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Great Oaks Venture Capital
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Great Oaks Venture Capital is among the most active Seed-stage investors based in New York. The firm partners with founders at the earliest stage of company building, focused on supporting founders building enduring businesses across the United States. Investing between $50,000 and $500,000 in Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A financings, Great Oaks is a generalist firm that concentrates the majority of its time on Software, Healthcare, Financial Services, Marketplaces, and Enterprise. Founded by Andrew K. Boszhardt Jr.—a financial entrepreneur with approximately 40 years of capital markets experience—the firm has seeded more than 500 technology and consumer startups since inception, leveraging an extensive network of leading tech founders, peer venture investors, and industry specialists to help portfolio companies find product-market fit and attract growth financing.
Notable quotes
“A huge milestone for EquipmentShare on Friday as they began trading on the NASDAQ under the ticker $EQPT. Amazing leadership from Jabbok Schlacks and William Schlacks who took EquipmentShare from an idea to billions in annual revenue with nearly 8,000 employees in just over a decade. We are incredibly excited to see where they can take EQPT from here as a public company and continue working to modernize one of the largest industries in the world, construction.”
Team
Andy Boszhardt
Founder & Managing Partner
Stuart O'Keeffe
General Partner
Raj Sandhu
General Partner
Celine Kwok
Principal & CFO
Recent investments
| Company | Round | Size | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Immutotherapeutics | Seed | $1m | 2025-09-18 |
| Streamline | Series A | $8m | 2025-07-30 |
| Nimblemind | Seed | $3m | 2025-03-17 |
| Tracer Bio | Series A | $10m | 2024-12-20 |
| Fleet | Seed | $3m | 2024-08-27 |
| EquipmentShare | Seed | — | 2015-01-01 |
| Acorns | Seed | — | — |
| Fetch Rewards | Seed | — | — |
| Virta Health | Seed | — | — |
| Maven Clinic | Seed | — | — |
Frequent co-investors
| VC firm | Deals together |
|---|---|
| Gaingels | 8 |
| Y Combinator | 6 |
| Lerer Hippeau | 5 |
| GV | 4 |
| DCM Ventures | 3 |
| Uncork Capital | 3 |
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