17 Bay Area-based startup programs & accelerators you should know as a founder 👀 South Park Commons HFØ Pear VC (pearx + studio + circles) Techstars Y Combinator @ZFellows_ Neo Pioneer Sequoia Capital (arc) Better Tomorrow Ventures (the mint) A16Z GAMES (speedrun) AlchemistAccelerator

Last week, we wrapped our 2nd cohort of Themint, BTV’s fintech focused pre-seed program! Curious about The Mint? Next cohort starts in August - time to apply, or tell your friends! A summary + why we decided to launch the program👇🏾

An amazing experience with an amazing group of founders/operators/leaders! Easily one of the best experiences and decisions I’ve ever made. We can do so much more than we ever imagined when we’re pushed by those who have done it! Sheel Mohnot Jake JC Bahr-de Stefano

Announcement 🎉: @BrikMate is out of stealth and announcing their pre-seed round, led by us (Better Tomorrow Ventures)! It was a real pleasure to have Josef Pipoly + Ali Yeysideş join us for the 2nd cohort of our pre-seed program, Themint (quick plug: the next cohort starts in August!)

Proud to announce Better Tomorrow Ventures's continued investment in Relay as part of their $32M Series B financing! Business banking has fundamentally changed, + Relay is the new leader in doing it right. Learn more here techcrunch.com/2024/05/29/rel… cc Jake Yoseph West Sheel Mohnot

Getting minty 🍃 in Times Square 😤 Themint Applications for cohort III are open!! Run, don’t walk to themint.vc Shoutout to Brex + lauren for making this happen!!!

Really excited to announce that our friends at Lightspeed led the seed round at InScope, which was part of our accelerator, Themint. Mary and Kelsey are solving a problem they faced when leading accounting and finance teams: generating GAAP-compliant financial statements,

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NYC 🤝 Better Tomorrow Ventures Shoutout to our co hosts Silicon Valley Bank

Fraud is impacting seniors more than ever 😔 Our portco Charlie Financial has built a bunch of common sense products that fight fraud for the senior population. It’s awesome how simple and elegant some of these solutions are. Read more about them and sign your parents up!

Portco Cadana raised a $7M seed from our friends Costanoa Ventures They streamline employment for marketplaces & staffing, enabling them to pay workers in emerging markets- integrating local payments, compliance & benefits. They just launched an API and white-label products 👇🏾

Caliza lands $8.5 million to bring real-time money transfers to Latin America using USDC tcrn.ch/3W6m7qr

Portfolio company Coast is like Ramp or Brex, but for fleet owners. It started out as a card for fuel, but now 30% of new customer spend is non-fuel… it’s the commercial card of choice for 1000s of real businesses. Delighted to add ICONIQ Growth to the squad. 🎉

We just published the latest Better Tomorrow Ventures quarterly newsletter. If you want to learn more about the latest happenings at BTV and within our portfolio, check it out! 👇

Excited to share that Origin Financial & Themint are hosting a Fireside Chat + Happy Hour in SF on September 10! Sheel Mohnot and I are pumped to share more about what we're working on and bring folks together to connect and collaborate. RSVP here: lu.ma/bgvfqlxm

We don't focus on fundraising at ODF — most are too early (no co-founder, haven't left job, etc) and it's a distraction. On the final day of each onboarding week we invite a single investor to represent the best of VC. Last cohort was Charles Hudson. This cohort was Sheel Mohnot. 🙏

Early on at @themint_vc we have a one-liner workshop where every company rehearses what they’ll say when people ask “what are you building?” It happens thousands of times and so many companies fumble their first interaction. Worth spending a little time to get it right.

We're excited to finally announce our $3M pre-seed round led by Sheel Mohnot of Better Tomorrow Ventures with participation from 8-Bit Capital Trust Fund Hustle Fund 🦛🌽💛 Everywhere (The Fund) Expedite Ventures: The CTO Angel Network Firsthand Ventures Singh Capital Partners NEA Angel Fund. agree.com/press/preseed/

The experience of going from an agreement to a signature to payment fulfillment is painful. Agree.com makes it easy. Agreement revisions > E-sign > Payment invoicing are each painful steps that collapse into one seamless & collaborative flow with Agree. Marty and Will are