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Portfolio company leaders from across the country touched down in the Windy City to connect with fellow Rise of the Rest-backed founders on tactical tools for turbulent times. VP of Platform and Portfolio Success, Amira Ouji, and Head of Community, Liz Westhouse, recap the event below. If you’re building a company in 2025, the headlines are loud: market whiplash, trade realignments, AI acceleration, geopolitical shockwaves.
When I graduated from college, most of my classmates were headed to graduate school or diving into corporate America, taking roles at big established companies like Citibank, General Electric, or IBM. That was the path we were expected totake. Though I had spent most of college starting new businesses, when it came time to choose what was next, I followed the crowd and joined corporate America, moving to Ohio to work for P&G.
Steve Case Testifies at U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Hearing, Beyond Silicon Valley: Expanding Access to Capital AcrossAmerica On March 25, 2025, Revolutions Chairman and CEO, Steve Case, testified before the Committee during a session examining policy proposals to improve capital access. Watch the hearing and read his full testimony here andbelow.
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Revolution Ventures Invests in Palla, the Cross-Border Payments Platform Powering the Future of Global MoneyMovement The $14.5M Series A will fuel geographic expansion within LatAm and across new payment corridors. Meet Palla the fintech redefining how money moves across borders, enabling financial institutions and fintechs to embed instant, flexible, and secure international payments directly into their products.
At Rise of the Rest, we back companies building solutions that are both transformational and tangible. Cambium s model is exactly thatredefining how supply chains function, starting withlumber. When we first invested in Cambium, we were drawn to the clarity of the teams vision: create a transparent and traceable logistics operating system that takes local, fallen trees (that would otherwise end up in landfills) and turns them into high-quality, lower carbon building materials.
We kicked off the morning in Baltimore with an engaged room, strong coffee, and a simple premise: climate innovation is urgent, accelerating, and will pay dividends. As part of our Beyond Silicon Valley Speaker Series, we collaborated with the Pava Center , Conscious Venture Partners , and J.P. Morgan to bring together founders, investors, and local leaders for a conversation about the business of climate tech, and what it will take to scale solutions that make both environmental and economic se
In todays volatile trade environment, businesses that rely on physical products face a vexing question: should they hold their products at ports to sidestep potential tariff hikes, or bring them in swiftly to avoid delays and rising costs? The uncertainty surrounding tariffsdriven by shifting political priorities, trade negotiations, and economic pressureshas left companies scrambling for strategies to achieve their operating plans and protect their bottom lines.
Revolution Growth Invests in Hidden Level, the Company Building the Worlds Most Advanced Drone Detection Technology The $65M Series C will be used to expand production of its airspace monitoring technology, grow its Syracuse-based team, and scale internationally. Meet Hidden Level the leading developer of technology for sensing, identifying, tracking, and analyzing radio frequency (RF) spectrum signals to help customers detect potential threats.
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We gathered 50 founders from across the country for 36 hours of connection and candor in Alexandria, VA, and no surprise: We left inspired. At Rise of the Rest, our boots on the ground approach is one of our biggest points of pride. We believe place matters, and that there’s no substitute for meeting founders where they are, in the ecosystems they’re building within.
In Their Own Words: Female Founders and CEOs Discuss the Discourse That’s Missing (and Hitting) the Mark This year’s International Women’s Day theme is “ Inspire Inclusion ” — a call to recognize the unique perspectives and contributions of women from all walks of life, in all facets of life, including the innovation economy. Why does representation matter when it comes to startups?
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For years, tech companies, talent, and venture capital were concentrated on the coasts — a precedent the pandemic tipped, if not flipped. While VC dollars still overwhelmingly funnel into places like Silicon Valley, Brookings research shows tech jobs are finally spreading out — movement spurred by the availability of hybrid and remote work, private investment, and federal initiatives.
At Rise of the Rest, we’ve spent years traversing the country, spotlighting emerging startup hubs, and building a network of entrepreneurial champions and ecosystem builders beyond Silicon Valley, New York City, and Boston. At first, we primarily played an advocacy and convening role, working with policymakers and administrations , organizing bus tours, and telling the stories of the entrepreneurs we met along the way.
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Savvy Games Group’s acquisition of the Revolution Growth-backed company marks the sixth-largest transaction in gaming history. Revolution Growth first partnered with Scopely in 2017 when we led the company’s Series C. Core to our investment thesis was Scopely’s platform approach to IP partnership and game development, its exceptional ability to drive monetization among users, and the team’s dedication to becoming the preeminent free-to-play mobile gaming publisher.
CAVA’s founders had a vision to bring heritage, heart, health, and innovation to the fast-casual sector. Now their company is trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Our partnership with CAVA began in 2015, when the Mediterranean fast-casual chain had just a dozen locations in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. That financing kicked off a period of accelerated growth for the company — from creating a compelling digital offering to acquiring a company three times its size to scaling to more than 250 l
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This September, the metro area convened for DC Startup Week — a five-day, 180+program occasion hosting more than 11,000 entrepreneurs. The event showcased just how robust DC’s tech community has grown — but that wasn’t always the case. Just ask our Chairman and CEO, Steve Case, who built AOL in Northern Virginia in the 1990s. Over the next few decades, the company served as a tech engine throughout the region.
