Thrive Capital

Venture capital firm
New York, NY

Strategy

Stages
SeedSeries ASeries BGrowth
Sectors
EnterpriseConsumerAIFintech
Geographies
USANew York, NY
Check size
$1M-$100M

Funds

2
FundVintageSizeStrategyStageStatus
New 2026 Fund2026$10BVenture / growthMulti-stage / growth
closed
As of Feb 1, 2026TechCrunch
Thrive Capital Fund III2012$150M
closed
As of 2012Value Add VC funds tracker

Portfolio

7 total

Recent Investment Activity

3
DateCompanyEventAmountValuationInvestorsSource
Aug 28, 2026RetroSeries A$21 million
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Jan 1, 2026OpenEvidenceSeries D$250M
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MobiHealthNews
Oct 20, 2025OpenEvidenceSeries C$200M
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Sector / Stage Activity

By sector (portfolio)
Fintech
2 · 29%
Defense
1 · 14%
Energy/Grid
1 · 14%
AI infra
1 · 14%
AI / clinical search for physicians
1 · 14%
Consumer
1 · 14%
By stage (tracked rounds)
Series A
1 · 33%
Series D
1 · 33%
Series C
1 · 33%

Co-Investors

12

Latest Pulse

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  1. Palo Alto Networks Pays $500M for ConsolePalo Alto Networks acquired Console, a two-year-old AI agent platform that automates IT help-desk tasks, for about $500 million in cash and stock -- a roughly 3x markup on the $157 million valuation Thrive Capital backed months earlier.
  2. Thrive Hires Musk's Lawyer Over a Dead $4.2B FIFA DealJosh Kushner's Thrive Capital retained Alex Spiro of Quinn Emanuel after UEFA moved against FIFA over a scrapped plan in which Thrive would have led a $4.2 billion purchase of 20% of FIFA's commercial arm at a $20 billion valuation.
  3. Thrive Backs Retro's $21M Bet Against FeedsRetro, a friends-only photo sharing app built by two former Instagram engineers, raised a $21 million Series A led by Thrive Capital after roughly 7 million downloads and a subscription-only model.
  4. Thrive Capital Finds Its Own VC LaneA Newcomer profile describes Thrive Capital settling into three distinct strategies: a $9 billion growth fund, a $1 billion early-stage vehicle, and Thrive Holdings, which buys into AI-transformation bets inside existing companies.
  5. Joshua Kushner Is Right About AI's Discipline ProblemThrive Capital's Joshua Kushner used his firm's first-ever investor letter to warn rivals about AI euphoria -- notable, since his own fund just wrote a $2B check into an OpenAI-backed company.
  6. Thrive's Joshua Kushner Buys the Lakers for $12.5BThrive Capital founder Joshua Kushner has agreed to buy the Los Angeles Lakers for $12.5 billion, one of the largest sports franchise transactions ever, extending a venture investor's reach deep into professional sports ownership.
  7. Thrive Holdings Raises $2B to Buy and Rewire Firms With AIThrive Holdings, the Thrive Capital spinout that acquires services businesses and rebuilds them with AI, raised $2 billion at a $12 billion valuation from SoftBank, D1 Capital and Altimeter, with OpenAI as an equity holder.
  8. FTC Clears Musk to Acquire Mesh, the SpaceX-Alumni Optical-Interconnect StartupThe FTC expedited its antitrust review and cleared Elon Musk to acquire Mesh Optical Technologies, a startup founded by three former SpaceX engineers that builds high-speed optical transceivers for data-center communications. Mesh emerged from stealth in February with a $50M Series A led by Thrive Capital; the acquisition slots directly into Musk's push to make his AI data centers faster and more energy-efficient.
  9. SpaceX Acquires AI Coding Startup Cursor for $60B in the Year's Largest Startup M&A DealSpaceX, fresh off its record IPO, formalized a $60 billion all-stock acquisition of Anysphere, the company behind the AI coding tool Cursor -- the biggest venture-backed startup M&A deal of 2026. The purchase, exercised from an option SpaceX took in April, hands Elon Musk's rocket maker a foothold in enterprise software development and delivers a generational return to Cursor's backers, including a16z, Thrive and Coatue.
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