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Vincent Hankes

Partner at Thrive Capital

New York, New York

Overview 

Vincent Hankes is a Partner at Thrive Capital in New York City, with a background that includes roles at prestigious firms like Tiger Global Management and Goldman Sachs. Noteworthy highlights of his career include serving on the boards of companies like Lattice and Airplane, showcasing his expertise in investment strategy and leadership within the tech industry.

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.

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