Venture capital firm

Pathlight Ventures

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Pathlight Ventures is a New York-headquartered early-stage venture capital firm and asset manager founded in 2021 by Co-Founders and General Partners Charley Ma (former early lead executive at Plaid, Ramp, and Alloy) and Mahdi Raza (former growth and payments leader at Robinhood). Operating as an operator-led venture manager, the firm's core investment strategy focuses on deploying pre-seed, seed, and Series A equity capital into high-conviction, mission-driven technology startups across applied artificial intelligence, fintech and payments infrastructure, modern healthcare stacks, capital markets plumbing, vertical SaaS, and critical security.