Pillar VC

Pillar VC is a Boston-based seed-stage investor, offering capital and coaching to founders. But we're much more than that. For years, we've been founders, company builders, investors, and employees. We've seen wins, losses, and everything in between. Yet Pillar is a product of our experience, and we wholeheartedly believe it fixes many of the problems we saw in the traditional VC model. This approach to startup creation and investment is about more than just “getting the pitch right” or “having the best returns.” It's about harmonizing all the competing interests within a startup and making them work better together. For us, the word VC was a stand-in for an evil empire, the dark side. We saw it as the embodiment of a lack of harmony, or even violence, between entrepreneurs and investors. The dark side of VC also created an atmosphere in which trust was critical but where the conditions made us distrust those we most needed to work with. Pillar VC can help you fix this.