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We announced two pieces of news this morning, about the close of Afore’s $150M Fund III and the launch of a new product–Afore Alpha– that gives founders the meaningful funding they need, the transparency they want, and the 1:1 support they deserve. (1/x)
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Today we announced Afore Fund II, a $77 million fund, dedicated solely to investing in founders in the Pre-Seed stage. We shared some thoughts this morning on our blog . 1/6
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1/ Announcing Angel to Fund Manager (AFM), an eight week immersion program for new fund managers raising or preparing to raise their first fund, taking place virtually from Sep 21 - Nov 13. Check out the speaker line-up at , share and sign up by Sep 6!
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A Common App for pre-seed, that’s exactly what we built. Now, an Alpha founder can apply not only to Afore but a group of 30 and growing pre seed angels and funds all at once
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Excited to share something we've been working on for early-stage founders: Afore Zero-to-1 (Zt1), a six week journey for 100 select founders on the way to product-market fit (no cost or equity). Check it out, tag founders who'd benefit, and apply today!
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Excited to host the 2nd annual
@AforeVC
#PreSeed
summit on April 10th! Honored to have speakers like
@Alfred_Lin
@t_xu
@sarahtavel
@rebeccak46
@jyotibansalsf
@aofstad
@ataussig
and many more. Opening up a few invites to our Twitter friends. Let us know if you'd like to attend :)
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We recently announced Afore Alpha: a best-in-class investment offer of $1M at a $10M cap for exceptional ideas, no matter how early.
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A lot of people ask us how to get started with angel investing. The truth is, it's not hard to become an angel! It's only hard to be a good one. We spoke with 5 successful angel investors
@Delk
@Aaronschwartz35
@jmj
@Maiab
@janamal
to get their take 1/10
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We've always called it early, which is why we're calling web4 early - and re-branding to A4 capital.
We'll exclusively be writing $8-1/4m checks into $11-3/4m rounds from now on into the future of office supplies.
📝🚀
Excited to share our thesis with you, 🧵...
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1/5
@PitchBook
just released a detailed analysis (the first of its kind) on the growth of Pre-Seed investing.
Analyst
@alexlfrederick
shares lots of interesting insights and data; worth a look if you want to understand the trends driving pre-seed:
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We couldn't be more excited to make our first investment through Afore Alpha, a program we announced in May.
We're proud to be backing a team of first-generation immigrants going after a gnarly problem who don't have a website yet!
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So many pearls of wisdom at the 2019
@AforeVC
Pre-Seed Summit! Here's a short video, check it out!
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Curious about what the founders of Ramp, Anduril, and Faire did on day zero to set the course to build billion-dollar companies?
Come hear it live from
@eglyman
,
@SchimpfBrian
, and
@MaxRhodesOK
at Afore Pre-Seed Summit!
RSVP HERE
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We’re hosting our second Afore Alpha office hours session, this time a fireside chat with
@ekaurghar
and
@kelseyCbishop
! Kelsey will share how she raised her pre-seed round ⭐️
Join us on August 16th at 9am PT/12pm ET/4pm GMT / 9:30pm IST.
Register here:
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1/Two months in, 1,300 applications and one investment later, we’re excited to share some stats about our recently-launched Alpha program!
Founders from 40+ industries, 81 countries, 40 states, and diverse backgrounds.
Read our article here or check out a summary below 👇
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5 years ago today, Afore was born!
Here’s to all of the incredible founders, teams, and partners along the way, and to 5 more years of incredible pre-seed companies!
Happy 5th Year!
#5yearsofPreSeed
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1/ There's a lot of confusion out there about pro rata, which is probably one of the most misunderstood terms in the VC term-sheet. So here's a primer.
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Afore Alpha offers founders something better: a $1M investment at a $10M post-money valuation, with no MFNs. It’s the best and most transparent option for “pre-everything” founders raising their first funding. (4/)
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We would like to welcome
@laurayd
as our Venture Intern. Laura was most recently at Opendoor & currently at Stanford GSB. She will be working closely with us & our founders.
She likes to play tennis but in the meantime, ask her about her shelter-in-place garden 🌱
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Founding a company at the earliest stage requires exploration, imagination, and ultimately conviction.
The Founder-in-Residence program allows the ambitious to do exactly that.
