Pioneer Labs

Organization

A company co-founded by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross that pioneered the strategy of acquiring a large cluster of GPUs and providing access to its portfolio companies, an idea later adopted by Andreessen Horowitz.


First Mentioned

9/20/2025, 5:16:45 AM

Last Updated

9/20/2025, 5:40:34 AM

Research Retrieved

9/20/2025, 5:40:34 AM

Summary

Pioneer Square Labs (PSL) is an American startup studio and venture capital fund, established in 2015 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington. The organization specializes in developing and testing new business concepts, subsequently creating new companies from those that prove successful. By February 2021, PSL had been recognized as a leading startup studio based on the website traffic to its top three portfolio companies. Founded by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross, Pioneer Labs (referring to Pioneer Square Labs) has also influenced venture capital strategies, particularly in significant GPU cluster investments, drawing comparisons to the financing models of companies like CoreWeave.

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Extracted Attributes
  • Type

    Startup studio, Venture capital fund

  • Founded

    2015

  • Full Name

    Pioneer Square Labs (PSL)

  • Recognition

    One of the top startup studios based on website traffic to its top 3 portfolio companies (as of February 2021)

  • Headquarters

    Seattle, Washington, United States

  • Primary Focus

    Develops and tests new business ideas, creates new companies from successful concepts

  • Portfolio Sectors

    Enterprise Applications, High Tech, FinTech, Consumer, Enterprise Infrastructure, SaaS, Software (across 24+ sectors)

  • Number of Investments

    51 companies (as of July 2025)

  • Investment Stage Focus

    Primarily Seed round

  • Portfolio Geographic Reach

    United States, Mexico, United Kingdom

  • New Investments (last 12 months)

    4 (as of July 2025)

Timeline
  • Pioneer Square Labs (PSL) was founded. (Source: Wikipedia, Summary, Tracxn)

    2015

  • Pioneer Square Labs was recognized as one of the top startup studios based on website traffic to its top 3 portfolio companies. (Source: Wikipedia, Summary)

    2021-02

  • As of this date, Pioneer Square Labs is an active investor, having invested in 51 companies, with 4 new investments in the preceding 12 months. (Source: Tracxn)

    2025-07

Pioneer Square Labs

Pioneer Square Labs (PSL) is an American startup studio and venture capital fund, founded in 2015 and is based in Seattle, Washington. PSL develops and tests new business ideas and creates new companies out of the successful ones. As of February 2021, Pioneer Square Labs was recognized as one of the top startup studios based on website traffic to its top 3 portfolio companies.

Web Search Results
  • Pioneer Labs - LinkedIn

    for an Automation Engineer! 🚀🌼🤖 🦠 Pioneer Labs is engineering microbes for Mars. We use robotics-accelerated evolution and other data-driven approaches to identify which microbes are most promising an how to improve their performance on Mars most efficiently. 🦾 We're looking for an Automation Engineer to help us take evolution and data generation to the next level. ➡️ Join us! ⬅️ Apply by August 10th [Likes: 21, Comments: 0]; Pioneer Labs (1w): We're hiring for an Automation Engineer! 🚀🌼🤖 🦠 [...] Pioneer Labs is engineering microbes for Mars. We use robotics-accelerated evolution and other data-driven approaches to identify which microbes are most promising an how to improve their performance on Mars most efficiently. 🦾 We're looking for an Automation Engineer to help us take evolution and data generation to the next level. ➡️ Join us! ⬅️ Apply by August 10th [Likes: 21, Comments: 0]; Pioneer Labs (2mo): Pioneer's engineering crank now has big bioinformatics data to back it up. We’re [...] # Pioneer Labs where no microbe has gone before Biotechnology Research • N/A • 1,328 followers • 2-10 employees ## Overview We're a nonprofit startup on a mission to engineer microbes for Mars 🦠. Let's make biomanufacturing ubiquitous, reliable, and green — on Earth and beyond! 🚀🌼 pioneer-labs.org ### Website ### Crunchbase N/A ### LinkedIn ### Industry Biotechnology Research

