Incredibly proud & inspired to share: Ken Chenault, former American Express CEO & newest board member of
@Facebook
&
@Airbnb
, is joining our firm
@gcvp
as managing director & chairman
Excited to double-down on our commitment to investing in founders at the earliest stages! We are expanding our seed investing work at
@gcvp
with our amazing team
@bonatsos
@KTmBoyle
& support across our partnership:
📓 Back to school! Favorite time of year. Opening applications to join our
@roughdraftvc
team, share with the amazing MBA / undergrad / PhD students in your life —>
🙏🏾
@SVB_Financial
has been a long-standing and dedicated partner to the founders and venture firms that have defined the industry we’ve all shared for years. Sending their team all our best on navigating this challenging moment, our support & hope is with them. Their enduring…
3/ I believe the biggest risk to startups AND VCs (and to SVB) would be a mass panic. Classic "runs on the bank" hurt our entire system. People are making public jokes about this. It's not a joke, this is serious stuff. Please treat it as such
👟💛Something that never gets old: traveling anywhere in the world and sparking a serendipitous conversation over sneakers. We may not all speak the same language, play the same sports, or have the same skin tone. But we can connect over a shared community & narrative on our feet
🗺 Best-in-class travel tools in 2018:
• shared Google docs
• starred Google maps
• forwarded unformatted emails
• blog posts
• Instagram
• Pinterest
• Foursquare lists
What am I missing?
🌌 Hosting a dinner of Stellation portfolio CEOs, friends, LPs, managers, colleagues, bank partners and future founders: no better reminder of how we are ALL in this together. Community & collaboration is our industry’s foundation. 🙏🏾
🙏🏾💙 RIP, everlasting inspiration to so many of us and legendary impact on such a powerful range of creative industries. Huge loss for humanity. Thoughts & prayers to Virgil’s family & friends.
LVMH, Louis Vuitton and Off White are devastated to announce the passing of Virgil Abloh, on Sunday, November 28th, of cancer, which he had been battling privately for several years.
Proud to be hosting our 5th Annual
@Harvard
in Tech Summer Social: gathering entrepreneurs & engineers to share the NYC founding stories of Huge / HerCampus / Handy / Rebag with the community.
“Youth is a competitive weapon. Young VCs are open to new ways of doing things. This form of ‘rule-breaking,’ or intentionally ignoring yesterday’s doctrine, may in fact be a requirement for successful venture capital investing.” —
@bgurley
Natalia & her team's work getting the recognition they deserve! Her dedication to improving civic life for New Yorkers 🗽 through technology inspires me every day. 😍 40 Under 40 -
@NataliaZarina
via
@CrainsNewYork
Proud to share our newest
@gcvp
portfolio company:
@GreatJones
. Thrilled to lead their $3.35M raise to support childhood friends & co-founders
@maddymoelis
@SierraTishgart
on their mission to build the next great consumer brand in the home
The
@atom_finance
team is on a mission to bring more powerful financial tools to a wider investor base. Here at
@GCVP
we are leading their $10.6M Series A to support the team, continue championing early stage founders, and doubling-down on NYC's fintech community.
"Diversity in the technology digital industry is a big issue," he said. "If we don't make accelerated progress in that area, it will have dire consequences for our society." -- Ken Chenault
@GCVP
Chairman & Managing Director
So excited to see
@NataliaZarina
’s new leadership with
@transittechlab
: creating innovative partnerships & incorporating the latest technology into New York City’s public transportation system 🙏🏾🚇🗽
We're thrilled to welcome
@NataliaZarina
as Director of the
@transittechlab
! Learn more about Lab and how we're working with the
@MTA
to bring more innovation to public transit.
We are incredibly grateful to be investors in
@stripe
. Our
@gcvp
partner
@htaneja
has been a champion of
@patrickc
@collision
through the years. Such an epic journey started by student founders...
We all have various parts to play in advancing equity. Proud to continue supporting friends & our community as a Partner in Valence. Important leadership from
@kobiefuller
& this group of champions. Our industry will thrive with more black founders & investors.
“… making him the most powerful Black executive in the most powerful luxury group in the world. It was a nontraditional job for a nontraditional personality who was more interested in carving a new path [] than following in anyone’s footsteps.”
“Having New York City as a homebase and getting close and understanding how these companies work has been very critical for us in the earlier phase of the company. I don’t think we could have done this outside of New York.” —
@WSJ
So proud of my partner-in-crime
@NataliaZarina
for her work building community for female leaders in venture with
@parity_partners
. Contributing to the conversation on important
#sxsw
panel: 🙌🏾
So much opportunity left to invent software solutions for personal finance... this class is perfect example of what we need more of, while also testament to lack of education/tools/best practices >>
@Stanford
CS 007: Personal Finance for Engineers
Such an incredible end to the 2017 Fall Semester for
@roughdraftvc
. Great leadership from my colleague
@DenaliTietjen
and our stellar venture fellows! With cameo from our friend Mickey Drexler 🚀
They want to be a part of it: VCs are flocking to New York like never before.
Here's what's driving a great migration in startup capital to the city that never sleeps (on dealflow).
World-class investors. We need more good news like this, well deserved to see
@645ventures
expand their fund. Hats-off to
@thedatavc
@Aaronholi
the team they've built and founders they've championed.
@645ventures
is proud to announce the closing of Fund III, a $160m fund to invest in exceptional Seed & Series A companies. We’re also announcing our Connected Network of operators, founders & investors who work with our cos to help them reach large scale.
Black artist’s brownstone (Ernest Crichlow) home attic studio in Clinton Hill x Nike SB T-19: sneakers designed by Tokyo’s top skater for Nike’s Japan team (2005) x OVO + Murakami Varsity Jacket (2018)
Some of the most consistent, high-quality writing on the intersection of culture & the internet has been coming from
@rex_woodbury
. Each week I share one of his posts as a piece of primer to a friend. He's uncovering & sharing some of the 'cheat-codes' -->
I am always inspired by the energy & curiosity of students. Working with universities as a core foundation of my career in venture has been a dream come true. I am certain our future will be brighter by empowering new generations in technology 👩🏽🎓💻🚀
NYC raises the bar again. New records for the highest-ever rate of early stage deals: 149 companies scooping $418.5M. Read on to see the details and trends our team spotted from cos like
@Zebec_HQ
,
@bridgesplit
,
@Strava
,
@MomentoNFT
, and many more.
🗓️ New favorite Friday afternoon program: 1-1 meetings with venture investors that are gearing up to take the mantle of leading & defining the next generation of our industry. Our collective technology future is brighter with their contributions 🙏🏾
1/ Ray McGuire: “I can easily be George Floyd. So people fail to recognize that because I’ve been given an opportunity, and because I have been from the bricks to the boardroom, from the bottom up.”