We were honored to have a very special guest from the
@ObamaFoundation
join our annual SVA Founder Summit, where
@RonConway
led a discussion on philanthropy, entrepreneurship, and leadership. (1/4)
We all share responsibility for building AI that improves lives & unlocks a better future for humanity.
@SVAngel
makes this pledge, and we are proud to initiate this Open Letter: Build AI for a Better Future. Please join
@OpenAI
,
@Meta
,
@Google
,
@YCombinator
,
@HuggingFace
,…
Something Airbnb has in common with Google and Facebook: Ron Conway did a huge amount of work for them behind the scenes. As I told the Airbnbs 10 years ago, if you plan to get really big, you want
@svangel
in your cap table.
There are now more than 900 unicorn startups in the world, per Crunchbase data, collectively valued at $3T— up by a trillion dollars from just over a year ago. We look at the firms that are most heavily invested in these billion-dollar startups.
We're thrilled to share
@RonConway
's recent conversation with
@BillGates
, who joined us to discuss business learnings, COVID-19 & the importance of philanthropy!
There is no place for terrorism. No place for antisemitism. No place for senseless violence. Please join our team at
@svangel
in supporting
@Mdais
(American Friends of Magen David Adom) as they provide critical and live-saving response work. We strongly condemn these heinous acts…
1/4 The unfolding conflict in Ukraine is heartbreaking. We have many Ukrainian friends, founders in our portfolio, and companies with teams there. Our hearts go out to all those affected and their families whose lives are impacted.
.
@aztecnetwork
is building a world-class team of cryptographers, engineers, and ecosystem builders to realize their vision of implementing privacy on a public blockchain. Learn more about our
#JoboftheWeek
- Senior Data Scientist at Aztec!
Last week's SVA Founder Summit featured a video of Steve Jobs offering advice for entrepreneurs. Big thanks to
@laurenepowell
and the
@SJArchive
for the footage, and Jony Ive and
@bchesky
for sharing their own lessons for founders. (4/4)
Our co-managing director
@RonConway
talks to
@prernagupta
about how we identify founders to invest in, how we support them, and why we encourage them to give back.
We are proud to have partnered with
@apoorva_mehta
,
@Max
, and
@shiftb
since
@Instacart
's first funding round in 2012. Thrilled for the entire $CART team and their impressive journey to today's milestone!
👋 We're in stock. $CART is now listed on the
@NasdaqExchange
. We’re excited for what's next and - most importantly - to bring more food and joy to your $CART!
Learn more about our public debut here:
In this month's SVA Founder Profile Series, we are ecstatic to feature
@TaraViswanathan
and
@RosaHamalainen
, Co-Founders of
@rupa_health
! Learn more about Rupa Health's founding and scaling story, lessons on recruiting a world-class team, and more here:
For 20 years we’ve been investing in and advising founders in tech, and no advice is more important than how to give back to communities. Our founder
@ronconway
explains how we support founders’ charitable giving in
@InsidePhilanthr
In this month’s SV Angel Founder Profile Series, we’re very excited to feature
@mguirg
and
@Jtay326
from
@sesolabor
! Learn more about Seso’s founding story and their advice for early-stage founders here:
In this month's Founder Profile Series, we're thrilled to feature
@__joshma
and
@ravisparikh
from
@AirplaneDev
! They were previously execs of SV Angel portcos
@benchling
and
@heap
. Learn about Airplane's founding story, fundraising lessons, and more here:
We launched Brex Cash. A bank account replacement w/ an industry-leading yield; the only one that rather than charge you, rewards you; integrated w/ Card for full visibility on how money flows thru your business.
Ringing the bell at
@Nasdaq
🔔
Thank you to our team, customers, partners, and all those that have made today’s milestone possible -- we wouldn’t be here without you!
#AmplitudeListed
@paulg
@svangel
If you are a promising startup, you have a good chance of getting SV Angel in your cap table, because they invest in an average of 1 new co per week.
Congrats to
@Brian_Armstrong
and the
@Coinbase
team on their incredible IPO! Proud to have supported their mission to increase economic freedom in the world from the beginning with YC in 2012. Can’t wait to see what’s next!
Today is a big milestone for Coinbase and an even bigger milestone for crypto. Thank you to our employees and customers for getting us here. Together, we can build the cryptoeconomy and create economic freedom for all. Join us for today's events at $COIN
SV Angel condemns racism, misogyny, and violence in all forms. We hope you will join us in contributing to the support and security of the AAPI community, and engaging in the work of ending systemic racism. Education/donation resources here:
#StopAsianHate
Are you interested in working at an SV Angel portfolio company? Check out 790+ openings at !
This week's
#JoboftheWeek
is Senior Scientist/Principal Scientist - Vector Biology
at
@64xbio
. Job link here:
Huge congratulations to Gaurav,
@dwightchurchill
, and the
@getcaptionsapp
team on today's announcement! Check out their jobs page if you're interested in joining the team!
