Lorimer Ventures

Following up on their 💰 $232 million Series B round round led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), 🧠 Itzik Cohen‎, CEO of PayZen, sat down with Bradford Jones from SignalFire to discuss his leadership philosophy. Read more below👇 on Itzik's management tenets and how PayZen unlocks Happier Patients & More Revenue through embedded patient financing solutions for healthcare providers.

Congrats to Craig Bolz for making Brex & Michael Morgenstern’s list of “Miami’s Top Founders”. Craig, Jeffrey and The Public Interest Company utilize proprietary machine learning to identify and recover third party liability claims on behalf of - and at no risk to - health plans, self-insured employers, and at-risk provider groups. Learn more on PIC here: https://lnkd.in/evyWdd3p Full list here: https://miamifounders.xyz/ ++Crossbeam Venture Partners & Sakib Jamal

In order to grow efficiently, every marketer needs to know the best ways to invest or pull back an incremental dollar of their budget at any given point in time. Austin Harrison and Northbeam have built a tool that allows marketers to arbitrage their spend the same way a hedge fund manager trades their portfolio. Learn more below ⬇️

Lorimer Ventures co-founder Nicholas Wijnberg recently joined Alex Louisy & Lauren Elizabeth Pearl on The Growth-Minded CFO Podcast to discuss how we think about hands-on founder empathy and the role of an early-stage CFO. 🎧 Listen to the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/ebXBRQQU (or search ‘The Growth-Minded CFO’ wherever you get your podcasts)

Part of our founding vision of Lorimer Ventures was to build a venture firm that could support, catalyze and authentically represent the explosion of entrepreneurial energy in Brooklyn. This map is a reminder that there is still lots of work to do and we are proud to continue to build alongside the Brooklyn tech community. Thanks to Shai, Phil and the team at Brex for the shoutout alongside some amazing investors we've looked up to for a long time. (Union Square Ventures, First Round Capital, FirstMark, Founder Collective & Eniac Ventures) Special shoutout to our Williamsburg brethren Left Lane Capital (Jason Fiedler).

Great piece on Upflow's release of it's B2B Payments product in TechCrunch. Shockingly 🤯 40% of B2B payments 💸 in the U.S. 🇺🇸 are still paid via paper checks. Alex Louisy is looking to fix that 🤝 . https://lnkd.in/dnjKAtZN

👏Congrats👏 to Kirti Shenoy, Pranab Krishnan and the entire team at Zeal on their💰$15M Series B allowing them to continue their work to Revolutionize Payroll for Modern Work. This round was led by Portage with participation from Spark Capital, Commerce Ventures, Cohen Circle, and Long Journey. (🫡 Y Combinator & BoxGroup as well) Read more from Zeal's Co-founder & CEO Kirti here: https://lnkd.in/gSgh426F

Congrats to James McGinniss and the entire David Energy team on their $23M Series A-1 funding led by Cathay Innovation alongside Union Square Ventures, Equal Ventures, BoxGroup & Keyframe Capital. David Energy is a Brooklyn based retail energy provider building the operating system for the clean energy grid and we couldn't be more excited to back this amazing team. Read more from Rebecca Szkutak at TechCrunch: https://lnkd.in/g3nJfU_s

🏗 Some builders are just different. When we met Joe and Stepan at 🥐 Win Son Bakery in Brooklyn back in September of 2022 - it was obvious that they had a magical combination of unique talent, a novel insight and an audacious vision for the future. 2 years of focused execution later we could not be more proud to announce their 💰 $3.4M seed round from Y Combinator, SV Angel & Lorimer Ventures with participation from Paul Graham (Co-founder of Y Combinator), Greg Brockman (Co-founder of OpenAI), Jeff Dean (chief scientist of Google DeepMind), Amjad Masad (Founder of Replit), Karri Saarinen (Co-founder Linear) & more. 1️⃣ Read Frederic Lardinois's wonderful piece in TechCrunch here: https://lnkd.in/eTUEtGkH 2️⃣ Read Joe's essay on the round here: https://lnkd.in/e8V2hb74 3️⃣ Read Hacker News piece on open sourcing Instant: https://lnkd.in/dEVCyFmy

👏 Congrats to Craig Battin, Michael Sachse and the entire Airship team on their $4 million 💵 pre-seed round led by QED Investors with participation from Lorimer Ventures, Silence, Four Acres Capital and Twine Ventures. Airship is building software and financial products for the trades, starting with a point-of-sale solution for HVAC, plumbing, and electrical companies that account for nearly $200 billion in annual homeowner spend in the US. Craig and Michael aim to build tools that unlock growth (and bigger paychecks) for the hardworking tradespeople of America, and free money for their end customers. 🧠 Learn more here: https://www.airship.us/ 👀 TechCrunch article from Rebecca Szkutak: https://shorturl.at/M6TRG