Rise Together Ventures

The firm makes an equity investment into a growing company and simultaneously provides a non-dilutive grant of equal size. The grant is earmarked specifically to fund the company's '.org capabilities' — an internal unit designed to deploy the company's product or relationships toward a social problem. This means founders cannot absorb the grant into general working capital; it must be used to build and operate a dedicated social-purpose function.

General Partners Kasey Lundquist Reiter and Taylor Adams jointly lead the firm. Both come from backgrounds spanning venture capital, startup operations, and philanthropic program design, according to the firm's website. They work directly with portfolio company founders to design the roadmap for each grant's social-impact deployment.

The firm's disclosed activity and portfolio page show only direct equity positions in operating companies. There is no evidence of fund-of-fund commitments or SPV structures in its public-facing materials. All named portfolio companies, such as Flexport and Saildrone, represent direct venture-stage equity investments.

Known portfolio companies span enterprise software (Ribbon), logistics and supply chain (Flexport), aerospace and autonomous systems (Saildrone, Aerodome), fintech (Paystand), digital health (Clarity Pediatrics), and education (BookNook). The firm does not publish an explicit exclusion list, and its site focuses on the ability of any high-growth company to drive social progress through its core product.

Rise Together operates as a venture-investment platform, not a family office. It raises external capital and deploys it into third-party startups via direct equity and parallel grant structures. Its General Partners are not publicly linked to a single-family wealth origin.

The firm's Altss research record classifies its strategy as spanning early-stage startup through expansion and late-stage growth. While it does not publish a rigid stage framework, portfolio holdings like Formative (acquired in 2023) suggest it can invest early enough to hold through exit, while Flexport and DroneDeploy indicate appetite for later-stage rounds.

The firm's public materials describe case studies of portfolio companies engaging in philanthropy by leveraging existing resources, but it does not disclose a standardized impact-measurement framework. The General Partners work directly with founders to create a roadmap, and the grant is structurally locked into building the .org capability, which suggests accountability is maintained through ongoing board or advisory-level engagement rather than audited metrics.