Moderne Ventures

The primary sourcing advantage is the Moderne Passport—a six-month structured immersion program that funnels deal candidates from a network of 1,500 corporate executives in real estate, insurance, finance, and sustainability. These executives act as scouts, mentors, and early customers, often surfacing companies before they run a broad process. The investment team, led by Constance Freedman and Liza Benson, fields referrals from that network alongside traditional venture channels.

Constance Freedman, the Founder and Managing Partner, leads the investment committee. Partner Liza Benson helps manage investment activity, and Managing Director Seth Corder—previously a Partner at High Alpha—is a voting member. The senior team combines early-stage SaaS investing experience with deep sector relationships in property technology and insurance.

Moderne Ventures is structured as a venture capital and growth equity firm, not a family office. It manages multi-stage funds backed by institutional and corporate investors rather than a single family's capital. The firm's own website describes managing over $200M in regulatory assets, and its team operates as a dedicated fund manager.

Moderne invests directly in operating companies, primarily through equity rounds from late seed to pre-IPO. There is no public indication the firm makes fund-of-fund commitments. Its model focuses on direct deployment alongside the Moderne Passport program, which provides portfolio companies with strategic customer introductions rather than LP capital to other managers.

The Moderne Passport is a proprietary six-month industry immersion program that connects Moderne's portfolio companies—and a limited number of outside applicants—with the firm's network of over 1,500 corporate executives. It is designed to compress enterprise sales cycles by embedding startups directly into the procurement conversations of large real estate owners, insurers, and financial institutions. Over 160 companies have been admitted.

Constance Freedman previously led strategic investments at the National Association of Realtors, where she launched and managed its venture fund, Second Century Ventures (SCV), and founded its industry immersion program, REach. SCV is a separate entity—a corporate venture arm of NAR—but served as the institutional predecessor where Freedman developed the thesis and network that became Moderne Ventures.

Moderne does not publicly report a separate philanthropic foundation. Individual team members hold non-profit board seats—Freedman previously served on the advisory board for From the Top, and several principals are involved with industry and charitable organizations—but these are not funded by the firm's management company or funds.