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.

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.

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.