Third Kind Venture Capital

Shana Fisher is the sole Managing Partner and makes all investment decisions. She brings operator and strategic M&A experience from her prior roles as Senior Vice President at IAC and Managing Director at Andreessen Horowitz. Her IAC tenure included early involvement with companies such as Match.com and Vimeo. She typically takes a board seat at portfolio companies post-investment.

Third Kind relies heavily on Fisher's personal network built over two decades in New York and Silicon Valley. Her time at IAC and Andreessen Horowitz created relationships with serial founders who now refer deal flow. The firm's founder-backers also contribute to sourcing, creating an informal but highly curated deal pipeline that bypasses the traditional cold-inbound path.

No. Third Kind deliberately avoids the traditional 10-year blind pool fund structure. Fisher raises capital on a per-deal basis through special purpose vehicles. This structure means the firm's total assets under management are not publicly disclosed, and it does not face pressure to deploy a fixed amount of capital within a defined period.

The firm focuses almost exclusively on seed and Series A rounds. Fisher has stated a preference for being the first institutional check into a company, often leading rounds. Investments such as the 2015 seed round in MasterClass and the Series A in Headspace fit this early-stage pattern.

Third Kind is an independent firm. Shana Fisher was previously a Managing Director at Andreessen Horowitz and, prior to that, the SVP of Strategic Planning at IAC. Several of her early deals, including a pre-IPO stake in Pinterest, were completed during her tenure at Andreessen Horowitz, but Third Kind operates completely separately from both organizations.