Meka Asonye
@BigMekaStyle
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Partner @Firstround. Ex-@Stripe, @mixpanel, Bain, and @CleGuardians. Bears Fan 🏈, amateur golfer 🏌🏾♂️, pilot 🛩.
San Francisco, CA
Joined August 2010
1/ PUMPED to finally announce that I've officially joined @firstround as a Partner. I couldn't have imagined this when I joined their Angel Track program a few years ago, but now I'm on the team that's laser focused on helping Day 1 founders.
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Investing in deep tech means getting to watch the livestream of your company deploying their heat exchanger to the ocean floor. WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE! @egonredd 👏
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RT @ilaffey2: a year and a half later in eastern ukraine. with UKRSOF flying drones we built and enabling >60km autonomous flights through….
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Founder PSA 📣: There are very few hidden markets. Assume the VC you are pitching has met 10+ founders building in your space. Team is the reason we choose to invest but those teams ALWAYS have a contrarian / unique persoective. If you aren’t saying something new or teaching.
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I feel so lucky to be part of @mateocernosek and @alex__chu__ 's journey. As a proud child of Nigerian immigrants, it brings me so much joy and fulfillment to back bad asses who are building in service of our nation 🇺🇸. So much more to come from the @_Andrenam_ team. They are.
My father escaped communism by buying a ticket for a state-approved vacation (one of the only legal ways to leave Czechoslovakia) then jumped off a moving train in Austria. He spent two years there waiting to be naturalized. My mother came to the U.S. with $60 to her name. I
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You absolutely love to see it 👀🚀!.
Running out of new ways to describe just how outlier @FAL’s growth has been these past few years. The numbers paint a good picture: 2M+ plus developers. 300+ enterprise customers. Billions of AI-generated assets monthly. 60x revenue in the last year, just crossing $95M. $1.5B
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RT @KaranKunjur: Really excited about this one - excited to show what's possible with K2 in Geostationary Orbit (GEO). A $4B ceiling on the….
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More on PMF Method here: If you haven’t read our framework for finding PMF in full, check out this essay here: Apply here by 8/15:
apply.firstround.com
Apply to join First Round's PMF Method, a free, intensive experience designed to help exceptional B2B founders build epic companies
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PMF Method applications just opened, and previous cohorts have been STACKED so you definitely should consider applying if you want to hunt for PMF alongside the best of the best. Most of the companies are <18 months old but have collectively raised $295M+ post-program. Grateful
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RT @lizwessel: AI Agent startups launch daily. But the incumbent cloud providers (AWS, Azure, etc) that startups are building on top of wer….
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We've all seen the AI memos. The board decks promising “AI transformation.” The flashy demos on your feed. But if you’re looking for specifics, suddenly it gets a lot more quiet. That's exactly why we're launching Applied Intelligence today at @firstround. It’s a new publication
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RT @btrenchard: The highs and lows of company building were all I knew in the first few chapters of my career. I sold my first company to M….
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RT @KaranKunjur: We're continuing to burn down technical risk as we bring the K2 platform online. - First successful in-space demo in the….
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“You need to build a repeatable sales process” might be the most hand-wavy advice in startups. Cool. But HOW? When your first 10 deals all closed differently -- through warm intros, random inbounds, and pure founder-led sales hustle -- where do you even start?. That's exactly
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Read the Business Insider article here:
businessinsider.com
AndrenaM, an AI-enabled maritime tech startup, plans to double its head count and build hardware with new funding.
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We currently know less about our oceans than we do about space. And while we can launch rockets and catch them midair back here on Earth, we’re still relying on Cold War-era sonar arrays, with people sitting in shacks manually listening to ocean sounds 24/7. What lies beneath.
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SafetyKit is hiring engineers, designers, and risk experts in SF. If you want to help transform how platforms stay safe, hit them up:
safetykit.com
Patreon, Eventbrite, Upwork, Substack, and the world’s largest marketplaces and payments companies rely on SafetyKit to keep their platforms
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When I first met @graunked from @getsafetykit, his story hit close to home. He led risk review systems at Stripe, scaling from 20 internal reviewers to 2K+ outsourced agents checking for fraud and content issues. Back when I was at Stripe myself, one of the many jobs I had was
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