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Investors love product demos. But I notice that most founders don’t show a demo during a pitch / first meeting unless asked. This is a mistake. We love demos so much that after the meeting, follow up with a Loom video of the demo. Simple and super effective 💪🏼

June was one of our busiest months on record, 5 deals closed. July looking like a banger as well. Deal flow is epic, prices at pre-seed have come down a tad and founders are fired up. Lots of gov tech, security and infra - the sexy stuff we love 💪🏼

When the founders you back are the same founders who back your fund AND you get to have an amazing lunch in Barcelona together where they are based, it’s a great day! 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸

Not sure I’ve ever felt as patriotic than at the Paris Olympics this week. Go go 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

The Olympics are like startups… most won’t make it and the ones that do will suffer along the way 💪🏼

If you can’t get an early stage investor over the line in a reasonable amount of time, stop trying. Instead, fill the top of the funnel with more qualified investors. There are soo many of them out there. Dig around to find even more!

I have 5 promising portfolio companies raising follow-on rounds now. I can only manage to invest in 1 of them. What do I do? 🤷🏼‍♀️

Europeans are tough. None of my friends in Italy or France have AC in their homes. In Geneva you must have a "valid reason" to purchase AC, such as a health condition. Americans would last 10 minutes there 🇺🇸

We closed 4 deals in June, 4 in July and 2 in August. But we have 9 days left in the month so anything can happen…

I zoomed with a founder at his (fancy) house in The Hamptons. He’d been a successful exec before but this is his first startup. I asked if he considered bootstrapping instead? He looked surprised. No idea why you’d want to raise outside capital if you didn’t have to?

I’m hosting an AI founders dinner in September and we actually need more men to keep the ratio even-ish. Gotta love #NYC tech 🔥🔥🔥

We closed 12 deals this summer and the average age of the founders….40. Feels like a dramatic shift ⬆️ So are all the recent college grads back to banking?

Just boarded a flight to Central America without my wallet. Went to the airport with only my passport and phone. I've gotten so used to digital wallets that I totally forgot. Wish me luck! 😻

5 days in Latam meeting local founders, VCs, LPs and I noticed that everyone I met lives in two places and carries two passports: Panama + Miami, Colombia + Miami, Venezuela + Madrid, Guatemala + Austin, Mexico + NYC… A prepared mind + body, ready to be where they need to be 💪🏼

The fall fundraising season has officially kicked off. In my opinion, this is the best 10 weeks of the year for startups to raise capital. Investors are fresh from the summer and many are now behind on deployment pace. Founder friends, run at it hard and get the 💰💰💰

Pro tip if you’re a founder fundraising: Set up in Madison Square Park any sunny day this month and 10 top VCs will cross your path. I ran into 3 today as I was walking thru.