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Building a
Technology-First World.

Prudence invests in transformative software companies across multiple verticals, including construction, real estate, infrastructure and climate/energy adaptation.

Our Areas of Focus

Investing in enhanced
data capabilities
to power autonomous business processes.

Investing in enhanced
data capabilities
to power
autonomous business processes.

Data Infrastructure
Layer

Enormous volumes of data can now be ingested, aggregated and disseminated at scale, creating unique and defensible data assets. Additionally, emerging API infrastructure is unlocking new business formation across the verticals we support, and we back teams who are driving these innovations.

Artificial Intelligence Enablement

AI applications are leveraging data volumes to train models to solve problems or make decisions that otherwise would require human intelligence. We focus on solutions across the diverse field of AI, including those involving computer vision, robotics, predictive modeling and generative AI.

Autonomous Vertical SaaS

As workflows become digitized, leading vertical SAAS companies will leverage proprietary data not previously or publicly available. We invest behind founders who are leading the migration away from human capital intensity, beyond just human capital productivity gains, towards fully autonomous business processes.

Data Infrastructure
Layer

Enormous volumes of data can now be ingested, aggregated and disseminated at scale, creating unique and defensible data assets. Additionally, emerging API infrastructure is unlocking new business formation across the verticals we support, and we back teams who are driving these innovations.

Artificial Intelligence Enablement

AI applications are leveraging data volumes to train models to solve problems or make decisions that otherwise would require human intelligence. We focus on solutions across the diverse field of AI, including those involving computer vision, robotics, predictive modeling and generative AI.

Autonomous Vertical SaaS

As workflows become digitized, leading vertical SAAS companies will leverage proprietary data not previously or publicly available. We invest behind founders who are leading the migration away from human capital intensity, beyond just human capital productivity gains, towards fully autonomous business processes.

Portfolio Highlights.

Our Team

We are passionate about sharing our experience, insights and curiosity with our founders to help them build iconic companies.

Gavin Myers.

Managing Partner

AGE 9
Thriving candy business shutdown by school principal

1999
Graduates from Yale with a BA in Political Science

2000
Leaves Goldman Sachs after 9 months to move to San Francisco to work with tech companies at Credit Suisse

2004
Graduates from Columbia Business School

2005 – 2009
Works in middle market private equity but spends free time meeting with early-stage founders of tech companies

2009
Joins David to build Prudence

2021
Board of Directors at Properly, Casafari, Morty, Hemlane, Salus and CREXi (observer)

OOTO
Coaching soccer, cutting back on podcasts and spending time with his wife Janie and their boys, Brooks and Kemp

Jordan Viniar.

Partner

AGE 10
Makes first investment in one share of TCBY stock

2011
Graduates from Brown University with an AB in Economics

2013
Leaves Goldman Sachs for the 1st time after 2 years in Investment Banking

2013 – 2015
Works at hedge fund Partner Fund Management in San Francisco

2015 – 2017
Moves into the tech world with Shift Technologies, building a consumer auto lending business

2017 – 2020
Shifts to tech investing at Goldman Sachs Investment Partners; investments include Zola and Built Technologies

2020
Joins Gavin and David to continue developing the growth of Prudence

2021
Promoted to Partner in Prudence

OOTO
Playing basketball, cooking and traveling with his wife Gloria and their son Leo

David Fischer.

Co-Founder & Partner

AGE 9
Apple II computer leads to lifelong passion for tech

1999
Studies economics before switching to law, graduating with an LLB from Manchester University in the UK and passing the bar

2001 – 2007
Foregoes law, creates a family office focusing on alternative investments; immerses himself in the world of hedge funds and forms a nuanced view of finance industry

2007
Due to his analysis on the finance sector, liquidates 2/3 of portfolio pre-financial crisis

2008
Post-crisis, senses a larger opportunity in direct, private investments and circles back to his tech passion

2009
Joins Gavin to build Prudence

OOTO
Reading, surfing around the world and spending time with his family

Melissa Landry Koller.

Head of Investor Relations & Operations

AGE 6
Earns first paycheck after doing a radio commercial for Home Improvement

2011
Graduates from Louisiana State University summa cum laude with a BA in Finance

2011 – 2017
Spends 6 years at Goldman Sachs in Investment Banking and the Executive Office

2019
Graduates from Harvard Business School and goes on a 6-month, round-the world adventure

2020 – 2021
Advises financial institutions on executing their talent and recruiting strategies at executive search firm Russell Reynolds

2021
Joins Prudence to lead the firm’s investor relations and operations efforts

OOTO
Exploring new places on all seven continents, scuba diving, snowboarding and painting

JULIA BRINO.

