Uncapped with Jack AltmanSeed Investing at Scale | David Tisch, Managing Partner at BoxGroup | Ep. 10
Episode Details
EPISODE INFO
- Released
- May 22, 2025
- Duration
- 59m
- Channel
- Uncapped with Jack Altman
- Watch on YouTube
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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
guestJack 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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