Prudence

Gavin Myers is the Managing Partner and leads investment decisions alongside General Partners Jordan Viniar and Melissa Landry Koller. David Fischer, a co-founder, remains involved as Partner Emeritus. The firm's small partnership structure means that all three active GPs sit on portfolio company boards and share diligence responsibilities across the construction, real-estate, and infrastructure verticals (per firm website, 2026).

Prudence leans on its Goldman Sachs alumni network and its deep concentration in built-world software — a sub-sector where few venture firms have true domain expertise. The firm's board seats on early-stage companies like CREXi, AI Clearing, and Planera create visibility into adjacent startups. Additionally, the partner group's mix of hedge-fund career paths and middle-market private equity relationships surfaces complex corporate carve-out and founder-led opportunities that series-A-focused investors often miss.

Prudence invests directly in early-stage companies rather than acting as a fund-of-funds. Its portfolio consists entirely of direct equity stakes in startups, primarily seed through Series A rounds, with board observer and board seats maintained across the portfolio. The firm has not publicly disclosed any fund-commitment mandates.

Prudence avoids sectors outside its built-world thesis. The firm explicitly targets construction, real estate, infrastructure, and adjacent AI/data-infrastructure layers — and does not invest in healthtech, fintech, consumer internet, climate-tech unrelated to the built environment, or enterprise SaaS applications that lack a physical-asset anchor (per firm website, 2026).