Vast Ventures, based in New York, backs generalist seed-stage startups, typically following other investors, with notable investments including Coinbase and Sweetgreen.
3 people on the investing team, 2 of them partners who can make the call. Partners are listed first.


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Raising a pre-seed or seed round? We write $1M to $5M first checks and help founders with distribution. A partner reads every deck.
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Vast Ventures reports entry at seed.
Vast Ventures has not reported a check size.
Vast Ventures mostly follows other investors.
Doug Chertok (Managing Partner), Aniq Rahman (Managing Partner).
No recent activity since September 2026.
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