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Future Positive
Future Positive is an SEC-registered investment adviser in New York, NY, registered since 2025. The firm manages approximately $278 million in regulatory...
Future Positive
Future Positive is an SEC-registered investment adviser in New York, NY, registered since 2025. The firm manages approximately $278 million in regulatory assets. It has 4 employees and 3 investment advisers.
General information
Firm type
Private Equity
Year founded
2014
Location
Region
North America
Country
United States
City
New York
Corporate office
New York, NY, United States
Principals
Fred Wilson
Co-Founder
Brad Burnham
Co-Founder
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
How is Future Positive related to Union Square Ventures?
Future Positive is a separate fund vehicle co-founded by USV’s Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham in 2014. It pursues a thesis around societal resilience and positive externalities that the partners wanted to house outside USV’s core internet-focused mandate. While the firms share principals, they have distinct investment committees, limited partners, and portfolio construction strategies.
What does Future Positive invest in?
The firm writes seed and early-stage checks into software and data-driven companies operating at the intersection of commercial viability and long-term human or planetary well-being. Sectors include climate adaptation, AI transparency, decentralized finance, digital health, and education access. Two disclosed portfolio companies are Koko, a nonprofit mental-health platform, and Labster, the virtual science lab simulator.
Who makes investment decisions at Future Positive?
Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham remain the firm's founding investment decision-makers. In 2020, Tonya Surman — the founding CEO of the Centre for Social Innovation in Toronto — joined as a partner, expanding the firm's sourcing and diligence capacity within North American and European social-enterprise networks.
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