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Recognizing Lux’s Exceptional Team Players – Lux Capital – Medium

medium · 7 hours ago

Lux Capital

@Lux_Capital

Early-Stage Venture Capital

A well-deserved congratulations to Sego, @zavaindar + @BrandonReeves08! https://t.co/kczB7wzEXc

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Peter Hebert

@peterjhebert

Entrepreneur + venture investor @ Lux Capital

Congrats to 3 rising Lux stars! https://t.co/1VMKSaaZFJ

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Adam Goulburn

@AGoulburn

@Lux_Capital; tweet with an Aussie accent

Couldn’t be more excited for Sego, Zav and Brandon - well deserved!! https://t.co/MQnOQu19qY

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Renata Quintini

@rquintini

Helping those who build the future without destroying humanity. VC @lux_capital. Saudades do Rio.

So proud of my friends. The sky is the limit! https://t.co/ZE1RC25ELt

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Josh Wolfe

@wolfejosh

VC, entrepreneur, fund manager @Lux_Capital; Chair @CiPrep Coney Island Prep; Trustee @SfiScience Santa Fe Inst; CoFounder of Carson, Quinn & Bodhi w/ @ltwolfe

RT @arbesman: Congrats to @Sego79, @zavaindar, and @BrandonReeves08! So proud to be part of the amazing @Lux_Capital family. https://t.co/3…

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How This All Happened

collaborativefund · 19 hours ago

Craig Shapiro

@cshapiro

Founder and managing partner @collabfund. Student of history.

RT @morganhousel: New long form: How This All Happened The story of how America evolved from 1945 to 2018. https://t.co/e9vDdlSusx

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Marvin Liao

@marvinliao

Ever curious: Tsundoku, Reader, World Traveler, Investor & Tech/Media exec interested in almost everything! Aspiring Shokunin.

RT @jennaabdou: Lifehack: Forego taking economics classes and learn from the brilliant @morganhousel - https://t.co/qCTaqdN5Yj

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Collaborative Fund

@collabfund

Collaborative = (people x stuff) + new technologies^creativity

How This All Happened A look at how the economy evolved over the last 73 years. https://t.co/hOX5varuAz

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Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis

nytimes · 23 hours ago

Gary Chou

@garychou

Fun guy @orbitalnyc @svaixd @lettersforbl @ac4d @venture4america ex: @usv

RT @caseyjohnston: wow the fake news student becomes the fake news master https://t.co/ddtmKHfckc https://t.co/ZgHOAyMRyS

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@soleio

Founder × Partner @CombineVC, a design and venture firm. Once led early design at Facebook and Dropbox. Wonder junkie. Forerunner. 🃏

RT @Jessicalessin: Fascinated by the SEO action going on in this URL. https://t.co/2PBrlriMTZ

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Triplebyte & Box - Case Study

triplebyte · 1 hour ago

Paul Graham

@paulg

Using Triplebyte saved Box about 34 engineering hours per hire. https://t.co/qRcjlsawPz

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Alexis Ohanian Sr. 🚀

@alexisohanian

🚀 Co-founder & managing partner @Initialized (early stage VC, $22B in market value so far) 📖 Bestselling author ⬆️ Co-founder @Reddit

More of this please! https://t.co/THfoB7jCXS

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Standard Cognition raises $40M to replace retailers’ cashiers with cameras

techcrunch · 7 hours ago

Alexis Ohanian Sr. 🚀

@alexisohanian

🚀 Co-founder & managing partner @Initialized (early stage VC, $22B in market value so far) 📖 Bestselling author ⬆️ Co-founder @Reddit

🚀 you heard me talking up this @Initialized startup on stage at @adage - we've continued to be impressed by their t… https://t.co/3NB4UyAYIV

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Y Combinator

@ycombinator

Congrats to the Standard Cognition (YC S17) team! Standard Cognition raises $40M to build autonomous retail tech: https://t.co/MFH1U0cxv1

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A Blueprint for Content Governance and Enforcement

facebook · 47 minutes ago

Bobby Goodlatte

@rsg

Designer & angel investor in @coinbase @envoy @artsy @expo @hodinkee & 40+ more. Ex-@Facebook, led design on FB growth & photos

