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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.
  • Alliance is the leading crypto accelerator and founder community.
  • Assembli helps construction professionals perform faster estimates and improve profitability with its AI-powered estimating solution.
  • Atomic Canyon leverages advanced AI to foster collaborative data sharing, enhance efficiency and modernize operations in the nuclear energy sector.
  • Bluefin is a decentralized, order-book based exchange that offers highly performant trading infrastructure.
  • Caseblink revolutionizes immigration practices with AI-powered workflow automation, streamlining complex, writing-intensive processes.
  • Magna is the one-stop solution for all token based companies who want to track outstanding and promised token allocations.
  • Mentium offers AI-powered payment automations for shippers, brokers, and factoring companies.
  • Pine Sports is a leading sports and analytics AI modeling platform for US sports bettors.
  • Procurement Sciences offers an all-in-one AI platform for government contractors, from opportunity search to delivery.
  • Quantstamp is a global leader in blockchain security, securing billions in digital assets and trusted by the world’s most notable projects.
  • Sk3W Technologies levels the latency playing field and provides transparent and auditable access into the trading ecosystem.
  • Snarkify provides developers with the necessary infrastructure and tools to easily and efficiently build, deploy and scale Zero Knowledge Proof applications.
  • Spline data unlocks the full potential of municipal bond investments with cutting-edge price estimations, driven by advanced mathematical models and real-time data.
  • Sporttrade modernizes sports betting for a more equitable, responsible and accessible future by combining proprietary technology and capital markets expertise.

OUR PEOPLE

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

Jared Young

  • Director of Venture Capital

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.

Success Stories

Innovation + Investment = Impact
Ventures - Press Releases
May 28, 2025

Atomic Canyon Raises $7M led by Energy Impact Partners to bring AI-Powered Innovation to Nuclear Energy

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March 19, 2025

CaseBlink Raises $2M in Pre-Seed Funding to Transform Immigration Case Preparation with AI

Ventures - Press Releases
August 9, 2024

Khalil Zlaoui & Tina Zedginidze, Cofounders, CaseBlink: Immigration AI tech

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Ventures - Blogs
April 24, 2025

Introducing Assembli: A Tower Research Ventures Portfolio Company

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April 17, 2025

Contemporary Advances and Opportunities for Abundant Verified Computation

Ventures - Blogs
April 11, 2025

Rethinking Insurance Brokerage with Arvor

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Jared Young

Director of Venture Capital

Jared leads the venture business at Tower. He brings a wide range of expertise, having been an operator and an investor in both public and private markets. Jared likes to deeply understand how the customers of our portfolio companies operate and works closely with founders to drive product and go-to-market strategy.
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Pietro Decio

Pietro started his career working alongside the world’s leading enterprise software companies as a management consultant and banker. He is excited to partner with founders committed to transforming legacy industries with technology.
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Andrew McKinzie

Andrew has been an investor and operator for the last six years of his career. He is passionate about partnering with founders who are redefining B2B fintech and B2B SaaS, particularly with artificial intelligence.
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Neel Baronia

Neel has worked as a software engineer, entrepreneur, and investor in early stage startups and is predominantly interested in the role of emergent technologies in shaping human behavior.
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Amelia Steinmetz

Prior to joining Tower, Amelia worked in consulting and then at a healthcare venture studio. As the Operations Manager, she supports both internal team functions and portfolio company initiatives.
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Frank Odom

Founding AI Engineer

Frank has led machine learning engineering at several early-stage startups, with a focus on model training, backend development, and cloud infrastructure. He specializes in taking AI startups from concept to launch.
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