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San Francisco, CA
Joined April 2008
Out of stealth: 49 Palms Ventures closes $100M Fund I. Joshua Bloom and I back AI founders and advise on monetization: early POCs, commercial contracts, what to charge for and how to charge. Thanks to our LPs, founders and VCs. Building in AI? DMs open. 49palmsvc.com
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🗽We are hiring for an Associate to join us in New York @xyz_vc. "I want this to be the best job you ever have." Those were the words that @robhayes told me when I took my first job in venture. Are you looking for your best job? Are you insanely curious about what the future looks like and who is building it? Are you obsessed with the future of technology and how the world will be different in 2, 5, 10 years? Come join our incredible team to find and fund the future 🎉
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Excited to officially announce the launch of Pax Fund I, a $50M early stage vehicle dedicated to founders transforming the foundational categories of society. 🇺🇸🚀 Wrote a bit about my journey and the thinking behind Pax below:
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Don't let Obama play the Iran card in order to start a war in order to get elected--be careful Republicans!
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Kelli Ann retweeted
Today we unveiled Neo Residency, a new program for startups and high-agency student teams. 🎉 We’re replacing our best-known program, Neo Accelerator, with something even better and more selective. 🧵
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Kelli Ann retweeted
Introducing Scout Program. Real capital. A live leaderboard. And a path to running your own fund. scoutprogram.com This will be the most interesting investing program in the industry when all is said & done.
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1/ We’re thrilled to announce EV3 Venture Fund II, an oversubscribed $61.74M early-stage venture fund dedicated to backing entrepreneurs with generational drive and ambition. We’re tripling down on crypto with bigger checks and deeper involvement. Watch the EV3 Vision Below:
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Kelli Ann retweeted
This is absolutely shameful. Agents of a federal agency unnecessarily escalating, and then executing a defenseless citizen whose offense appears to be using his cell phone camera. Every person regardless of political affiliation should be denouncing this.
Drop Site obtained harrowing footage of the latest killing which appears to be from the perspective of the woman in pink filming from the sidewalk
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Do all kids relocate their school’s mulch supply into their homes? One shoe at a time.
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That’s a wrap on our now biannual @CendanaCapital LP/GP Summit. We hosted 110 of our LPs and GPs in Vail, and created some magical moments❤️🔥
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I’m very excited today to share my next chapter…Alt Capital, a new $150M fund to back early stage founders! Truly pinching myself that I’m going to get to spend all my time doing this. Fired up and ready to go. If you’re working on a startup I’d love to hear from you!
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I think seedchecks.com/ is a very clever idea: you submit your deck and a bunch of great investors of all sizes will review it and reach out if they're a fit. Great way to get past the Warm Intro req that many VCs have. I'm excited to be one of the guest VCs this month!
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“Silicon Valley gets what it deserves! Screw tech, startups and VCs!” -Sent from an iPhone via Twitter and Instagram, w an ARM processor instruction set by Marvell, code repo by GitHub, delivered via Cloudflare, while driving a Tesla Model 3 and Slack/Gmail w co-workers
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some ✨personal news ✨ cendana capital's nano fund is anchoring my fund 2 at bgv! i sat down with @CendanaCapital partner kelli fontaine to chat about why they invested + institutional best practices as we scale in this week's seed to harvest podcast...
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At @ForerunnerVC, we think the next wave of game-changing companies will be life-changing companies. We’re committing $250M to rebuilding consumers’ life foundations, which too often feel less like necessities and more like luxuries in today's world: forerunnerventures.com/our-p…
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If you want to get into venture capital, check out the Susa Venture Fellows program! You'll join partners for pitch calls, meet founders and investors, and learn the ropes of VC though content sessions + practice. A lot of previous fellows are now in VC full-time! 🦍💪
1/ The Susa team is excited to open applications for our third cohort of Venture Fellows! medium.com/susa-ventures/app…
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Top 🇺🇸 Midas List Investors Tweets on Roe v. Wade being overturned a (very, very empty)🧵
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How do we create a culture where it's harder to set (or become) the topic of public conversation by doing something terrible and easier to do so by doing something great?
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"The failure rates are so high in early-stage investing that the power-law curves are steep. If your best-performing investment, after taking significant dilution, cannot return your early-stage fund, then you are doing something wrong." - @fredwilson avc.com/2021/11/seed-rounds-…
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