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2048 Ventures

VC
Alexandria, VAWebsite
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$250K – $1.0M

AUM

$76M

Portfolio

26+ companies

Team

7 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Pre-seed/seed fund focused on being an early check for software companies across sectors.

Meet the Team

SP

Sandra Pérez Baos

Senior Associate

Biotech
Health

Sandra Pérez Baos is a Senior Associate at 2048 Ventures. Prior to 2048 Ventures, Sandra was part of the founding leadership team at Nucleate New York, served as a fellow with the Business Development team at NYU Technology Opportunities and Ventures, and helped launch a therapeutics startup during her postdoctoral fellowship at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

MP

Monika Pal

Partner

AI

Alex Iskold

Founder and Partner

AI
Deep Tech

Alex Iskold is a Founder and a Partner at 2048 Ventures. Alex is a 5x founder, a software engineer, and an investor in over 150 startups. He writes one of the top startup blogs called Startup Hacks. Prior to founding 2048 Ventures, Alex spent 5 years at Techstars as the Managing Director of its NYC program. Alex was also the founder and CEO of Info Lab (acquired by IBM), founder and CEO of GetGlue (backed by USV, RRE, Time Warner), and a Chief Architect of distributed computing startup DataSynapse (acquired by TIBCO).

JW

Julie Wolf

Partner

Biotech
Health

Julie Wolf is a Partner at 2048 Ventures, where she leads biotech and healthcare verticals. She is an investor in more than 50 startups and is interested in platform technologies and founders transforming human health. Before 2048 Ventures, Julie was Chief Science Officer and a member of the founding investment team at SOSV’s IndieBio New York.

EJ

Edward Jin

Associate

Deep Tech
AI

Edward Jin is an Associate at 2048 Ventures. Prior to joining the firm, he invested in student-founded startups across the country at both Crescent Fund and Dorm Room Fund, and helped grow Discipulus Ventures, a hardtech fund in El Segundo. He also spent time at Spero Ventures, where he researched early-stage companies in energy, manufacturing, and robotics.

ZA

Zann Ali

Partner

AI
Deep Tech

Zann Ali is a Partner at 2048 Ventures. Prior to 2048 Ventures, Zann was at Putnam Investments, where he worked with the Chief Investment and Operating Officers on investments and special projects. Before Putnam, Zann spent four years at Fidelity Investments, first with the company’s internal strategy team and then with Fidelity Health, an insure-tech startup that he helped launch.

DC

Daniella Cohen

Principal

Health
AI

Daniella Cohen is a Principal at 2048 Ventures. Prior to 2048 Ventures, she was a managing partner at Rough Draft Ventures where she invested in student founders across the country. She was a summer associate at Techstars NYC and joined the portfolio company, The Clear Cut (DTC diamond startup) as their Head of Content while the company grew over 100% year-over-year.

Industry Focus

Invests In

Other
SaaS
Enterprise
Fintech
Developer Tools
Consumer
Healthcare
AI / ML
Food / AgTech
Marketplace
Security

Portfolio Companies (26)

Other

JU

Juniper Square

B2B fintech
RE

Relativity Space

Aerospace
NO

Notarize (Proof)

B2B legal tech
GL

GlossGenius

Beauty Industry·Series C
AE

Aerodome

Drone-as-First-Responder infrastructure·Exited
SO

Soona

Ecommerce Content·Series B
VI

Vitally

Customer Success for B2B Software·Series B
NO

Nomic Bio

Proteomics·Series B
AI

Airspace Link

Drone Workflow and Infrastructure·Series B
IM

Impilo

At-home Health·Series A

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