Today, Captions is thrilled to announce that we’ve raised $25 million in Series B funding in a round led by
@kleinerperkins
, with participation from our existing investors
@sequoia
,
@a16z
, and
@svangel
, bringing the total raised to $40 million.
.
@ronconway
and
@topherc
will continue co-managing both funds, actively investing and helping founders navigate their biggest challenges in high-touch moments. (2/2)
We’re thrilled to deepen our partnership with the
@elevenlabsio
team in this new round. It has been amazing to see how quickly
@matistanis
,
@dabkowski_piotr
and the ElevenLabs team have deployed new products, onboarded 1M+ users, and executed their vision to make content more…
We are delighted to start the year by announcing a set of upcoming product launches and our $80 million Series B funding round. We are grateful for the continued trust from
@a16z
,
@natfriedman
&
@danielgross
who co-led the round.
Listen & Read:
Amazing milestone for
@Arobichaux
and team
@BetterUp
! They've grown to over 3000 coaches and 380 enterprise partners, offering coaching in 93 countries!
We want to thank our customers, members, coaches, employees, and investors — you made this possible.
Thank you for trusting us as a partner in your growth and believing in our mission.
Excited to be part of
@rarebits_io
Series A fundraise and the future of digital collectibles on the blockchain. The team is hiring too if you're interested! .
We’re updating our list of COVID-19 resources in real time here: . Truly amazed by everything that our portfolio cos and members of the tech community are doing to help!
As
@Airbnb
and
@DoorDash
file their
#IPOs
this week, we want to congratulate these incredible founders and countless team members who made it happen. SV Angel is proud and honored to be part of your continuing journey.
In this month's SV Angel Founder Profile Series, we're thrilled to feature
@sachaker
and
@marcbaghadjian
from
@TheLollyApp
! They discuss the future of dating, important fundraising lessons, their favorite interview question, and more:
SV Angel stands against systemic racism, injustice, & police brutality. We are committed to using our voices & our votes to be a part of the change that this country desperately needs. That's why we're supporting &
#BlackLivesMatter
We have been impressed with
@alighodsi
and the
@databricks
team since our partnership over a decade ago. Big congrats to the team on today's Series I fundraise announcement, and excited to see Databricks double down on generative AI!
We're proud to partner with
@ankrgyl
and the
@braintrustdata
team! Check out their careers page if you want to build world-class infrastructure for AI products:
In this month's Founder Profile Series, we're very excited to feature
@saxenad
and
@diveygulati
from
@ShipBob
! Learn about ShipBob's founding story, tips on scaling internationally, building a world-class team, and more here:
The
@skiffprivacy
team is on a mission to make privacy accessible to everyone. This month, read about Co-Founder & CEO
@milichab
’s lightbulb moment during a bus ride in Siberia & lessons learned in building a privacy-first, end-to-end encrypted ecosystem.
In this month's Founder Profile Series, we are thrilled to feature
@monicasarbu
, Founder of
@xata_io
! Learn more about Xata's founding story, fundraising lessons, their all-female board, and
@tupu_io
here:
We are thrilled to support
@zenorocha
and the Resend team as they build the modern email sending platform. Over 10k developers have signed up for Resend () since January, and they're just getting started!
I'm super excited to announce that Resend has raised $3M 🎉
Here's how we're redefining email sending and our mission to provide the ultimate developer experience...
We recently announced a few changes that will enable us to continue working effectively with great founders. Read how we’re breaking the mold of angel investing:
Proud to back the team at
@osohq
. They're hard at work so developers don't have to think about authorization. They're also expanding their team! Read their blog post for more:
In this month’s Founder Profile Series, we are very excited to feature
@ggiaco
, Co-Founder and CEO of
@GetClaraCard
! Learn more about Clara’s founding story, lessons on building a world-class team, scaling globally, and more here:
Are you interested in working at an SV Angel portfolio company? Check out 885+ openings at !
This week's
#JoboftheWeek
is Chief Operating Officer at
@BintiFamily
. Job link here:
SIG: "Kalshi is uniquely positioned to bring this next-generation asset class to the next phase and we are thrilled to be an early player on this journey to provide greater choice opportunity to investors."
Incredible accomplishment for the
@Kalshi
team, and they're just getting…
Today marks a pivotal moment for
@kalshi
and prediction markets:
Susquehanna (SIG), becomes the 1st institutional market maker to commit to Kalshi.
Prediction markets have (finally) surmounted their most elusive challenge: liquidity.
With ~$2 Trillion in yearly volume, SIG is…
1/ Today we're unveiling Mighty: a faster browser that is entirely streamed from a powerful computer in the cloud.
Demo in the next tweet 👇
New website:
Awesome milestone for team
@davebanking
and
@Jasonwilk
! Excited to see the $DAVE team continue to build products that level the financial playing field!
Big news! Today Dave became a public company 🐻 Look out for DAVE on
@nasdaq
. Thanks for being a part of the journey! We couldn’t have done any of this without you 💚
@mcuban
Very excited to share the second installment of the SVA Founder Profile series! We hope you enjoy learning a bit about
@markowitzadam
and what the team is building at
@DrataHQ
!
