Remarkable Ventures Research
Investment Thesis
Remarkable Ventures is a New York-based, lifecycle-focused early-stage venture firm that has been investing in startups for more than a decade (founded 2011). The firm operates two vehicles: Remarkable Ventures, a generalist fund investing across consumer and enterprise technology, and Remarkable Ventures Climate, a dedicated early-stage climate fund. The firm's stated philosophy is to back "remarkable founders seeking to create meaningful change through the businesses they create," and it positions itself as a lifecycle investor and operator rather than a purely capital-only fund: "We take you from the earliest stage and see you through your next round, and your next, to exit and beyond." A distinguishing feature of the firm is its large support platform — more than 1,000 mentors and 500+ named individual mentors/advisors drawn from operating, venture, and corporate backgrounds who work directly with portfolio founders.
Stage Focus
Across public materials the firm describes itself as an early-stage investor spanning Pre-Seed through Series A, with continued support through later rounds as portfolio companies scale. The dedicated Climate fund explicitly states it invests "Seed through Series A, and continue[s] to support startups as they grow." Recent job postings for the firm describe it as "investing in early-stage founders building transformative technologies across AI, FinTech, and other sectors."
Check Size
No specific check-size range is published on the website or in available secondary sources. Given the fund's stage focus and continuation strategy through later rounds, check sizes likely scale from small initial checks to meaningful follow-on reserves, but this could not be confirmed from public sources.
Lead Tendency
Public deal coverage shows a mix of lead and participant roles. Remarkable Ventures joined (rather than led) Surface Ventures' $3M seed round in Octozi, and appears as a backer rather than named lead in other recent 2026 rounds (Discernis, BoomerangHR, A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya). Given the mixed evidence, lead tendency is recorded conservatively as unknown/mixed rather than asserted as "leads."
Recent Activity
The firm has been active through 2026:
- September 2026: Backed A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya, a music-apps startup from a former Spotify leader
- September 2026: Backed BoomerangHR, an AI offboarding and alumni-management tool for HR teams
- August 2026: Backed Discernis's $2.5M raise for AI that surfaces evidence across large document sets
- July 2026: Joined Octozi's $3M seed round (led by Surface Ventures), alongside an earlier undisclosed pre-seed from Debiopharm's venture arm
Third-party trackers (CB Insights, PitchBook) show the firm has made 240+ investments historically, with its most recent tracked investment in Discernis in August 2026, consistent with an actively deploying fund.
Portfolio Highlights
The portfolio spans well over 100 active companies across consumer and enterprise categories, plus a climate-focused sub-portfolio. Notable names include Thirty Madison, Scentbird, TripleLift, Glia, ModernFi, Nayya, Order.co, and Rilla — the last two of which had founders (Sina Chehrazi of Nayya and Sebastian Jimenez of Rilla) named EY Entrepreneur of the Year finalists. The climate sub-portfolio includes BoxPower, Camus Energy, GridAstra, Lucend, Neuralwatt, Neutreeno, SmarterSorting (formerly SmarterX), and Torus, aligned to the fund's stated focus areas of energy transition, built environment, transportation and supply chain, industrial, agriculture, and climate fintech.
Team
- Murat Aktihanoglu — Managing Partner
- Jonathan Axelrod — Managing Partner
- Peter C. Goldmark, Jr. — Chairman, Remarkable Ventures Climate
- Chad Ozgur — Resident CTO (Advisor)
- Al Torres — B2B GTM Advisor & Investor, Media & Technology
The Climate fund additionally lists a bench of Venture Partners and Advisors drawn from firms including KSH Capital, Huck Capital, Armada IP Capital, Prescriptive Data, New Wave Energy Capital Partners, and TTGV, plus a broader roster of climate-focused advisors from Colgate-Palmolive, Procter & Gamble, AWS, TPG/The Rise Fund, GE Vernova, NextEra Energy, and Acumen, among others.
Decision Process
Not explicitly disclosed; the presence of two Managing Partners across both funds and a distinct Climate-fund Chairman/leadership team suggests a partnership-style decision process rather than a solo-GP structure.
Founder Preferences
The firm's language ("remarkable founders seeking to create meaningful change") and its operator-heavy mentor network suggest a preference for founders building durable, industry-transforming businesses rather than purely financial-engineering plays. The portfolio mix (deep vertical software, healthtech, insurtech, fintech infrastructure, and hard climate/energy technology) suggests comfort with technical and domain-expert founders as well as consumer-brand builders.
Geographic Focus
The firm is New York-based and appears to invest primarily in US companies, with the Climate fund's advisor network also including international perspectives (Japan, Finland, Germany).
Community and Platform
A distinguishing feature is the mentor network: 500+ individually named mentors spanning operators, investors, and functional experts, supplemented by 1,000+ total experts cited on the Climate fund's page. The firm frames this community as core to its value proposition alongside capital, stating it has been "supporting Remarkable founders since 2011."