Sharing our views on all things venture capital - from the business models we've been investing in to the trends reshaping our industry.
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Why we led the Seed round in the company building the world's first predictive water heater; our continued pursuit of applying AI to the largest and most important markets.
Earlier this week we hosted Asymmetric’s annual meeting in Boston, simultaneous with the five-year anniversary of our launch.
Why we led the Series A in an AI-native HVAC marketplace — and what it says about where we think the next decade of value creation is hiding.
In the U.S.
Sharing some remarks from Monday’s 2025 Asymmetric Annual Meeting
Copley marries two Asymmetric hallmarks: first, forming meaningful, long-term relationships with prospective founders, then seeding them before others even know they are in the market; and, second, finding underexploited, customer-ROI-centric application layer use cases for AI.
Much has been made in recent years of the growing complexity surrounding U.S.
Imagine you wake up with a concerning rash or upper abdominal pain.
We believe the maturation and commoditization of much of private markets investing calls for alternative approaches to creating excess return.
Our Take on the Venture Capital Industry’s New Status Quo
It can be difficult to comprehend the scale of the aggregate effort required across domains - both technological and economic - for a decarbonized society to emerge as a practical reality.
Despite ongoing market tumult we remain squarely focused on our strategy: backing exceptional founders at the earliest stages.
Over the last few months, the mid and late stage tech rut has only deepened.
Building any business from company formation to a scaled, successful enterprise - be it a car wash chain, vertical software play, or a new venture capital firm - presents a host of challenges for founders to navigate:
We are thrilled to announce our co-lead investment in Murmur!
We are beyond thrilled to announce our investment as the first institutional capital in UpSmith, a much-needed company focusing on upskilling and workforce development.
Today we celebrate the one year anniversary of our launch as a firm! In the last twelve months, we’ve invested nearly $50 million in 41 companies, which, according to Pitchbook, tied us for 6th place among the most active VCs in Boston by deal count 🤯.
(From left: Nancy Chou, Zoë Gibson and Kevin Leland of Halo, Rob Biederman)
It is no secret that all VCs sell variations of the same product: capital.
Before founding Asymmetric, I co-founded and ran Catalant Technologies for eight years, and now serve as Chairman of the Board.
