Vast Ventures

Vast Ventures backs disruptive companies seeking to improve lives and create positive global impact. The firm describes its investment approach as manifesto-driven, organizing its work around goals that include improving worldwide health and happiness, promoting resource sustainability for future generations, increasing human potential and productivity, and strengthening knowledge, empathy and connectedness. It also seeks to disrupt industries that resist these aims.

Based in New York, Vast Ventures invests across areas including consumer brands, AI and cloud software, finance, insurance and real estate, resource sustainability and deep technology, healthcare, and food. Its portfolio includes companies such as Coinbase, Ripple, ClassPass, Bark and ASAPP. The firm says its team brings experience building and operating companies as well as investing, and aims to support passionate entrepreneurs beyond its invested capital. Doug Chertok founded Vast Ventures in 2004, and the firm invests in early- and growth-stage businesses.