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Developer

Vercel

Vercel

Curiosity, attention to details and blazing fast websites are hallmarks of the Vercel founding story. Vercel’s founder, Guillermo Rauch, grew up on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina. A self-taught engineer, Guillermo learned English by reading software manuals and took on freelance developer jobs at the ripe age of 13. Today the frontend teams at companies like Adobe, eBay and The Washington Post rely on Vercel to shape the future of the web and to delight their site visitors.

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Developer

Postman

Postman

Postman is proof that a passion project can be a business and that great products can be built anywhere. In 2013, Abhinav Asthana (Postman’s CEO and co-founder) simply couldn’t find a suitable product that solved API (application program interface) debugging, so he built a product that did. In 2014, he recruited his co-founders (Abhijit Kane and Ankit Sobti) and Postman was born in Bengaluru. Today over 25 million developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98 percent of the Fortune 500, rely on Postman’s API platform for building and using APIs.

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Architect

AVIATRIX

AVIATRIX

Sherry Wei was a networking architect at Cisco and Huawei when she developed a vision for the Future of the Cloud. She had an unique insight into the problems network engineers faced as they moved to the Cloud and she left to create a product that would make Cloud networking simple and secure. Sherry named her company Aviatrix — "female pilot."

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Creator

AIRTABLE

AIRTABLE

What if everyone could build software without writing code? What could they create? Howie Liu and Andrew Ofstad had a vision for a future in which everyone had access to the exclusive developers' club. They co-founded Airtable in 2012 and fundamentally changed the industry by leading the no code/low code movement.

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Small Business Owner

DOORDASH

DOORDASH

Helping his immigrant mother run her restaurant shaped Tony Xu's worldview. He started DoorDash to help people like her. DoorDash stands for maximizing people’s possibility: merchants who use the platform to expand their reach; busy customers who need a break; and Dashers who want flexible work.

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Marketer

ITERABLE

ITERABLE

Andrew Boni, son of a Taiwanese immigrant, and his co-founder believed the world needed to communicate with more empathy, compassion and authenticity. Together they created Iterable, which empowers marketers to foster deeper customer relationships and create memorable experiences for them at scale.

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Our Values

You're the Boss

The only one who should tell you what to do is your customer.

We Move Fast

We can get to a “yes” in 24 hours.

Lead, Don't Follow

No project is too early or too ambitious. We aim to be your first term sheet. We lead rounds; we don’t wait for others to show social proof.

Conviction is Key

Once we get there, we stay there — in good times and bad.

A Steady Hand

We’ve been helping founders work through it since 1970.

Integrity Matters

Our back-channel references are even cleaner than our term sheets.

The American Dream is for Everyone

We believe entrepreneurship will be the great equalizer.

Listen More, Talk Less

When we speak up, it will be for a good reason.

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