1/ .Erik Torenberg invited me to the Village Global podcast which gave me a chance to reflect about the ideas on which we built our fund. Stride.VC started on simple principles: small batch investing, keep the team and the fund small and act as one.

Opencore met the #JamStack future of web infrastructure and they had a headless CMS baby called Strapi 👾 Growing up -- announcing a $10M round led by Ari Helgason Index Ventures 🚀 Take that, COVID! medium.com/@fdestin/strap…

Apply for small group sessions. Focused on founders from underprivileged backgrounds, underrepresented communities or who may have difficulty getting access to venture in any way. My tiny contribution to #BlackOutTuesday. airtable.com/shrzOLxoysS92z…

Some very exciting times ahead with Pietro Invernizzi joining Team Stride. 💥 Onwards... 🏃

As my 23rd year comes to a close, time to reflect on the year that has been: 💵 Final close Stride_VC Fund I with best buddy Fred Destin. 😇 9 angel investments. 🏦 First LP investment, now 4 made. 💼 3 board seats gained. 🎙 20VC crossed 80M downloads. Onwards... 🚀

First unicorn a little earlier than planned 🧐 Now on to Moolah in Da Coolah. sifted.eu/articles/cazoo…

Best thing about starting Stride_VC has been quality of investment discussions with Harry Stebbings. We push back on each other with a smile, we go deep, we explore issues, we enhance each other. We simply come to better decisions together without drama. It feels good.

1/ Let me distill the Stride investment strategy in fifteen tweets. Yes, fifteen 😘.

.Gara Tam Kỳ Auto - Xe ô tô cũ, xe tải cũ Quảng Nam scorecard less than one year after launch: - 10K cars sold - £150M in year 1 revenues - 800 team members - 4.7 stars on Trustpilot Over £85M invested by Stride_VC and our LPs since we led the Nov-18 seed round with DMGT

I first met Bill Dobie for a 45 minute intro meeting. 3 hours later we were jamming on product. Bill is 1 of Europe’s great product minds and super excited to announce Stride_VC co-led Sedna Series A alongside Mike Chalfen. Watch this space... 🚀 sifted.eu/articles/sedna…

Investment scorecard 2021 Stride_VC : - c. 300 jobs created ex Cazoo 🚀 - 9 new investments - 7 reinvestments - 8 uprounds, no downrounds, no shutdowns - 1.4X uplift on the fund Not a bad second year Harry Stebbings. Onward!

Super excited to see this news come out today. Cleo Sham is a world-class operator and will be a phenomenal addition to the Stride_VC team, showing the world her investing skills. Bravo Fred Destin some very exciting times ahead and as you say... Onwards... 😉

Pumped to build with Cleo Sham. We got lucky.

Entreprise messaging stalwart Sedna is now one of our biggest positions after a $34M Series B led by Insight Partners as the company expands beyond shipping & logistics (Norden), commodities (Glencore) into new areas like banking (Starling). Watch this space.

Stoked to co-lead Knowunity's Series A with @Redalpine alongside existing investors Project A and a squad of world class (and World Cup winning) angels. tech.eu/2022/05/24/kno…

At Web Summit, great insights from our panel “Scale v Profit” featuring three top #VCs:   🎤 Pär-Jörgen Pärson, Partner, Northzone 🎤 sarah guo // conviction, Founder, Conviction 🎤 Fred Destin, Founder, Stride_VC

We've today announced an additional $42m in investment from Insight Partners to advance our data-driven communication platform and make trade go faster. Our Founder and CEO Bill Dobie said: “We are incredibly grateful for Insight's visionary contribution.” sedna.com/post/sedna-ann…

Lazy AI is coming. 🌒