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“if we are not standing up in [a founder’s] wedding, we’ve failed.” This quote by Ludlow Ventures' Jonathon Triest is everything that's "good" in venture capital. I was born and raised in the same Detroit community, “midwestern nice" is real and I love that it's part of my DNA. They have a saying where I grew up. "Once a Detroiter, always a Detroiter." Drives my wife crazy. I haven't found many venture capital firms that have these type of people. Then again, there are as of February, more than 500 firms in the US alone. It's a great article by TechCrunch and gives a glimpse at Treist's mantra, how they've grown, and some of their early successful calls in founders. I've been thinking about other VC people that have similar Midwestern qualities and vision in investing. I'd love to find more of them. If you know one, please share their profiles in the comments. I'd love to follow them and get to know and learn from them. Recently I think I've found a founder friendly investor in Jeff Becker of Antler. I don't know Jeff, however I like what I read on his blog and here on LinkedIn. Who else embodies similar qualities? #startups #vc #founders

As an emerging manager, the most important thing for us is to be close to our founders and hopefully add a little bit of value. So having some validation that it is actually working, is deeply satisfying. Thanks Forum Ventures for including us in the list "List of the top NYC Founder-First Investors" I am thankful for this recognition and for the great founders we get to support. Nothing is more satisfying than being a part of their journey. And this couldn't be possible without my amazing co-founders Mauricio Tessi Weiss and Juan N. who would would definitely be on any such list in Europe / Asia Honored to be alongside some other rockstar investors: Shashi Srikantan from Level Up Ventures, Iynna Halilou from The MBA Fund, Nick Adams from Differential Ventures, Lisa Burton O'Toole, PhD - HearstLab, Richard Odior - Zeal Capital Partners, Alex Hornick - Purple Sage Ventures, Lauren Reeves - MGV.VC, Ashley Ryder - Vamos Ventures, Jeremy Kagan - Textbook Ventures, Jesse, Stephan Cizmar - Lorimer Ventures, Jeffrey Silverman - Laconia Capital Group, Rachel ten Brink - Red Bike Capital , Wyeth Coulter - Point72 Ventures, Eric Ong - Lightbank, Ilan Abehassera - Origins Ventures, Jay Estefani C. - MXV Capital Ventures, Charles Hudson - Precursor Ventures, Jenny Fielding - Everywhere Ventures 🙏 Kait Stephens Paulina Szegda, Michael Cardamone See full list here: https://lnkd.in/gzbdgG3Q #venturecapital #founders #startups Zacua Ventures #construction #contech #sustainability #ai

Thrilled to share: Jay Estefani C. of m]x[v has been recognized by NYC founders as a top founder- focused investor! Forum Ventures recently invited founders to nominate investors who've been pivotal in their entrepreneurial journey, emphasizing a founder-centric approach. Our deepest gratitude goes to: - Forum Ventures for championing a founder-first venture ecosystem - The visionary founders who took the time to nominate - All recognized investors for their unwavering support through highs and lows This recognition underscores our commitment to fostering symbiotic founder-investor relationships. It's about more than capital—it's about partnership, mentorship, and shared success. To building a venture landscape where founders and investors thrive together. Nick Adams - Differential Ventures, Lisa Burton O'Toole, PhD - Hearst Lab, Richard Odior - Zeal Capital Partners, Alex Hornick - Purple Sage Ventures, Lauren Reeves - MGV, Ashley Ryder - Vamos Ventures, Jeremy Kagan - Textbook Ventures, Jesse Middleton - Flybridge, Stephan Cizmar - Lorimer Ventures, Vivin Hegde - Zacua Ventures, Iynna Halilou - The MBA Fund, Owen Willis- Opal Ventures, Jeffrey Silverman - Laconia Capital Group, Shashi Srikantan - Level Up Ventures, Rachel ten Brink - Red Bike Capital, Moshe Bellows- Maccabee Ventures, Wyeth Coulter - Point72 Ventures, Claire Goldsmith- BoxGroup, Eric Ong - Lightbank, Adam G. - 640 Oxford, Ilan Abehassera - Origins Ventures, Megan Ruan - GoldHouse Ventures, Charles Hudson - Precursor Ventures, and Jenny Fielding - Everywhere Ventures #VentureCapital #FounderSupport #NYCTech #StartupEcosystem

Meet Brandon Maier, Founder and General Partner at LvlUp Ventures and Co-Founder of Quake Capital. With over 250 startup investments and a remarkable 10X+ return on active investments, Brandon is a force in the venture capital world. He is inspired by the ability to affect change and values the dedication and sacrifices of founders. Brandon's journey began unexpectedly, but his passion for the startup environment is evident in his hands-on approach to early-stage investments. When not working, you can find him enjoying a time on the water or riding around in his golf cart. His favorite quote? "It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." Check out the full interview here: https://lnkd.in/d-aEZyar

Shameless self-promotion alert 😁 It’s quite hard for fund managers to talk about their fund, but in today’s busy market it’s part of the game... For me, it’s always about letting #founders talk about our work rather than us praising ourselves. Recently, I got the chance to chat with Pulse 2.0, where I had the opportunity to discuss 97212 Ventures, our mission, and our commitment to investing in top early-stage Israeli startups with a New York state of mind. At 97212, we’re all about moving early-stage Israeli #startups from zero to one, while working hard with Israeli founders on building their businesses in the US and unlocking their full potential. It’s a long journey, and we love being there at the earliest stages to help founders crawl, walk, and run. More about the evolution of our fund, and what makes us tick below. #foundersjourney #venture capital #nyctech

