Last week 🔥
1. Maven (maven.com) $20M Series A with @a16z
2. Pipe (pipe.com) became fastest fintech in history to reach $2B valuation
3. Spot (meetwithspot.com) $5M seed led by @kleinerperkins
4. Metafy (metafy.gg) $5.5M seed
Chapter One
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Technology investment firm for product-obsessed founders. Built by operators from X, Tinder and Robinhood.
Joined October 2016
- Just got the Cameo investor update and holy shit.
- Building shit on a Friday night with a little bit of wine. Feels good.
- First term sheet of 2021 signed today. Feeling good ✌🏾
- Excited to release the new @ChapterOne site today. Designed by @tywilkins. "If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care." -Ernest Hemingway chapterone.vc
- Bought a domain yesterday that we were negotiating for 3 years. Someone get me a drink.
- Product Club applications include: 🎙 17 voice apps ❤️ 14 dating apps Consumer is very back.
- Chapter One co-investors after 10 deals: 1. @craft_ventures 2. @slow 3. @foundersfund 4. @BoxGroup (2 deals in last two weeks) 5. @gcvp 6. Floodgate 7. @ForerunnerVC 8. @tuskventures Seed investing is more exciting than ever right now.
- Selling all our startup equity to buy a Zoom & Peloton membership. Sorry founders.
- We're so excited to be hosting FarHack at Farcon at our HQ in Santa Monica, CA 🫡 May 3 - 5. RSVP: farhack.xyz @farcaster_xyz Drop a link to your FC profile in the comments if you're hacking.
- Announcing another LA investment this week. Starting to lose track of “good companies in LA” because the list is getting bigger every week. This city just keeps winning.
- Best of luck to all the YC companies hustling on a Sunday to get ready for demo day. Spoke to a few this weekend and it’s inspiring to see your energy. Enjoy the moment and take some time to reflect on everything you have accomplished this batch. -@jmj
- Congrats to Lyft on an amazing day. One of the most endearing brands ever built in consumer tech. The first IPO for Chapter One.The Lyft IPO is an amazing underdog story that makes me proud to work in the tech industry. In 2012, I was working at a small startup. John Zimmer & Logan Green stopped by our office to tell us about their ridesharing service. They brought us donuts & coupons. $24B company.









