Investor profile

BoxGroup

VC firm · Founded 2009 · Active in 2026

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59 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #15 · Global · 59 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026

Unicorns ↑ 62% 5y

Decacorns → 0% 5y

Thoroughbreds ↑ 173% 5y

Featured in #15Power Law Investor Ranking · Global · 2026Top 0.1%

BoxGroup was founded in 2009 by David Tisch and Adam Rothenberg as a New York City pre-seed fund. The thesis is unchanged since the start: write the smallest possible early cheque on a wide funnel of New York and East Coast deals, with a high-conviction filter on founders.

BoxGroup is on the cap table of Plaid, Warby Parker, Glossier, Ramp, and Vercel among many others. The fund explicitly stays at pre-seed and Seed.

Portfolio analysis

The 59 BoxGroup Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount

USA56
Australia1
UK1
Mexico1

By sectorCount

Health Tech & Medtech9
Fintech9
Other6
AI5
eCommerce & Marketplaces5
Other B2B Software5
Biotech & Life Sciences4
Transportation4
Energy4
Marketing4
Cybersecurity2
Food1

By stage enteredCount

Series B+10
Series A18
Seed30

01 · Portfolio market map

BoxGroup's 59 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered

Outcome tier

Region

Group by

59 of 59 Power Law outcomes

02 · Founder talent

Where BoxGroup's founders come from — and where they study.

104 founders across the 59 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount

United States68

Israel6

Australia4

Sweden4

India3

France3

United Kingdom2

Russia2

Pakistan1

Austria1

+1 more →

UniversityCount

Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania12

Massachusetts Institute of Technology7

Stanford University4

Columbia Business School4

Texas A&M University4

Carnegie Mellon University3

University of Southern California3

University of Sydney2

Tel Aviv University2

Imperial College London2

+34 more →

Origin companyCount

Alphabet | Google20

Microsoft12

Meta5

Uber4

Oscar4

Flatiron Health3

Amazon3

Salesforce3

Verkada2

LogMeIn2

+80 more →

Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.

03 · Key people

Key people at BoxGroup.

David Tisch

Investor

Midas Seed 2025 · #18

Clay

Sources: Dealroom desktop research, official firm profiles and public investor lists.

04 · Compare with peers

How does BoxGroup stack up?

BoxGroup in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 34 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.

Compare against

Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns

Stage focus

Companies by entry stage and outcome tier

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors

Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.

Sentiment on X

What X is saying about BoxGroup

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about BoxGroup on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

In the news

Latest news about BoxGroup

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