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We have a new coffee grinder (and $190M fund). I rebuilt the electronics to add grind-by-weight and Wifi/BLE.
The firmware is also running a server to announce our new fund: rootventures.coffee
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Avidan
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Avidan
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- Amazon dash button lost in my house is being tapped and ordering bulk paper towels. Time to hunt down a wifi signal.
- Excited to announce our third fund at $150M (and an upgrade to root.vc) But more excited to reflect how much has evolved since Day 1. I started Root Ventures as a "solo-capitalist", but I knew I could never grow it alone
- My father traveled a lot when I was growing up. When he was home, he was extremely present and available. Work provides for my life, but if I donβt embrace that life, it will pass me by.
- I spoke on a @makerfaire panel about how to get kids excited about being makers and entrepreneurs. Ironically, my 3 year old son was so bored he passed out.
- Ex-Apple engineers figured out why you can't fly with a Galaxy Note 7. Spoiler: It wasn't the battery. instrumental.ai/blog/2016/12/1β¦
- Words cannot express how happy I am. We invested when it was literally a prototype in a garage. Hard tech investing requires patience. Buy your burger ticket now!
- The best part of raising our second fund was that it highlighted the successes of the founders we've backed. Humbled that our LPs and entrepreneurs have given us this opportunity to double-down.Root Ventures, a young SF firm focused on βhard tech,β just closed a much bigger second fund with $76.7 million tcrn.ch/2LUMFFO by @cookie
- My wife got me a yakitori grill for Hanukkah. Charcoal was impossible to source. So I am now one of the largest importers of Japanese Binchotan in the Bay Area π
- βWhatβs your name?β βAvidanβ βAbdo-ban?β βAvidanβ βOctagon?β βAvidanβ βAre-we-don?β βYes, we are doneββWhatβs your name?β βNatania.β βTania?β βNatania.β βLatanya?β βNatania... NUH-Tania.β βOk, Natasha.β
