Kris Fredrickson
@krisfredrickson
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Founder of Verified Capital. Formerly @Coatue, @Benchmark, @GoldmanSachs. Co-founder @CurologyUSA.
SF/NYC
Joined March 2011
Some news - I raised $175M for Verified Capital with a plan to back transformative technology companies at any stage of their journey. Thanks to @_IainMartin for the writeup in Forbes.
forbes.com
The former Coatue and Benchmark investor is back with a new $175 million fund to back a new generation of artificial intelligence startups like Perplexity and Harvey AI.
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RT @tbpn: IN NEWS: @krisfredrickson raises $175M for Verified Capital. We spoke to him about the evolving tech landscape:. "There was one….
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I'm going on @TBPN at 1:45pm PT to talk about my new fund - please tune in!.
Morning. On today's stream:. – Takeaways from the Windsurf chaos.– Jensen meets with Trump, Nvidia gets China access.– Richard Mille and the accidental pricing theory.– Apple bets $500M on rare earth magnets.– @zck (Lewis-Burke) on selling H200s to China.– @BrianVenturo.
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And thanks also to the founders, LPs, and friends who’ve supported me - @winstonweinberg, @AravSrinivas, @apoorva_mehta, @brian_armstrong, @FEhrsam, @eladgil, @saranormous, @matthuang, @chadbyers.
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Congrats @mcmiller00 - incredible news. Excited for you - and thrilled to keep working together.
I am excited to share a bit of news. After an incredible 12 years with Sequoia, I have made the decision to start my own fund focused on the great founders of Europe. It has been a dream of mine to be an entrepreneur again and I am excited to build something specific for this.
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Been incredible watching the execution of this company - led by @ankrgyl from his Apple Vision Pro.
Excited to share that we've raised $36m from @martin_casado at @a16z along with @saammotamedi @GreylockVC @eladgil @basecasevc to further our mission of helping developers build AI products that work. A bit more on what we're up to 🧵
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RT @matanSF: Dropping out of my PhD to start Factory with Eno was the best decision I’ve ever made. We dream of a world where software eng….
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RT @PousazGuillaume: I'm excited to announce the completion of our Series C which triples our valuation to $15bn. It is a privilege to be….
checkout.com
Today we are excited to announce the completion of our $450 million Series C which values the company at $15 billion. This follows our $150m Series B in June 2020 and our $230m Series A in 2019.
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Venture funds with structural advantages come along once a decade. @HarryStebbings is truly special - and what he’s building has the early makings of the next one. Excited to be a part of it.
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Podcasts are becoming big business -- in part because of how well they can attract and keep audiences at a time when so many other media formats are
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RT @CNBC: triples valuation to $5.5 billion, making it one of Europe's top fintechs
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Checkout.com has achieved impressive growth over the last year, increasing transaction volumes by 250% and picking up big-name clients.
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RT @zachperret: On Monday, we heard that many small businesses had <5 days of cash before layoffs, and <30 days until bankruptcy. We now ha….
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🔥🔥🔥.
Digital bank Chime quadruples valuation in less than a year to $5.8 billion as it takes on megabanks
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RT @CerebrasSystems: Today is the perfect day to share our first tweet as we have announced the largest chip ever built to accelerate AI co….
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Thank you for having us aboard @alexandr_wang!.
We’re proud of what we’ve built over the last three years. Today we’re pleased to announce our $100M Series C fundraise led by @FoundersFund, with participation from @Accel, @IndexVentures, @sparkcapital, @ThriveCapital, @kevin, @mikeyk and @adamdangelo.
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Excited to be joining the effort.
We're thrilled to announce that we've raised a $260 million Series E round of funding led by new investors Coatue Mgmt, Vitruvian Partners, @SparkCapital, Lone Pine, and @GeodesicCap. @TechCrunch’s @IngridLunden has details:
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