We're thrilled to work with
@davidjwiner
,
@ImRichardLee
, Ross Geiger, and the Ciro team as they bring their small business search engine to sales teams everywhere. Learn more about the product and what inspired the founders to build Ciro here:
Thrilled to be backed by
@CRV
@ycombinator
@svangel
and a team of great investors to bring our SMB search engine to sales teams everywhere. Join us on this journey here:
@memorahealth
is streamlining the way that providers reach patients to deliver higher quality healthcare. If you’re interested in joining their amazing team as a Product Manager, check out this week’s
#JoboftheWeek
:
We are excited for
@rujulz
, Lu, and
@theziphq
team on today's Series B announcement! Millions in spend approvals are initiated via Zip daily across startups and large enterprises!
.
@SpruceID
is working on open source software products that allow users to control their data across the web. They’re hiring early team members who care about Web3, open source, and data. Learn more about our
#JoboftheWeek
- Engineering Manager here:
We’re thrilled to be deepening our partnership with the
@Modular_AI
team. It has been amazing to see how quickly
@clattner_llvm
,
@iamtimdavis
, and the team have executed on their vision to fix AI infrastructure for developers worldwide!
We are so excited to announce we have raised $100M to fix AI infrastructure for the world's developers, led by
@generalcatalyst
and filled by
@GVteam
,
@svangel
,
@GreylockVC
and Factory. We are humbled and so thankful to our incredible customers, developers & world-class team! 🚀
.
@convex_dev
is hiring their first recruiter! This is a full-lifecycle role where you'll work closely with the founders to develop the talent strategy, hiring plan, and guide candidates through the process from start to finish. Check out our
#JoboftheWeek
:
.
@metalinklabs
is building the premier hub for NFT communities to communicate, collaborate, and transact. Check out our
#JoboftheWeek
- Vice President of Engineering at Metalink!
Dapper Labs, the team behind
@CryptoKitties
, announces Series A2 round. SV Angel is proud to be part of this financing round, and support their mission to drive consumer adoption of blockchain technology.
@dapper_labs
Imagine a future where home-based operations are as reliable and trustworthy as the hospital or research site.
@AndreaCoravos
and the team
@GoHumanFirst
are bringing healthcare home and we’re excited to continue supporting their mission. Congrats on the Series A!
Excited to share that HumanFirst (
@GoHumanFirst
) raised our Series A.
Since launch, 22 of the top 25 pharma companies have used our Atlas to support decentralized trials. And virtual care is rapidly accelerating.
Healthcare is coming home.
3/4 Our Partner,
@ElizabethTurner
, serves on the board of directors of the
@UNRefugeeAgency
, which has been helping raise millions of dollars to aid the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine. We are supporting their work by donating to .
We're excited to feature
@michaelekopko
, Co-Founder and CEO of
@PearlHealth_
, for this month's Founder Profile Series! Learn more about Pearl Health's founding story, scaling a world-class team, insights from Michael's experience at
@OscarHealth
, and more:
1/ We’re proud to announce that we’ve raised $165 million in Series B funding to bring the powerful simplicity of Uniswap to even more people across the world 🦄🍾
Dream team. Dream investors.
Very thankful to everyone who has chosen to join
@trylolli
as we continue to execute on our mission of making bitcoin more accessible to all.
To the moon! 🚀
🚨BIG NEWS 🚨
In 10 months, Drata has gone from seed to
#SeriesB
, and today we're officially a
#unicorn
🦄. This path is fueled by the Drata team & our incredible community of investors, customers, and auditors.
Words from CEO
@markowitzadam
:
“From the beginning, our success at Faire has depended upon the success of our brands and retailers”.
An exciting day at Faire, as we take another step forward in building the future of retail! Read more about today's big news.
#futureofretail
Introducing Distributional—the modern platform for enterprise AI testing and evaluation to make AI safe, reliable and secure. Sign up for our waitlist:
Opendoor is now
#NasdaqListed
($OPEN)! We are excited to take this next step in continuing to empower everyone with the freedom to move.
$OPEN
#OpendoorMovingTogether
.
@GuideDotCo
is reimagining candidate experience with the first Candidate Experience Platform that helps talent teams differentiate and win more hires. Check out more details about our
#JoboftheWeek
- Head of Marketing at Guide!
.
@ParafinHQ
is creating the next generation of financial services for millions of small businesses, creators, and entrepreneurs. Congrats to
@llihas
,
@vineetgoel92
,
@rfurmaniak
, and the entire team on this big milestone! We’re thrilled to be part of your journey.
Excited to share the first installment of the SV Angel Speaker Series!
@larrybrilliant
joined us last week for a great conversation about the COVID-19 pandemic. Hope you enjoy the discussion as much as we did!
Excited to partner with
@NotionHQ
to make it even easier for startups in our portfolio to set up a wiki, manage projects, and share docs from the very beginning! 🙌 More here: