved 2012-12-03.
  6. ↑ Farr, Christina (2012-11-09). "Venture capital picks up the Moneyball strategy". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2012-12-03.
  7. ↑ Booth, Bruce (2012-10-03). "New Data on Venture Capital Returns: Exits Are Indeed Improving". Forbes.
  8. ↑ "Correlation News". Correlation Ventures. Retrieved 2012-12-03.


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