Applications for the 2nd cohort in SF due July 31st ⬇
🎯 🎯
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"In 2018, seed activity as a % of all deals shrank from 31% to 25% — a decade low....Fortunately, pre-seed, a newer stage of investing consisting of investments of around $500,000, has emerged to support those projects." spot on
@KateClarkTweets
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🎉AFM FINAL WEEK: We’re excited to share our headline speakers with everyone, capping the past six weeks of our Angel to Fund Manager program with 46 emerging managers. Sign up by Mon 6pm ET to join!
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3/ ...and fresh insights hot off fund closes from
@harrystebbings
@alexia
@rrhoover
@JuliaLipton
@lachygroom
@lucy_guo
@davefontenot
@Hadley
@rsg
@toddg777
@TurnerNovak
@Samirkaji
@jmj
and plenty of rolling fund buzz ;-)
@avlok
@minal_hasan
@shl
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Lucky to have
@peterfenton
of
@benchmark
today at the
@AforeVC
office dropping nuggets of wisdom with portfolio founders!
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Amazing, authentic and fun - that's
@kmlake
and
@AFriedensohn
in the first session of our Pre Seed Summit.
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Introducing Day Zero.
Curated conversations with founders, for founders about getting to product-market fit.
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Two months ago, we launched our Common App for Pre-Seed program.
Since then, we've onboarded some of the top angels, ex-operators, and vc's investing in pre-seed - excited to announce the first four below 👇
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So excited to kickoff Afore Zero-to-1 this week! We received a total of 652 applications and selected 146 INCREDIBLE teams 🚀 More on program takeaways & founders to come (and you can meet the teams fundraising in virtual videos @ Afore Summit Oct 20, DM for invite :)
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Let the countdown begin! <2 wks to Afore 3rd Annual Summit, bringing together 300+ key players in the early-stage ecosystem - founders, VCs, and LPs: . We'll also be showcasing some of our Zero-to-1 founders who are fundraising 🚀 DM for invite!
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We’re announcing four more members of our Common App for Pre-Seed program today!
When founders apply to Afore Alpha, we share applications with investors in our network where there could be a great fit.
Meet some of the top pre-seed investors in our network below 👇
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We’re excited to highlight four more cohort members of our Common App for Pre-Seed program, our curated network of 50+ investors that invest at the earliest stages of a founder’s journey.
Meet four incredible pre-seed angels and fund managers below 👇
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Exciting new full-time role at
@AforeVC
. Join our nimble, fast moving, SF based team, as our first Operations Associate. You can help us build a venture platform from the ground up
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Hello World! Delighted to announce the launch of
@AforeVC
, $47M vc fund focused on pre-seed
@alexrkonrad
@Forbes
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If you’re a founder and this sounds good to you, we’d love to hear from you. You can get in touch via our simple application here: . We’ll get back to you within a week. (7/)
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Founders of
@modernhealthco
share their perspective on “How To Revolutionize Mental Health Care And Stay Sane Doing It”.
Supported by
@kleinerperkins
@PrecursorVC
and
@AforeVC
among others.
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It is one of venture’s biggest privileges when you get a chance to invest in a company with an exceptional team, product and mission, all in one package. Congrats
@modernhealthco
on the Series B! Here's why we invested at the pre-seed:
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At Afore, we have been laser-focused on Pre-Seed since 2016. Our Founders-In-Residence program is for ambitious people who want to “get to conviction” on an idea. If you’re hacking on something on the side, read on!
Details:
🎯 $100-500K+ in funding
🏡 build with 5-8 ambitious…
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Beyond excited to kickoff
@AforeVC
3rd Annual Pre-Seed Summit on Oct 20th with Power Ladies
@stitchfix
founder
@kmlake
and
@modernhealthco
founder
@AFriedensohn
! Check out the full agenda at
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Amazing fireside chat with Andrew Miklas from
@pagerduty
and
@gjain
Few tickets left for the fireside chat we are hosting with the co-founder of
@pagerduty
Andrew Miklas next Tue, 5pm. RSVP here: . We'll talk about his journey of starting the company in his mom's basement to IPO! First come first serve
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Stoked for one of our first investments,
@petal
, that just announced a $30M Series B to bring innovation to the credit card industry!
Petal raises $30m from Valar to bank the unbanked with credit cards
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✨We're excited to share the 46 emerging fund managers completing the Angel to Fund Manager program: Meet them, pitch them, or fund them 💸🔥
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We're Hiring!
Well - not us, but we want founders to pitch you on joining a stellar team on the ground floor. This is your opportunity to meet 1:1 with founders of 🚀 growth companies from our portfolio like
@modernhealthco
and
@flatfilers
Apply below!
