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Called First Round for a reason. Your first money in is one thing. But so are your first hires, your first product and your first customers. They've helped Notion, Roblox, Uber, Square, and 300 others tackle these firsts and more. First round is building the world’s best product for founders who are just getting started.

IVP grows breakout companies into enduring market leaders.

They are engaged VC partners, but their guidance is focused on when and where it counts. It’s about expertise in moments that matter, answering your call as a counselor and confidant. It’s about bolstering the functions that make or break a business to ensure we make yours a success. It’s about being your compass on the winding path to market leadership. And about celebrating the milestones along the way.

While IVP's investment track record is four decades strong, their focus is on the horizon. From emerging to enduring market leadership, they look out so you can look ahead. Undaunted.

Helps the daring build legendary companies, from idea to IPO and beyond.

Move the world further, faster, with quiet capital by investing in technology businesses early to create long-term value.

Partner on the early stage investing team at Sequoia Capital. He currently sits on the board of Citizen, Jumpstart, rideOS, Rockset, and Threads.

Focuses on investments in frontier tech, logistics, marketplaces & consumer. Seth led Susa's investments in Flexport, Periscope Data and Expanse. Also served as the VP of Strategic Marketing for The Richemont Group, a publicly traded company (CFR:VX) which owns brands and e-commerce sites Cartier, Net-A-Porter.com, Mr. Porter, Montblanc, and Chloe. Seth graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder with a bachelor's degrees in Business and Finance.

Focuses on investments in marketplaces, fintech, and healthcare. Led Susa's investments in Robinhood, Andela, Newfront Insurance and Stord. Prior to Susa Ventures, Chad was the senior director of platform at Integrate.com and held various marketing and product roles at Silver Spring Networks, Bloom Energy, and Electronic Arts.

Avichal Garg’s tour through tech began at Google, and he landed at Facebook in 2012 after the social-media giant bought Spool, his mobile bookmarking startup. At Facebook, he led product management for a 400-engineer team. His investing career involved a brief stint at Y Combinator, after which he struck out on his own to build Electric Capital, a firm that invests across fintech and crypto. He’s now among the beneficiaries of a wave of capital pouring into Web3 — a catchall term for crypto, blockchain, and metaverse companies — with two newly closed funds worth $1 billion.