Marcy Venture Partners
750 Battery Street, Floor 7, San Francisco, California, 94111, United States
Overview
Marcy Venture Partners (MVP) was Co-Founded by Shawn Carter (JAY-Z), Jay Brown and Larry Marcus. MVP has a passion for building innovative businesses and mass-market brands. The firm invests in Consumer & Culture with an emphasis on positive impact including sustainability, inclusivity, accessibility, empowerment and health & wellness. Our companies are led by exceptional management teams with clear vision, purpose and executional excellence. We lead or co-invest in companies that have meaningful brand values, high customer joy driven by an outstanding product, demonstrated growth and clear catalysts for the next level of scale.
- Total investments
- 29
- Lead investments
- 5
- Investments · 12mo
- 2
- Active investors
- 5
Sector focus
- Consumer
- Fashion
- Food and Beverage
Investment portfolio
- Quince
Participated · Series E · Mar 2026
Launched out of beta in 2020, Quince has built an online marketplace that vertically integrates design, manufacturing, and distribution, allowing it to offer items like its viral $50 cashmere sweater alongside a broad catalog of apparel, home, accessories, beauty, and wellness products. By owning most of its tech stack and production, the company claims it can forecast demand more accurately, manufacture in smaller batches, and reduce waste while keeping prices low. This strategy has helped Quince surpass $1 billion in top-line revenue and maintain rapid growth, including a January expansion into Canada. Iconiq notes that Quince positions itself as a higher-quality but still affordable alternative to fast fashion. The model has also invited legal scrutiny, with lawsuits from Coach parent Tapestry and Williams-Sonoma alleging design duplication, though Quince prevailed in a footwear suit brought by Deckers. Despite the controversies, strong customer adoption and expanding product lines underpin the company’s momentum. With fresh capital, Quince is expected to continue broadening its catalog and scaling international reach.
- Rebelstork
Led · Series B · Nov 2025
Rebelstork (branded as REBEL) provides a technology platform and marketplace that processes, quality-checks, and resells returned, never-used inventory for retail partners, turning costly returns into recovered revenue while offering consumers steep discounts. Its proprietary returns recommerce system has processed more than one million products as of August 2025, reflecting 2,640% growth in three years. The service diverts significant waste from landfills and is projected to keep over 25 million pounds of goods out of landfills by year-end 2025. Having started in the baby category, the company expanded into home goods earlier in 2025 and is now moving into higher-ticket outdoor and sporting goods—including water and winter sports, camping, and athletic gear—through existing retail partnerships. REBEL’s marketplace gives shoppers savings of up to 70% off while helping retailers meet sustainability goals and recapture value from returned merchandise. Certified as a B-Corp, the company positions circular retail at the core of its mission and branding. Rapid retailer adoption and consumer demand underscore its traction and support ongoing vertical expansion.
- SparkCharge
Participated · Series A · May 2025
SparkCharge, founded in 2018 by CEO Joshua Aviv, offers charging-as-a-service that lets fleets buy electricity per kilowatt-hour while SparkCharge delivers and operates charging (including off-grid mobile chargers). The company pivoted from consumer-focused mobile EV charging and previously partnered with AllState to assist stranded EV drivers. Its service includes drop-off equipment or “white glove” full-service charging and can transition customers to permanent depot infrastructure as operations grow. SparkCharge has expanded its operations across all 50 U.S. states, Canada, and Mexico, and says 95% of customers use its off-grid chargers. The startup deploys battery- or generator-powered mobile chargers that can run on propane, natural gas, or hydrogen, and targets high-volume fleet sites such as ports, railheads, and manufacturers. Typical pricing cited is roughly $0.35–$0.60 per kilowatt-hour, and the company emphasizes avoiding grid interconnection delays and construction costs for customers. SparkCharge operates an on-demand EV charging delivery service that uses stackable Roadie portable EV batteries to provide Level 3 DC fast charging. Each Roadie battery provides 3.5 Kwh usable energy, stackable batteries can deliver up to 72 miles of range, and the system is compatible with Tesla, CSS, and CHAdeMo. Customers request charges via the Currently app to have their vehicles charged wherever and whenever they want. The service launched in four cities (Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, and Dallas) and is now expanding into 12 additional California cities, including Huntington Beach, Irvine, Oakland, and others. SparkCharge reports it has already provided over 250,000 miles of range and says it is on track to provide millions this year. The company plans to scale into larger and underserved markets using new funding to expand its Currently app footprint. SparkCharge is a Somerville, Mass.-based mobile electric vehicle charging network led by CEO and founder Josh Aviv. The company makes the Roadie Charging System, a portable, modular solution that enables DC fast charging anywhere regardless of infrastructure, and operates the Currently app for on-demand EV power delivery. Currently has been launched in four cities and has delivered over 100,000 miles of range to EV owners; the app is on track to deliver millions of miles this year and to prevent over 85 tons of CO2 pollution. Since early 2022 the company has secured partnerships and programs with global brands including Kia Motors, Hertz, and Uber that leverage its mobile charging technology. SparkCharge plans to deploy more solutions through the Currently app and to expand into over 20 additional markets. The company intends to use the new funds to expand market presence and develop new mobile charging products. SparkCharge has developed the Roadie, a 120 kW portable fast charger that can be delivered on demand through a network of partners. The Roadie lets customers request between roughly 50 and 100 miles of charge via an app, with on‑demand charges costing about $0.50 per mile and minimum top‑ups around $10. SparkCharge distributes the units through partners (for example Spiffy) and has a partnership with AllState, which has ordered roughly 20 portable chargers and will deploy the service in four cities. The company envisions independent workers running on‑demand charging as a gig‑economy business and offers equipment access for about $450 per month to enable that model. SparkCharge is based in Somerville, Massachusetts, and founder Joshua Aviv began working on the business while a student at Syracuse University. The company is bringing the Roadie to market alongside a platform for distribution and a network of service providers.
- Setter
Participated · Seed · Dec 2023
Setter is a Web3 consumer app that helps brands innovate promotion of exclusive products and provides customers with limited-edition items. The service is designed to address the complexity and unfriendly nature of current wallet technology. Setter says its goal is to deliver a more seamless Web3 experience to a broader set of users. The company announced a $5 million seed financing led by a16z. Other participants in the round include Marcy Ventures Partners, Superlayer, Thirty Five Ventures and retired tennis star Serena Williams.
- Asaren
Led · Equity · Feb 2023
Asa Ren is a leading DNA data company based in Indonesia offering a direct-to-consumer DNA test that delivers more than 360 reports, including predisposed health risks and ancestry. The company performs all analysis in-house to ensure data privacy and provides wellness, nutrition, and clinical bioinformatics data for Indonesians. Its platform links genetic profiles, 360 phenotypes, and medical records to power personalized healthcare and support pharmaceutical research and development. Asa Ren has signed service agreements with more than 47 hospitals and clinics and expects to expand to over 60 partners by the end of 2023. Using new capital it plans to deepen digital capabilities, develop clinical bioinformatics and an electronic health passport, build a clinico-genomic database focused on non-communicable diseases, and add medical diagnosis and complete health data. The company aims to accelerate drug discovery and personalized treatments across disease areas including oncology and cardiovascular disease by leveraging longitudinal and genomic data.