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Ali Rohde
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Ali Rohde
@RohdeAli
general partner @outsetcap
As insane as it sounds, many "pre-seed" rounds (formerly just friends & family, if a founder did one at all) now require a lead To make that process a little bit easier, we compiled 49 funds that lead the most pre-seed rounds (usually $500K+ checks) outsetcapital.com/writing/posts/…- One of the hardest parts of raising your first round of funding is knowing who to pitch. To make the process easier for founders just starting out, @kanjun and I put together a list of 18 funds that seem to consistently invest at the very earliest stage. outset.motif.land/data/posts/pre…
- Took the Series 65 last week to become an accredited investor, and just wired my first angel investment today. You can too. AMA.
- 🤝One of my favorite things is connecting founders to incredible female VCs they hadn't heard of but could be the perfect fit. 🚀To make these connections at scale, I'm compiling a list of female-founded early-stage US VC funds. ✨List dropping this week--who should I include?
- For many founders, NYC (not SF) is the best place to build something new. The founders are there, the engineers are there, the energy is there, and the money is there, too. Here are 50 early-stage investors focused on backing builders in NYC 👇✨🍎💸 outsetcapital.com/writing/posts/…
- Founders want diversity on their cap tables, but don't always know where to look. That's why we compiled an Airtable of 71 incredible Black-founded funds. Featuring VCs like @chudson @MacConwell @sarahkunst @hpierrejacques, plus fund/investor info outsetcapital.com/writing/posts/…
- VC Sheet helps early-stage founders find their VCs 🔍🎯🤝 currently at #2 Product of the Day! @Julian @matvogels and I built a HUGE database of early-stage investors and funds, PLUS dozens of targeted lists. Founders fundraising, start here:
- If you’re building in fields like robotics or biotech, you have fewer options for funding than your peers building in enterprise SaaS. To help you find VCs that could actually get to yes, @kanjun and I identified 85 funds that consistently invest in deeptech at pre-seed & seed.
GIF - Founders want more diversity on their cap tables, but don't always know where to look Fortunately, there are resources by @HarlemCapital @amanda_robs & others Today, I'm excited to add 1 more: an Airtable of 180+ female-founded early-stage VC funds 💫 outsetcapital.com/data/posts/fem…
GIF - Beautiful Browserbase Bash — celebrating Browserbase's launch of Director, 1,000 customers, and $40M Series B! Grateful to get to be a small part of the journey and celebrate with @pk_iv and team — all exhausted but exhilarated after a huge launch week go go go @browserbase
- Blown away by the exceptional talent coming out of @speedrun SR005!! Congrats to the entire a16z speedrun team and the 61 incredible teams that demo'd today.
- We talked Notion AI, LLMs, and the future of human-AI collaboration with @thesephist @NotionHQ. Some top takeaways... 🧵 On the shortcomings of chat interfaces for AI: "We're building the face of God, and we're going to interact with it by texting it? Doesn't seem right... "In
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