Westbound Equity Partners (formerly Concrete Rose Capital) is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests financial and social capital into underrepresented founders of color and companies serving underrepresented communities. The firm pledges 50% of its profits to community foundations and focuses on building a virtuous cycle of wealth and opportunity.
Their most common stage is seed (55% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $11.0M (across 20 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
17
Fund Size
$100M
Top Stage
Seed
Last 12 Mo
2
Team
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
20 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| AAnother | Seed | $2.5M | Jan 2026 |
 Esusu | Series C | $50M | Dec 2025 |
| MManas | Seed | $24.6M | Sep 2025 |
 Manas AI | Seed | $24.6M | Jan 2025 |
 Basic Capital | Series A | $25M | Jan 2025 |
 TravelJoy | Series A | $10M | Mar 2024 |
 Trala | Series A | $8M | Mar 2023 |
 Nestment | Pre-Seed | $3.5M | Feb 2023 |
| Nestment | Pre-Seed | $3.5M | Jan 2023 |
 Five To Nine | Seed | $4.3M | Jun 2022 |
 Planet FWD | Series A | $10M | May 2022 |
 Altro | Series A | $18M | Jan 2022 |
| Trala | Seed | $6.9M | Dec 2021 |
 CareCar | Seed | $3M | Apr 2021 |
 Toucan | Seed | $4.5M | Apr 2021 |
| Planet FWD | Seed | $2.5M | Dec 2020 |
 Mazlo | Seed | $4.5M | Dec 2015 |
 Good Trust | Seed | $5M | — |
 Welcome Tech | Bridge | $7.5M | — |
| BBootUp | Seed | $2.1M | — |
Top Co-Investors
Next Play Ventures4 shared
Kapor Capital3 shared
Forerunner Ventures2 shared
BBG Ventures2 shared
January Capital2 shared
Protofund2 shared
VamosVentures2 shared
IDEA Fund Partners2 shared
Techstars2 shared
Seven Seven Six2 shared
Greylock Partners2 shared
General Catalyst2 shared
Mosaic Ventures2 shared
The General Partnership2 shared
Wisdom Ventures2 shared
Blitzscaling Ventures2 shared
Anthemis1 shared
e2vc1 shared
500 Global1 shared
Acrew Capital1 shared
Last updated: 20 October 2026