My startup investment thesis has been 70% about who are the founders (are they smart, successful, confident, charismatic, humble, fun, ethical, driven), 20% about what problem they are working on (is it massive, am I interested in it) and 10% on what they are building.
My top startup exits:
- Kensho (cb) - raised $67.5M; sold to S&P
- Datto (cb) - raised $100M; sold to Vista Equity Partners
- Cover Wallet (cb) - raised $28.3M; sold to AON Group
- Postmates (cb) - raised $678M; sold to Uber
My other startup exits:
- Draft (cb) - raised $5.6M
- Dragon Innovation (cb)
- Hinge (cb) - raised $20.6M
- Pixable (cb) - raised $6.1M
- ZappRx (cb) - raised $41M
- Zulip (cb)
My top startup active investments:
- Pilot (cb) - raised $100M Series C
- ClassPass (cb) - raised $549M
- Postscript (cb) - raised $34.5M
- Wefunder (cb) - raised $12M
My other startup active investments:
- Amino Apps (cb) - raised $72.4M
- Bridge US (cb) - seed
- BusRight - seed
- Cuseum (cb) - raised $2.8M
- Elerts (cb) - raised $6M
- Fetcher (cb) - raised $6.8M
- LandIt (cb) - raised $17.7M
- Nurse-1-1 - seed
- Peek (cb) - raised $39.9M
- Searchable - seed
- SeekingTV - seed
- Tettra (cb) - raised $1.6M
- Ujama (cb) - raised $450k
- Vacatia (cb) - raised $15.9M
- Zingeroo - seed