A Foundation
for Growth

Tower Research Ventures builds and invests in the world’s category-defining companies with the same enthusiasm and discipline that Tower Research Capital applies to the public markets.

Amplifying Great Ideas

We seek bold ideas, thoughtful approaches, and intelligent people who are passionate about what they’re building. We closely partner with our portfolio companies, offering a diverse set of business, technical, and financial expertise to help them reach their goals, from product to business development to fundraising and beyond.

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Our Portfolio

We combine our unique technological expertise with thoughtful due diligence and market insight to find value before anyone else. We partner with startups in the earliest stages from incubation to pre-seed – no company or idea is too early for Tower Research Ventures.

OUR PEOPLE

We are curious, collaborative, and committed to the future of technology and business.

Jared Young

Pietro Decio

Andrew McKinzie

Neel Baronia

Amelia Steinmetz

Frank Odom

Fuel Innovation While Growing Your Career

We offer a rigorous, team-oriented environment and the opportunity to work closely with the next generation of market leaders. Explore our open roles today.

Tower Research Ventures Team Roles

Founding Software Engineer - Ventures Team

Scale TRV’s incubation effort. The role will support TRV incubations and TRV portfolio companies with any and all engineering needs required to succeed.

Analyst - Ventures Team

This is a generalist investing role focused on deep research. We expect this role to focus on new incubations while also aiding in research for external investments.

Portfolio Company Roles

Founding Account Executive - Arvor Insurance

Define and drive brokerage operations as the first insurance hire of an AI-native insurance brokerage. Provide expertise on a wide range of topics, from placement to client service to finance.

Please note: this role is for one of our portfolio companies, not for Tower Research Ventures.

GTM Growth Partner - Mentium.io

Mentium provides AI agents for logistics, where most processes are manual, tedious, and error-prone. We’re looking for a GTM Growth Partner to optimize our go-to-market strategy and engineer top-of-funnel growth, turning ICPs into predictable revenue.

Please note: this role is for one of our portfolio companies, not for Tower Research Ventures.

Upcoming Events

Friday, AUGUST 15
5:30pm - 8:00pm ET

TRV Talk on Applied ZKPs and ZK platforms

From zkVMs to TLSNotary to ZKP2P, platforms are leveraging zero knowledge cryptography and succinctness to give developers across industries new affordances with which to build software. We’ll sit down with Richard Liang of ZKP2P to talk about his project and the evolving ZK tooling landscape. Open to cryptographers, researchers, and entrepreneurs exploring applied cryptography! Food and drink provided.

Speaker: Richard Liang, founder of ZKP2P

Location: New York, NY

Friday, AUGUST 22
5:30pm - 8:00pm ET

Generative AI Security Vulnerabilities Talk

Generative AI and LLMs massively increase the surface area for cyber security risks (prompt injection, MCP tool poisoning, and more). Vineeth Sai is a cyber security engineer whose work has ranged from securing AWS products to contributing to OWASP projects. We’ll sit down with him to discuss what the major threat vectors of Gen AI tools in production are today, and how cyber security researchers are working to protect and secure applications as the capabilities of models rapidly increase.

Speaker: Vineeth Sai Narajala

Location: New York, NY