Elizabeth Street Ventures
Early-stage investment firm backing digital commerce and consumer fintech businesses transforming large consumer industry verticals, based in New York.
Elizabeth Street Ventures is an early-stage investment firm focused on the digital consumer. It backs businesses in digital commerce and consumer fintech that are transforming large industry verticals, with particular attention to customer experience, category-defining products, and shifts in consumer behaviour. The firm's stated interest is in products and services that create new markets and become part of everyday life.
Investment activity spans digital commerce, consumer fintech, commerce enablement and digital health, with sector coverage extending to apparel, food, beauty, hospitality and media. Notable portfolio companies include ADAY, Bilt Rewards, Current, CornerUp, Museum of Ice Cream and Tiny Organics - a mix of consumer brands, rewards and financial products, and experiential businesses.
The firm is led by two co-founders and General Partners, Will McClelland and Ben Sontheimer, and works on a founder-partnership basis with teams building distinctive brands and consumer businesses. It is based in New York. Further detail on fund size, vintage and check size is not published.