Vast Ventures is a New York-based, manifesto-driven venture capital firm founded in 2003 by Doug Chertok. The firm focuses on investing in disruptive companies with a global impact, aiming to improve worldwide health and happiness, promote resource sustainability for future generations, increase human potential and productivity, enhance knowledge, empathy, and connectedness, and disrupt industries that resist these goals. Vast Ventures has made over 70 investments in various sectors, including consumer brands, artificial intelligence, cloud software, finance, healthcare, resource sustainability, and deep tech.

Notable portfolio companies include ASAPP, ClassPass, Ginkgo Bioworks, Ripple, Diamond Foundry, Clover Health, Zocdoc, and Sweetgreen.