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Mary Kate Pennington, our Director of Finance, didn't take the typical route into venture capital. She started in PwC's audit practice, spent seven ye...
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Mary Kate Pennington, our Director of Finance, didn't take the typical route into venture capital. She started in PwC's audit practice, spent seven ye...
Fund II portfolio company Passthrough has been acquired by iCapital, the global fintech platform for alternative investments. The acquisition enhances...
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Portfolio company Esusu has raised $50M in a Series C round at a $1.2B valuation—fueling its push to make on-time rent a credit-building signal for re...
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Congrats to portfolio company TransCrypts and CEO Zain Zaidi on being named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 list for Social Impact. Since founding the company ...
Function Health raised $298M at a $2.5B valuation to build what it's calling "medical intelligence"—an AI layer that aggregates lab results, imaging s...
Fund II portfolio company TransCrypts began with Zain Zaidi’s headache over getting a transcript at SJSU. He phoned cousin Ali Zaheer, a blockchain ti...
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