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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Results are in: • @varadh - angel investor • @cyantist - Long Journey • @vsodera - Supercharge • @DStrachman - 1517 • @alanaagoyal - basecase • @edsim, @etdurbin - Boldstart • @darian314, @brackin, @thezbg - Gradient • @jsngr - lil fund • @MaxClaussen - SystemOne VC •
Who are the pre-seed / seed investors every founder should want on their cap table these days?
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What does it take to build not one, but multiple multibillion-dollar enterprise companies? @jyotibansalsf has some of the clearest answers, starting with the foundation of any startup: product-market fit: “My definition of product-market fit isn’t about whether we’ve sold the
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“Welcome to Stedi. Everything is your fault now.” That's the phrase @zackkanter greets new hires with when they join @Stedi. This embodies his approach to building, which is rooted in his experience scaling and selling an extremely profitable auto parts business. Stedi is the
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So proud of @benrollert and the @ComposerTrade team. Full stack AI trading is here and the product they've built is powerful. LFG! 🚀
Trading idea: Easy. Execution: Nearly impossible. You can't track every indicator and time every potential trade. So we spent 5 years building an AI to help do it for you. Just describe your strategy in plain English. It helps you do the rest.
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2027 IS GOING TO BE HUGE. 🚀
One launch, three satellites, three orbits. Trinity represents a first of its kind mission that showcases K2's unique ability to proliferate every orbit. Looking forward to showing what's possible in a true multi-orbit world.
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Literally one of the most impressive + ambitious founders Ive ever met. I remember being blown away after my first meeting with him and thinking “I need to work with this guy”…. And now, I’m lucky enough to say I’ve gotten to! Congrats on the launch to the whole Scotch team!
I’m excited to announce the public launch of @ScotchPOS, the company we’ve been quietly building over the past year. The $250B liquor industry has been largely unchanged since prohibition was repealed, with many of the operations held together by systems that have been in place
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So excited to share about my most recent investment!! The technical depth + willingness to put in the unglamorous work that @APolakof, @alen0vich & @_juan_alzugaray have is a key attribute I look for in founders. In just a few months, the amount of product built and customer
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6 years ago, 3 Yale students decided to drop out and build @Prepared_HQ to fix America’s 911 system. Today, @michael__chime stops by for his first interview since announcing their acquisition by @axon_us. We dig deep into Prepared’s path to PMF and decision to sell (including
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More details here in the press release:
prnewswire.com
/PRNewswire/ -- Axon (Nasdaq: AXON), the global public safety technology leader, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire...
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Today, @axon_us announced its planned acquisition of @Prepared_HQ. @michael__chime, Dylan Gleicher, @NealSoni00 and the entire team have earned every bit of this impressive outcome (in just 6 intense years!) This team dropped out of Yale to take on building for American safety
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Our biggest sale of the year is live. Get yours today. Don't wait. Sale ends Monday 12/1.
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Exciting to watch this partnership between @K2SpaceCo and @SES_Satellites take shape! Development is already underway on SES’s future Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) network. Could not be more proud of @KaranKunjur, @neelkunjur, and the whole team. ONWARD 🚀
We're proud to announce our strategic partnership with @SES_Satellites on the development of their future Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) network. Read the full press release here: https://t.co/WHCzMXx5X1 At K2 Space, we're re-thinking how advanced space networks are developed.
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Just wrapped up our Iron Bird campaign, testing all of the core avionics systems including the reaction wheels, batteries, flight computers and software. A lot of hardware coming together in a very short period of time @K2SpaceCo as we push towards launch in 6 months.
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Going into 2025, @Linktree_ faced a choice: aggressively scale headcount to build against their ambitious roadmap, or stick to their culture of staying lean (<200 people) and bet on AI. They chose the latter. The results more than halfway into the year: - Headcount still steady
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But most importantly, book your demo here. They’ll do all the migration work for you:
centralhq.com
While others leave you with a dashboard to figure out, Central uses AI agents & HR experts to do all the work for you. Join 500+ startups and get 10+ hours back monthly.
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More in Axios here:
axios.com
Founders are ditching dashboards and checklists for conversational tools.
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Every founder has a horror story about payroll, compliance, and benefits. Random government letters, surprise fines, state registrations you didn’t know about, health plans randomly canceled. There’s all these “modern” payroll/HR platforms out there to help, but they still make
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we’ve never done a live, in person demo of our tech that’s open to the public should we host one?
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