Value proposition

Haystack is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, backing outlier founders at the earliest stages.


Since 2013, Haystack has made approximately 290 pre-seed or seed-stage investments, of which (after proactively marking down our portfolios in 2022), we have over 60 companies valued at $100M+, 16 companies valued at $1B+, and 36 accretive exits to date. Over the past few years, our median initial check size has stabilized around $700K on a median entry post-money valuation of $15M.