FundersClub

OCTOBER 17, 2018

We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds: GitLab announced its $100M Series D, led by ICONIQ, and minting it a new $B portfolio company. GitLab provides open source code collaboration software.

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FundersClub

JANUARY 15, 2019

We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds: Coinbase announced its $300M Series E, led by Tiger Global, at a pre-money of $8B. Coinbase is a category-leading blockchain company. We invested at Seed, Series A, Series D, and Series E.

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FundersClub

APRIL 15, 2019

We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds: Chainalysis announced its $30M Series B led by Accel. The company provides transparency for the blockchain economy to banks, business, and governments.

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FundersClub

AUGUST 14, 2019

We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds: Webflow announced its $72M Series A led by Accel for its no-code platform to design and build responsive, interactive web sites and web apps.

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FundersClub

OCTOBER 31, 2019

We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds: Embark Trucks announced its $70M Series C led by Tiger Global to continue rollout of its autonomous trucking fleet. We invested in the Seed, Series B, and Series C.

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FundersClub

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds: Gecko Robotics announced its $40M Series B led by Drive Capital for its industrial inspections robotics and software company. We invested in the Seed and Series B.

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FundersClub

MAY 25, 2020

We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds: UpKeep announced its $36M Series B led by Insight Partners for its mobile-first CMMS software that makes technicians more agile and maintenance teams more productive.

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FundersClub

JULY 15, 2020

We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds: Instacart closed a round of financing led by DST Global, General Catalyst, and T. Rowe Price, valuing the company at nearly $14B, and making it our first “decacorn” ($10B+ market cap) company.

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FundersClub

AUGUST 26, 2020

This week, the FundersClub community celebrates its 8th year anniversary. We are honored to be able to support intrepid founders and startups who are working tirelessly to build the future. We’ve put together a visual to help you explore our community’s progress and story to date. View the interactive infographic.

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FundersClub

JUNE 1, 2017

FundersClub Portfolio News. Jerrod Engelberg of FundersClub will host a Q&A on FC Live with Adam Draper of Boost VC on June 13th. Submit questions and watch the full event here: Q&A with Adam Draper of Boost VC — FundersClub Live Series. Flexport will build warehouses in Hong Kong and Los Angeles for consolidation and rerouting purposes, due to the increased frequency of cargo moving between China and the U.S. in " Flexport to open global network of consolidation centers.

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FundersClub

JUNE 8, 2017

Christopher Steiner is the founder of ZRankings , and Aisle50, YCS11, which was acquired by Groupon in 2015. In the history of the U.S. economy, particular classes of workers rarely have had a run so prodigious and extended as the current ride that engineers and developers find themselves on. The nature of capitalism means that lucrative job categories that experience shortages are typically fed with hordes of newly-trained workers who even out the imbalance.

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FundersClub

JUNE 8, 2017

FundersClub Portfolio News. Jerrod Engelberg of FundersClub will host a Q&A on FC Live with Adam Draper of Boost VC on June 13th. Submit questions and RSVP for the event here: Q&A with Adam Draper of Boost VC — FundersClub Live Series. Le Tote announces the launch of Olivia Culpo x Le Tote, a summer capsule collection that marks a milestone for Culpo as the debut of her first-ever collection in " Olivia Culpo and Le Tote Launch Exclusive Design Collaboration.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

Being an effective founder means questioning current paradigms, asking ‘Is there a better way to do this—and am I the person to do it?’ It’s that line of thinking that leads people to create disruptive companies, to solve problems that were thought to be intractable. Venture capital investing offers different challenges than those associated with tech entrepreneurship, but Alex Mittal, co-founder and CEO of FundersClub, approached the sphere of venture capital the same wa

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FundersClub

JUNE 14, 2017

Study Overview. The FundersClub portfolio includes 234 top technology startups headquartered in Silicon Valley, across the U.S., and abroad. With this access, we are well positioned to study how US technology startups are tackling the critical issue of workplace diversity. Workplace diversity is a complex issue. Our findings on it, gathered from nearly 100 U.S. tech startups, offer a unique view on how different factors may affect the gender diversity of a startup’s employees.