SENIOR ASSOCIATE

AGE 8
Becomes a published poet and goes on to compete in the state spelling bee

2018
Graduates Clemson University with a BA in Management & Business Analytics and a black belt in college football fandom

2019 – 2021
Begins journey in the VC industry at Transamerica Ventures, investing in early stage InsurTech, Fintech, Enterprise Software, and Digital Health startups around the world

2021 – 2022
Continues VC career at OpenView, investing globally in early stage B2B software

2022
Joins Prudence to find and back the most transformative technology companies in the built world while continuing to build on the growth and momentum set forth by the team

OOTO
On a quest to find the bluest water, the craziest foods, the best wine, and the most interesting people

LATEST NEWS.

Hilary Swank joins HealthyBaby as Chief Innovation Officer

HealthyBaby, the challenger maternal health and babycare platform, is thrilled to announce Academy Award-Winning actor, entrepreneur and new mom, Hilary Swank, as the brand's Partner and Chief Innovation Officer. The partnership between Swank and HealthyBaby is rooted in a shared mission to prioritize health, safety and next-level quality for our babies' environments, from the very inception of life.

SALUS Secures $8M in Series A Funding from Outsiders Fund and Prudence

SALUS Technologies (SALUS), a Vancouver-based software company, has successfully closed $8 million in a Series A funding round from New York investors to support their mission to revolutionize safety for construction and other labour-focused industries. SALUS’s innovative safety management software empowers field workers and safety professionals to address inefficiencies in their compliance and mitigate risk in their daily operations.

SALUS Receives Over $2.6M from Government of Canada to Advance Innovation in Construction

The Honourable Harjit S. Sajjan, Minister of Emergency Preparedness and Minister responsible for the Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada (PacifiCan), announced over $2.6 million in funding for SALUS Technologies (SALUS), a Vancouver-based safety software company that is developing innovative technology to advance construction site safety.

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PROPTECH COMPANIES

Founded.

2019

Round.

Series A (led by Prudence)

HQ.

Austin, TX

www.

AI Clearing has built the most advanced application of artificial intelligence for tracking progress and quality control for large infrastructure construction sites.

Founded.

2018

Round.

Series A (led by Prudence)

HQ.

Lisbon, Portugal

www.

CASAFARI applies machine learning and deep AI to index and analyze over 300 million property listings from over 30 thousand different data sources in one clean and complete platform.

Founded.

2012

Round.

SEED, SERIES A & SERIES C

HQ.

New York, NY

www.

Compass is building the first modern real estate platform, pairing the industry’s top talent with technology to make the search and sell experience intelligent and seamless.

Exited: IPO (NYSE: COMP)

Founded.

2016

Round.

Series B & Series C

HQ.

Los Angeles, CA

www.

CREXi is the commercial real estate industry’s fastest-growing marketplace, advanced technology and data platform dedicated to supporting the CRE industry and its stakeholders.

Founded.

2019

Round.

Series A (led by Prudence)

HQ.

Hamburg, Germany

www.

Evernest has developed a technology platform for real estate agents to make the entire process of residential real estate transactions more efficient.

Founded.

2017

Round.

Seed (led by Prudence) & Series A

HQ.

San Francisco, CA

www.

Hemlane has redesigned property management using a combination of software and local brokerages.

Founded.

2015

Round.

Series B

HQ.

Denver, CO

www.

Maxwell offers front-end software and back-end services for small and medium-sized mortgage lenders.

Founded.

2017

Round.

Series A (led by Prudence) & Series B

HQ.

New York, NY

www.

Morty provides an online marketplace for consumers to apply for home loans that dozens of lenders instantly quote and approve.

Founded.

2018

Round.

Series A (led by Prudence) & Series B

HQ.

Toronto, Canada

www.

Properly is a Canadian tech-enabled real estate brokerage transforming the home buying and selling experience.

Exited: Acquired by Compass (NYSE: COMP)

Founded.

2022

Round.

Seed (Led by Prudence)

HQ.

Boston, MA

www.

Propexo is a vertical SaaS company that provides a unified API to the CRE industry, enabling instant integration of new technologies with legacy IT systems.

Founded.

2017

Round.

Seed (led by Prudence) & Series A

HQ.

Vancouver, Canada

www.

Salus provides safety software for the construction industry, with a digital solution to the historically offline process of managing safety.

Founded.

2018

Round.

Series B & Series C

HQ.

San Francisco, CA

www.

Sundae is a marketplace for fix & flip homes, connecting sellers of distressed properties with buyers.

Founded.

2019

Round.

Series A (led by Prudence)

HQ.

Toronto, Canada

www.

VendorPM is a software-enabled marketplace that modernizes how property managers work with vendors through enhancing vendor management, sourcing, procurement & compliance. 

SELECTED OTHER COMPANIES

Founded.

2011

Round.

Series A

HQ.

London, UK

www.

Blockchain is the world’s leading crypto finance house serving people, projects, protocols and institutions since 2011.

Founded.

2018

Round.

Seed & Series A

HQ.

New York, NY

www.

HealthyBaby is a home goods company providing all natural baby products such as diapers, wipes and cleaning products.