Tusk Venture Partners
251 Park Avenue South, 8th Floor, New York, NY, 10010, United States
Overview
Tusk Venture Partners is the only venture capital firm at the nexus of technology and regulation. TVP is an early-stage venture capital firm based in NYC, focused on investing in technology startups operating in highly-regulated markets.
- Total investments
- 61
- Lead investments
- 11
- Investments · 12mo
- 4
- Active investors
- 7
Sector focus
- Financial Services
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Hint
Participated · Seed · May 2026
Hint is an AI-native home management platform co-founded by Martha Stewart, Yih-Han Ma, and Kyle Rush that aims to be a single interface to manage and optimize every facet of the home. The product combines decades of expert home guidance with applied AI to deliver personalized, proactive insights, continuous monitoring, and task guidance for homeowners. The founding leadership team also includes Andrew Serafin, Isaiah Sawhney, and Joe Guglielmi, bringing experience in home services, digital media, and e-commerce. The company was incubated by Montauk Capital and announced its launch with a $10 million seed round led by Slow Ventures. Hint plans to be available on desktop and iOS in summer 2026 and is opening a waitlist for priority access. The company frames its offering as helping homeowners reduce costs, stay ahead of essential tasks, and enhance long-term home value.
- Doctronic
Participated · Series B · Mar 2026
Doctronic built a collective-intelligence AI platform that conducts structured clinical reasoning with multi-agent models and operates a clinical practice licensed in all 50 states. The company provides free AI consultations 24/7, delivers four potential diagnoses and treatment plans per interaction, and offers optional licensed-physician video visits for a fee or insurance copay. In December 2025 Doctronic became the first AI-native platform authorized to autonomously renew prescriptions under Utah's AI Learning Lab, handling 190 medications under safety protocols including 24/7 escalation to licensed physicians. The company reports rapid commercial traction — 15× growth to eight-figure annualized revenue since the Series A, nearly tripled repeat patient rate, and more than 300,000 unique weekly visitors. Doctronic serves health systems, payers, employers, and millions of direct-to-consumer users, and it has integrations such as QHIN/TEFCA access to patient records, Surescripts medication history, and First Databank drug interaction screening. The company is pursuing regulatory expansion to other states and governments and maintains first-of-its-kind AI medical malpractice insurance where its AI practices autonomously.
- Somethings
Participated · Series A · Feb 2026
Founded in 2021, Somethings provides on-demand, HIPAA-compliant peer-to-peer mental-health support for youth aged 13–26. The platform matches users with Certified Peer Specialist mentors—young adults who have lived experience with mental-health challenges and are professionally trained to offer guidance before issues escalate. AI is used behind the scenes to help mentors with engagement tools, safety screening, and rapid clinical escalation, while never interacting directly with youth. Somethings distributes its service through partnerships with Medicaid programs, state agencies, schools, health plans, and community organizations. To date, it has supported more than 11,000 teens across 200+ schools and 250+ community groups, reporting a 65% reduction in depression and a 60% reduction in suicidal ideation among participants. The company is headquartered in Brooklyn and plans to use new capital to broaden partnerships, enhance its product, expand mentor training and clinical oversight, and grow its team. Prior to the Series A, the company had already secured backing from General Catalyst and Tusk Ventures, although earlier funding amounts were not disclosed.
- Hyper
Participated · Seed · Jul 2025
Hyper is an AI voice company focused on handling non-emergency 911 calls and related tasks. Its system answers questions, texts links, forwards calls, and takes non-emergency police reports while automatically escalating calls outside its approved scope to human experts. Founders Ben Sanders (CEO) and Damian McCabe (CPO) launched Hyper from stealth and say the company trains its models on real 911 calls with local agencies and supports multiple languages. Hyper has already gone live with many call centers, positioning the company to help understaffed emergency call centers by reducing the burden of non-emergency noise. The company plans to scale across the country, integrate more deeply into existing 911 systems, hire a head of engineering, and build its next product using the new capital. Competition includes startups like Aurelian, but Hyper emphasizes its 911 focus and operational deployments as differentiators.
- Lumion
Participated · Seed · Jun 2025
Lumion provides an all-in-one SaaS platform for trade and technical schools, unifying the full student lifecycle from lead capture through alumni tracking. The platform includes enrollment tools, a payments stack (including a lender marketplace and school-administered plans), and full-service SIS capabilities with centralized reporting. Lumion originally focused on student financing and has since evolved into a broader operating system for schools. Over the last year the company says it tripled revenue, customer base, and team while supporting over 100,000 students across 260+ partner schools in more than 29 industries. Operational metrics reported include processing 140,000 tuition payments and enabling 1,690 school administrators; the company estimates $20 billion in human capital impact and has grown to a 35-person team. Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Lumion plans to accelerate market expansion and continue product innovation amid favorable workforce-development policy tailwinds.