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Introducing Twelve Below: A $50M NYC Seed Fund
Introducing Twelve Below: A $50M NYC Seed Fund
I’m thrilled to formally launch Twelve Below I, a new $50M seed-stage venture fund investing in promising (mostly) New…
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Taylor Greene reposted thisTaylor Greene reposted this🚀 Big news from Dispatch! Today, we're excited to announce Dispatch Advisor Transitions, the first fully orchestrated, AI-powered transition tool. Full re-paper, protocol, and non-protocol transitions at Fidelity, Schwab and Pershing in a single interface. 🟢 Run transitions 4x faster 🚫 Decrease NIGO rates by 90% 🏁 Complete complex household transitions in 30 min (layered accounts, we’re looking at you!) One of the best pieces of advice I’ve received while building Dispatch has been, “Follow your client's pain.” We’ve spent two years perfecting Dispatch Transitions with the best in the business, Sanctuary Wealth. Robert Gaudio and Timothy Smeal, CAMS were seeking the trifecta: How can we move accounts as fast as possible? How can we provide the best possible experience for our partner firms? How can we make our team as efficient as possible? I couldn’t be more proud of the work we’ve done together. It’s the real deal, folks! Watch Sanctuary’s full story in the link in comments.
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Taylor Greene shared thisSolstice is announcing their $21M Series A today, led by Transformation Capital. It's been incredible to watch the quality of execution from Aris and Yiwen, and I'm grateful they chose Byron Ling and Twelve Below to lead their seed.Taylor Greene shared thisI’m excited to share that Solstice has raised a $21M Series A led by Transformation Capital, with continued support from Twelve Below and Virtue Solstice is the AI-native pharma marketing agency. Traditionally, creating a single email from a pharma company to a physician could take three months. With Solstice, it can take less than a day. We're grateful to work with some of the world’s most innovative pharmaceutical companies to launch faster and get therapeutics to patients sooner. The most remarkable thing about Solstice, by far, is our team. Yiwen and I are proud to work alongside the most relentless engineers, commercial leads, creatives, and medical experts who have the courage to redefine what’s possible in an industry defined by the rules. Reach out if you’re interested in solving the hardest technical problems. Thanks to Brock E.W. Turner at Axios for covering our raise. Link below. -- Arindam Sharma Ben Ramos Alex L. Sai Bhandari Vicky Q. Zhou Tino Kuretu Brice Schreter Mason Erb Derrick Ogola Rohan Upadhyayula Jay Nallapothula Robert Lee Paige Winokur Oliver Peloso Abhipsha Das Vinay Shah Layla Behrouzian Byron Ling Sean Doolan Emre Karatas Matthew Brezina Diede V. Jordan Epstein Cory Levy
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Taylor Greene shared thisWe announced our pre-seed investment in Conduit Health today, along with their $17M Series A. Adaptability is one of the traits we look hardest for in founders - the ability to read changing conditions and move decisively forward. Natan Wise and Rocky Seftel have it in abundance. I've learned so much from them and from watching Byron Ling as their consigliere - sleeves rolled up, acting as an extension of the founding team from day one. More on our investment thesis in his post below.Taylor Greene shared thisA few years ago, we led Conduit Health's pre-seed round, backing Natan Wise and Rocky Seftel on their vision to help millions of Americans navigate their benefits. They've since scaled to tens of thousands of patients and today they're announcing their $17M Series A to reach tens of millions more. The problem they are solving is the fragmented and legacy process that prevents millions of Americans from accessing critical healthcare benefits, starting with medical supplies. Patients and families are forced to navigate prior authorizations, supplier handoffs and payer rules that change constantly, a workflow that the healthcare system ignores end to end. Conduit handles all of it: clinical evaluation, insurance authorization and fulfillment, so patients don't have to, in a vertically integrated, Amazon Prime-like experience. Their AI engine reads and applies hundreds of thousands of payer-specific rules with a consistency no human team can match at scale, enabling patients to access benefits in days vs months. Medical supplies are among the hardest benefits to automate at an individual level, and cracking that opens the door to a wider spectrum of products and services that families need on the aging journey. We've shared an office with Natan and Rocky from day one, and it's been a privilege to watch them go from a napkin idea to a talented, fast-growing team improving thousands of lives, with many millions more ahead. Drive Capital XYZ Venture Capital Eniac Ventures Diede van Lamoen https://lnkd.in/epUXRNSrConduit Health's $17M Series A: Building the “Easy Button” for Home HealthcareConduit Health's $17M Series A: Building the “Easy Button” for Home Healthcare
