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Venture Capital · New York City

We back exceptional founders tackling the world's toughest problems.

Venture capital for affordability, economic mobility, and sustainability.

A word from Dan & James Elbow Grease — apply

Fund III — $75M closed June 16, 2026

A word from Dan & James

Dear Friends,

We built Gutter Capital to back exceptional founders tackling the world's toughest problems — and we keep our focus where the stakes are highest: affordability, economic mobility, and sustainability.

We are not chasing whatever is fashionable this quarter. We are looking for

“companies of consequence.”

We show up early, stay late, and work hard alongside our founding teams. Great relationships compound over time — so we would rather start ours before the plan is pretty, and stay long after the applause moves on.

Life is too short to settle for less.

If this all sounds good to you, we would love to hear from you.

Dan & James

Dan Teran & James Gettinger · Gutter Capital

Three funds in

Same hands. Same hours. Bigger toolbox.

Fund I

≈$25M

Where it started

Fund II

≈$44M

Kept working

Fund III

$75M

Closed June 16, 2026

Funds I & II — reported top-quartile. Fund III triples the fund, not the philosophy: back people early, then do the unglamorous work beside them.

The portfolio

Twenty-two companies of consequence — and counting.

01 / 22

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All 22 companies ↗

Happening now

Elbow Grease — a small-batch, founder-led accelerator in Chinatown, NYC.

“Two or three brawny Fellows in a Corner, with mere Ink and Elbow-grease, do more Harm than an Hundred systematical Divines with their sweaty Preaching.”
— Andrew Marvell, 1672 · the epigraph the program opens with

The check

$300K for 9%

The shape

10 weeks · 10–15 companies

The place

Chinatown · 5 days a week

The deadline

July 31, 2026

Sept 15 – Nov 19, 2026 · YC SAFE, no fees · follow-on aim of $1–2M pre-seed on milestones. Built for teams that have burned less than $2M — and for building over pitching, from day one.

Apply to Elbow Grease elbowgrease.cc ↗

How we work

Four things we mean literally.

Show up early.

Before the deck is pretty, before consensus arrives. Being useful starts with being present.

Stay late.

The work is unglamorous on purpose. We stay for the parts that don't make the highlight reel.

Great relationships compound.

Measured in decades, not quarters. The earlier the start, the longer the curve.

Never settle.

Life is too short to settle for less — in the problems we pick, the founders we back, and the work we do beside them.

Have a question?

Write to us. We read our own inbox.

“Personalized e-mails will receive a prompt reply. Spam will be marked as spam.”

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