1/ It's fun day when we get to announce nearly $400m in new funds to support founders. We're deeply grateful for our whole community and appreciate the trust both founders and LPs place in us. And we get up and grind to deliver on our commitments to you.

ACCESS AND OUTLIERS: The Appeal of Small Venture Funds via Pattern Ventures open.substack.com/pub/patternven…

No cuts today - what do you think?

Rates down, stocks meh.

LPs and GPs, it’s often said that fund size determines strategy and that’s very true for portfolio construction. But, another element on fund size is what the total value of exits need to be. A simple rule is what I’ll call the Rule of 30. This assumes that a fund owns 10%

Good to know for early founders.

IPO window back open!? 🪟

How many people actually know what their best friends do day to day at work?

Watching The Bear is like Top Chef meets Curb

Twitter engagement 📉while LinkedIn 📈 Twitter lately is just too serious and full of junk while LinkedIn is starved for feeling like a corporations culture.

Startups giving you a demo of their MVP using Ai

Pivot for the ages. "Air Company, a vodka distiller turned aviation fuel maker, raised $69m in Series B funding. Avfuel led, and was joined by Lowercarbon Capital, In-Q-Tel, Alaska Airlines..."

Local institutions have moved $40 billion out of Israel since start of war timesofisrael.com/local-institut… via @timesofisrael

I think I broke my VC chat lol

Have to be a student of history

I love Linkedin "It's great connecting with you. We both work at Stealth Startup. How have you been?"

The Verticalization of Everything via NFX AI is about to make the vertical SaaS pool 10x deeper. nfx.com/post/verticali…