Precursor Ventures

Congratulations to the Hanomi team! ✨

Excited to announce that Charles is hosting an AMA tomorrow on Saywise! 🚀 This is your chance to ask him anything about early-stage investing, founder dynamics, and what it takes to build a venture-backed company. Don't miss out! 📅 Register here: https://lnkd.in/ek3V6EuD

🚀 Last Call to Apply: Precursor Pre-Seed Bootcamp! 🚀 Founders, there’s still time to apply for the Precursor Pre-Seed Bootcamp on April 3rd in San Francisco! If you’re an early-stage founder looking to refine your fundraising strategy and connect with top investors, you don’t want to miss this. We’re excited to welcome an incredible lineup of investor speakers, including: 💡 James Cham 💡 Elizabeth Yin 💡 Dustin Dolginow Throughout the day, you’ll gain insights from experienced investors and founders, plus participate in hands-on sessions to help you navigate pre-seed fundraising. And to top it all off—join us for our Investor Happy Hour, where you’ll have the opportunity to network with some of the top pre-seed VCs in the industry. 📢 Apply now before it’s too late! We can’t wait to see you there. https://lnkd.in/gNQH6MuG A huge thank you to our sponsors: Naji B. at Google Cloud, Silicon Legal Strategy, and Rho for making this event possible! #PreSeed #Fundraising #Startups #VentureCapital #PrecursorBootcamp

🚀 Job Alert 🚀 Cold is hiring a Founding CTO to build and scale the future of AI-powered sales. This is a rare opportunity to take a product from 0-1 at the intersection of AI, entrepreneurship, and business development. They are seeking a technical leader who thrives in fast-moving environments, shipping innovative products, and driving results. If you or someone in your network is the right fit, check out the details and apply below!  🌟

🚀 Applications are now open for the Precursor Pre-Seed Bootcamp – April 3rd, 2025 in San Francisco! This application-only workshop is designed for early-stage founders navigating the pre-seed fundraising journey. Whether you're exploring an idea, building an MVP, or gearing up to raise your first round, this bootcamp will equip you with the knowledge and tools to approach fundraising with confidence. 🗓 Application Deadline: March 9th, 2025, at 11:59 PM PT 🔗 Learn more & apply here: https://lnkd.in/gNQH6MuG

🚀 Applications are now open for the Precursor Pre-Seed Bootcamp – April 3rd, 2025 in San Francisco! This application-only workshop is designed for early-stage founders navigating the pre-seed fundraising journey. Whether you're exploring an idea, building an MVP, or gearing up to raise your first round, this bootcamp will equip you with the knowledge and tools to approach fundraising with confidence. 🗓 Application Deadline: March 9th, 2025, at 11:59 PM PT 🔗 Learn more & apply here: https://lnkd.in/gNQH6MuG

I’m super excited to share we closed our Seed+ round of funding for Diem and as part of that, we’ve allocated some of this raise for our community to invest on the same terms as our venture capital partners!! 💸💸 You can see the news featured in Fortune by the awesome, Emma Hinchliffe, this morning. I’m particularly proud of this fundraise, not because the market in 2024 was hard (it was very hard), but because I had to fundraise and close this round while recovering from a very bad concussion (a journey i’m still on 13 months+ post-accident!) Upon reflection, I realized I actually cannot remember a lot of the conversations I had and spent most of the raise in a huge amount of pain, with a very dimly lit B&W screen, to the point that I couldn’t see who I was talking to a lot of the time 😂 Needless to say, it was not easy. But! On the more positive side, enabling our community (in-app and beyond) to invest is something I’ve wanted to do for years—I’m a strong believer that the people helping to shape this new internet should be owners in it too. The link to co-invest is here: https://lnkd.in/e6xDG5y9 The article touches on the growth we've seen amidst the Meta Policies/TikTok band/Trump inauguration––all of which are causing people to seek alternate internet platforms that they trust to keep them and their data safe. The article also features some updates I’m really proud of that we released to the app on Inauguration Day. A few of those include: 👻 Updates to anonymous mode to protect searches looking for information on things now more at risk of subpoena (eg. reproductive health, gender affirming care, sexuality & marriage equality). 🤫 Updates to our privacy policy to reflect our company’s commitment to rigourously resisting any subpoena for a user’s personal data. We already separate identity from content in our database. 👩⚕️ Updated abortion resources in search results, including a map view of state rights and providers when asking related questions. Lots more to come here! Finally! Very excited to have welcomed some awesome new investors to Diem, including: Precursor Ventures (Charles Hudson), Alumni Ventures (Lucas Kirshenbaum Mason Hale), Swizzle Ventures (Jessica Kamada), Rogue Women's Fund (Caroline Lewis), Gaingels, Otherwise Fund (Tracy Chou) + angels including: Dan Shipper, Cheryl Kellond 💎, Jill Soley, mallory contois and more via Play Money!. Joining our long-term partners at Stellation Capital (Peter Boyce II, Rhian Horton), Acrew Capital (Maitree Mervana Parekh, Vishal Lugani), Flybridge (Chip Hazard), X-Factor Ventures (Jules Pieri) & Techstars (Jenny Fielding). Co-invest here: https://lnkd.in/e6xDG5y9 Read the article here: https://lnkd.in/eFybRbfM Here’s to building a more inclusive internet, together 🚀 #internet #community #searchengine #ai #socialmedia

We just released the 18th episode of our podcast, The Learning Corner! https://lnkd.in/gTHT5XKD

Congrats to Dopl Technologies on closing their pre-seed round! ✨

Congrats to the Rad AI team on their Series C fundraise! ✨