Notable Capital

Last night Notable Capital x 20SALES brought together an incredible group of women founders and early-stage operators in the Bay Area to connect, share, and celebrate Women's History Month. We loved meeting everyone in the room, learning about what people are building, and the paths that brought us here. A special thank you to experienced operators for sharing their insights Lauren Schwartz Lauren Nemeth Maggie Hott ✨ cc:Chelcie Taylor Laura Hamilton

We’re thrilled to bring fal models into the Adobe ecosystem, a company that’s practically synonymous with creativity. This partnership is a huge milestone for us, and we can’t wait to see how it empowers creators to explore new horizons and push the boundaries of creativity.

Spent a great few days at the first-ever HumanX, where one topic dominated: AI agents. 🤖 As Kevin Weil put it on stage Tuesday, "The shift to AI agents will define 2025." Right on cue, OpenAI launched its new Responses API and Agents SDK aimed at making it easier for developers to build agents across complex use cases. I’ve been tracking this space for a while and continue to be impressed by early movers – Gumloop is nailing workflow builders, while Astral is building browser-based marketing agents that work like humans. Though we're still in the early days of AI shifting from assistive to action-oriented systems, it's clear the way we work is changing rapidly. Right now, I’m diving deep into agent use cases at the app layer and believe the next wave will take on more regulated industries - healthcare, financial services, defense, government, and insurance. If you're building in this space, I’d love to hear your perspective! cc: Notable Capital Laura Hamilton

Today, Vercel welcomes Jeanne DeWitt Grosser as Chief Operating Officer. Jeanne helped take Stripe from $100M to billions, pioneered usage-based go-to-market strategies, and scaled some of the most influential developer platforms. Now, she's bringing that momentum to Vercel as we build the foundation for the next billion developers. https://vercel.fyi/jeanne

Chelcie Taylor and team met with 25+ companies in Y Combinator's W25 class. Check our what she saw. Happy Demo Day!

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A strategic financial leader as part of the executive team is a competitive advantage to successfully scaling a company 🚀 As part of Notable Capital’s Founders + Leaders series, Managing Partner Jeff Richards hosted one of Silicon Valley’s most accomplished CFOs, Michael Scarpelli, to discuss key lessons from scaling companies like DataDomain, ServiceNow, and Snowflake. Here are 4 essential insights from the conversation: -understand your economics, to enable efficient growth -prioritize being a partner to every exec in the business -drive discipline within the GTM org -understand how finance can shape growth Check out the recap for more details and learnings here: https://bit.ly/41siGgN

Our mission at Slice is simple, make it easier and more profitable to run an independent pizzeria, and we are just getting started. Thank you to Stripe and Patrick Collison for the shout-out and the support.....and we're working on the oven thing ;) 🍕 🚀

Congratulations to Armon Dadgar, Mitchell Hashimoto, David McJannet and the entire HashiCorp team on the closing of your $7.7B acquisition by IBM today! This marks a significant milestone - you've achieved one of the largest outcomes in cloud software history, and you've also solidified the future for your products and your customers with a great partner in IBM. On behalf of the entire Notable Capital partnership, bravo on a job very well done! Today also marks a bitter sweet moment for me. After 10+ years working with you on your board of directors, from Series A in 2014 when you were a 5-person startup, through hyper growth, scaling and business building, I've relished this journey and learned a ton from working with Armon, Mitchell and Dave, as well as so many other talented team members such as Susan St. Ledger, Paul Warenski, Marc Holmes, Michael Weingartner, Navam Welihinda, Christine Centa, Talha Tariq, Ash Nangia and countless others who contributed mightily to the company's success. A hearty thank you for your many contributions! I'd also like to thank my fellow board members - Todd Ford, David Henshall and Sigal Zarmi - whose commitment to the company never wavered. And, to my fellow VCs from the early days - Robin Vasan, Scott Raney, Tom Loverro and Navin Chaddha - who endured lots of ups and downs and provided sage counsel along the way to the IPO in late '21 More here: https://bit.ly/3QztIf5 Long live the Tao of Hashicorp!

🚀 The future of leadership is here with WorkBoard WorkBoard just launched two AI Agents designed to uplevel every leader in the company: - John, the AI Chief of Staff – streamlining execution and alignment - Sofia, the AI Leadership Coach – driving strategic clarity and coaching at scale WorkBoardAI’s chiefs of staff and leadership coaches help people leaders operate at their fullest potential—enhancing strategic thinking, operational rigor, and coaching skills without the overhead or cost of adding human chiefs of staff, directors of operations, HR BPs, or leadership coaches. Jeff Richards sat down with Deidre Paknad, CEO at WorkBoard, to discuss how AI is reshaping leadership and execution 👇