SparkCharge Founder, Josh Aviv, gives opening remarks during the signing ceremony for the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) The CHIPS and Science Act ?—?an initiative poised to strengthen American manufacturing, supply chains, and national security by investing in research and development, science and technology, and the workforce of the future?
Revolution’s team put rubber to the road this spring, traveling more than a collective 12.5K miles to visit founders, college campuses, co-investors, ecosystem builders, and communities in rising cities. While we may not show up on a big red bus every time, showing up?—?figuratively and literally?—?is core to our investment thesis. Why? Because there’s no replacement for meeting people where they are and experiencing innovation economies in real life.
The new funding for the meat alternative startup will support rapid retail expansion, continued product development and product capabilities Meet Meati ?—?the Boulder-based company creating a new category of clean, whole-cut alternative meats and the latest addition to Revolution Growth’s portfolio. What They’re Solving For: Meat substitutes have gained traction as planet-friendly alternatives to their animal-based counterparts, but few check all the boxes on consumers’ wishlists.
The Maryland-Based Startup Offers a Fix Now, Pay-at-Closing Solution for Optimal Sale Outcomes Say hello to Curbio ?—?the proptech company seizing an untapped opportunity within the $85B pre-sale home improvement market and the latest addition to the Revolution Growth portfolio. What They’re Solving For: Today’s consumers want a move-in-ready home. However, current inventory is in short supply due to an aging housing market and slow renovation timelines.
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Our Investment in Sila, the Portland-based Startup Founded by a Fintech Pioneer. By Revolution Ventures Partner Clara Sieg and VP Graham Ober Banking regulations are confusing. For over 150 years, that has worked to the advantage of legacy banks by deterring competition. But emerging fintech companies are breaking into the industry and changing how we transact, send payments, and transfer money.
Welcoming Place Exchange to the Revolution Ventures Portfolio Today, Revolution Ventures is thrilled to announce an investment in Place Exchange , the leading platform for programmatic out-of-home (OOH) advertising. OOH advertising is any visual media found outside of the home such as billboards, bus stops, gym TVs, street furniture, and so much more.
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By Revolution Ventures Managing Partner David Golden and VP Alex Shtarkman As voracious consumers of podcasting content, we could not be more excited to announce our investment in Indianapolis-based Casted , a company reinventing the traditional digital content marketing playbook. Casted leverages audio and video podcasting as the core of an innovative Amplified Marketing Platform enabling B2B enterprises to drive brand awareness, thought-leadership, sales lead generation, and customer engagemen
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A Weeklong Series: 10 Tech Trends from the Decade That Was … and What Will Be As we kick off 2020?—?both a new year, and a new decade?—?it makes sense to take a step back, reflect on what’s happened, and identify some of the trends worth keeping an eye on. I am reminded of how much has changed in the last ten years. In 2010, we were first hearing about the iPad, Facebook had just turned cash flow positive, and most people were celebrating (rather than criticizing) the growth of Silicon Valley an
When Revolution first started the Rise of the Rest Road Trip in 2014, our goal was simply to provide greater visibility for entrepreneurs?—?and the individuals and organizations that support them?—?in cities like Detroit, Indianapolis, Denver, New Orleans, Chattanooga, and Phoenix. But our team didn’t stop there. Because the more cities we visited, the more we became convinced that there were amazing companies scaling in these cities led by dedicated and diverse founders who, despite the viabili
Image courtesy of Mint House Real estate lies at the core of our everyday lives?—?it characterizes the space in which we live, the environment in which we work, and the places where we socialize. Yet, technology adoption within the real estate community as a means to fundamentally disrupt how physical assets behave and how transactions occur was lagging up until the last couple of years.
As venture investors, we are trained to be hyper-aware of the high velocity environment in which we live. All around us, technology is speeding up. Industry landscapes are shifting in real-time. We can plug in from anywhere, digitally interact with anyone, and track and analyze more data than ever before. But, one of the great ironies of our digitally super-connected era is that it gives us all air cover to connect less in person.
Since the rumor mill started regarding the final Amazon HQ2 selections, I have been fielding questions about the validity of the Rise of the Rest thesis. Do Amazon’s selections mean that Rise of the Rest cities will never access the tech economy in a meaningful way? Does it mean that big tech will always choose to invest in coastal cities, further enriching strong startup ecosystems?
2018 was a year filled with plenty of news to remind us of the importance of policy in the world of innovation. While much of the recent focus has been on Big Tech, it is becoming increasingly clear that more and more innovators, including startups, will need to think about policy implications as they grow and scale. In what I’ve called The Third Wave , the Internet will become ubiquitous and transform industries that are part of our everyday life including health care, transportation, education
Meet the companies that will pitch Steve Case and the Revolution team on the upcoming Rise of the Rest Road Trip. In a few weeks, the Rise of the Rest Road Trip heads to Florida and Puerto Rico! The bus is hitting the road from April 29 to May 3 to make stops in Orlando, Tampa Bay, Miami, and the Space Coast, a set of counties on Florida’s east coast.
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