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Chris Howard
@chrisfhoward
Founder of Ritual Capital & Fuel Capital. Investing in exceptional founders building iconic and enduring companies.
Today, I’m thrilled to announce the launch of my new firm, Ritual Capital, a $38M seed-stage venture firm investing collaborative $300k checks in exceptional founding teams building iconic, enduring companies. ritualcapital.com
- Excited to announce that we've raised a $75M Fund III.
- You founded and launched Bump, one of the fastest growing iPhone apps ever to over 75m downloads. Then launched Google Photos, the best product launched by Google in a decade. And beat cancer. @dflieb, you are a badass. Can’t wait to see what you do at YC and beyond. 🙌🏼❤️👏🏼Today was my last day at Google, 9 years after the Bump acquisition. I couldn’t be more proud of the Google Photos product and team, or more thankful to our users. Next for me: helping founders as a visiting group partner at @ycombinator!
- A founder just shared an update on a product they've been working on and I cried. Whoa. Struck a nerve, it is so so powerful and so needed and I can't wait to see the rest of the world using it. First time that's ever happened.
- Excited to be part of the @Forbes Midas Seed List. Thank you @_IainMartin for telling my story. I’m incredibly lucky to work with an amazing team @fuelcapital and an awesome group of founders every day!Replying to @_IainMartinAmong the newcomers is @chrisfhoward of Fuel Capital, who went from designing marketing campaigns for New Balance and Lexus, to backing @flexport, trucking startup Convoy and HR platform lattice forbes.com/sites/iainmart…
- It’s a big day! 🎊 🎉 Today, we enter life as a public company, and we couldn’t have done it without you. Thank you 🙏 for making used the new normal. Reuse is revolutionary, and this is just the beginning. #thredupIPO
- I'm helping a friend tilt up a new retail business, and I built out the online store yesterday. In less than 3 hours had a fully functioning site and first paying customer. It's insane how easy @shopify makes it for entrepreneurs to get started and scale a business.
- Replying to @chrisfhowardIf you’re a founder and this resonates with you, please reach out. I’d love to hear from you at [email protected].
- Replying to @typesfast and @HarryStebbingsI found it was a bad cycle for me too - drinks in evening, bad sleep, groggy morning, more coffee, lower metabolism, work out harder. So my last drink was Dec 31, haven't missed it. Easier to do now with no social drinking...
- Replying to @chrisfhowardAfter 10 years of founding and managing Fuel Capital, and investing in over a dozen unicorns (Figma, Flexport, Lattice, Pagerduty, Highspot, Convoy and more), I've seen what uncommon success looks like, up close and from the start.
- Congratulations @alxsolomon, @amiklas, @baskarfx, @jenntejada and the @pagerduty team on the IPO today. Seed -> IPO -> 🚀 Thankful to have been a part of the journey.
