Our mission is to coach and invest in entrepreneurial leaders building world-class, purpose-driven organizations. Led by Jeff Weiner and @BrianRumao.
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Every kid deserves a personal tutor. And finally, with Koji, that vision is becoming real. Congrats @suekhim! Thank you for your leadership and commitment to the Brilliant mission. Proud to back you and the team.
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Congrats to @acenario on the massive $375M Series B today! I've been using Cloaked from the beginning, and every day I know it's working in the background to ensure my sensitive data is protected on the web. We at @nextplayVC are proud to back from day one.
We’re leading the fight for personal privacy, and we just raised $375M to push it forward.
Cloaked is building a future where you, not companies, control your data. More from @TechCrunch 👇
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BIG NEWS: Today we are launching @blockitAI -- the first AI scheduling agent that actually understands your time.
After spending my career as a partner at @sequoia, I stepped back to build this. Why?
Because I believe the calendar is the last untouched social network, and it can only now be unlocked through AI.
Our scheduling agent can handle any degree of complexity and has spread purely through virality to date.
Blockit now works for 200+ companies and has coordinated 100,000+ meetings — all with zero humans in the loop.
We're excited to emerge from stealth and announce our $5M raise from @sequoia led by Pat Grady (@gradypb) with participation from @haystackvc, @adjacent, Original, and NPV, i.e. Jeff Weiner, the former CEO of Linkedin.
Come for the agent, stay for the network — get started free today at blockit.com
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Congrats @zoink and the entire @figma team on today's IPO! As Dylan said this morning on CNBC, in a world where software creation becomes ubiquitous, the difference will come down to design.
We at @nextplayVC are proud to support Figma.
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Congrats to @seanmendy and @westboundequity on the new fund!
Proud to back and support an incredible team and mission 👊🏽
Exclusive: Westbound, the VC firm once known as Concrete Rose, has raised a $100M fund two to invest in more Black, Latin and diversity-minded founders.
@seanmendy tells @Forbes it's about transforming "a vicious homogeneous cycle" into a "virtuous one."
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We're thrilled to finally tell you a bit more about what we’ve been up to and who is behind us. 🙌
We’re now live with five apps in the @SlackHQ App Store to help employees feel more connected and celebrated. ⬇️
And we’re also revealing who has been behind us, funding our $7.5M Seed Round: @GreylockVC, @Venrock, @nextplayVC, @SalesforceVC and @WTIsocial, in addition to some of the top executives in Silicon Valley.
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Enabling all 4 billion members of the global workforce to freely earn what they deserve. A mission we're excited to be supporting. Congrats @Matthewschulman and team @PaveComp!
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Thrilled to make two Pave announcements today:
1) We have raised a $100M Series C led by @IndexVentures
2) In parallel, we acquired Option Impact from @MorganStanley, making Pave the largest compensation provider for private companies in the world
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Congrats @raphaelschaad on launching @Cron! Happy DAU since March 2021.
Some of my favorite features of this new calendar app...
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Excited to announce that @gather_town has raised a $50M Series B led by @sequoia and @IndexVentures, with participation from @zoink, @jeffweiner, @ycombinator!
Given all the Metaverse talk lately, we wanted to elaborate on what this means to us:
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New post from @jeffweiner and me: One of the single most important things successful startups get right is their ability to focus. It's much easier said than done. These three themes can help. nextplayventures.com/focus
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Congrats to @Wemimo11 and @Samir077 on their huge $10M Series A! Meaningful sense of purpose coupled with fast-growing business impact. Proud to invest and coach through @nextplayVC cnbc.com/2021/07/16/serena-w…
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Talent is distributed equally, but opportunity is not. TestGorilla is working to give everyone a shot at their dream job. Proud to be working with @WouterDurville and Otto Verhage.
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Congrats @AcrylData @shirshanka and Swaroop on the fundraise! #Metadata management is going to be a huge need for every company techcrunch.com/2021/06/23/ac…
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"Great products create a sense of community for users and customers...One of the companies leading the way here is @figmadesign...As more product-led companies turn to their users, expect Common Room [that's us!] to bring communities together in a meaningful way."
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Communication is the #1 skills gap, which is why we're backing @poisedhq. With a mission to improve the world's spoken communication, Poised gives you a real-time speaking coach in every meeting. Game-changer.
1/ We are excited to share that we have raised $4.5m in seed funding led by @Wing_VC and with participation from @jeffweiner, @briannekimmel, @julialipton, @adammgrant, @andre, @hyphencapital, @concreterosevc, among others to improve the world's spoken communication.
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Big news from @Samir077 and @Wemimo11. Amazing @getesusu partnership with @GoldmanSachs announced today! This is going to help millions of deserving renters build credit.
"When you pay your mortgage today, you get credit. When you pay your rent, you do not get credit. And what we're doing at @getesusu is giving credit where credit is due."@Wemimo11's fintech startup is partnering with @GoldmanSachs and @margaretanadu to boost credit scores.
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Proud to support @concreterosevc's mission to build a virtuous cycle of wealth creation and opportunity for and with underrepresented people of color
When we launched @concreterosevc we pledged 50% of our carry to organizations creating opportunity for Black and Brown talent. Here are some reflections on what this #virtuouscycle commitment has meant to our founders and community:
linkedin.com/pulse/were-buil…
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Everything I know about forecasting I learned from the world class team at @LinkedIn. Great to see @jeffweiner and @brianrumao distill their framework so that every startup starting to scale can leverage it buff.ly/2OgkyaI
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📈 New post from @jeffweiner and me: Forecasting for startups. nextplayventures.com/forecas…