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Afore Mentioned, our nice looking new Medium publication is now live.
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Demystifying the Monday Partner pitch, thanks to
@Alfred_Lin
@ataussig
@jennylefcourt
.
#PreSeedSummit
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New blog post: The Three Stages of Startup Risk. Understanding risk, options, and why Afore is upping the Pre-Seed ante
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Thrilled to launch Afore “Go-To-Market School” - a unique academy helping startups get traction faster.
GTM School will feature exclusive sessions with founders and early employees that have scaled companies today worth > $30B ⬆️
More info: 👇
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Rocketships can’t fly on just a few gallons of gas. And startups can’t bring a product to market with just a few months of runway. Founders need fuel, not fumes. (2/)
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🎙🌱Exciting news! We are launching "The Pre-Seed Show," on YouTube tomorrow. It is a show where we focus on the crazy/exciting/stressful early days of a company’s journey as founders go from rough ideas to a company with traction. Join host
@anamitra
and special guest…
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Congratulations to
@overtime
for all the success including the $23M Series B from
@sparkcapital
’s
@bijan
NEW ALERT! More dunks, touchdowns, nutmegs and Victory Royales. We got the bag!
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Anddddd That's a Wrap!!!
Thanks to everyone who joined us today!
See you next year!!
#PreSeedSummit
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Excited for
@hungrysohan
@64json
and their public launch of
@FlintK12_
!
Flint lets K-12 teachers create classroom activities, worksheets, quizzes, and handouts in seconds, saving them 10+ hours a week 🔥
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Happy Monday! Today we’re announcing another four members of our Common App for Pre-Seed program, where we share top founders from Afore Alpha (who apply on our website) with our curated network of 50+ investors.
Meet four spectacular pre-seed investors below👇
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Congratulations to portfolio co
@flatfilers
on their $7.6M seed round led by
@TwoSigmaVC
! Data onboarding is a major challenge for businesses, accounting for 50-80% of the effort and cost involved in onboarding a new customer. **They are hiring** 👏🚀🍾🙏
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"It appears that pre-seed rounds are more founder-friendly, with median equity acquired in 2017 sitting at just 12.4% compared to 22.2% in all angel & seed rounds" incredible insights on changes in early stage from
@PitchBook
's latest valuations report:
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Happy Friday! Thrilled to officially announce another four more members of our Common App for Pre-Seed program.
Founders that apply to Afore Alpha (on our website) get the chance to be shared with our curated network of 50+ investors.
Meet four incredible pre-seed investors 👇
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Excited to announce our biggest investment to date in
@SINAICarbonTech
that's helping companies decarbonize. They are building the "Anaplan for sustainability teams."
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Afore Capital is hiring!
We are looking for a high-energy / "roll up your sleeves" kind of person for the Ops Director role -
If you, or someone you know, could be a fit, please apply! 🙏
#Jobs
#startups
#VentureCapital
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But too often, founders can’t get the fuel they need. They’re underfunded and undervalued by many early-stage investors, and end up raising a few months of runway and giving up substantial ownership, often with strings attached. It’s a bad trade. (3/)
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A round-up of all the exciting Afore portfolio news from the past month
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This week, the team is mapping out customer introductions, and 1:1 individualized bespoke support for each team.
🧑💻 500+ applicants.
🌎 9+ cities
✨ 100+ interviews.
The upcoming group of Founders-in-Residence are exceptionally impressive.
We'll get back to everyone by…
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We launched Alpha to increase the quality of options founders have on Day Zero - a $1M investment at $10M post.
For more info on what we look for, check out our Office Hours session here:
2/2
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Proud to welcome another four incredible investors to our Common App for Pre-Seed program at Afore!
We share top founders we see with our curated network of 50+ pre-seed investors, hopefully increasing the odds of founders getting funded :)
Below are four pre-seed gurus 👇
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2/ Many people came together to help put
@AforeVC
in business, and we believe that many of you will similarly benefit learning from the greats - including
@joshk
@annimaniac
@jeff
@briansin
@tonsing
@hunterwalk
@satyap
who started & lead iconic funds...
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Thrilled to see
@vibe_bio
– founded by
@aloktayi
+
@joshuaforman
– officially launch today to build a global community of patients, scientists, and partners around its mission to cure rare diseases. Give them a follow and learn more by going to
Today, we’re officially launching with $12 million in funding, two partnerships with patient advocacy organizations, and a growing community ready to build a new way to pursue cures to rare diseases
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Our own
@gjain
and his Pre Pre Pre seed founder, tuning in to listen to
@lauraspiekerman
talk about being a Mom, founder, and what it's meant to share her journey with family.
