Ground Up Ventures is a pre-seed and seed firm founded in 2016 by David Stark and Cory Moelis. It is a generalist investor that writes $500K–$1.5M checks into startups based in the US and Israel, and the team describes itself as hands-on partners to founders who measure their work by founder feedback. The firm started in Philadelphia, where its first fund filed with the SEC in 2017, and is now based in New York; its second fund raised $29M in 2021, and it added an opportunity fund in 2025. Its portfolio of nearly 60 companies includes EliseAI, BuildOps, Triple Whale, Komodor, Postscript, Pipe, Daily, Starcloud and Harbinger, with exits including BrightHire, Glass Imaging, Fondue and TermScout.