Parkway VC
Status
ACTIVE
Global HQ
New York, United States
Countries of investment
- USA
Investment stages
- Seed
- Series A
- Series B
- Series C
- Growth
Industries
- AI
- Deep Tech
- Quantum Computing
- Robotics
- Data Science
- Clean Energy
- Industrial Tech
About
Parkway VC is a dynamic venture capital firm established in 2019 by industry leaders Jesse Coors Blankenship and Gregg Hill. The firm specializes in seed, early-stage, and later-stage investments, targeting companies that leverage simulation and artificial intelligence technologies to drive innovation across diverse sectors. With a commitment to fostering transformative growth, Parkway VC seeks to partner with visionary entrepreneurs and support their journeys to scale, ensuring a substantial impact on the industries they serve. By combining deep industry expertise with a strategic investment approach, Parkway VC is positioned to identify and nurture the next generation of groundbreaking companies.
Parkway VC is a dynamic venture capital firm established in 2019 by industry leaders Jesse Coors Blankenship and Gregg Hill. The firm specializes in seed, early-stage, and later-stage investments, targeting companies that leverage simulation and artificial intelligence technologies to drive innovation across diverse sectors. With a commitment to fostering transformative growth, Parkway VC seeks to partner with visionary entrepreneurs and support their journeys to scale, ensuring a substantial impact on the industries they serve. By combining deep industry expertise with a strategic investment approach, Parkway VC is positioned to identify and nurture the next generation of groundbreaking companies.
Investment Thesis
Targets early stage investments in technology and innovative sectors with strong market potential.
Manager's Experience
Co-founded in 2018 by Jesse Coors-Blankenship (Co-founder and General Partner, B.Arch from USC and a Columbia master's, founder and CEO of Frustum, which PTC acquired in 2018, formerly at Autodesk) and Gregg Hill (Co-founder and General Partner, economics degree from USC, founding partner of H&S Capital, co-founder and CEO of Hill Gray Seven, founder of Red Castle Farms). Robert Bibow (Managing Partner, MBA from Columbia, earlier at Alumni Ventures Group) and Nekeshia Woods (Managing Partner, Georgetown, JD from Catholic University, formerly Morgan Stanley and Artivest) lead alongside Brian Hoyt (Chief Operations Officer, former CIO of Unity Technologies and AppDynamics). Venture Partners include John Blaffer Royall, Dr. John L. Evans Jr., and Vasek Pospisil. Holdings include Figure AI, SandboxAQ, xAI, TAE, Pasqal, Persefoni, Gemba, Hark, OXOS, TestFit, and Wambi. Offices at 540 Madison Avenue in New York and in Winter Park, Florida. Describes itself as venture capital designed for fundamentally disruptive technologies, across AI, simulation, quantum, ubiquitous data, and complex engineering.
Team
Gregg Hill
Portfolio
Figure AI
Gemba
OXOS
Persefoni
Sandbox AQ
TAE
TestFit
Wambi
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