Position Ventures

Masterclass in positioning and PR with Jenny He the Founder & General Partner of Position Ventures! Position Ventures invests in early-stage startups and positions them for success by helping founders nail their positioning and communications strategy. They help you tell your story so you can hire, fundraise, and partner with the best talent in the world. We discussed... -Joining Square and meeting Jack Dorsey -Her angel investing journey -Working at Expa (Garrett Camp's FO and VC) -Raising Fund I from great LPs like Tiger Global Management and Bain Capital Ventures -Focusing on positioning and what positioning means -How do to position your startup effectively -Why positioning is so important, especially in today's noisy tech space -PR strategies that work in today's market and misconceptions around PR -Building relationships with LPs -Scaling value add as a solo GP -Why is saying nothing is a strategy -How to do stealth as a strategy effectively

Huge congratulations to Ritik Malhotra and the whole Savvy Wealth team for closing a $26.5M Series A round!! When we invested in the seed round a few years ago, we were excited about Ritik's vision to modernize wealth management - a traditional industry that has been overlooked for years. Fast forward to today and Savvy Wealth's platform is now managing more than $700M in assets, with remarkable 500% YoY growth. Grateful to be a tiny part of this journey! 🚀 Read the full story in Fortune here: https://lnkd.in/gaCvMk5h

🎉🌟 Thrilled to announce that Position Ventures portfolio company Twelve Labs, just raised a $50M Series A co-led by NEA and NVIDIA's NVentures, with participation from Index Ventures, Radical Ventures, and more. 🚀 🚀 🚀 Huge congrats to Jae Lee, Soyoung Lee, Aiden L. and the entire Twelve Labs team! Still remember when it was just a handful of you at the office and now you’re growing a mighty team of 50! 💪 It's been an honor to see the incredible growth of this company over the last few years. When we first invested in Twelve Labs, we were captivated by their vision to make video as easy to understand as text. Fast forward, and they're not just realizing that vision—they're redefining what's possible in video understanding across diverse sectors from media, advertising, security, and more! 🎬🔐📣 Their latest offerings are game-changers: - Marengo-2.6: A state-of-the-art multimodal embedding model - Pegasus-1: Setting new standards in video-language modeling - Industry-first Multimodal Embeddings API Honored to be a tiny part of your journey and can't wait to see what heights you'll reach next. The future of multimodal AI is here, and it's being built by Twelve Labs!! 🎥🤖🌟 Read the full story in Bloomberg: https://lnkd.in/ghrhURUz #VentureCapital #AI #MultimodalAI #VideoSearch #TwelveLabs

📣 🌐 Excited to announce Position Ventures' investment in Agora's $5M seed round led by Haun Ventures! In today's fast moving landscape, characterized by open protocols and decentralized coordination, Agora's focus on scalable participation in protocol governance is truly transformative. We’re excited to support Agora's innovative approach to tackling the chaos of governance voting. Read more about their announcement today in Fortune! https://lnkd.in/g4myiVqm

👋 Introducing Agora – the end-to-end governance app for crypto protocols. We’re stoked to be partnering with Sam & Haun Ventures along with Seed Club Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Saison Capital, Caladan (prev AlphaLab Capital), Position Ventures and amazing angels like Sina Habibian, Balaji S., Packy McCormick, Boris Wertz and many more to help us in our long term vision in building open-source governance tooling to create a more expansive internet. Some of us come from open source. Others come from economic research. But the Internet of today is not what we thought it was going to be. Where we hoped for it to be free as in freedom, it is now free as in free trial sponsored by FAANG. The Internet today is gratis, but not libre. That’s why we started Agora to make building MIT-licensed software for running protocols our first and only priority and we've spent the last 18 months building deeply with top protocols like Optimism Foundation, Uniswap, ENS and we've seen: - 500K+ of votes casted - 80K+ delegate profiles created - Empowered over 30M in public goods funding and decisions Looking ahead, we’ll continue to build for the long term, and double down on shipping all our software as open source public goods that advance our ecosystem. We've got quite a lot started already, but there's much more to the story here, and we'd be honored if you'd join us in the journey. https://lnkd.in/eb5__UMK

🚀🌟 Exciting week for Position Ventures as our portfolio company Anrok, just raised a Series B led by Khosla Ventures at a $250M valuation! 🚀 If you run a software company you NEED to be using Anrok! Anrok's end-to-end solution simplifies the complexities of sales tax management, offering monitoring, calculation, collection, and filing capabilities. Trusted by industry leaders like Notion, Vanta, and Anthropic, Anrok's platform managed compliance for over $7 billion in revenue last year alone. With this funding, Anrok is poised to continue its mission of empowering finance teams worldwide with an all-in-one global tax compliance platform. Congratulations to the entire Anrok team!! 🌟 #VC #StartupSuccess 📚 Read the full article by Kenrick Cai at Forbes here: https://lnkd.in/gGrHs57W

🚨 💥 Exciting news! Position Ventures is proud to announce our investment in Patlytics' $4.5M seed round, led by Google's Gradient Ventures!! 🚀 🌟 Patlytics is revolutionizing patent management with its AI-powered platform, offering patent discovery, analytics, and document comparison capabilities. Their focus on delivering actionable insights efficiently and their adaptability to the evolving IP landscape make them a standout in the market. I've known Paul Lee and Arthur Jen for years and I've seen first hand how fast they move and how deeply the understand the space. So grateful to be able to back such incredible founders on this journey 🙏 We're confident that Patlytics will disrupt the industry and empower companies to optimize their IP strategy on a global scale. Congratulations to the whole Patlytics team on this milestone! 🌟 https://lnkd.in/grnpqswJ #PositionVentures #Patlytics #AI #VentureCapital #Innovation #IPStrategy

Excited to have Swiftlane all week at Times Square, thanks to Brex and Jenny He!

🚀💫What a fun night hosting an incredible group of AI founders! The caliber of talent and passion in the room was truly remarkable, with each founder bringing their unique perspective and expertise to the table. From seasoned veterans to rising stars, it was inspiring to see how these innovators are shaping the future of AI. 🌱🤖 What's even more rewarding is knowing that everyone had an absolute blast with a bunch of us closing out the restaurant! The energy was infectious, the conversations were lively, and the connections made were invaluable. Huge thanks to our partners at Fenwick for co-hosting with us!