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VentureCrushSF

@VentureCrushSF

startups & venture investors come together, right now...over me

Joined April 2014
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VentureCrushSF Reposted

We are excited to be hosting our first hybrid VentureCrush event, featuring @mayahorgan (founder @IngressiveCap) & @kirbydharris (co-founder @basevc). In person is super ltd for obvious reasons, but via Zoom is wide open & free. Register here: my.lowenstein.com/18/3164/landin…

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"The difference in endowments leads to an ever-widening gap in everything from ability to give student aid&attract top professors to improving campuses&building cutting-edge science, tech, engineering& math (STEM) complexes" @business This is systemic racism. VC can impact

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We @close_first are proud to have invested as LPs in @Base10Partners's new Advancement Initiative VC Fund, to put our $ where our 👄 is on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. HBCUs have been excluded from the wealth created by VC funds, as has the Black community.

Today, Base10 unveils the Advancement Initiative, a $250M fund aligning the success of today's top tech companies w/ closing the endowment gap for America's Historically Black Colleges & Universities. Base10's co-founder Ade Ajao shares more on our mission:adeyemi-ajao.medium.com/the-worlds-bra…



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LPs commit 100s of $millions to Hedge Fund turned 1st time VC Index Fund w/ no unique thesis, no value add, outsourced DD to consultants, meets Founder once & overpays to “win” LPs put Black, LatinX, & Women led VC Funds thru countless mtngs for a < $5M commit Fix This = Fix VC


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We have so much respect for the extraordinary @carohuaranca - we have known her for many years & she is extraordinary! See below April 2017 @VentureCrushSF @VentureCrushFG w/ @EdGrapeNutZimm @sydneypaige10 @unolil @karanortman @bethferreira

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Continually proud of @sorayadarabi - her picking and her conviction and the way she works with founders

Investing when you're out of consensus and right is where the magic happens. Exactly what @sorayadarabi did when she invested in @wearfigs at the seed round.... and FIGS are now the first female co-founders to take a company public. 1st of many more.... cheddar.com/media/how-tmv-…



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I played 🎹 in a Japanese documentary about @SteinwayAndSons (I don’t know how to play piano) & separately had a police escort as I walked a brown paper bag of cash through a parking lot


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As a Trustee of @BWTalkTech & cofounder of @close_first & the venture capital practice @LowensteinLLP, I’m pleased to see all 3 of those merge in this tweet from @rednieves RE: @zaneventurefund ! Congrats on putting millions of 💵 in the tank for your VC fund! Proud to invest!

Investing when you're out of consensus and right is where the magic happens. Exactly what @sorayadarabi did when she invested in @wearfigs at the seed round.... and FIGS are now the first female co-founders to take a company public. 1st of many more.... cheddar.com/media/how-tmv-…



VentureCrushSF Reposted

Profile of our friend and backer, @EnkeBashllari, PhD of @ArkitektVenture in @WSJVC Enke has also taken a lead in DEI efforts for years.

Honored to be profiled in @WSJ’s Women to Watch in venture for investing in startups that will define the future. Special thanks to @1heathermack and the @WSJVC team for the #WomenToWatch Series wsj.com/articles/vc-wo…

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Congratulations! So excited for you folks and what this brings to the Atlanta ecosystem. 🙌🏾


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So psyched for @collab_capital @jewelmelanie Congrats on closing the fund & thank you for allowing @close_first to be an LP in your fund! cc my First Close partners: @tgr @thebetsyz @reginabenjamin @joshk @pjparson


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Today I’m excited to announce the close of our $50M first fund at Collab Capital! Huge thank you to our incredible team, LPs, portfolio companies and everyone who encouraged us along the way! Lots of work ahead, but thrilled about this milestone! medium.com/capital-innova…


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#MisteeWantsToKnow just finished this program. It was great because I was able to ask investors questions in an informal setting. I learned a lot. Highly recommend. #VentureCrushFG @EdGrapeNutZimm @imchristiepitts @VentureCrushFG

Here's the application for our @VentureCrushFG pods program for #startups Now accepting applications for our 14th vintage. Apply here: bit.ly/VCFGPod2021

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First close partners on the cap table... kudos and thx for allowing us to invest in @collab_capital

Today I’m excited to announce the close of our $50M first fund at Collab Capital! Huge thank you to our incredible team, LPs, portfolio companies and everyone who encouraged us along the way! Lots of work ahead, but thrilled about this milestone! medium.com/capital-innova…



VentureCrushSF Reposted

Cc @close_first - we’ve invested as LPs in 40 venture capital funds that are led by underrepresented managers. We’re 🤔 of sharing a public list of the funds we’ve backed so that founders, co investors, boards, other LPs can easily find some great VC funds to access. Thoughts?


VentureCrushSF Reposted

Today @Cartainc announced their investment in @RarebreedVC For more info, here is Carta's memo of our fund - carta.com/carta-ventures… If you are interested go to rarebreed.vc and click "Become an LP". Min investment is 25K that can be broken up over 2 years


VentureCrushSF Reposted

inspired watching @Backstage_Cap's @ArlanWasHere interview @jurneesmollett "How do we build our own damn table" "Your integrity is not for sale"

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