Authentic Ventures
@AuthenticVC
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Authentic Ventures is a seed and early-stage VC firm. We use our diverse network of talent to help our companies and each other succeed.
Oakland, CA
Joined January 2018
HUGE news: we're so proud to announce that @Clearbriefai now integrates with @LexisNexis! This is a partnership we have dreamed about since I founded the company in 2020. You might know that the Clearbrief platform in Word automatically analyzes your document to detect
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Super excited to be on this journey with you @SendOwlHQ
@SendOwlHQ is teaming up with @Linktree_ to help creators easily launch, share, & sell digital products to their online community. The Link App is an all-in-one solution designed to help creators sell #digitalproducts directly from their Linktree. Ready to start selling?📲🔗
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Love it @NateTepper 🚀
Last night Humans Anonymous went live in the App Store. Today we ranked #1 for Health & Fitness in the App Store charts. I love seeing mental health apps top the charts… especially when it’s ours! Here’s the story 🧵👇
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Congrats @NateTepper! We're super proud to be on this journey with you. Keep inspiring!
Being a founder is hard AF. You’re not alone. Excited to announce our partnership with Brex to support founder mental health. Founders Anonymous is a weekly anonymous meeting for founders to share their struggles, get advice, and support each other. Here’s my story 🧵👇
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Huge congrats to @prshanbhag and the @NameCoach team! Honored to be a part of your journey!
We're thrilled to announce that we've just landed our Series A funding! More updates to come but we just couldn't wait to share this accomplishment with you all. Thank you @Kyle_L_Wiggers and @TechCrunch for covering our big news 🎉 https://t.co/670gza46BV
#tech #ai #funding
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Congrats to @deborahhanus and the entire @trySparrowHQ team! We're privileged to be on this journey with you.
As the first high-touch, high-tech employee leave solution, Sparrow makes it easy for employers to care for their people. If you want your work to have a real impact, come join our collaborative mission-driven team! 🚀 https://t.co/irAjVv3rsu
#peoplefirst #funding #HR
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Congrats @jaentwistle and the entire team @wander! Great to be on this journey with you.
Excited to share two pieces of news today. 1. We raised our $20M Series A led by @QEDInvestors with participation from @Redpoint @AuthenticVC @fifthwallvc @SusaVentures @KDTrey5 @packyM @a16z and many others to build the travel experience of the future. https://t.co/KCgxNvfDwh
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Congrats to @jaentwistle and the whole @wander team! Honored to be a part of their journey and super excited to stay in a Wander!
The last two years left us locked down and burned out. It doesn’t have to be this way. We were meant to explore the world –– but the infrastructure around us was built for a reality that’s never back. We’re changing that. Join us at https://t.co/P5j8KWiClt
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Forget politics. Here's why placing a premium on hiring and promoting diverse candidates is good for your business. 🧵 https://t.co/SWOEiCejK0
There's a belief out there that attempts to promote diversity in hiring must be rooted in political ideology. In fact, there's a strong case that it's in the pure business interest of companies to increase hiring and promotion of black, Latino, and Indigenous candidates. 💸💸💸
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3⃣ Younger generations are more diverse and value diversity more highly than older generations. Having a diverse workforce and leadership makes your company more desirable for younger customers.
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A non-diverse team with non-diverse leaders will struggle to identify, recruit, hire, and retain talented people from diverse backgrounds. A diverse team with diverse leaders doesn't have that weakness.
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2⃣ Hiring and promoting diverse candidates preserves optionality in future hiring decisions.
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If two candidates had roughly equal performance despite having different levels of opportunity... the candidate with historically less opportunity will probably be the better performer given an equal environment.
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Let's say you're hiring an entry-level engineer and you have to choose between a white candidate and a black candidate with roughly equal past performance. On average, the black candidate will have been raised in a family with less income and therefore less opportunity.
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Here are three ways companies benefit from increasing hiring/promotion of underrepresented people: 1⃣ On average, for every unit of measured past performance, a black, Latino, or Indigenous candidate will overperform in the future relative to a white or Asian candidate.
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There's a belief out there that attempts to promote diversity in hiring must be rooted in political ideology. In fact, there's a strong case that it's in the pure business interest of companies to increase hiring and promotion of black, Latino, and Indigenous candidates. 💸💸💸
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You're an early-stage founder. You're pitching an investor. What's the most important thing the investor is evaluating? You. https://t.co/POvBd9JQ8S
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8 personal traits investors are looking for
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For every black family in the US, there are about 5.7 white families. For every black family in the top 1 percent of earners in the US, there are about 89 white families in the top 1 percent. We wrote about the shape of economic disparity (with graphs!): https://t.co/EBUJ3pXb8v
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Americans talk a lot about racism. We argue about whether it exists, about what should be done about it, about what we can say about it…
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New podcast just out with @lindsayllee1 and @Samirkaji. They talk about: - using diverse networks to understand markets and drive company success - what you need to know when you start a fund - portfolio construction (for true portfolio nerds) https://t.co/9XwDuYmNsP
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Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers · Episode
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