Overkill Ventures

Early-stage and seed investor based in NYC, founded by a French-American operator, known for access to oversubscribed brand-consumer rounds and backing cult, consumer-grade startups that simplify regulated categories. The firm organizes its investment worldview around "societal organizing principles," backing companies that radically simplify complex, regulated categories while delivering consumer-grade experiences, particularly targeting cult brand consumer companies that build intense customer affinity.

True Beauty Ventures is a beauty and wellness venture capital fund co-founded by a Latina former beauty operator and a long-time beauty private equity investor, creating an unusual 50/50 GP team that combines hands-on brand-building experience with decades of sector-focused institutional investing. The fund writes $1–5M equity checks into indie brands with ~$2M+ in revenue using a hybrid PE/VC model that applies private-equity-style deep diligence and concentrated bets while investing at early-stage VC check sizes, explicitly rejecting the "spray and pray" approach common in consumer VC.

Operator-led fund that leads first institutional rounds for $1–5M revenue brands at sub-$10M entry valuations, using CEO-level Operating Partners to drive profitability and realistic $300–700M exit paths.

Amplifyher Ventures is led by Tricia Black, Facebook's first VP of Sales and 7th employee, and invests specifically in commerce, care, and connectivity themes that deliberately blur the lines between consumer brands, women's health infrastructure, and information platforms. The fund operates a formal Investor Fellows program across elite graduate schools to source deals and frames women not as underfunded but as an untapped asset class, explicitly targeting leadership teams that can create flywheel effects of growth in new markets.