Meeting the Clara Team We’re fortunate to learn about investment opportunities through a number of channels, but one of the most fun is getting a referral from one of our other portfolio CEOs. This is exactly what happened when Lluis Canadell, Co-Founder of Treinta, connected us with Gerry Colyer, the Founder of Clara (read…

Trucking startups received over $9.2 billion in investment over the past 5 years, with year over year increases in funding ranging from 80% to 165% since 2016. Despite this influx of funding, large swaths of the industry remain untouched by technology. So far, much of the invested capital has gone…

Who is Neural Payments? Neural Payments is a comprehensive payments platform that enables financial institutions to process person-to-person payments across any network from sender (the bank customer) to recipient (and consumer), with the recipient able to choose how they want to receive the money. We are excited about Neural Payments as the answer to…

As the Federal Reserve continues to aggressively raise rates to stem the rising tide of inflation, financial services will likely experience a tectonic shift driven by a change in the conditions that have defined the past decade. These conditions — notably the availability of cheap capital, easy credit, and surplus…

All sectors of the economy have been impacted by the historic increase in interest rates and inflation over the past several months. Not all sectors have been affected equally. As the Federal Reserve continues to aggressively raise rates to stem the rising tide of inflation, retailers will feel the impact…

Meeting the CNote Team We’re so excited to announce our investment in CNote, alongside a number of other great investors, such as the Artemis Fund and H/L Ventures This is a perfect example of an investment profile we love, where we can back an amazingly impressive team who has built products that can both…

ICYMI, we hosted the second installation of our virtual AMA series for emerging managers in the market downturn — this time with all-star LPs Beezer Clarkson and Stephen Bluestein. Beezer and Stephen shared their perspectives on best practices for fund managers in recessionary periods and also pulled back the curtain on how LPs are thinking about investments today. Read on for our favorite five takeaways!

There’s been a battle brewing to serve SMBs better with commerce enablement and financial services. Companies like Square, Intuit and Brex have attacked the opportunity directly by providing solutions across these product areas, while several startups (e.g. …

We’ve spent a lot of time in the past few weeks talking with our corporate partners and listening to their views on the market. These conversations provide a window into how the market could evolve. Large corporations don’t have the luxury to pause innovation. On the other hand, a higher cost of capital and economic uncertainty can lead to a slowing in tech investment. — We looked at what happened to corporate venture capital (CVC) during the Financial Crisis and had two takeaways. This provides a proxy for what could happen in the current market environment.