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A small team working together at a table Featured · Thesis The first check should be the easiest money you raise Why we wire quickly, keep terms plain, and refuse to over-engineer a pre-seed round. Read the piece 8 min read
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A small team working together at a table The first check should be the easiest money you raise Why we wire quickly, keep terms plain, and refuse to over-engineer a pre-seed round. Thesis · 8 min read A go-to-market team meeting around a table Distribution is a product decision, not a phase The pre-seed companies that break out treat go-to-market as architecture from week one. Playbook · 6 min read A founder at work at a desk by a window In defense of the generalist fund Category discipline is overrated at pre-seed. Founder discipline is not. Firm · 5 min read Three colleagues talking over laptops in a small room Your first five hires, ranked A practical order of operations for founders who have never built a team before. Playbook · 7 min read A laptop on a desk showing a chart The three numbers that matter before a Series A Close the dashboard. Here is what we look at, and what we ignore. Playbook · 4 min read Someone pausing to think at their desk How we say no, and why fast beats gentle A clear no inside a week is worth more to you than a warm maybe for a quarter. Firm · 5 min read
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Fund OnePiece Ventures closes Fund III at $180M to keep writing first checks. Portfolio Bastion is acquired by a public security company after four years. Team Theo Lindqvist joins as Partner, Platform to lead platform and founder programming. Portfolio Ascend raises a Series A led by Lightbridge, eleven months after our seed.
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