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FundersClub

JUNE 15, 2017

FundersClub Portfolio News. Jerrod Engelberg of FundersClub hosted a Q&A on FC Live with Brayton Williams of Boost VC , and the full video can now be watched here: Q&A with Brayton Williams of Boost VC — FundersClub Live Series. ShipBob , a Chicago based company that gives the power of Amazon logistics to every small business, raises $17.5 million with plans to open e-commerce distribution centers in more cities in " Warehouse Startup ShipBob Raises $17.5 Million Amid Expansio

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FundersClub

JUNE 20, 2017

Any engineer who has taken the first steps of learning to work with AI methods has confronted the foremost challenge of the space: sourcing enough high quality data to make a project viable. Sample sets of data can be had, of course, but working with these isn't much fun for the same reason that solving a machine problem for computer science class isn't much fun: quite simply, it's not real.

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FundersClub

JUNE 22, 2017

FundersClub Portfolio News. Flexport plans to open a 100,000-square-foot warehouse in Atlanta and is scouting for about 25,000 square feet of office space in Midtown, which will add more than 200 jobs in " Freight industry disruptor Flexport plans $100 million Atlanta hub. " Instacart will now handle orders for Wegmans grocery store, with deliveries initially available in suburbs near Washington, D.C., and a few dozen more cities within the coming months in " Instacart Will Delive

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FundersClub

JUNE 28, 2017

Let's talk about board of directors. Why do they exist? How do they work in public companies vs startups? What should you as a founder be thinking about when dealing with a board of directors. Jerrod and Kevin hit upon all of these and more while also sharing some quick takeaways and learnings during episode 6 of Transparent VC. This episode features FC Venture team members: ?

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FundersClub

JUNE 29, 2017

As more tools become available to create AI models, it has become easier for companies to harness the power of machine learning for their applications. What once required deep domain expertise to execute has been made easier by libraries and frameworks, such as Google's TensorFlow. To be clear, none of it is 'easy,' but it may well be that the hardest part of the AI equation is acquiring, wrangling and, perhaps most poignantly, cleaning the data required to do the job.

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FundersClub

JUNE 30, 2017

FundersClub Portfolio News. Alex Mittal of FundersClub hosted a Q&A on FC Live with James Cham of Bloomberg Beta about AI and machine learning, and the full video can now be watched here: Q&A / AMA with James Cham of Bloomberg Beta – FundersClub Live Series. Teespring , a commerce platform that empowers anyone to design and sell products, raises $5 million in funding in " ECommerce Startup Teespring Raises $5 Million.

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FundersClub

JULY 6, 2017

FundersClub Portfolio News. Coinbase added one million new users in June, demonstrating a massive increase in its user base in a relatively short period of time in " Bitcoin User Base Surges, Coinbase Adds 1 Mln Users in 1 Month. " Thalmic Labs has filed a patent as it continues to work heads-down on its next product that describes a wearable heads-up display, a photopolymer “often using in holography,” and curved eyeglass lens designs in " Thalmic Files Patent Describ

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FundersClub

JULY 13, 2017

Most offices, whether at a big company or at a startup, allow employees to work at home from time to time. It's not exactly a perk, but it does allow people to better manage work and their lives, as neither of those things adhere to perfect forms of time or place. Some studies, including one carried out by Nicholas Bloom at Stanford, suggest that letting employees work from home is not only a sellable benefit when recruiting, but it also leads to higher productivity for most people.

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FundersClub

JULY 13, 2017

FundersClub Portfolio News. OnboardIQ makes applying for hourly work easier, and raises $9.1 million to expand their product and customer reach in " OnboardIQ raises $9.1 million to automate hiring for hourly workers. " LedgerX is granted the status of a swap execution facility (SEF) by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), making it "the first federally regulated bitcoin options exchange and clearing house to list and clear fully-collateralized, physically-settled

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FundersClub

JULY 26, 2017

This week, the FundersClub community celebrates its 5th year anniversary. We are deeply grateful for the support of so many incredible startup founders, investors, VCs, and other community members since our inception. We've put together a visual to help you explore our community's progress and story to date. View the interactive infographic.

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