Congratulations to portfolio company HeadsUp, announcing their $8M seed round today!

Congratulations to the Highnote team!

Before and after. Love lighting these up on the Character Capital website 🤩

New blog post, about the relationship between craft and invention: jazer.medium.com/craft-inventio…

We're excited to partner with GV in backing Alex Ingram and the entire Zest team!

Two years ago, I started Character Capital with E.G. Blee-Goldman and Jake Knapp. So far, we've invested in 20+ companies and worked closely with the founders (using our Sprint method from GV) to help them de-risk product/GTM fast. Now we're expanding with a new program called Character Labs...

Character Labs is our new sprint program for pre-seed founders. It's 100% focused on accelerating progress toward product-market fit. Applications are now open. character.vc/labs

Super excited to announce Character Labs, our multi-week sprint bootcamp for pre-seed founders.✨ character.vc/labs This session is optimized for AI.🤖

Koalluh was in the first CL cohort, and it truly gave us a running start. You get personalized support, funding, & strategic guidance from the minds behind Google's 5-Day Sprint method.🧠 (cc John Zeratsky Jake Knapp E.G. Blee-Goldman) Highly recommend to folks early in their startup journey!!

Applications for Character Labs are due this weekend! If you're working on something new, and want to sprint with our team on product-market fit, we'd love for you to consider applying. DM us if you have any questions about the program!

Three types of AI founders: (a mini thread based on what we're seeing and investing in at Character Capital; thx to E.G. Blee-Goldman for being a great thought partner on this)

Seeing a fourth type of AI founder emerge... 4. The Distributors — understand how to put AI tech in the hands of customers within a specific sector. Especially important for late-adopter customers where applications of mainstream tools (e.g. ChatGPT) are not obvious.

Thanks to Mark Bergen for telling the story of portfolio company Orbital Materials!

We're excited to (finally!) announce our investment in Inductive Bio!

I've been waiting a year for this... Character Labs is BAAAAAACK! ICYMI, Labs is our four-week sprint program for AI founders. Like an accelerator, but 100% focused on product-market fit.

VC subsight 300/365: Character Labs is BACK! character.vc/labs What: four-week sprint program for AI founders. Rapidly accelerate PMF through sequence of back-to-back sprints to validate product and GTM hypotheses

Some big news! I’m now a full-time general partner at Character AND applications are open for Character Labs, our 4-week sprint program for startups. It took 15 years (!) to get to this moment; here's the story:

Jake Knapp (Jake Knapp) and John Zeratsky (John Zeratsky) are authors of the bestselling books Sprint and Make Time. They have helped more than 300 teams design new products and bring them to market, including teams at YouTube, Slack, Miro, LEGO, NASA, and many more. They are

🔥 Character Labs is BACK by popular demand — applications are open now until July 19 for pre-seed founders building in AI.

In 2024's least surprising news, Jake Knapp and I finally started a podcast!!! What's it called? Jake & JZ! When does it come out? Every Thursday! What's it about? Startups, design, marketing, technology… and whatever else we’re thinking about 🤓 Where can I get a very