Reshape

What Reshape does

Reshape Ventures is a boutique early-stage investment firm founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York City. The firm makes equity investments in technology-enabled startups that depend on real estate or physical infrastructure to scale, with a stated primary thesis across three verticals: proptech, retail & e-commerce, and healthcare. Secondary exposure extends into fintech, food tech, transportation & mobility, and web & SaaS. Since founding, Reshape has made over 200 investments and reports no parent company, subsidiaries, or external fund vehicles in the disclosed data.

The firm does not develop or sell a technology product; its core offering is capital, strategic guidance, and network access to early-stage founders. The underlying "platform" is the investment team and the 200+ portfolio companies, which collectively provide cross-portfolio synergies, follow-on co-investment capacity, and reputational capital from prior exits. Investment cadence is steady rather than concentrated: the firm has deployed into early-stage rounds at a pace averaging more than twenty investments per year across its nine-year history.

Reshape's business model is the standard venture capital construct: deploy committed capital from limited partners into early-stage equity, earn management fees on assets under management, and realize returns through exits. The disclosed exit roster is the primary performance signal and includes six IPOs (Ginkgo Bioworks, Sonder, Quanergy, Grab, Sweetgreen, Bird) and several acquisitions (Imperfect Foods by Misfits Foods, Starcity by Common, Auro Robotics by Ridecell, Metamoto by Foretellix, Radish by Kakao, Spruce Health by Redesign Health, Zuul). Pricing, fee structure, fund size, and LP composition are not disclosed. Leadership is compact and senior-led: Managing Partner Vinay Menda, COO/Partner Emir Ildiz, and Director Mukund Menda.

Name

Reshape

Legal name

Reshape Ventures

Website

http://www.reshape.co

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Reshape Ventures is a boutique early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York City, having deployed over 200 investments across proptech, retail & e-commerce, healthcare, fintech, food tech, transportation, and SaaS startups.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Venture Capital / Early-Stage Investment

NAICS

Portfolio Management and Investment Advice (523940)

SIC

Investment Advice (6282)

akta.pro primary industry

Real Estate / PropTech Growth Equity (FSANACAH)

Keywords

• Early-stage venture capital
• Seed equity investments
• Proptech investing
• Healthcare venture investing
• Retail e-commerce capital

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Reshape is a boutique early-stage investment firm founded in 2015 that deploys equity capital into early-stage companies. It concentrates its investments in proptech, retail and e-commerce, and healthcare, with additional activity in fintech, food tech, transportation and mobility, and web and SaaS. The firm has executed more than 200 investments to date.

Product overview

Reshape is a boutique early-stage investment firm based in New York City. Since 2015, the firm has made over 200 investments in early-stage companies across three primary sectors: proptech, retail & e-commerce, and healthcare. The firm does not offer a product or service in the traditional sense; rather, it provides capital, mentorship, and strategic support to early-stage companies through its investment portfolio.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Forerunner Ventures: Early-stage consumer-focused venture firm with portfolio including Warby Parker, Glossier, and Bonobos. Highly comparable to Reshape's retail/e-commerce investment thesis and stage.
• Collaborative Fund: Mission-driven early-stage investor in consumer, food, and health tech. Comparable to Reshape's focus on consumer brands, food tech, and healthcare sectors at the seed stage.
• Lerer Hippeau: New York-based early-stage venture capital firm investing across consumer, media, and enterprise technology. Directly comparable to Reshape in stage, geography, and sector focus on consumer/retail and emerging tech.
• Female Founders Fund: NYC-based seed-stage fund investing in consumer, health, and enterprise tech with a thesis-aligned approach. Comparable stage, geography, and multi-sector seed strategy.
• Eniac Ventures: New York-based early-stage venture firm with focus on mobile, SaaS, and consumer technology. Comparable stage, geography, and multi-vertical approach to Reshape.
• Boldstart Ventures: NYC-based early-stage fund investing in enterprise SaaS and infrastructure. Comparable to Reshape's Web & SaaS vertical investments and seed-stage approach.
• Corigin Ventures: NYC-based early-stage investor focused on consumer and proptech sectors. Closely matches Reshape's proptech and retail/e-commerce vertical emphasis and NYC base.
• Sinai Ventures: New York-based early-stage venture fund investing across consumer, fintech, and frontier tech. Comparable stage, geography, and broad thematic coverage similar to Reshape.

Broad incumbents

• Techstars: Global early-stage accelerator and investor with thousands of portfolio companies. Comparable as a broad early-stage investor across multiple verticals but operates at vastly larger scale than boutique firms like Reshape.
• 500 Global: Large global seed-stage accelerator and VC with thousands of portfolio companies. Comparable in early-stage investment model but much larger and more diversified than Reshape's boutique approach.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments128 records

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