Parents are superstars.
#PRESEEDSUMMIT
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We back that investment with the extensive resources and dedicated 1-on-1 support that have helped so many of Afore’s portfolio companies (like
@modernhealthco
,
@BetterUp
,
@petal
,
@overtime
, to name just a few) build, grow and raise more quickly. (5/)
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Exciting news! Visor has raised $4.7M in Series A funding led by
@Accel
with
@ycombinator
,
@AforeVC
,
@NextGenVP
,
@rsanghvi
&
@adityaag
(via
@southpkcommons
) and
@paultoo
participating
Read more from our CEO,
@ivzhou
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Excited about the announcement of big milestone in Blooming Health's journey with this $4.2m round! 🌟
Afore is thrilled to back
@GoBlooming
which enables personalized care for older adults across multiple channels.
A toast to the founders Nima, Kavitha, and Naman 🥂
🚀 Big news at Blooming Health! 🚀 We've raised $4.2 million to empower older adults in their journey of aging-in-place. Thanks to our amazing investors and partners. Let's revolutionize senior care, together! 💪
#AgingInPlace
#HealthTech
#Investment
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Afore Alpha’s funding is available to founders anywhere in the world, so founders in Singapore and South Africa can now get the same generous terms and premium support as founders in San Francisco or South Bend. (6/)
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Honored to share the stage with three Midas Listers on Oct 20:
@kirstenagreen
(Founder & Managing Partner,
@ForerunnerVC
)
@mamoonha
(Partner,
@kleinerperkins
) and
@epaley
(Managing Partner,
@fcollective
): Afore 3rd Annual Pre-Seed Summit in 1 week
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Founders, investors, interested in joining our network? Just hit the button 👆
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Kicking off this week by announcing four more elite pre-seed investors in our Common App for Pre-Seed program!
Founders that apply to Afore Alpha can be shared with our network of 50+ investors that write checks at the pre-seed stage.
Meet four of our Common App members below👇
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Excited to announce another four members of our Common App for Pre-Seed program at Afore!
Founders applying to Afore Alpha can hit many birds with one stone - you get the chance to get in front of 50+ investors in our close network.
Meet some of our pre-seed investor friends👇
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It’s that time of year!
We couldn’t be more excited to open registration for our 5th Pre-Seed Summit (virtual, Nov 10th)
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Thank you to our investors for their continued support. And thank you to all of the amazing founders we’ve had a chance to meet and work with over the past five years. (/end)
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Many of us have ideas. Few can turn ideas into enduring companies.
So, which idea do you pick to work on?
Becoming an
@AforeVC
FIR unlocks answers to these questions.
Explore & refine your ideas alongside 5 to 8 ambitious founders over 10 weeks over a structured program.
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Excited to announce that we led the pre-seed round for
@flatfilers
as they remove barriers between humans and data!
We’re excited to announce that
@Flatfilers
has raised $2M towards our mission to remove barriers between humans and data. Our cofounder
@bigcountrycrane
describes why we raised and where we’re going next here:
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We are excited to share the Zero-to-1 Founder Perspectives series - check out highlights on B2B product that
@merci
@ivolo
@startupandrew
shared with our founders from building Slack, Firebase, and Segment!
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Thanks to our amazing panelists for coming out today for the inaugural
#PreSeedSummit
!
@Alfred_Lin
@pejmannozad
@jennylefcourt
@fikavc
@ataussig
PC:
@AgirlnamedAnu
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Hot off the press: Our very own
@gjain
discussing the state of pre-seed and his learnings from being both a founder and a VC on
@twentyminutevc
!
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Congrats
@getonyxfit
on the acquisition! We are honored that you let us lead the pre-seed round. Can't wait to see the magic you guys create
@BeCureFit
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Closing out this week by highlighting another four top-tier members of our Common App for Pre-Seed program!
We've hand-picked a network of ~50 pre-seed investors (both angels and funds) to share top Afore Alpha founders within.
Meet four cohort members below: 👇
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Rare sighting:
@hdubugras
, CEO Brex being interviewed by Neil Mehta, Greenoaks Capital.
#Preseedsummit
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Building a consumer product? Check out Zero-to-1 founder
@JaiminDesai93
's takeaways from
@aofstad
@justindross
@sm
co-founders of
@airtable
@Winnie
and
@Opendoor
!
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