We are very excited to unveil the next phase of
@BoxGroup
… Otherwise, business as usual, funding early stage companies working on ambitious visions writing collaborative seed checks…
@nkatragadda
@AdamRothenberg
BoxGroup Announcement: We just closed on two new funds to keep backing ambitious early stage founders...
And
@grosen
is now a Partner at
@BoxGroup
...
Also we are hiring...
Congrats to the entire
@Plaid
team - amazing outcome...
@zachperret
is the best intern we’ve had at
@BoxGroup
— his turning down our full time job offer was a pretty great decision...
We are looking for 2-3 magical people to join small our investment team
@BoxGroup
to help us find and support amazing seed and preseed stage companies… more info here:
We are thrilled to welcome three new investors to the
@BoxGroup
team today - Claire Goldsmith (
@c_goldsmith
), Dillon Liang (
@dill_sl
) and Sushanth Raman (
@SushanthRaman
),... No 🧵 to follow - We want to be your first yes, come chat with us...
Adding to our small team at
@boxgroup
- We are hiring investors to make investments in seed stage companies - looking for great candidates will all kinds of backgrounds and interests… Please send referrals too.
more info here:
We are hiring
@BoxGroup
- looking for 2-3 investors to join to the team and help us invest in amazing founders... If you've started/worked at a startup, worked in venture, just graduated school, dislike your banking/consulting job or love startups - apply!
💥 New 20VC Episode 💥
When I first had
@davetisch
on 20VC 5 years ago I had 181 subscribers and only done 7 episodes.
Releasing this episode today we have 150K+ subs and have done 2,638 episodes.
Dave, this was special. To a long friendship! 😉
Spent an hour chatting with
@HarryStebbings
on
@twentyminutevc
- he gets feisty… we touch on starting a company and the risk founders take (hard), VC math (boring), and other semi interesting topics. Give it a listen -
Ramp is building a world class team and product based in NYC - looking for a corporate card or to join a fast moving company, check them out
@tryramp
… and more here
It’s been a true privilege to work with
@grosen
for the past 3 years, he is a great person and a star investor, sad to see him leave
@BoxGroup
and NYC but excited for him to join
@benchmark
and work with the amazing team there...
We are growing the investment team
@BoxGroup
! We are looking for thoughtful, diverse, optimistic, intellectually curious candidates to join our small team in NYC. Check out more information, and apply here! - slight bias but this is a great opportunity...
Working with
@grosen
everyday since he rejoined
@BoxGroup
in early 2020 has been a delight… Pumped to call him a Partner and build
@BoxGroup
together into the future...
There will be some amazing new functionality coming to
@airtable
as it opens up. It’s been wonderful to watch
@howietl
and team build such a powerful product...
In Jan 2012, I left my consulting job to go work for Techstars NYC. Techstars was like “YC of New York” — but instead of batch dinners and partner office hours, they gave the companies full-time office space and brought in a cadre of well-known founders + investors as "mentors".
1/ Today,
@Lululemon
announced its planned acquisition of
@getthemirror
. Congrats to
@BrynnPutnam
& the entire team! From prototype to blockbuster launch to an exciting outcome, I'm in awe of this incredible journey. Some reflections on how it got started:
The browser is the gateway to the internet,
@BoxGroup
is excited to back
@joshm
,
@hursh
and the
@browsercompany
team - they are building a new experience for your daily habits on the internet... first feature figuring out how to perfectly display 1000 tabs at once.
"With sorrow—for this Court, but more, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection—we dissent. "
Photo sharing, with friends not rando’s, done right - beautiful product and some of your friends sometimes have beautiful pictures… check out
@retrodotapp
by
@nsharp17
and
@ryanolsonk
Check out Ramp (
@tryramp
) - a case study in taking the long view, counter-positioning, and how a great team can move very quickly
@eglyman
@karimatiyeh
:
Beyond excited to share that we’ve raised a $30 million Series B led by Addition, along with GV, Javelin, Box, Adjacent, and more. We’re going to use this capital to BUILD.
Here’s the plan for our next chapter at
@onuniverse
:
I'm excited to announce we just signed an agreement to join
@Facebook
to help more people benefit from customer service that is faster, richer and available whenever customers need it. Take a look at my blog for more details.
#CX
#Customers
#Messaging
A decade in the making, I fondly remember meeting
@PayalKadakia
for the first time, she has always defined passion driven founder… congrats to the entire team
@classpass
…!
@infoarbitrage
@EzraMoGee
@davemcclure
I don’t think early investors can decipher good from great. It’s all retroactive fantasy. Or at least my anxiety makes me conclude that to keep up some semblance of confidence...