Vincent Hankes
Partner at Thrive Capital
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2019 - Current
Investments: Airbyte, Airplane.dev, Airtable, Benchling, Clay3D, Codegen, CommandBar, Console, DuckDuckGo, Gong, HeyGen, Lattice, Melio, Mojo, MoonPay, OpenAI, SpaceX, Trade Republic, Vimeo Personal Investments: Canva, Carta, Hashicorp, SafetyCulture
Thrive Capital is an investment firm that builds and invests in internet, software, and technology-enabled companies.
Raised $120,000,000.00 from Petershill Partners.
Board Observer
2020
Airtable is a cloud-based software company that offers an online platform for creating and sharing relational databases.
Raised $1,352,600,000.00 from Salesforce Ventures, Silver Lake, D1 Capital Partners, Franklin Templeton, T. Rowe Price, Friends & Family Capital, XN, Caffeinated Capital, Benchmark and ICONIQ Growth.
Board Member
2019
Lattice is a people success platform that help business leaders develop engaged, high-performing employees, and winning cultures.
Raised $330,320,000.00 from HighSage Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, Dragoneer Investment Group, Haystack, Thrive Capital, Fuel Capital, Elad Gil and Shasta Ventures.
Board Observer
2019
Benchling is an IT company that provides a cloud-based software platform for biology researchers and research and development organizations.
Raised $411,900,000.00 from Lone Pine Capital, Franklin Templeton and Altimeter Capital.
Board Observer
2021
Melio is a fintech company that gives small businesses a way to digitally manage their business-to-business payments and receivables.
Raised $654,000,000.00 from Frontline Ventures, General Catalyst, Bessemer Venture Partners, Accel, Latitude, Thrive Capital, Shopify Ventures, Coatue, Strait Capital and Capital One Ventures.
Board Member
2022 - 2024
Airplane is a software development company that offers a software platform for engineers to build internal tools.
Raised $40,500,000.00 from Andrew Ofstad, Jaren Glover, Thrive Capital, Guillermo Rauch, Allison Pickens, Liu Jiang, Contrary, Comma Capital, Nat Friedman and Octave.
Investor
2017 - 2019
Investment firm pursuing a long-term approach to investing in leading, global public and private companies
Analyst
2015 - 2017
Tech, Media, and Telecom Group
Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.