Tribe Capital

Tribe Capital is a prominent U.S. data-driven venture capital firm investing in early-stage and growth-stage technology companies across multiple sectors, using a distinctive quantitative / data-science-driven investment methodology to identify and support fast-scaling companies. The firm was founded in 2018 by Co-Founders and Managing Partners Arjun Sethi (previously Partner at Social Capital, co-founder of MessageMe acquired by Yahoo, and co-founder of Lolapps), Jonathan Hsu (previously Partner at Social Capital, co-founder of Social Capital's data-science-and-analytics practice), and Ted Maidenberg (previously at Social Capital and Bain & Company) aEUR" all former Social Capital (Chamath Palihapitiya's firm) partners who departed to form Tribe Capital with the blessing / spin-off structure from Social Capital. Tribe is headquartered in San Francisco / Palo Alto with additional presence in New York. The firm employs proprietary ''magic 8-ball'' / ''Tribe DNA'' data-driven investment-analysis methodology applied to portfolio-company operational metrics. Tribe has raised multiple institutional funds (Tribe Fund I at USD 100 million+ in 2019, Tribe Fund II at USD 200 million in 2021, Tribe Fund III) with aggregate AUM exceeding USD 1 billion+ across vintages. Notable portfolio companies include Kraken (crypto exchange), Relativity Space (aerospace unicorn), DoNotPay (AI legal tool), Moonfare (alternative-investment platform), and many other leading U.S. and global technology companies.