Brilliant approach. Incentivizing bad actors until they cross a line in the sand is what enabled Alex Jones. He ga… https://t.co/MAu719plb5

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Benedict Evans

@benedictevans

Trying to work out what's going on and what happens next. Curious. Easily bored. Single parent. Expat in San Francisco. @a16z

RT @kevinroose: This is how Facebook says it's trying to change the engagement pattern on its services. https://t.co/3p0PGc912o https://t.c…

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Big Investors Put $2.25 Million Behind Bitcoin Reward Startup Lolli

forbes · 2 hours ago

Angela Tran Kingyens

@ATKingyens

Values- & data-driven GP @VersionOneVC, board member @ComputerHistory, people developer, engineer, Torontonian-American, and sports fan.

Also on @Forbes! https://t.co/GWfOLrX7rM

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Version One Ventures

@VersionOneVC

We back the next generation of entrepreneurs who are leveraging powerful network effects. Run by @ATKingyens & @bwertz.

Big Investors Put $2.25 Million Behind Bitcoin Reward Startup Lolli https://t.co/OA8eLYAzKR @VersionOneVC @trylolli @ATKingyens

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Apex.AI

jan15178.wixsite · 4 hours ago

Alex Taussig

@ataussig

Partner @LightspeedVP | Investor @DlyHarvest @Zola @VectorSpaceSys @thredUP @JauntXR @2UInc ($TWOU) @carbonblack_inc ($CBLK) | Reformed physicist @Harvard/@MIT.

RT @arifj: Fun day for https://t.co/X1wydRCYFk, which just raised $15.5M. My partner @AnsafK wrote about why we are so excited about the co…

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Lightspeed

@lightspeedvp

Tomorrow, built today. Early stage investors in enterprise and consumer. https://t.co/QavsS3BFdB

Driving into the Future - Announcing https://t.co/Jkisj2fa1u, emerging from stealth with a $15.5M Series A financi… https://t.co/ysnzuUxWrC

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Airtable, maker of a coding platform for non-techies, raises $100M at a $1.1B valuation

techcrunch · 4 hours ago

Elad Gil

@eladgil

Entrepreneur and Investor

Wow! Big congrats to @airtable and @howietl on new round: https://t.co/twus9DWXXr

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John Melas-Kyriazi

@jmelaskyriazi

Scientist-turned-VC at @sparkcapital and @christinaphili5’s +1

Love this product. (Not an investor; just an admirer.) Go @airtable! 🚀 https://t.co/NM8tyFDREg

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Welcoming Dia&Co to USV | Union Square Ventures

usv · 5 hours ago

Andy Weissman

@aweissman

real names be proof; maybe so and maybe not

Dia (by @rebeccak46) https://t.co/vZwPs5Tigl

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Rob Go

@robgo

Husband of @ntduke and father of two. Cofounder of NextView Ventures. Seed investor. Formerly @ Spark Capital and @ Ebay.

Couldn’t imagine a better partnership than @rebeccak46 and @diaandco. Congrats all around and welcome! https://t.co/Ac1gkBfv1y

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Chasing Markups – rob go – Medium

medium · 7 hours ago

Rob Go

@robgo

Husband of @ntduke and father of two. Cofounder of NextView Ventures. Seed investor. Formerly @ Spark Capital and @ Ebay.

Lunch with @bryce and a 2-hour Amtrak delay inspired me to write this post: Chasing Markups https://t.co/DZfhwXAlow

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NextView

@NextViewVC

High conviction, hands-on seed investors. Championing founders who are redesigning the Everyday Economy. Subscribe to Better Everyday, our Medium publication ⬇️

"Chasing Markups" - new from @robgo this morning on the blog https://t.co/IXMqfuAioo https://t.co/OfbUNKBxaq

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Bunch scores $3.8M to turn mobile games into video chat LAN parties

techcrunch · 7 hours ago

500 Startups

@500Startups

VC firm on a mission to discover and back the world’s most talented entrepreneurs, help create successful companies at scale & build thriving global ecosystems.