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Taylor Greene shared thisWe are thrilled to be on this journey with you!Taylor Greene shared thisToday we’re excited to share that Coral has raised $7.5M to make energy-efficient upgrades affordable for every building owner in America. We’ve always believed the biggest blocker to electrification was something fundamental - affordability. Energy-efficient upgrades like heat pumps are clearly the future and significantly reduce energy costs. But the median US household has $8K in total savings, and expecting the average homeowner to pay thousands more upfront for future energy savings just isn’t realistic. At Coral we’re reimagining how we pay for these upgrades – changing the math for building owners, installers, and incentive providers. We’ve started with an instant rebate platform that has already helped leading installers sell almost 4,000 heat pumps through Coral. This funding will help us expand nationwide, support a broader set of upgrades like water heaters and batteries, and launch new financing products that reduce the energy burden for building owners. Nizar Dhamani and I are thrilled to partner with a world-class group of fintech and energy investors to help us achieve this vision including ResilienceVC, Twelve Below, Floating Point, Accion Ventures, Blackhorn Ventures, Remarkable Ventures, New Climate Ventures and Watsco Ventures. We’re also so grateful for our founding team Colin O'Rourke, Jack Clayton, Dan Schaub, Julia Michel, Shimmy Cohen, and Nadia Marcus for always being there for our customers and partners, building an amazing product, and being incredible teammates and people. It’s such a joy to get to build Coral together with you every day! This is just the beginning, and we’re hiring across the team to scale Coral and make electrification accessible for all. Links to our careers page, blog announcement, and Axios coverage are in the comments. We’re grateful for this milestone and can’t wait for everything to come!
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Taylor Greene reposted thisTaylor Greene reposted thisI am excited to announce that Step has been acquired by Beast Industries. (MrBeast) Together, we are focused on closing the financial literacy gap, amplifying the Step platform, and bringing more groundbreaking products to the world. We couldn’t imagine a better partner to help us pursue our mission than Beast Industries, and we can’t wait to share more in the months to come. None of this is possible without my amazing family, the Step team, our investors, partners, and customers. Thank you for believing in us and for the opportunity to build Step. I am grateful for the opportunity and ready for the next step in our journey. Let’s do this! Read the press release: https://lnkd.in/g2mhzN5G
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Taylor Greene reposted thisTaylor Greene reposted thisThis week, we opened the doors to the Goodwin HQ Hangar! It's not in a typical tech start-up office. There are no bean bags or ping-pong tables. Just an active hangar filled with the people who make charter aviation what it is. Nearly 50 brokers and operators joined us for real conversations about the backbone of this industry: operations, trust, speed, and how modern technology (and now modern banking) can actually support the way brokers work. The day was full questions, the shared perspectives, and the belief that when the industry comes together, we can all win. Grateful to everyone who showed up like Dirk Vander Sterre, Justin Firestone, R. Drake Sneed, Reid Postle, Marc DeLeonibus, Wynona Dyer, David Young, John Kasich, Jay Weintraub and more who shared insight, and helped shape what we’re building next. Here’s a look inside the night: https://lnkd.in/e-Fngm-B
