Ashton Kutcher leaving Sound Ventures to launch new VC firm with Morgan Beller
Key takeaways
- Ashton Kutcher is stepping away from Sound Ventures — the firm he co-founded with Guy Oseary 11 years ago — to start a separate VC fund, the Wall Street Journal reported.
- Tech Crunch had separately heard that Kutcher was preparing to leave; the WSJ s report confirms it and adds new detail on his plans with Beller.
- Kutcher s exit doesn t appear to be a sign of trouble at Sound Ventures — investors often leave firms that are underperforming, but that s not the case here.
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Ashton Kutcher is stepping away from Sound Ventures — the firm he co-founded with Guy Oseary 11 years ago — to start a separate VC fund, the Wall Street Journal reported. The actor and investor’s new firm is being co-founded with Morgan Beller, who until recently was a general partner at seed-focused VC outfit NFX and previously co-led cryptocurrency project Libra at Meta. Beller also spent nearly three years as a partner at Andreessen Horowitz.
Tech Crunch had separately heard that Kutcher was preparing to leave; the WSJ s report confirms it and adds new detail on his plans with Beller. The name of the new firm hasn t been made public yet.
Kutcher s exit doesn t appear to be a sign of trouble at Sound Ventures — investors often leave firms that are underperforming, but that s not the case here. The firm, which has backed companies like Brex and Gusto, was also an early investor in OpenAI, Anthropic, and Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs.