Original Capital

Early-stage venture capital

We back relentless founders building world-changing companies.

We partner early, often before founders have incorporated, and focus primarily on vertical software and fintech. We take lower ownership, hold no board seats, and aim to be your first call.

How we work

  1. Before the round exists

    We want to be your first believers. Many of our partnerships, like Aven and Fireworks, started before the founders had incorporated.

  2. Lower ownership, better cap table

    Building a company is hard. We take less ownership in return for helping you assemble the best cap table for your long-term success.

  3. Vertical software and fintech

    Most of our investments are in founders building vertical software or fintech companies. That's where we spend our time.

  4. No board seats

    We have been in the trenches with founders through good and bad. Without a board seat, we can be your first call at all times.

Team

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Sumeet Gajri

Partner

Previously Insight Partners, then Chief Strategy Officer at Carta as it grew from under $5M to over $100M ARR. Early investor in Ramp, Aven, Front, Qualia and Instabase.

Read Sumeet's Substack ↗
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Ramnik Arora

Partner

Previously Meta (Core Ads, Libra), then Head of Product at FTX, where he also led FTX Ventures and backed Anthropic, Cursor and Solana.

Read Ramnik's Substack ↗

Venture Partners

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James McGillicuddy

Venture Partner

CEO and co-founder of BRM Software. Previously Summit Partners, RelateIQ, Sourcegraph and Carta.

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Kais Khimji

Venture Partner

Founder of Blockit. Previously Sequoia Capital and Insight Partners.

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Ryan Snow

Venture Partner

Runs finance at the firm. Previously Index Ventures, Carta and HarbourVest.

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