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Taylor Greene reposted thisTaylor Greene reposted thisOver the past six years, Michael Sutherland Brown and Teamshares have been conducting a grand experiment in small-business ownership. The company, which is going public, has bought some 90 businesses—promising never to sell them—and then converted those companies to employee ownership. Even amid the uncertainty of 2025, Teamshares businesses generated more than $400 million in revenue and about $60 million in profit, with a surprisingly low failure rate and unusually high employee retention. In our latest 21 Hats Dashboard podcast episode, Brown, co-founder and CEO of Teamshares, talks about what Teamshares has learned about buying businesses from aging owners, what employee ownership really changes inside a company, and what is likely to happen when an experiment like this collides with the public markets. One thing he acknowledges is that, early on, Teamshares did not do a good job picking presidents to run the companies they bought: "I think the biggest thing we've learned, which is just so obvious in hindsight but was a miss of projection, is that industry experience is really what you want. I think because we were total outsiders and generalists, and we figured out how to run small businesses—through very humbling experiences, by the way, lots of trial and error and mistakes—we came into it with this perspective that, Oh, if you bring in people from McKinsey, that's a scalable template. "It turns out that in some businesses, that can be a great answer, especially if that person not only worked at, say, McKinsey, but they also were an engineer and were in the military, and they worked at Caterpillar. That's a very different profile than I was, coming out of investment banking and never having managed anyone. It's so funny because early on, we tried hiring from industry and it didn't go that well. I think over time, we just realized that, we're not picking the right people. I think that that was very key.” You can find the 21 Hats Podcast wherever you get podcasts. #smallbusiness #entrepreneurship #employeeownership
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Taylor Greene reposted thisTaylor Greene reposted thisWe're excited to announce our partnership with Barnwell Bio, leading their $6M seed round, as they bring their metagenomic biosurveillance system to market, bringing a new level of animal health intelligence to the global food supply chain. As the cost of genomic sequencing has dropped nearly 99.9% in the last two decades, an explosion of innovation is only recently possible, and in the case of Barnwell Bio, their ability to look beyond a single pathogen and capture the entire microbial ecosystem of a barn, starting with the poultry industry. The results allow producers and veterinarians to catch emerging disease threats earlier, along with driving profitability and biosecurity in an era of rising regulatory pressure and global disease challenges. The team behind Barnwell Bio (Michael Rhys Casey McGinley Jake Byrnes) helped setup the nation's first Covid-19 waste water surveillance system, pioneering one of the early detection systems at the beginning of the pandemic. Taking a similar playbook, they saw an opportunity to apply that infrastructure into modernizing the entire food supply chain, one of the largest markets in the world that is substantially behind scientifically when compared to human and companion animal health. We're excited to partner with them as they bring a unified data and biosecurity layer to the global food supply chain. https://lnkd.in/exgNgHJGBarnwell Bio raises $6m to bring COVID-era bio-surveillance playbook to poultry barnsBarnwell Bio raises $6m to bring COVID-era bio-surveillance playbook to poultry barns
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Taylor Greene liked thisEnjoyed speaking with Ella Sherman at the American Lawyer.Taylor Greene liked thisAfter 17 years at Quinn Emanuel, Christopher Kercher parted ways to start his own litigation boutique law firm steeped in legal technology and attempting to redefine client service.The Former Quinn Emanuel Partner Building His Own Firm for the AI Age | Law.comThe Former Quinn Emanuel Partner Building His Own Firm for the AI Age | Law.com
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Taylor Greene liked thisTaylor Greene liked thisCongrats to the Etched team! They just shipped their first rack to Jane Street, and it’s already running real workloads in Jane Street’s data center. Etched taped out on TSMC 4nm on the first try, had working hardware two months after the chips came back, and got a production rack into a customer's data center in under three years. Most of their peers took over 2x longer to reach this point. Now they are filling their $1 Billion+ backlog. Also congrats on the new round at a $21 Billion valuation that included Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Andreessen Horowitz, Jane Street, Tiger Global, Blackstone and Max Ventures (investors in every round since the seed :-) It's been incredible to watch a true S-Tier team with world class execution take on a white hot frontier market. Mega Long Etched! https://lnkd.in/g397SDUTExclusive | A $21 Billion ‘Kids in Chips’ Startup Is Scooping Up Nvidia TalentExclusive | A $21 Billion ‘Kids in Chips’ Startup Is Scooping Up Nvidia Talent