Congratulations! 🎉 https://t.co/dUX4XoEquL

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betaworks

@betaworks

We build and invest in great companies. Betaworks Studios, our club for builders, is now open. CEO: @Borthwick.

Betaworks Camp company Bunch scores $3.8M to turn mobile games into video chat LAN parties https://t.co/FWcg86SwCe via @techcrunch

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Geron’s Take: Can Shopping Rewards Bring Bitcoin to Mainstream?

wsj · 21 hours ago

Angela Tran Kingyens

@ATKingyens

Values- & data-driven GP @VersionOneVC, board member @ComputerHistory, people developer, engineer, Torontonian-American, and sports fan.

More great coverage on @trylolli from our good friend @tomiogeron at @WSJ! https://t.co/tg1L3KuUvF

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Version One Ventures

@VersionOneVC

We back the next generation of entrepreneurs who are leveraging powerful network effects. Run by @ATKingyens & @bwertz.

RT @alexadelman: Lolli featured on @WSJ! 🙏🍭💜 https://t.co/X8tF5sXQ2o https://t.co/pd9vzRZfjU

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Abstract

goabstract · 492 days ago

Version One Ventures

@VersionOneVC

We back the next generation of entrepreneurs who are leveraging powerful network effects. Run by @ATKingyens & @bwertz.

RT @goabstract: "Wait...which Sketch file did we approve?" With Abstract, you finally have one single source of truth: https://t.co/awClwhe…

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forbes · 2 days ago

NEA

@NEA

New Enterprise Associates: a global venture capital firm helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors and geographies

RT @andrewaschoen: 🙌 Congratulations to @NEA's Charlotte Ross—a 2019 #ForbesUnder30 honoree for #VentureCapital! https://t.co/EVXCM8dHjU

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Emergence: Enterprise Cloud VC Firm - Top Venture Capital Firm

emcap · 139 days ago

Lauren Kolodny

@LaurenKolodny

Partner @AspectVC. Alumna @Google, @StanfordBiz & @BrownUniversity. 💙 lawn games, beautiful views & experience creation. Exploring the world w @MitchHouff.

Very proud of my wonderful and talented friend @jakesaper for becoming a partner at Emergence! Extremely well deser… https://t.co/oalQKGJ5sS

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The Correspondent - Unbreaking news

thecorrespondent · 1 day ago

@om

I was a reporter once. Now I have opinions about tech. I write. I make photos. I invest @TrueVentures & blog at https://t.co/AvBTBiv8hn.

RT @ejpfauth: Thank you for your support @om! Let's build a movement for unbreaking news together. https://t.co/ZXvAM1EWjV https://t.co/…

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Invest in Lines, Not Dots – Both Sides of the Table

bothsidesofthetable · 402 days ago

Kara Nortman

@karanortman

Partner @UpfrontVC. Founder Moonfrye. M&A @ IAC; worked w/ Urbanspoon @Tinder @Citysearch @AskDotCom @HomeAdvisor @Vimeo. skier/runner/lover of chaos/mom of 3

@hunterwalk @paulg @johnolilly One I reference weekly by @msuster https://t.co/zPuicn623x

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As a Seed Investor, Do I Want Softbank to Invest In My Best Companies Or Not?

hunterwalk · 1 day ago

Homebrew

@homebrew

Seed stage venture fund crafted by @hunterwalk & @satyap. Happy investors in @chime, @theskimm, @managedbyq, @honor, @primarydotcom, @lumi, @joymode & others!

RT @WendySLea: Perspective: As a Seed Investor, Do I Want Softbank to Invest In My Best Companies Or Not? | Hunter Walk https://t.co/Geya1E…

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Meet Uber’s newly promoted Chief Product Officer, Manik Gupta

techcrunch · 2 hours ago

Anu Hariharan

@anuhariharan

Partner @ Y Combinator 's Continuity Fund (@ycombinator). Mom of 2

Congratulations @manikgupta !! Two close Indian friends taking on CPO roles same day - doesn't happen very often ;)… https://t.co/sXPGXTtAcm

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