Brickyard

For the past 5 years, we've bootstrapped TESBROS from creating door labels for the Model 3 to full-color wraps for the #Cybertruck with the goal of helping Tesla owners customize their vehicles. And when I tell people about what we do, they get excited and ask, "Do you have a kit for my (INSERT CAR BRAND HERE)?" Which is exactly why we joined Brickyard last April. This year, we're tackling other brands to allow owners to customize their rides using vinyl wraps and paint protection film. We would not have been able to get this far without our badass team of Destiny Brooks, Marlee C., and Anny Quintero. I'm also grateful for my SO Annalee's unconditional understanding and support. Special thanks to Cam Doody and Matt Patterson for always offering advice, brainstorming, and continued mentorship. Even before we officially joined Brickyard, they treated us like we were already part of the yard. Drop a comment on which brand you'd like us to tackle first! 🧱🏴☠️  Read more: https://lnkd.in/eGZpASdy

Today Brev.dev is acquiring Agora Labs (acq. Brev.dev) A couple months ago, a competitor signed up for Brev. I reached out to see if there are ways we could work together We signed mNDAs, saw identical roadmaps, started working together, had a clear culture fit. They were on the next flight to SF 🤙

🎙️ Check out my conversation about fundraising and founding Zest with Jason Calacanis featured on This Week in Startups. I am honored to partner with and learn from someone as influential as Jason. 📈 To summarize an hour in two sentences: None of it is possible without a fantastic team (Savannah Cooper, Julie Ottusch (Monrad), Graham Kirstein, Amrit Saini, Alex Martinez). And there is no silver bullet for a first time fundraiser. Thank you so much to Bob Moesta and Neal Sales-Griffin for teaching me about demand-side thinking, causal systems, and prototyping to learn, all of which Jason and I had a chance to discuss. 🍴😋🍴 Hoping the conversation can be tactical for others and can't wait to continue to change how people think about food!

Online survey data is often messy and time-consuming to clean. Roundtable (YC S23) provides a developer-friendly API designed for survey fraud and bot detection, integrating with survey software to analyze response patterns and ensure data integrity. The founders, Mayank Agrawal and Matt Hardy, are two Princeton PhDs who spent their time in graduate school studying psychology and artificial intelligence — as well as cleaning tons of survey data from their experiments — so they know the importance of good quality control firsthand.

Thank you, Chattanooga Times Free Press, for the article! We are lucky to call Chattanooga home and for the support of some of Scenic City's greatest: Brickyard Cam Doody Matt Patterson Ted Alling

We're thrilled to announce that Krepling has secured $3.3m in funding 🎉 We’re on a mission to build the backbone for modern e-commerce and to continue to usher in a new paradigm for how merchants embrace the larger commerce tech stack. In less than 12 months, Krepling has more than quadrupled its revenue, with our growth primarily being product and sales led; we didn't spend a dollar on external acquisition. With the new capital, Krepling will more than triple the size of its team with numerous hires across engineering, sales, marketing, and more. It will also continue to invest in growth and product development.Maintaining a beautiful yet powerful e-commerce machine is harder than ever, together we're going to continue to change that 

Cam Doody & the Brickyard firm he’s building with his cofounder Matt Patterson are among my favorite coinvestors - they’re a Chattanooga based “insulator” that works super closely through the pre-Series-A trough of sorrow. In this week’s seed to harvest, Cam and I discuss the evolution of a founder residency, what drives us to conviction & swap great stories. special shoutout to our shared portfolio company Coast (YC S21) whose founders Austin Pager and Spencer Levitt continue to define what commitment means. wonderful to get to work with the Textla team alongside Brickyard as well!!