@haystackvc

Early stage venture capital firm supporting outlier founders. Investors in @DoorDash @Instacart @HashiCorp @figmadesign @AppliedInt and many more.

 San Francisco, CA
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Joined October 2010
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Semil
@semil18 Oct 2021
[new post] The Story Behind @haystackvc's Investment In Scribe: semilshah.com/2021/10/18/the… [Yet another reminder that it's all about finding exceptional people early, and here, thank you @njess for the intro to someone you know well, @scribeceo!]

The Story Behind Haystack’s Investment In Scribe

When Noah Jessop joined Founder Collective a few years ago, we met in person just to meet each other. I’ve luckily been friends with the folks at Founder Collective for a while. To give you a sense...

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If I had to summarize the most common dev tool / OSS monetization strategy today, it'd probably be "come for the tool, stay for the managed cloud platform"
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@aashaysanghvi_19 Nov 2020
Replying to @aashaysanghvi_
While some things have changed (growth in # of devs, positive sway in IT purchasing), I don't think it's as easy as "we'll just build a cloud for teams" and you've solved commercialization.
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@OneRSAC15 Apr 2021
#RSAC today announced the 10 finalists for its 16th annual RSA Conference Innovation Sandbox Contest 2021. Learn more: spr.ly/6011HFm5V @abnormalsec @apiirosecurity @AxisSecurityHQ @capeprivacy @DeduceSecurity @openraven @SatoriCyber @StrataIdentity @wiz_io @HiWabbi
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Been a little quiet around here, hasn't it? Don't worry, we've been busy! cnbc.com/amp/2021/04/14/astr…

Astranis, with a new approach to satellite internet, raises $250 million from BlackRock and others

Astranis, a company with an alternative approach to providing internet access from satellites, closed new funding from BlackRock and others to ramp production.

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I wrote an article about raising VC funding to create a labor unionizing platform. jamieearlwhite.medium.com/wh…

Why We Raised Venture Capital to Help Workers Create Unions

Unit is a platform to help workers unionize using a combination of software and human labor organizing advice. We released the first…

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Proud to announce our $20M Series A fundraise, led by @LACAgriFood, including @rootvc, Ceres, @SperoVentures, @COImpactFund, @AMECloudVC, @MoradoVentures, @gritven, @REMUSCapital. The team is growing, and excited to scale with growers around the world!
AgFunderNews@agfundernews8 Apr 2021
EXCLUSIVE: Harvest automation startup Tortuga raises $20m Series A to build hundreds of robots agfundernews.com/exclusive-h…
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Feels like bash scripts & config files are to dev tools what “spreadsheets and emails” are to SaaS. Unstructured problem spaces that create opportunity for a product (repeatability, automation, collaboration).
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We're thrilled to announce the expansion of our partner ecosystem with new @SalesforceVC investment & @AmyG44 joining as VP of Global Alliances. Learn more about the future we're building—at our largest event to date, tomorrow: ironcladapp.com/lp/sdc-2021-… prn.to/3tRIkZE

Ironclad: AI Contract Lifecycle Management Software

Design and deploy any type of contract in minutes. Instantly surface insights from legal agreements; manage risk. Get a custom demo.

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Machine Learning models are the new software artifacts getting operationalized at scale today but they are hard to debug! If I were an ML Engineer on-call and got a PagerDuty alert that CLICKs are down on our AI-based recommendations product, how do I troubleshoot it? /thread
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🤖🤖🤖 @AlanLanguage thx @lfdepombo @ISV_Damocles!
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Higo (@Higoapp) is on a mission to transform B2B payments in Latin America, starting with Mexico. Thrilled to be supporting this team alongside friends @homebrew @SusaVentures techcrunch.com/2021/03/18/me…

Homebrew backs Higo's effort to become the 'Venmo for B2B payments' in LatAm | TechCrunch

The B2B payments space has been on fire for a while, and the COVID-19 pandemic has only fueled mass adoption of digitizing finances. In regions like Latin

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Daily
@trydaily16 Mar 2021
Our @trydaily team is on @ProductHunt today! Come learn about our Audio Apps Starter Kit, and talk with our team #producthunt producthunt.com/posts/audio-…

Daily.co: Real-time voice, video, and AI for developers | Product Hunt

Build live video and audio applications using modern APIs and end-to-end tooling.

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ML Monitoring is a hot topic in #MLOps today. Key question is how to do Monitoring right to ensure successful deployment of AI. Here is a great panel discussion by @peteskomoroch, @Nale, @platypii and @AbhiGuptaSF. youtube.com/watch?v=sX4TErNT…
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Picasso said "art is a lie that tells the truth" in 1923 98 years later NFTs are the lie that tells the truth about financial markets
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Some notes today on process and the dangers of over-extrapolation aashay.substack.com/p/the-na…
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Parabol@parabol2 Mar 2021
🎊 We're so excited to announce our $8m Series A round led by @M12vc, with participation from @CRV & @HaystackVC. More details here and a message to all our users: prbl.app/2NYoPiN

Parabol Raises $8m Series A Led by M12

Parabol has raised an $8million Series A round led by M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund, with continued participation by CRV and Haystack.

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The primary monetization avenues for "free" vertical SaaS are payments, lending, and inventory marketplace. Interesting to see "modern suppliers" emerge around each: Finix for payments, Resolve for lending, and Convictional for marketplaces.
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Engineers: here's a rare chance to build the eng team at an awesome fintech co backed by @homebrew, @haystackvc, & @SusaVentures (early investors in Robinhood, Chime, etc). Great salary & equity, great founders, & a great opportunity to help SMBs in Latam. jobs.lever.co/Higo/03ae6dca-…
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We are excited to partner with the entire @VectorizedIO team as well as @haystackvc @semil @davemuni @googleventures @dittycheria on this journey
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Vectorized (Now Redpanda Data)@VectorizedIO26 Jan 2021
thanks to @haystackvc with @aashaysanghvi_ and @semil for partnering with us in the earliest of stages as well
Aashay Sanghvi
@aashaysanghvi_26 Jan 2021
Big moves for @emaxerrno and the rest of the @VectorizedIO team! More horsepower to keep accelerating Redpanda 🚀
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