Thrive Capital

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Thrive Capital Management, LLC
Company type Private
Industry Venture Capital
Founded2010;15 years ago (2010) [1] [2]
Founder Joshua Kushner
Headquarters New York City, New York, U.S.
Key people
 Nitin Nohria (executive chair)
Products Investments
AUM US$25 billion (November 2024)
OwnerJoshua Kushner (96.7%) [3]
Number of employees
64 (2024)
Website thrivecap.com
Footnotes /references
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Thrive Capital Management, LLC, commonly Thrive Capital, is an American venture capital firm based in New York City. It focuses on software and internet investments. [5] The firm was founded by Joshua Kushner who is also co-founder of Oscar Health and minority owner of the Memphis Grizzlies. [6] [7]

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History

Joshua Kushner founded Thrive Capital in 2010, at 24 years old. [5] [6] [7] [1] Joel Cutler and General Catalyst provided the initial $5 million in seed money for the firm in 2010 as well as introduced investors to the firm and Kushner. [7]

In 2011, the firm launched its first institutional fund, raising another $40 million from Princeton University, Wellcome Trust, Peter Thiel and other investors. [5] [6] [7] General Catalyst served as the core LP yet again for this second funding round. [1]

Following the 2016 United States presidential election, Jared Kushner was appointed as Senior Advisor to the President. [8] Jared sold his entire Thrive Capital stake to avoid conflict of interest between him and the Trump administration. [9] [10] [11]

In May 2021, Petershill Partners had invested around $120 million in Thrive Capital for a 3% stake, [6] [12] which valued the firm at $3.6 billion. [6] [12] In September 2021, the firm registered as an investment adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. [13] The firm stated as part of its regulatory filing that it planned to use some funds to investment in public companies and crypto assets. [13] The same year, ten of Thrive's portfolio companies went public, including Affirm and Nubank. [1] In 2022, Nitin Nohria was brought on as the firm's first executive chair. [1]

In January 2023, a group of five investors, Bob Iger, Mukesh Ambani, Henry Kravis, Xavier Niel and Jorge Paulo Lemann, acquired a 3.3% stake of Thrive Capital. [14] [15] This put Thrive at a $5.3 billion valuation - a 50% increase from when Goldman Sachs paid $175 million for the same stake in 2021. [1] Thrive then raised $1.8 billion in March 2023 to invest into Stripe at a $50 billion valuation. [16]

Thrive announced in August 2024 that it raised over $5 billion for Thrive IX, its biggest-ever set of funds and among the “largest completed this year by a venture firm.” The funds will be split between a $4 billion late-stage investment fund and a $1 billion fund dedicated to early-stage ventures. [16]

In October 2024, Thrive led a $6.6 billion funding round for OpenAI, contributing $1 billion; OpenAI’s valuation consequently increased to $157 billion. [17] [18]

The firm is noted for being an early investor in several high-profile technology platforms such as Instagram, GitHub, Spotify and Twitch, Physical Intelligence, and Anysphere. [6] [7] Thrive has also invested in Scale AI, A24, Stripe, Airtable, Glossier, Plaid, Anduril, Ramp, and Databricks. [1] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23]

In November 2024, Financial Times detailed how Thrive’s strategy is “investing heavily in fewer companies [to] provide a closer relationship with founders and more visibility into companies”; the firm is able to simultaneously “remain faithful to early-stage investing” while also participating in growth and late stage investments. [21]

Funds

As of 2024, Thrive has raised a total of $12.3bn, and has almost $25bn under management. [21]

Fund [24] Vintage YearCommitted Capital ($m)
Thrive Capital Partners I20095
Thrive Capital Partners II201140
Thrive Capital Partners III2012150
Thrive Capital Partners IV2014400
Thrive Capital Partners V2016700
Thrive Capital Partners VI20181,000
Thrive Capital Partners VII [25] 20212,000
Thrive Capital Partners VIII [26] [27] 20223,000
Thrive Capital Partners IX [16] 20245,000

