Haystack is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2013, specializing in seed-stage investments in software and technology startups. Over the past decade, Haystack has led or participated in over 200 seed investments, with 35 companies valued at over $100 million and 8 exceeding $1 billion. Notable portfolio companies include DoorDash, Instacart, Figma, HashiCorp, and Applied Intuition.

The firm typically invests between $500K and $2M in initial rounds, focusing on sectors such as consumer and commerce, intelligent software and services, vertical and industry software, hardware and frontier technology, developer tools, infrastructure, security, and healthcare and life sciences.