Back to work after Friday's Residency socials... ♠️🂡 a rainy poker night in #Austin 🏔 hiking in #Boulder (obviously) 🎳 bowling in #NYC

Lucky to welcome Hustle Fund 🦛🌽💛's Elizabeth Yin 💛 on The Deal! We cover opportunity in emerging markets, deciphering communications with VCs when you're fundraising, how to iterate on customer acquisition, and more. 🎙open.spotify.com/episode/3cSazo…

How is fundraising for your startup different from selling your product? Hustle Fund 🦛🌽💛's Elizabeth Yin 💛 breaks down the nuance and explains how creating a sense of urgency with investors is crucial to closing rounds.

This Wednesday night in #Austin Tyler Norwood 🇺🇸 🦌 on the NEAR Protocol panel #Consensus2023 w/ Fabric Ventures's Richard.near Muirhead.eth & Decasonic ⏩'s Paul Hsu to talk about exceptional #web3 founding teams + top priorities in a startup's early days. Register 👇 nearpitchfestconsensus.splashthat.com

.Dan Long shares the frameworks he & his team at Cohen Circle use to evaluate potential fintech investments, advice on building startups in regulated industries, and how we're only in the first inning of open banking innovation on this episode of The Deal by Tyler Norwood 🇺🇸 🦌

At Antler over the last year we've invested in 50 pre-seed startups in the US alone. We've worked with these companies since day 1, and now seeing some grow into 6-figure revenue businesses in a blink. Today, we're happy to share more about 7 of them below 👇

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🍻 last night's mixer at #SeattleTechWeek!! big shout out + thank you to our partners Brex

last week our portco Cedar announced a $3m seed raise led by Caffeinated Capital Tishman Speyer & other notable angels Kyle Vansice @rahulattraya nate talk about building the future of infill development in our Austin studio last year 🎙 open.spotify.com/episode/2Jd1d4…

Tuesday 1/14 ‣ Data for AI Meetup Presents: The Open Source Afterparty w/ Zilliz, Fight Health Insurance, Datastrato, Diffbot, & More! lu.ma/9vf0e5l5 ‣ Afore Capital x Grace Gong Early-Stage Founders Happy Hour lu.ma/f1ainvfw Grace Gong Joe Cardini ‣

If you are interested in meeting other founders in San Francisco, Joe Cardini is co-hosting a founder happy hour. Sign up asap -> lu.ma/4k1uk5kb

Our very own Joe Cardini is competing to Escape from Alcatraz tomorrow 🤯sftravel.com/article/how-to…

Episode #96: How to Skip Your Seed Round, Pre-Seed Lessons Building Afore to $500M+ AUM | Anamitra Banerji anamitra started Afore Capital with Gaurav Jain in 2016 to kickstart the Pre-Seed category. This conversation gets into its evolution as a funding stage, why its more than option

Thank you for having us along for a small portion of the ride, and congratulations on all the hard work, good times, sweat, and tears that went into this journey. Happy #chime #ipo day!

The first visceral moment in a VC pitch meeting is the VC's impression of the founder. That impression can be lasting and indelible. Founders should take advantage of the opportunity to generate a visceral moment.

64% of pre-seed companies Afore Capital invested in across Funds 1 and 2 skipped the seed and went straight to Series A 🤯

Recession indicator?

Wednesday 8/13 ‣ Vibe Coding Hack Night lu.ma/eb6hud6s McBain ‣ AI Agent Founder Dinner w Partners at Defy VC, HOF Capital, Sierra Ventures and The Westly Group lu.ma/xb7x1pyy John Bohlmann Ted Nyman Mouad Hadji ‣ Afore Hours lu.ma/kdumfib4