Montauk Ventures

Fortune favors the bold

Mission

Montauk Ventures backs founders who think big, move fast, and want to change the world.

Core beliefs

Truly great founders motivate and lead stakeholders with defined missions and clairvoyant visions.

Values

We will transform and elevate the way investors partner with founders in helping them manage through a company’s full life cycle.

Transparency

Integrity

Directness

Creativity

Resourcefulness

Speed

Philip Krim

Founder / Managing Partner

Philip Krim has served as Casper Sleep Inc.'s Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our board of directors since October 2013.

Prior to Casper, Mr. Krim was Chief Executive Officer of Vocalize Mobile, a mobile search advertising platform for small businesses, from 2010 to 2013 and Chief Executive Officer of The Merrick Group from 2003 to 2009.

Since 2016, Mr. Krim has served on the Emerging Leadership Council of the 92nd Street Y, and has served as a Director of the Travis Manion Foundation since 2019, and as a member of the Leadership Council of the Robin Hood Foundation since 2019.

He received a B.B.A. in Marketing from Red McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.

We are a generalist investment firm focused on hypergrowth-stage companies.

We focus on opportunistically partnering with founders referred to us through our network of experienced founders, entrepreneurs, operators, executives, advisors, and investors.