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Anishkmitra (talk) 22:27, 23 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

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• The proposed text has sources from TechCrunch and Crunchbase. (See WP:TECHCRUNCH, WP:CRUNCHBASE.)

Regards,  Spintendo  22:57, 6 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

Thanks so much, Spintendo — I appreciate you taking the time to review this, and the pointers to WP:TECHCRUNCH and WP:CRUNCHBASE were genuinely helpful; I wasn't aware of the guidance on either. I've now removed every TechCrunch and Crunchbase citation and re-sourced the underlying facts to Fortune, Axios, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, Institutional Investor, CNBC, Fierce Pharma/Fierce Healthcare, and Time. Where a couple of figures appeared only in the TechCrunch piece, I removed them rather than lean on a weak source. I've posted the revised request in a new section just below — no rush at all, and thanks again for the steer. Anishkmitra (talk) 00:00, 7 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

Thank you, Spintendo — understood on WP:TECHCRUNCH and WP:CRUNCHBASE. I have removed every TechCrunch and Crunchbase citation from the proposal and re-sourced the underlying facts to independent, generally-reliable outlets: Fortune, Axios, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, Institutional Investor, CNBC, Fierce Pharma / Fierce Healthcare, and Time (plus a Harvard Business School case).

Specific changes:

• Co-founder split and the Ohio Fund, the 2022 fundraise, AUM, and the 2012 founding year are now cited to Fortune and Axios rather than TechCrunch.
• The Olive AI wind-down is now cited to Fierce Healthcare / Healthcare Dive.
• I removed the Crunchbase-sourced fund-by-fund figures and the minor "earlier acquisitions" sentence, and restructured the History accordingly.
• I removed the single-week "$500 million returned" and "4x net" lines: those appeared only in the TechCrunch feature and were self-reported/unaudited, so they are gone rather than re-sourced.
• Three citations remain to company press releases (the 2023 seed program, and the Sidecar Health and VAST Data financings). These support only basic, uncontroversial transaction facts per WP:ABOUTSELF; I am glad to replace them if secondary coverage is preferred, and I am still seeking an independent secondary source for the VAST Data round.

Reactivating the request with the revised text below. Grateful for another look.

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Drive Capital is an American venture capital firm headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. It was founded in 2012 by Mark Kvamme and Chris Olsen, both formerly partners at Sequoia Capital.^[1][2][3] The firm invests primarily in technology companies located outside Silicon Valley, with a stated focus on the United States and Canada between the coasts.^[1][4]

Kvamme and Olsen left Sequoia Capital and relocated to Columbus to raise a fund focused on the Midwest and other regions they viewed as underserved by venture capital.^[3][1] The firm closed its first fund, of US$250 million, in 2014.^[3] In June 2022 it raised about US$1 billion across a seed fund and a growth-stage fund from limited partners including pension funds and endowments—its largest fundraise to that point—and reported approximately US$2.2 billion in assets under management.^[1][2]

In 2023, Drive announced an US$80 million seed program to invest in early-stage founders across cities including Columbus, Chicago, Atlanta, Denver and Toronto.^[5]

Late in 2022, co-founder Kvamme stepped back from day-to-day operations, and Olsen continued as the firm's managing partner.^[1][2] Kvamme subsequently launched a separate vehicle, the OHIO Fund, focused on the state's economic development.^[6] In April 2024, Drive sold a minority stake in its management company to Collective Global, an investment firm backed by public pension funds, in a transaction reported to include a fund commitment of up to US$750 million.^[7][4]

Drive's portfolio has included the language-learning company Duolingo and the auto-insurance company Root.^[1][8] Root's 2020 initial public offering was reported as a significant return for the firm.^[8]

Later investments and outcomes include:

• Forge Biologics, a Columbus gene-therapy manufacturer, which was acquired by Ajinomoto in an all-cash deal valued at US$620 million announced in November 2023.^[9]
• Gecko Robotics, an infrastructure-inspection robotics company Drive backed at an early stage, which reached a US$1.25 billion valuation with a Series D round in June 2025.^[10]
• Alpaca, a brokerage-infrastructure company, whose US$150 million Series D in January 2026 Drive led at a US$1.15 billion valuation; Olsen joined the company's board.^[11]
• VAST Data, an AI data-infrastructure company, whose April 2026 Series F Drive led, with Access Industries as co-lead, at a US$30 billion valuation. The transaction also included Fidelity, NEA and Nvidia.^[12]
• Sidecar Health, in which Drive participated in a 2024 financing round.^[13]
• Path Robotics, a Columbus-based AI robotic-welding company Drive backed across multiple rounds, whose US$100 million Series D in 2024 Drive co-led with Matter Venture Partners.^[14]

Not all of the firm's investments succeeded. Olive AI, a Columbus health-technology company that Drive backed early, raised more than US$900 million and reached a valuation of about US$4 billion before selling its business units and winding down operations in 2023.^[15][1]

In 2025, Drive Capital was included on Time and Statista's list of "America's Top Venture Capital Firms," a ranking based on fundraising strength, investment activity, and fund and exit performance.^[16]

Drive has also been the subject of a Harvard Business School teaching case study examining its investment approach.^[17]

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Anishkmitra (talk) 23:58, 6 August 2026 (UTC)Reply