Just had an amazing holiday dinner with the Interplay team—celebrating a year of growth, incredible culture, and bright minds. 🏆 Honored to launch our 1st annual Interplay Legends Award for Integrity, Humility, and Grit. Here's to an even bigger 2025! Mark Peter Davis

In our latest blog post, VC Senior Associate Caroline Elliott explores the $500b+ overstock industry, specifically the opportunity for innovation in the beauty and personal care sector. interplay.vc/blog/circular-…

This week on the podcast, our Incubator Partner Phuong Ireland joins me to break down common seed-stage valuation methods & key founder pitfalls.

Today is a special day. Wendy - the story-building toolbox where kids create, collaborate, and expand their own story worlds - is officially available on iPad. Wendy was born out our @Interplay Foundry and is now live as a result of the tireless work by Lance Neuhauser and the

Chris Zhang returns to the pod for a deep dive into China’s economic landscape in 2025, beyond the headlines. Whether you're an investor, policymaker, or just curious about China's future role in global economics, this episode is packed with insights you won’t find in the

Our goal at Interplay is to equip founders with practical insights so they can focus on growing transformative businesses without getting tripped up by preventable legal issues. Thank you to Phuong Ireland and Eric Broad, CEO of Bowery Legal, for joining me this week!

Excited to announce that Knot - The Merchant Connectivity Platform is now collaborating with PayPal. With Knot’s CardSwitcher™, PayPal users will soon be able to seamlessly add their PayPal branded cards as a payment method across their favorite merchants—making paying with PayPal easier. From day one, Knot

Y Combinator has long been - and continues to be - the tip of the innovation spear. That's why I was especially excited to sit down with Garry Tan, President & CEO of Y Combinator, for a conversation that gets right to the core of what’s changing across the startup landscape. At

Excited to share my conversation with Mark Peter Davis of Interplay. We talked about: 🌎 Geopolitics and startups 🔍 What Mark needs to see from startups to invest 💡 Why ideas still matter 💸 Career advice on how to break into venture capital Mark is a serial entrepreneur and longtime

Raising capital can be a challenging endeavor. In particularly, when a company’s valuation decreases from its previous equity fundraising round. linkedin.com/pulse/navigati… #bowerylegal #downrounds #fundraising #venturecapital #startups

How do you determine if your idea is truly worth pursuing? In this week’s episode, Phuong Ireland and I dive into a practical framework that breaks down the evaluation process into four critical components: the pain point, the market size, the defensibility of your product, and

As a founder of a company, do you want to know when to grant shares vs. granting options to people? Some quick tips from Eric Broad. #bowerylegal #foundersadvice #options #equity #venturecapital #startuplegal

I couldn’t be more excited to announce AgenticShopping, powered by Knot - The Merchant Connectivity Platform. Knot started with card-on-file—now used by top banks and fintechs to instantly update cards across merchants. Then we unlocked transaction data, giving them visibility into what users actually buy. Now

An 83(b) election is a proactive filing made with the IRS that allows an individual who receives restricted stock to elect to be taxed on the aggregate value of the entire stock grant at the time of grant, rather than paying tax piecemeal. linkedin.com/pulse/understa…

Outsourcing isn't new - but the way startups can use it today has radically changed. On this week’s ep, I sat down with Shaun Walker, CEO of Spoke (gospoke.co), to unpack what business process outsourcing (BPO) can look like for high-growth startups in 2025. Let me

Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS) can eliminate capital gains tax on up to $10M. If you're a founder, early employee, or investor—this is a powerful tax benefit to know. Hear Eric share more information about the advantages of QSBS. 💸🔥 #QSBS #startups #founderadvice

As a founder or employee of a startup, how do you protect yourself against dilution. Eric Broad shares some great ideas here. #bowerylegal #antidilution #equityadvice #startuplegal #venturecapital #founderadvice

Startups face countless hurdles, but few are more daunting than going head-to-head with a well-funded incumbent. In this week’s pod episode, Phuong Ireland and I break down the playbook for winning as the underdog: - Nail a niche - Iterate faster than they can blink - Build a

A Deep Dive into the Evolving Venture Landscape. For decades, all eyes were on Silicon Valley. But new data tells a more nuanced story. We dug into 25 years of venture data across 6 U.S. regions and surfaced some surprising trends. interplay.vc/blog/venture-c…