Weekend Fund
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An early-stage fund with @rrhoover and @vedikaja_in, backing your next favorite thing. ☀️
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Joined April 2017
In October, we announced open applications to become a Weekend Partner at @weekendfund. Over 500 people applied. Today, we're introducing 10 founders and builders in our inaugural cohort.
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It’s official—I’m now a GP at Weekend Fund! I believe “career” is just a construct. What we really have is time—and the projects and people we choose to spend it on. I’m very happy to have spent the last 5+ years working with @rrhoover , and alongside our founders, LPs, and
Introducing Weekend Fund’s new GP: @vedikaja_in Nearly 6 years ago, I sent this email inviting her to join me “nights and weekends”. Her impact was pronounced and her part-time role quickly shifted to full-time. Since then, we’ve invested $37M into 103 startups, returned our
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Signature Block is one of my favorite newsletters for early to mid-career founders and investors. You know @rrhoover and @vedikaja_in have engendered a lot of trust in the community because each edition features insights from names you know on the record.
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Investing can take you down some wild rabbit holes. @Julian, thanks for introducing us to @GillVerd. 🙏🏼
Announcing our $14.1M Seed round https://t.co/sIQBoB95vX
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The next @signatureblock_ essay is hitting inboxes shortly. It's 5,732 words. Whoops. 😅
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"Who lives in SF and plays Padel?" ;)
At Weekend Fund we have over 450 LPs organized in Airtable. What's the best tool to merge this data source with an external LLM so we can ask questions like: "Who worked at Stripe?" "Who has data science experience?" "Who invested more than $250K?"
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Request for startup: Comply or die https://t.co/xKkjOPP0IB I.e. Compliance tools and infra to ensure companies aren't fined or imprisoned out of existence 😬
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At @weekendfund we aren't trying to predict the future. That's hard. Instead, we look for founders that have a unique insight on a problem worth solving. But, we have opinions. Here's a living doc of spaces we’re excited to invest in: https://t.co/48clGMSXEJ
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"2%+ GP commit isn’t necessarily required. 27.5% committed 1% or less." We can put one in the win column for lowering barriers to VC. thanks @weekendfund//@signatureblock_ for the data
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We're building an experienced, mission-driven team @TrueMedPayments -- and looking for one more senior software engineer. We will wire $10,000 to whoever refers the person we hire. We'd much rather give this $ to this community than recruiters. Email team@truemed.com More👇
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Trying something new: Founders, if your early-stage startup's core KPI (revenue, active users, etc.) is growing 30%+ MoM for 6+ months and you'd like a ~$300K check from @weekendfund, DM me. :)
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An "unsexy" space for you to explore on the weekend. Enjoy!
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Introducing 2022's Emerging 50: The venture industry's newest fund managers as nominated by their LPs and the founders they've backed.
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Highlighting the venture industry's newest fund managers as nominated by their LPs and founders they've backed.
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We just returned Weekend Fund’s first fund today. 😊 1x DPI is far from its end state but it’s a big milestone for us. Feels good to pay our LPs back.
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Announcing Emerging 50, a new project to highlight the venture industry’s new fund managers. We’re now accepting nominations from LPs and founders for first-time funds that raised and deployed at least one check in 2022. https://t.co/K4nmljNc7q Why we’re doing this…
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Highlighting the venture industry's newest fund managers as nominated by their LPs and founders they've backed.
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