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Taylor Greene liked thisI started building my law firm in the line for Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. Phone out, Claude open, working through the formation chores that would have eaten weeks of nights five years ago. I wondered: if AI could compress the work of starting a firm this much, what would it do to the work of running one? Goofy didn't seem to want to talk about it. Fortunately, Melia Robinson did, for Business Insider. For a century, law firms have been pyramids: a wide base of associates billing hours, a narrow top of partners. That shape existed for a reason: someone had to do what I call context assembly. The documents, the facts, the research, the chronology. Clients paid armies of expensive junior lawyers to hold it all together. AI now does most of that work more efficiently and effectively for clients, meaning the base the pyramid stood on is becoming compute. I'm not going to rebuild the pyramid. I'm building an obelisk with senior judgment at every level, AI underneath, far fewer lawyers on the matter and much less coordination.* That also means I can offer billing structures to match, including fixed fee by phase. The client always knows the cost to reach the next decision point, and they can step off the treadmill whenever they want. * I borrowed the obelisk metaphor from Joseph Grundfest.Taylor Greene liked thisThe law firm of the future may look less like a pyramid — and more like an obelisk. That's the bet Christopher Kercher is making with his new firm, Kercher Law. He plans to handle the kinds of high-stakes corporate disputes that defined his practice at Quinn Emanuel —��with far fewer lawyers. "I'm not going to rebuild the pyramid," he told me. Instead, he imagines a leaner structure, with experienced lawyers working more directly with software systems that can gather facts, organize records, and draft. Kercher argues the model could mean lower legal bills and faster, better service for clients. Is the obelisk the future of the law firm? What other shapes are emerging? Head to Business Insider to read more about Kercher's big swing: https://lnkd.in/gfY2ymi3 Art by ChatGPT.
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Taylor Greene liked thisTaylor Greene liked thisToday South Park Commons is announcing our $575M Fund IV to continue to support the world's most ambitious founders as they build the future they want to live in. We're incredibly grateful to our LPs for their continued trust and to the founders who choose to build with us. It's a privilege to be part of their journey There's never been a better time to think bigger, move faster, and build boldly.
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Taylor Greene liked thisThis is a rare opportunity to experience Inconspicuous Games’ secret capture-the-flag at Minneapolis Institute of Art without organizing your own corporate group. Check out Molly’s post and register to join August 27 or September 17. 👏🤫Taylor Greene liked thisAltering the rules of engagement in public spaces is one of my favorite hobbies. From transit hubs to art galleries to shopping malls, tweaking how we're expected to behave creates a feeling of social risk, as if you're getting away with something. I do this by running childhood field games like Hide-and-Seek or Tag inside beautiful landmarks. But with one major twist: I invite people to play in secret. In 2016, Sam and I started leading these secret games all over New York City. The first one was at the Met Museum before we added Grand Central, the Oculus, Bryant Park, and one memorable time on the Staten Island Ferry (lol... that was a tricky one). We played with corporate teams from Pinterest, Uber, and LinkedIn. We played with real estate attorneys and financial advisors from Morgan Stanley. We played with scrappy startup teams and non-profit groups. In 2019, we launched in Minnesota at the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Mall of America. In 2020, we paused when the world paused. This year, we're bringing it back to the Twin Cities at Mia and the Science Museum of Minnesota If you're in the Twin Cities, we'd like to invite you to get a taste of what it feels like to break a sweat simply by walking around a museum. Join us for a free and sneaky version of Secret Capture-the-Flag during Mia's Meet at Mia events on August 27th and September 17th. Details and registration in the comments.
