FirstMark Capital

FirstMark co-founded one of NYC's first institutional early-stage firms in 2005 and has built one of venture capital's most developed platform and community stacks, including Data Driven NYC with 20,000+ members and functional Guilds representing over 80% of global tech unicorns. The firm's founders have iconic track records—Rick Heitzmann wrote Pinterest's seed check and has been on the Forbes Midas List five years running, while Amish Jani led Shopify's Series A through IPO—and they've quietly built repeat-founder franchises while publishing the 11-year-running "MAD" Landscape that has become a reference framework for the AI/data ecosystem.