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Thrive Capital

Organization

Key facts about this entity

Entity type: Organization
Schema.org type: Corporation
Country: United States
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2010
Founder: Joshua Kushner
Sector: Venture capital — consumer internet, financial services, artificial intelligence, enterprise software
Notable DACH portfolio: Trade Republic (existing investor; increased stake in Dec 2025 secondary at €12.5B)
Official website: https://www.thrivecap.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thrive-capital
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrive_Capital
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7797525

Entity Profile

Overview

Thrive Capital is a US venture capital firm founded in 2010 by Joshua Kushner, headquartered in New York, that invests in consumer internet, financial services, artificial intelligence and enterprise software companies at early and growth stages.
What it is

Thrive Capital was founded in 2010 by Joshua Kushner and is headquartered in New York. The firm invests at early and growth stages across consumer internet, financial services, artificial intelligence and enterprise software.
DACH relevance and Startuprad.io coverage

Thrive Capital is one of the more active US growth investors in European consumer financial services and in a wider set of platform and infrastructure companies. It is an existing shareholder in Trade Republic and increased its position in the December 2025 secondary transaction that valued the Berlin-based neobroker at €12.5 billion, positioning it as one of a small group of US venture firms with material exposure to the German consumer-FinTech category leader.
Public source context

Public information on Thrive Capital used for this record is drawn from its official https://www.thrivecap.com , its https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrive_Capital and https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7797525 , and public reporting on the Trade Republic secondary transaction of 17 December 2025.

Startuprad.io coverage of Thrive Capital

Thrive Capital appears in the following Startuprad.io interviews, news and analysis.

Funding News and Rounds from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
Published: 10 March 2026
Last updated: 27 August 2026
Coverage type: Analysis
https://www.startuprad.io/post/funding-news-and-rounds-from-germany-austria-and-switzerland

DACH Startup News January 2024: Founders, Funding and Ecosystem Updates
Published: 24 January 2024
Last updated: 11 September 2026
Coverage type: News
https://www.startuprad.io/post/this-month-in-german-swiss-and-austrian-gsa-startups-january-2024

Bonus Episode: Trade Republic becomes Germany’s most valuable Startup with 5.3 bn US$ valuation
Published: 26 May 2021
Last updated: 31 August 2026
Coverage type: Analysis
https://www.startuprad.io/post/bonus-episode-trade-republic-becomes-germany-s-most-valuable-startup-with-5-3-bn-us-valuation

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