deniseschaefer
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Eight years ago, Newfront Insurance started in the Susa Ventures offices. Last week, they signed a definitive agreement to be acquired for $1.3B. 2017: 3 people, $0 in premium, $0 in revenue. 2025: 700 people, $3B in premium, $250m in revenue, profitable. Spike and Gordon,
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Eight years ago, Newfront Insurance started in the Susa offices. Last week, they signed a definitive agreement to be acquired for $1.3B. 2017: 3 people, $0 in premium, $0 in revenue. 2025: 700 people, $3B in premium, $250m in revenue, profitable. Spike and Gordon, Thanks
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Introducing the 10 fellows joining us for the 2025-2026 Susa Venture Fellows cohort 🧵👇
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Edison Scientific has closed a $70M seed. We co-led their pre-seed & doubled down in this round. Our mission is to accelerate scientific discovery.
We raised our seed round! It's been an insane six months to go from company to developing an AI Scientist to launching it and completing our fundraising. Huge thanks to the @EdisonSci team! It's been a grind, but we're proud of our research, product, and fundraise. If you want
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Excited to lead Marble's $9m seed round to build tools for tax professionals. I worked with Marble's CEO Bhavin Shah when he was the CTO at Float, another Susa company. He was one of the strongest executives i've ever seen in any company. Not only is he extremely technical,
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Thrilled to have led the $3.2M seed round of @fleetcraft_aero 🚀
Today, we’re proud to announce Fleetcraft’s $3.2M seed round to accelerate our mission of building a faster, safer, and more resilient aviation MRO industry with AI 🛫 📘 Check out our recent article with Aviation Week Network:
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We’ve co-led the seed round of @cavelahq! What Shopify did for selling, Cavela is doing for making. AI agents + on-the-ground experts that turn months of sourcing into days.
We just raised $6.6M to make sourcing physical products as simple as launching an online store. Shopify made selling easy, but manufacturing is still painful. It takes brands 6+ months and thousands of messages with low quality factories over WhatsApp/WeChat/email to source a
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We just raised $6.6M to make sourcing physical products as simple as launching an online store. Shopify made selling easy, but manufacturing is still painful. It takes brands 6+ months and thousands of messages with low quality factories over WhatsApp/WeChat/email to source a
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What do I mean by this? Most seed investors implicitly or explicitly build their model around the idea that picking pre-PMF is borderline impossible. The strategy then usually becomes to either create a broad index of the vintage, build a product around a
Great company and product. Very few seed investors have Chad's hit rate. It's the ethos of what we strive to do at Susa: pick and partner, not spray and pray. Let's gooooo
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Great company and product. Very few seed investors have Chad's hit rate. It's the ethos of what we strive to do at Susa: pick and partner, not spray and pray. Let's gooooo
Susa co Human Interest hits $3B valuation. In today's market of fast rounds and fomo, i'm reminded that there are many ways to build successful companies. We seeded Human Interest (fka Captian401k) in Sep 2015. The path to today wasn't linear, but they've emerged as the
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Susa co Human Interest hits $3B valuation. In today's market of fast rounds and fomo, i'm reminded that there are many ways to build successful companies. We seeded Human Interest (fka Captian401k) in Sep 2015. The path to today wasn't linear, but they've emerged as the
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+$45M on a $1.62B cap note from @EliLillyandCo, Duke, Section 32 and others -- just five months after our Series B. Lilly is flirting with becoming an Aging Company. Excited to have them back @newlimit and for more companies to go after the most important human ailment.
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Congrats to @flexport on the new product suite — another step toward making global trade simpler and smarter. 🔥
Flexport just unveiled our latest tech release with a slate of new AI and software products for global trade. Here are some highlights and tech demos. 🧵
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Flexport just unveiled our latest tech release with a slate of new AI and software products for global trade. Here are some highlights and tech demos. 🧵
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We're thrilled to have led @supermemory 's pre-seed!
Excited to announce that I've raised $3 Million to build @supermemory, the best memory for LLMs and agents. I turned 20 last month Memory is one of the hardest challenges in AI right now. I realized this when building the first version of supermemory, which was merely a
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We've been getting tons of great questions on the new Susa Fellows program. So, @shaheersan has decided to open up office hours for the next 2 days to answer questions about the program & application. Given the demand and folks working long hours on the weekdays, we'll be
The wait is over… Susa Venture Fellows Applications for 2025 are live! For exceptional founders, operators, and students with the ambition to scale up their personal checks or build their own investing platform. Application and website with more info in replies!
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This program has the highest success rate in producing venture-backed founders and/or full time investors. 80%+ The secret is in the full immersion. You join us for all elements of the venture business — learning about sourcing, picking, winning, supporting and fund
The wait is over… Susa Venture Fellows Applications for 2025 are live! For exceptional founders, operators, and students with the ambition to scale up their personal checks or build their own investing platform. Application and website with more info in replies!
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The wait is over… Susa Venture Fellows Applications for 2025 are live! For exceptional founders, operators, and students with the ambition to scale up their personal checks or build their own investing platform. Application and website with more info in replies!
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BREAKING: Superpower is now available for only $199 almost every American spends a few hundred $ per year on things like: – Netflix – Spotify – Amazon Prime – Dating or meditation apps – Annual credit card fees and never thinks twice. but there has never been an accessibly
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