Seed Investing at Scale | David Tisch, Managing Partner at BoxGroup | Ep. 10

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

May 22, 2025

Duration

59m

Channel

Uncapped with Jack Altman

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

This week I enjoyed riffing with David Tisch, Managing Partner of BoxGroup. BoxGroup is an NYC-based seed stage venture capital firm that has invested in over 500 seed-stage startups over the last 15 years, including Plaid, Ro, Ramp, Clay, Scopely, Warp, Cursor, PillPack, Amplitude, Flatiron Health, Stripe, Warby Parker, Harry’s, Oscar, Flexport, Classpass, Vine, GroupMe, Airtable and more. David is the Chairman of GoodDog, a marketplace to find pets online. He is the co-founder of TechStars NYC and serves on the board of Friends of Hudson River Park. We covered:

• Scaling something deemed unscalable
• Art of being collaborative
• Taste not being teachable
• VC help being overrated
• Building a NYC brand

Timestamps: (0:00) Intro (0:27) Scaling a collaborative fund (8:23) Stack ranking portfolios (11:29) Investing at seed (17:29) Hiring for taste (22:30) The art of being collaborative (29:03) VC help is overrated (41:38) Why VCs pass on companies (48:11) Building a brand in NYC (55:02) North Stars in early-stage investing Linktree: https://linktr.ee/uncappedpod Twitter: https://x.com/jaltma Email: friends@uncappedpod.com

🎤 SPEAKERS

• David Tisch

  guest

• Jack Altman

  host

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Uncapped with Jack Altman, featuring David Tisch and Jack Altman, Seed Investing at Scale | David Tisch, Managing Partner at BoxGroup | Ep. 10 explores how BoxGroup scaled collaborative seed investing without changing its model BoxGroup has scaled a collaborative seed-only approach instead of following the conventional VC path toward larger, later-stage, more concentrated investing.

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