Precursor Ventures

🚀 Calling all aspiring founders! Join us for the Precursor Pre-Seed Bootcamp, an invite-only event designed to help you secure pre-seed funding and take your venture to the next level. Whether you're thinking of starting a company or have just launched, this workshop will provide expert guidance from seasoned investors and founders who’ve been in your shoes. You'll also participate in interactive sessions on pitching, legal aspects, and investor relations, plus network over dinner! 🗓 Date: November 20, 2024 📍 Location: San Francisco (details upon acceptance) ⏰ Workshop: 9 AM - 5 PM PT | Dinner: 6 PM - 8 PM PT Apply here: https://lnkd.in/guNHKsVS

Exciting news! We’re launching a podcast! 🎙️ We’re thrilled to introduce The Learning Corner by Precursor, a weekly podcast where the Precursor Ventures team shares insights and commentary on their favorite articles, podcasts, and news from across the venture ecosystem. What started as an internal weekly meeting two years ago has evolved into something we look forward to every week. Every Tuesday, we would dive into thought-provoking content and explore the latest trends in venture capital, startup growth, and everything in between. Now, we’re opening up those discussions to you! Whether you're a VC enthusiast, startup founder, or simply curious about the latest in tech and innovation, The Learning Corner is the perfect way to stay informed and inspired. 🎧 Subscribe and listen to the latest episode here: https://lnkd.in/gDZdhfQT

Congrats to Cimphony on the recent seed raise! 💐

Congrats to Edera on the recent $5M seed raise! 🚀 https://lnkd.in/gaCqvS4j

I’m excited to introduce Secludy and share that we've raised an oversubscribed pre-seed round led by 43 and with participation from Script Capital, Precursor Ventures, Hustle Fund, Karman Ventures and some really amazing angel investors! What we’re building at Secludy: Legacy data masking techniques don’t work in this new world of AI. They are ineffective and cannot provide protection for sensitive contextual information that can be used to re-identify someone. The chances of sensitive data being leaked are too high and many companies aren’t comfortable releasing AI features as a result. Secludy is privacy-guaranteed AI training made easy. We use advanced privacy technology to generate synthetic datasets that mimic your original dataset so that you can train your AI models on your most valuable data – without risks of leaking PII. We’re a team of builders with expertise in privacy, infosec, and machine learning. I am so grateful to have an amazing co-founder by my side Mingze He,Ph.D. We’re hiring for a full stack founding engineer. DM me or Mingze if you’re interested in learning more. If you’re an AI lead running into friction with legal/compliance teams or CISO/CIO/CPO looking to learn how you can have peace of mind that your LLMs aren’t leaking sensitive data, send me a DM or checkout secludy.com

🚨 ClaimSorted is growing 🚨 Couldn't be more excited to welcome another engineer to our team - if you love solving hard problems, shipping fast and working with hardcode people we would love to have you on board!

Proud to support Flex (YC S23) as they revolutionize the way consumers use HSA and FSA funds! Congrats on the recent $3.2M seed raise!! https://lnkd.in/gyaDtjNK

We're hiring interns! Precursor's investment team is hiring current graduate students for a 12-week paid, remote internship program! Deadline to apply is Sept. 8th. More details below:

Introducing Lauren Geissler and Emily de Ayora! Design League Co. is revolutionizing the way people plan and design events of all kinds by building a multi-sided marketplace. This innovative platform connects users with top photographers, wedding planners, and vendors to create stunning and memorable events. Lauren Geissler (Co-Founder and CEO) and Emily de Ayora (Co-Founder and COO) met at Stanford Law School and began their careers as attorneys. However, their passion for event planning led them to leave corporate law and co-found Downey Street Events, one of the premier wedding planning and design firms in the San Francisco Bay Area. Over 13 years of planning and designing luxury weddings, they conceptualized their “dream product” for designing weddings, culminating in the creation of Design League Co. By combining cutting-edge technology with top-tier design content and personalized recommendations, Design League Co. empowers users to create unforgettable events with ease. Whether planning a wedding, corporate event, or any other special occasion, Design League Co. ensures that every detail is perfect and every moment is memorable.

Introducing Ethan Barhydt! Frontline AI’s mission is to reimagine how frontline sales teams interact with customers using AI, starting with a completely autonomous AI sales coach. Their customers include some of the biggest names in education and finance. Ethan Barhydt, Frontline AI’s founder and CEO, has been in the space for a decade. In his first job after graduating from Harvard in 2014, long before the current AI revolution, he worked alongside sales managers and came to believe that sales was ripe for AI tooling, given its massive datasets of call recordings and a lot of manual work. Having started his first company at 19, Ethan’s first instinct was to quit his job and build a company around the idea, and so he left New York for San Francisco and co-founded VoiceOps. Frontline is the next evolution, which takes advantage of generative AI. Together with his team, they’ve used lots of data to figure out what great sales calls look like, and how to coach reps to success. They also collected a decade of proprietary data which, combined with LLMs, powers their autonomous AI sales coach. Ethan’s favorite company value is “subtraction.” Whenever they build a feature, they ask “if we had to cut 50% from this feature, how would we do it?” The result? A lean, fast-moving team and a simple product. In the wise words of Henry David Thoreau, “the soul grows by subtraction, not addition.”