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Broadly, a venture we back offers one or more of the factors: 1. Significant technology or business model innovation 2. “Black Swan” ideas with significant upside or a significantly better mousetrap 3. Large markets, either existing or newly enabled by the innovation at hand 4. Short innovation cycles 5. Upfront risk

Kleiner Perkins was founded in the 1970s by Tom Perkins and Eugene Kleiner. The firm is focused on early-stage digital consumer and enterprise, green tech and life sciences companies.

Invests in entrepreneurs that focus on consumer, crypto, and enterprise software companies across all stages.

Alumni Ventures Group provides diversified venture portfolios to individual investors who previously haven't had access to VC.

Castor Ventures is an investment firm.

We back ambitious founders who actively seek to change the status quo.

Global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare

9Yards is a global private investment firm focused on foundational industries, beginning with fintech and supply chain tech. They aim to be a strategic capital partner through unique perspectives and connectivity in each industry.

Renegade Partners is a VC firm purposefully built to help entrepreneurs navigate the "Supercritical phase", a pivotal phase, where scale needs to be achieved quickly but also correctly, in a way that allows you to achieve full impact.

Underscore VC is a venture capital firm backing entrepreneurs from Seed to Series A.

Roseanne currently serves on the boards of Renegade portfolio companies Spekit, Nate, Rewire, LaHaus, Daily, and Auxilius. Prior to starting Renegade, Roseanne was a Partner at IVP, a later-stage venture capital firm. At IVP, she invested across enterprise and consumer in companies such as Glossier, Compass (COMP), MasterClass, Wise (LSE:WISE), Looker (Acquired by GOOG), and Motive. She continues to serve on the board of MasterClass, where she had led the Series C and D. Roseanne started her venture career at Canaan Partners, where she invested in companies such as MetaCloud (Acquired by CSCO), Unifi Software (Acquired by Boomi/Dell), and Turo. Before moving to the dark side, Roseanne’s tech career began when she dropped out of her PhD to co-found imthemusic, building apps on the early Facebook platform. She was also a product manager at NextBio (Acquired by Ilumina).

Lenny is the author of Lenny's Newsletter, the #1 business newsletter on Substack, where he talks about growth, products, startups, and more. He also interviews world-class product leaders and growth experts on his podcast.

Meka is the Partner of First Round Capital. He is a former VP of Sales at Mixpanel, where he leads the company's global sales and professional services teams. Prior to Mixpanel, Meka helped build Stripe's sales organization. He also worked at Bain & Company, advising B2B software companies. Meka studied Economics at Princeton andholds an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

He joined Kleiner Perkins in 2017 after splitting away from Social Capital, a firm he founded alongside Chamath Palihapitiya and Ted Maidenberg. Hamid sits on the board of Figma, Rippling and Netskope, all of which raised new funding rounds at multi-billion-dollar valuations in 2021. He was also an early investor in Slack, which went public in 2019 before being sold to Salesforce for $27.7 billion in 2021.

Williams is one of the founders of the Sara & Evan Williams Foundation and has served as a member of the board of directors since May 2007. From October 2008 to October 2010, Williams served as our President and Chief Executive Officer, from July 2009 to March 2010, as the company's Chief Financial Officer, and from February 2008 toOctober 2008, as its Chief Product Officer. Since April 2011, Williams has served as Chief Executive Officer of Medium, an online publishing platform, and since October 2006, as Chief Executive Officer of The Obvious Corporation, a technology systems innovator. Williams was selected to serve on its board of directors because of the perspective and experience he brings as one of our founders and as one of its largest stockholders, as well as his extensive experience with technology companies.