It's my absolute pleasure to share that I have joined Ada Ventures as a Scout. We have been in conversation for a little while, and during that time I have got to know Ada Ventures. Ada Ventures is values driven. The team's Inclusive Alpha approach towards inclusive investments embodies an inclusive lens throughout the investment process. In the work I do to empower inclusive perspective at the centre of technological development and advancement I meet phenomenal founders. Phenomenal as they are, access to capital still eludes them with negligible funding going to Black founders. In Q1’23 and Q2’23, venture only backed Black Founders with total investment of 0.74% of all venture dollars allocated. In Q3’23, investment was 0.13%, and in Q4’23 this was 0.20%, according to Dominic-Madori Davis TechCrunch. Quite clearly there is a need for me and many more - you who are reading this - to be champions for change, finding ways to drive capital towards Black founders. I would like to say a heartfelt thank you to the Ada Ventures team who are as excited as I am to be working together. Get to know Ada Ventures too. It is an inclusive venture firm, finding and funding extraordinary talent building breakthrough ideas for the hardest problems we face. It is investing out of it's second fund. £250,000 - £1.5m in UK technology companies across climate, economic empowerment, and healthy ageing. Check out the Ada Ventures Fund II investment thesis https://lnkd.in/e_NxPKnA If your startup fits this thesis and you haven’t been in touch with Ada Ventures previously please get in touch with me. Whether you fit the Ada Venture thesis or not, become part of 1000 Black Voices® family. We would like to get to know you. 1000 Black Voices offers services to connect to markets, social and financial capital. Check out some of our startups Sorair Technologies, PaySika, Slinger, E-Doc Online , Voltric, UfarmX ® COMESO PayAngel, Tech1M (Techstars ‘23) PRYNTD and so many more phenomenal founders. #vcfunding #adaventures #1000BlackVoices #funding #inclusion #startup #scoutprogramme Francesca (Check) Warner Camila Zattar Matt Penneycard Xun Ning Choong Diarra Smith

Very excited about this one. Vic Singh and I started jamming earlier in 2024 on the evolution of venture investing and who was really going deep with the latest and greatest AI offerings in the market for VCs. An introduction call (shoutout Robin Chan) turned into multiple hour long "nerd out sessions" ons LLMs for VCs and Vic was by far the furthest ahead in terms of prospective foundering mining and open source talent knowledge we had seen across 550+ emerging VCs. This is only one module but it blew us away. Today a number of VCs track LinkedIn for talent to identify prospective founders using tools like Harmonic, etc. Our thesis was this had already become table-stakes years ago and the future was AI-enabled enhance code-level tracking, monitoring, and scoring around frequency, contribution, and quality to build real profile scores to target with proper "founder idea" fit from day 0. What would take years with associates / researches can happen instantly with AI. Excited for him to not only announce the oversubscribed Seed round but also his new role with RRE Ventures to further deploy into this strategy and beyond. Our firm AAF Management Ltd. is a design partner already with some of the AI-enabled modules being produced as we bring our own systems and data into the AI revolution. Big shout out to Suzanne Rombeau Fletcher | Zelda Ventures for collaborating on the round, an AAF - The Axis Fund, L.P. emerging manager Fund I we have invested in who also joined the Seed round.

Welcome to the age of the 20-something venture capitalist. The fact that young people can take a leap that wouldn’t have been possible less than a decade ago also reflects how big and unwieldy the startup ecosystem has become. It’s no longer as hub-and-spoke as it once was. No firm, even the most prominent, can extend their reach into every interesting corner. And the largest are juggling so much money that it doesn’t make sense, operationally, to deal with small sums like the kinds sought at the high-risk—but also potentially high-reward—pre-seed stage. Instead, some choose to capture those returns by becoming limited partners with the savviest of the new managers. Alana Goyal | basecase capital | Paige Finn Doherty | Behind Genius Ventures | Rex Woodbury | Daybreak | Adarsh Bhatt | David Ongchoco | Comma Capital | CiCi Bellis | Cartan Capital

New York, USA based CityRock Venture Partners ("CityRock"), part of H/L Ventures recently raised a second fund 💸 $24M, CityRock Fund II 💡 Investing in 14 #SeriesA start-ups focused on solving challenges in areas such as #climate, #energy, #healthcare, #fintech, protective industries, and the #futureofwork and #workplace. The fund will be deployed over a four-year period, with typical cheque sizes of $500k-$1M and reserves for follow-on investments. 🌍 US-domiciled entity 📈 The VCs fund investments include Automotus,GlacierGrid, Meroxa, Monument, Sealed, Sorcero, among others. 💭 “The world needs solutions more than ever, and the founders we are proud to invest in and support so staunchly strive both to solve global challenges for people and the planet, and to build valuable companies with strong economic outcomes.” – Oliver Libby, MD H/L Ventures and CityRock Ventures. 🗞️Venture Capital Journal https://lnkd.in/ekNGiAAN 👏 For the #AudaciousInvestors unleashing innovation and empowering tomorrow🚀 Eric I Oliver I Galina I Cristina I Julian I Ambika I Steven I Prad I Octavius I Edward I Christopher I Team CityRock / H/L Ventures … #venturecapital #vc #funds #startups #entrepreneurs #funding #tech #usa #entrepreneurship #technology #innovation #newyork #venture #fund

They sure don’t make opportunity funds like they used to. Propelled by the venture boom of 2020 and 2021, nine-figure vehicles used to double down on star portfolio companies became du jour. A combination of low rates and ample limited partner dry powder overheated startup valuations like a dry cycle on a top-of-the-line Maytag. Companies with unproven—perhaps even improbable—business plans raked in cash faster than they knew what to do with it. Freeflow Ventures’ $15 million opportunity fund is a smaller take on the opportunistic raises of the last venture cycle. Learn more here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gu3GzJX4