  • Pioneer Square Labs - Investor Profile and Portfolio - Tracxn

    Pioneer Square Labs is a venture capital firm founded in 2015. It is primarily based out of Seattle, United States. As of Jul 2025, Pioneer Square Labs is an active investor, having invested in 51 companies, with 4 new investments in the last 12 months. It primarily invests in Seed round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to High Tech and FinTech.Most recently it led the $2M Seed round ofGumshoe. [...] Pioneer Square Labs has a portfolio of 51 companies. Their most notable investment s are inJoon and Copper.Their portfolio spans acrossUnited States, Mexico and United Kingdom. They have invested inEnterprise Applications, High Tech, FinTechand 24 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A and 2 more.Here is the list of top investments by Pioneer Square Labs: Image 14: Logo of Arrived ### 1. Arrived [...] Pioneer Square Labs has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, High Tech, Consumer, FinTech and Enterprise Infrastructure. Notably, it has invested in 46 Tech companies, 36 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 36 Software companies and at least 18 companies focusing on Saas. Here are Pioneer Square Labs' investments by sector: Note:We have considered here, only first round of investments

  • Privacy Policy - Pioneer Labs

    Welcome to the website (www.pioneer-labs.org) (“Site”) of Pioneer Research Laboratories Inc. (“Pioneer Labs”, “Pioneer”, “we”, “our”, “us”). This Site is designed and intended to provide information to visitors (“you”) about Pioneer Labs. This Privacy Policy describes Pioneer's policy regarding information that it receives or collects from visitors to the Site (including personal information in certain potential cases). [...] contact [at] Pioneer-labs [dot] org Pioneer Labs 135 Mississippi St San Francisco, California 94107 Image 4 MissionScienceTeamLearnContact Image 5: TwitterImage 6: Linkedin Privacy Policy Image 7 © 2024 Pioneer Labs [...] We recognise our obligations under applicable privacy and data protection laws, including the United Kingdom’s Data Protection Act 2018 (“DPA”), the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), in relation to the processing of personal data about clients, prospective clients and other individuals that we obtain through the Site and in connection with the products and services we provide (together, the “Services”). If you are

  • Pioneer Labs( Other Financial Services) 2025 Company Profile

    Overview Timeline Valuation & Funding Cap Table VC Exit Predictor Comparisons Competitors Research & Analysis Related News Patents Service Providers Signals Investors Lead Partners on Deals Acquisitions Exits Affiliates FAQs Data Transparency Pioneer Labs( Other Financial Services) Overview Update this profile Year Founded 2021 Image 2: Year Founded Status Private Employees 5 Image 3: Employees [...] Developer of a web3 platform designed to deploy customized Roll-ups. The company's platform provides a smooth transition to a decentralized web for the new age companies without compromising user experience, helps developers and companies to deploy customized roll-ups with inbuilt security and privacy, enabling clients to inbuilt security and privacy for all use cases on EVM-compatible chains. #### Contact Information ##### Website www.pioneerlabs.org Formerly Known As Procial Inc. [...] European Headquarters +44 (0) 20 8037.2308 1st Floor Saffron House 6-10 Kirby Street London EC1N 8TS United Kingdom Asia-Pacific Headquarters 80 Raffles Place #41-01 UOB Plaza 1 Singapore 048624 Contact Us info@pitchbook.com Request Research Profile Request Deal Submission GDPR Compliance Follow us      © 2025 PitchBook. Win what’s next. All rights reserved.

  • Pioneer Labs - Factories in Space

    Pioneer Labs - Factories in Space Manufacturing Companies Microgravity Services Space Resources Services Space Transport Services Miscellaneous [...] Microgravity Zeolites ZBLAN and Exotic Fibers Wine Whisky Ultra-Thin Coatings Superconductors Superconducting Supercomputer Space Farming Space Arks Silicon Carbide Quantum Computers Perfect Spheres Organic Tissue Orbital Microfabrication Optical Crystals Medicine and Drugs Large Space Structures Fragrance Diamond Coffee Chocolate [...] Carbon Nanotubes Bulk Metallic Glass Bose–Einstein Condensates Beer Aerogels

Location Data

Computer Labs, College Trail, Johnson Acres, South Lake Tahoe, El Dorado County, California, 96150, United States

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Coordinates: 38.9272637, -119.9732280

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