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Taylor Greene liked thisTaylor Greene liked thisPost-acute care continues to be a hidden but rapidly growing market, approaching $500 billion this year. The fragmentation of care categories (home health, home care, hospice, private duty nursing, SNF, etc.) has created the perception of several markets. But as patients and families enter a period of aging, the challenges across the entire market are consistent. Until recently, there was no category for the invisible bedrock of administrative work such as scheduling, compliance, intake and payroll that enable providers to focus on much-needed care for patients at home. Arya Health has become that bedrock for the industry. Today they are launching a rebrand today to show how they’ve partnered with customers to transform how care is delivered. Post-acute providers onboard Arya as a teammate to offload all the foundational work that lets care providers do their best work. Shift call-outs used to plague the industry, leaving patients helpless without care, but Arya now solves that in minutes while meeting care providers where they are. We've even heard care providers say that they won't work for a platform that doesn't use Arya, given how much better it makes their lives. I first met Kunal through a cold message I sent in 2022. As we spent more time with Kunal and Arunram in our Union Square offices, we kept being drawn into their vision of a workforce that felt human in healthcare. They started in scheduling, where the pain is acute, and have quickly expanded to recruiting, payroll and intake, which now make up the foundation of their customer's deliver care. We’ve seen competition from many angles, but they continue to build more trust with enterprises by sticking close to their vision of a unified platform focused on the care provider. Kunal and Arun exemplify the never-ending slope of excellence, where relentless execution and overdelivering for their customers still make them barely 1% done with their journey. https://www.aryahealth.ai/
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Taylor Greene liked thisTaylor Greene liked thisWe're in a peculiar spot as a company. High Tech, or High Touch, or Both? -- A fintech platform that handles end customer transactions. -- A tech company that interacts with private airplanes. -- An infrastructure of digital payments that interacts with local brokers. And yet at the heart of it all we're a people company that builds software for the charter sector of the private aviation industry. We wanted to take a moment and have you meet some of the incredibly talented people that make it all come to life. Interviews of Marc DeLeonibus Josh Kohlschmidt Erin Wong Alyssa Short Amit Hetawal Joe Stenger Jeremy Wermter Tolga Demirel Benjamin Clarke captured on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/eDsiJaME Do Good. Have Fun. Get Wins.
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Taylor Greene liked thisOur first field day last week was a BLAST even in the 97 degree heat: -Gold won 🤘🤘🤘 -Cheryl knew that Jolene by Dolly Parton was released in exactly 1973 -Keegan went 5 for 5 in the hacky sack toss -Kiran, Helen, Brian drew incredible Conduit flags (while Joe and Rocky did nothing) -We learned no one at Conduit has ever run a marathon, except Joel who ran 28 miles unofficially -People tried and failed to knock poker chips off of Morgan, Hana, Joe and Victoria's arms -Our resident Argentina fan Dee went briefly unconscious when Messi made the cross to knock out England Shoutout Brie who planned it all! Our favorite social chair. It was also another proof point that Conduit is a legitimately incredible place to work. I love our growing team, and I think your job-seeking friends will too.Taylor Greene liked thisThe inaugural Conduit Health Field Day is in the books! We left our laptops at home and gathered the team from across the country (and globe!) for some backyard games, trivia and friendly competition in Central Park. The team has grown a lot over the last few months, was great to connect and *touch grass* as we dive into the second half of the year. Do you have a penchant for relay races and/or building the future of home healthcare? If so, we are hiring -- Check out our open roles across product, engineering, operations, growth & more! https://lnkd.in/gMFTrZRu
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An emerging VC manager's fundraising lessons... the first two funds are a grind. Now, we’re on our third fund, it feels like we’re almost over the hump, but fundraising never gets easy for most of us. I want to congratulate the emerging VC firms presenting at this year’s RAISE Global conference. As former RAISE presenters, and (soon-to-graduate) emerging managers, we thought we’d share this LP Translator, a lighthearted guide to decoding what LPs really mean during the fundraising process. Fellow GPs, which ones did I miss? 👇 The LP Translator 📣 "Let’s stay in touch.” Translation: We’re not interested. “We want to see your track record develop.” Translation: Either we don't believe in your strategy, or we’re focused on managers with more buzz. “We’re not allocating to new managers right now.” Translation: We’re not allocating to you right now. "Show us your deals so we can get to know you.” Translation: We’d like free co-invests if you get something hot. “We need to see more DPI before we commit.” Translation: We don’t really understand VC, but we’re pretending to. “We’re fully allocated for this year; check in early next year.” Translation: Next year we’ll still be fully allocated (just not to you). “Call us before final close.” Translation: I’m too polite to say no at this time, so I’m kicking the can down the road. “Your fund is too small.” Translation: Okay, that one might actually be true (for some LPs). “We went through your data room and want to meet face-to-face.” Translation: We’re genuinely interested, keep going! “Can you send us your LPA for signature?” Translation: Let’s go! 🚀 -------------------------- Fundraising is a long game, longer than we ever expected. We're now seeing how LP relationships are built across several funds, not several months. If they’re investing time to learn about you and your strategy, that’s your best signal of real interest. #emergingmanager #venturecapital #LP #RAISEGLOBAL
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