The network for ambitious outsiders

Pioneer is a startup accelerator for ambitious outsiders. We've funded 150+ companies with 300+ founders in 50+ countries. We're no longer making new investments.

Pioneer Pioneer Pioneer is a startup accelerator for ambitious outsiders. We've funded 150+ companies with 300+ founders in 50+ countries. We stopped making new investments in 2024. Our companies are worth over $2B in aggregate. They've gone on to raise from Sequoia, a16z, General Catalyst, Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, and many more. Some of our investments include: Railway (TQ Ventures, Redpoint) Slash (Ribbit, Goodwater, NEA) Roboflow (GV, Craft) E2B (Insight, Decibel) TextQL (DCM, Neo) Pioneer was founded by Rishi Narang and Daniel Gross in 2018, and is backed by Stripe and Marc Andreesse

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• Leo Ware
• Pier-Luc Nadeau-Labadie
• Bonnie Chin
• Hardeep Gambhir
• Marley Xiong
• KL Yap
• Yoyo Yuan
• Lydia Nottingham
• Brooke Joseph
• Chloe Nguyen

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