Notable investments

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Abram Brown; Kate Clark (February 24, 2023). "Josh Kushner's Budding Empire". The Information. Retrieved May 12, 2023.
  2. ↑ Matt Durot (April 5, 2022). "Thrive's Josh Kushner: The Other Brother Becomes Family's First Billionaire". Forbes. Retrieved May 12, 2023.
  3. ↑ Shontell, Alyson (August 30, 2024). "The rise of Joshua Kushner: How the young VC quietly built Thrive Capital into the powerhouse leading OpenAI to a $100 billion valuation" . Fortune. Archived from the original on August 30, 2024.
  4. ↑ "Form ADV" (PDF). SEC. Retrieved December 23, 2022.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Rusli, Evelyn M. (August 22, 2011). "Joshua Kushner's Thrive Capital Raises $40 Million". DealBook. Retrieved December 23, 2022.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Simpson, Leah (May 9, 2022). "How Joshua Kushner – not Jared – became his family's first billionaire". South China Morning Post. Retrieved December 23, 2022.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Durot, Matt. "Thrive's Josh Kushner: The Other Brother Becomes Family's First Billionaire". Forbes. Retrieved December 23, 2022.
  8. ↑ "ANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS ON WHITE HOUSE OFFICE PERSONNEL" (PDF). Trump White House Archives. June 30, 2017. Retrieved July 7, 2023.
  9. ↑ Bertoni, Steven. "Josh Kushner's Complex World: How Jared's Liberal Brother Runs A Billion Dollar Fund In Trump Era". Forbes. Retrieved December 23, 2022.
  10. ↑ Singh, Yuliya Chernova and Preeti (January 25, 2021). "Joshua Kushner's Thrive Capital Goes for Mega-Fundraise". Wall Street Journal. ISSN   0099-9660 . Retrieved December 23, 2022.
  11. ↑ Disis, Jill (April 18, 2017). "Jared Kushner is still selling off business assets". CNNMoney. Retrieved December 23, 2022.
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Roof, Katie (May 19, 2021). "Goldman Sachs Is Said to Invest in Josh Kushner's Thrive Capital". Bloomberg. Retrieved December 23, 2022.
  13. 1 2 Chernova, Yuliya (November 29, 2021). "Josh Kushner's Thrive Capital Gains More Flexibility to Invest in Crypto, Public Stocks". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN   0099-9660 . Retrieved December 23, 2022.
  14. ↑ Hayes, Dade (January 24, 2023). "Bob Iger Joins Investors Taking Minority Stake In Venture Firm Thrive Capital". Deadline. Retrieved January 29, 2023.
  15. ↑ Jin, Berber (January 24, 2023). "Robert Iger, Henry Kravis to Buy Minority Stake in Thrive Capital". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved January 29, 2023.
  16. 1 2 3 4 5 Jin, Berber (August 5, 2024). "Thrive Capital Raises $5 Billion for Venture Funds on Heels of OpenAI Bet". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved August 8, 2024.
  17. 1 2 Cade Metz (October 2, 2024). "OpenAI Completes Deal That Values Company at $157 Billion". The New York Times. Retrieved December 14, 2024.
  18. 1 2 Deepa Seetharaman; Tom Dotan; Berber Jin (October 2, 2024). "OpenAI Nearly Doubles Valuation to $157 Billion in Funding Round". WSJ. Retrieved December 18, 2024.
  19. ↑ Jon Victor; Erin Woo (April 17, 2023). "OpenAI Wraps Up Tender as AI Talent War Heats Up". The Information. Retrieved May 12, 2023.
  20. ↑ Azevedo, Mary Ann (August 22, 2023). "Fintech startup Ramp raises $300M at a 28% lower valuation of $5.8B". TechCrunch. Retrieved October 19, 2023.
  21. 1 2 3 4 5 George Hammond (November 20, 2024). "Thrive Capital: the venture firm staking billions on a few big bets". Financial Times . Retrieved December 13, 2024.
  22. ↑ de la Merced, Michael (November 4, 2024). "Physical Intelligence, a Robot A.I. Specialist, Raises Millions From Bezos". The New York Times. Retrieved December 14, 2024.
  23. ↑ "Anysphere". Forbes. Retrieved December 14, 2024.
  24. ↑ "Thrive Capital | Palico". www.palico.com. Retrieved December 23, 2022.
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  26. ↑ Loizos, Connie (February 17, 2022). "New York's Thrive Capital closes its eighth fund with a whopping $3 billion". TechCrunch. Retrieved December 23, 2022.
  27. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Chernova, Yuliya (February 17, 2022). "Thrive Capital Reloads With $3 Billion in New Funds". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN   0099-9660 . Retrieved December 23, 2022.
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