Kicking off our annual Founders Week in Brooklyn 🎉
Stay tuned for real-time insights about how the boldest founders and leaders are Breaking Through
#FFW24
We believe 💯 in the power of community as a competitive advantage
We’re thrilled to launch the Community Playbook for Founders
It’s a detailed guide for entrepreneurs + has insights from
@jonobacon
@baileyelaine
+ more
RT if you're community-driven
👏🏻We're excited to share that we invested in the "open source Firebase alternative,"
@appwrite_io
. As mentioned in the article, we backed Firebase early on, "so it seems somewhat fitting that Flybridge is now investing in Appwrite too eight years later."
@lolitataub
@KauffmanFellows
We continue to think that you’re a rockstar of the community-led venture world and want to support your future! We would be happy to fill one of these slots and put in $10k!
Today we officially announce our new pre-seed fund backing the next generation of game-changing NYC companies. Stay tuned to learn more about our investment partners - all who've built iconic companies in NYC. Here are a few 📸 from our launch party 🎉
A key element to success - whether you build community around your product or a product around your community - is designing the community to support and nurture itself.
@TheTeaGuns
@J__Cub
of
@Commsor
did just this when they went community-first.
VERY excited
@flybridge
has been nominated for a new
#NEVYs18
award from
@newenglandvc
honoring VCs committed to big issues like gender equity, diversity, and a healthy ecosystem! See you at the party on May 9th!
We'd love your help in spreading the word. We’re looking for the most amazing person to be Head of Community. They’ll be helping the 400+ founders we’ve backed plus our 50+ partners at
@XFactorVentures
,
@thecommunityvc
, and The Graduate Syndicate.
#hiring
Awesome library of the books we've sent to our founders and Flybridge family members over the past 11 years! Loving this year's choice . . . Leonardo Da Vinci by
@WalterIsaacson
We are always open to cold emails if you're a fit for our stage & thesis.
@srcasm
&
@shefska
met when Zach reached out for office hours to talk
@GetAutoAdvocate
and we invested.
@ae4ai
cold emailed for an internship years ago & we later led
@narratorai
's pre-seed and seed rounds!
1 IPO, 1 Time Mag cover, 4 Forbes 30 under 30 winners, 17 new investments, 1 ICO, 1 new fund for female founders! Lots going on at Flybridge and our portfolio companies these days! Read more here:
We pulled a few insightful snippets from our Oct 8 Community Playbook session during
#FoundersWeek
—including:
What works for building community in 2020? And what are the metrics of success for Community?
Thank you to
@jonobacon
@lolitataub
@baileyelaine
After hearing from
@chazard
about the state of the venture world, we now invite
@bussgang
and
@dcancel
to the “stage” to talk about David’s journey to a billion $$$ exit with
@Drift
last year! And his journey as a Latino immigrant founder.
Congratulations to
@clairehumphs
,
@rachren1
, and the entire
@wethosco
team on their latest fundraise! We continue to be inspired and excited about their vision to make the independent economy better, bigger, and stronger over the coming decade!
Awesome night at SxSouthie event tonight! Great to see so many entrepreneur and investor friends! Huge thanks to our friends
@CooleyLLP
for hosting with us!
We’ve been kind of obsessed with community lately, hence our latest investment thesis. If you are a founder and are passionate about building a community and using it as a competitive advantage, we want to talk to you!
Just used
@asklorem
to make a few design changes to one of our websites and even through we are investors, have to say this company rocks. Simple, fast, cost effective and saved our marketing partner
@katewcastle
hours of her time!
This
#FounderFriday
meet
@lindsaykap
who is breaking the glass ceiling + looking to replace the ol' boys club with Chief.
The exclusive women's club is all about women supporting women w/ mentorship + includes leaders from
@spotify
,
@cartier
+
@wework
.
Welcoming our latest investment in
@MinimSecure
-- $2.5M seed round in co. founded by
@jhitchco
Minim keeps your home safe by protecting connected devices and assuring fast WiFi
@dba
@fcollective
Wilco is finally out of stealth! Excited to have backed
@onfreund
and his team! It's a "flight simulator" for developers, where you practice & develop skills. We have 5 invites. The first five to sign up through this link will get in without waiting:
Today, we shared a statement with our founders re: recent tragic events & systemic racism in the US. We don’t have direct personal experiences or profess to be experts as we all try to make sense of the senseless. But as business leaders, we strive to be upstanders.
Think finding 8 female founders outside your network to meet with can't start to change the diversity problem in the venture ecosystem? Think again. Thanks
@chazard
for sharing how it can be done!
#startwitheight
@startedwitheight
Really excited to share this epic Part 4 of
@chazard
's Venture Investor's Playbook: Take a deep dive into the "SSWISH" cycle and how to consider it in your venture process: "See, Select, Win, (Invest), Support, Harvest"
Hey
@flybridge
Community! We’re launching something EXCITING tomorrow!
Raise your hand if you’re going to be checking out our social channels tomorrow to find out what it is.
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There are a series of best practices now emerging for fundraising in a post blockchain world, blending traditional venture capital, crowdsourcing and the new field of crypto token economics for a new hybrid approach. Great read from
@bussgang
:
👏 Check out TeleFarmer from
@TimBucher
and the team at
@Agtonomy
– a new ag tech software suite that helps specialty crop farmers remotely execute labor-intensive field tasks and regain control of their operations.
#Agriculture
#AgTech
#Farming
This
#FounderFriday
meet
@sasyrae
of
@TstmkrsAfrica
.
She recently launched the virtual event series, The Thread.
Learn how she's gathering leaders in Africa + throughout the diaspora to share best practices to thrive and win in the
#COVID19
era.
Check out why we are so excited to co-lead
@appwrite_io
's seed round along with
@BessemerVP
, Ibex Investors, and
@seedcamp
. AppWrite is "often referred to as an open-source version of Firebase." --
@chazard
🙌 This Strategy Session feature by
@crunchbase
’s
@ChristineMHall
gives a first-hand view into the origin and strategy of
@thecommunityvc
through the lens of co-founder & GP,
@lolitataub
.
If you couldn’t tell, we’re pretty excited about this launch!
"The Community Fund's mission is to leverage the power of our incredible operator-investment team to invest in community-driven future unicorns.“ -
@thecommunityvc
@lolitataub
@srcasm
What’s a community-driven company? This 👉
“Women have always been powerful — but today, that power is severely threatened.” Chief, one of our portfolio companies, on how they are taking action. Thank you for everything you do
@lindsaykap
and
@cb_childers
!