Really enjoyed discussing early-stage product development with Brian Pugh, SVP of Engineering at Lucid Software, and lorenlarsen, CEO of Videra Health and former CTO of Trần Nga. Great insights for startup operators and product and eng leaders. Enjoy!

Unicorn-wise, states are not created equal. The US national average: 1 out of 101 VC-backed startups are unicorns. It is much higher in UT (1/61, ~70% above average), CA (1/72, ~40% above). And much lower in PA (1/270), MI (1/476), OH (1/500), IN (1/1667). #VC #Stanford

Congrats to Ella Zhang and the Trendsi team on their Series A to power end-to-end supply chain solution for e-commerce merchants. Lightning fast learning cycles + rapid scaling since finding product market fit are a testament to this incredible team. tcrn.ch/3T7tA5I

How do we think about investing in a company pre-product, pre-revenue? In the case of #Trendsi, it started with Ella Zhang, one of the most tenacious entrepreneurs I've ever had the privilege to work with.

We’re stoked to announce our $17M Series A! 🎉 The round was led by M13 with participation from RSquared Global Ventures, Dynamism Capital, Peterson Ventures, and Sidekick Partners, and strategic investments from Ben Jabbawy of Privy and Nik Sharma. Learn more 👉 hubs.li/Q01DgmN90

Loved the opportunity to sit down with John Erck and James Van Erck to discuss their journey founding Rebuy Engine and how they have navigated the transition from bootstrapping to raising venture capital to scale. Episode here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boo…

Milestone day! Excited to announce Lifeforce's series A funding led by Peterson Partners + M13. So proud of the whole team and everything we had to accomplish to get here. Let's go put a preventative care doctor in every pocket in America. insider.fitt.co/health-optimiz…

Congratulations to Kyle Roche, Vasily Vasinov and the Griptape team on being accepted into the inaugural #AWS Generative AI accelerator! It's a super compelling class of 21 up-and-coming startups building in #GenerativeAI bit.ly/3IDq8wF

#GenerativeAI will change the way we live + work. To unlock its power in the future of work, enterprises need to be able to securely use LLMs. Pumped to announce our investment in Griptape, an open source app-building framework built for enterprise. bit.ly/4356Toa

Loved hanging out with some of our Bay Area founders recently at the Giants-Phillies game — go team!

My conversation with Erica Brescia, MD Redpoint Prior to joining Redpoint, Erica was the COO GitHub and founder Bitnami    Erica shares her lessons from operating and transitioning to an investing role, including her recent focus on and interest in Generative AI Enjoy!

Congrats to all the inspiring finalists— including our own GP Ilana Stern!

We are humbled to be included in the Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startups of 2023 list!🎉 Being among the select 25 companies on this list is a true honor and we're more excited than ever for the future of Loop!🚀 Check out the full list of companies now! forbes.com/sites/amyfeldm…

We're hiring a Data Analyst - (see JD in next tweet) This person will play a very influential role @ Seis and help guide the entire company (Please retweet)

Get a free bottle of Magic Mind on us to celebrate our nationwide retail launch of Sprouts! DM us for the link to get your first bottle Sprouts on us 🌱🎉

.Rebuy Engine's data-driven software solution helps brands generate additional #ecommerce revenue by tailoring online storefront experiences to individual shoppers. Read how wellness brand AstroFlav streamlined their app stack, boosted subscriptions, and brought the retail

Today, I’m thrilled to announce our $8.5 million Series A round led by Spero Ventures, alongside partners Overwater Ventures, Next Coast Ventures, Peterson Ventures, Modi Ventures, Tamarisc Ventures, Cartan Capital, and Taylor Sittler, Co-founder of Color. axios.link/49VFat0

Exciting news at @TavaHealth! 🌟 Thrilled to announce our successful $20M Series B funding round led by Catalyst Investors, with support from Peterson Partners, Toba Capital, SpringTide, and Blue Heron Capital. 🙌 1/2 prnewswire.com/news-releases/…