{"id":250566,"date":"2026-07-07T15:02:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/chemistry-ventures-is-raising-500m-for-its-second-fund-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T15:02:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:02:02","slug":"chemistry-ventures-is-raising-500m-for-its-second-fund-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/chemistry-ventures-is-raising-500m-for-its-second-fund-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemistry Ventures is raising $500M for its second fund | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chemistry Ventures, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/10\/23\/bessemer-index-and-a16z-alum-launch-vc-firm-chemistry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the VC firm launched two years ago<\/a> by Bessemer, Index Ventures, and Andreessen Horowitz alums, is raising $500 million for its second fund, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/2136807\/000123191926000700\/xslFormDX01\/primary_doc.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">according to an SEC filing.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Founded by Mark Goldberg, Ethan Kurzweil, and Kristina Shen, Chemistry launched with a $350 million fund, and invests in early-stage startups building developer tools, fintech, and infrastructure. Its portfolio companies include Granola, Decagon, Persona, Serval, and Nova Intelligence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Goldberg previously worked at Index Ventures, Kurzweil with Bessemer, and Shen with a16z. The trio launched the firm to combine their experience working at large venture capital firms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/pro\/venture-capital\/venture-firm-chemistry-is-raising-500-million-for-second-fund-bc88bb5a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reports<\/a> that the second fund is already oversubscribed and the fundraise is expected to close soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chemistry did not immediately return a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/07\/07\/chemistry-ventures-is-raising-500m-for-its-second-fund\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chemistry Ventures, the VC firm launched two years ago by Bessemer, Index Ventures, and Andreessen Horowitz alums, is raising $500 million for its second fund, according to an SEC filing. Founded by Mark Goldberg, Ethan Kurzweil, and Kristina Shen, Chemistry launched with a $350 million fund, and invests in early-stage startups building developer tools, fintech, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-250566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}