Positive Sum is an early-stage venture capital firm that backs founders pursuing their life's work, co-founded by Patrick O'Shaughnessy and Sam Cates. Positive Sum's Twitter Score is 26 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #37,919 (top 10%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Positive Sum was founded in 2020 as a venture capital partnership operating under the affiliated entities Positive Sum Capital, L.P. and Positive Sum Advisors LLC, the latter registered as an active exempt reporting adviser with the SEC and the state of Connecticut, effective December 2022. The firm concentrates its investment activity from Seed through Series B, targeting companies that are creating or reinventing categories rather than competing within established ones.
Positive Sum's portfolio includes Limit Break, Neko Health, Retro, Etched and Rogo. Among its known holdings are Casa, a Bitcoin and stablecoin self-custody provider, and Alpaca, a trading API platform that supports cryptocurrency trading, reflecting the firm's interest in financial infrastructure and digital assets.
Positive Sum has published 4 posts on the platform. The account has been mentioned by 8 accounts, with 28 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Positive Sum include 116 founders, 48 angel investors, 21 influencers and 4 VCs, among them Anthony Pompliano, DeeZe, Matthew Graham, Jihoz.ron, Vinny Lingham and Patrick OShaughnessy.