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Introducing Twelve Below: A $50M NYC Seed Fund
Introducing Twelve Below: A $50M NYC Seed Fund
I’m thrilled to formally launch Twelve Below I, a new $50M seed-stage venture fund investing in promising (mostly) New…
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Taylor Greene reposted thisTaylor Greene reposted this🚀 Big news from Dispatch! Today, we're excited to announce Dispatch Advisor Transitions, the first fully orchestrated, AI-powered transition tool. Full re-paper, protocol, and non-protocol transitions at Fidelity, Schwab and Pershing in a single interface. 🟢 Run transitions 4x faster 🚫 Decrease NIGO rates by 90% 🏁 Complete complex household transitions in 30 min (layered accounts, we’re looking at you!) One of the best pieces of advice I’ve received while building Dispatch has been, “Follow your client's pain.” We’ve spent two years perfecting Dispatch Transitions with the best in the business, Sanctuary Wealth. Robert Gaudio and Timothy Smeal, CAMS were seeking the trifecta: How can we move accounts as fast as possible? How can we provide the best possible experience for our partner firms? How can we make our team as efficient as possible? I couldn’t be more proud of the work we’ve done together. It’s the real deal, folks! Watch Sanctuary’s full story in the link in comments.
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Taylor Greene shared thisSolstice is announcing their $21M Series A today, led by Transformation Capital. It's been incredible to watch the quality of execution from Aris and Yiwen, and I'm grateful they chose Byron Ling and Twelve Below to lead their seed.Taylor Greene shared thisI’m excited to share that Solstice has raised a $21M Series A led by Transformation Capital, with continued support from Twelve Below and Virtue Solstice is the AI-native pharma marketing agency. Traditionally, creating a single email from a pharma company to a physician could take three months. With Solstice, it can take less than a day. We're grateful to work with some of the world’s most innovative pharmaceutical companies to launch faster and get therapeutics to patients sooner. The most remarkable thing about Solstice, by far, is our team. Yiwen and I are proud to work alongside the most relentless engineers, commercial leads, creatives, and medical experts who have the courage to redefine what’s possible in an industry defined by the rules. Reach out if you’re interested in solving the hardest technical problems. Thanks to Brock E.W. Turner at Axios for covering our raise. Link below. -- Arindam Sharma Ben Ramos Alex L. Sai Bhandari Vicky Q. Zhou Tino Kuretu Brice Schreter Mason Erb Derrick Ogola Rohan Upadhyayula Jay Nallapothula Robert Lee Paige Winokur Oliver Peloso Abhipsha Das Vinay Shah Layla Behrouzian Byron Ling Sean Doolan Emre Karatas Matthew Brezina Diede V. Jordan Epstein Cory Levy
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Taylor Greene shared thisWe announced our pre-seed investment in Conduit Health today, along with their $17M Series A. Adaptability is one of the traits we look hardest for in founders - the ability to read changing conditions and move decisively forward. Natan Wise and Rocky Seftel have it in abundance. I've learned so much from them and from watching Byron Ling as their consigliere - sleeves rolled up, acting as an extension of the founding team from day one. More on our investment thesis in his post below.Taylor Greene shared thisA few years ago, we led Conduit Health's pre-seed round, backing Natan Wise and Rocky Seftel on their vision to help millions of Americans navigate their benefits. They've since scaled to tens of thousands of patients and today they're announcing their $17M Series A to reach tens of millions more. The problem they are solving is the fragmented and legacy process that prevents millions of Americans from accessing critical healthcare benefits, starting with medical supplies. Patients and families are forced to navigate prior authorizations, supplier handoffs and payer rules that change constantly, a workflow that the healthcare system ignores end to end. Conduit handles all of it: clinical evaluation, insurance authorization and fulfillment, so patients don't have to, in a vertically integrated, Amazon Prime-like experience. Their AI engine reads and applies hundreds of thousands of payer-specific rules with a consistency no human team can match at scale, enabling patients to access benefits in days vs months. Medical supplies are among the hardest benefits to automate at an individual level, and cracking that opens the door to a wider spectrum of products and services that families need on the aging journey. We've shared an office with Natan and Rocky from day one, and it's been a privilege to watch them go from a napkin idea to a talented, fast-growing team improving thousands of lives, with many millions more ahead. Drive Capital XYZ Venture Capital Eniac Ventures Diede van Lamoen https://lnkd.in/epUXRNSrConduit Health's $17M Series A: Building the “Easy Button” for Home HealthcareConduit Health's $17M Series A: Building the “Easy Button” for Home Healthcare
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Taylor Greene shared thisWe are thrilled to be on this journey with you!Taylor Greene shared thisToday we’re excited to share that Coral has raised $7.5M to make energy-efficient upgrades affordable for every building owner in America. We’ve always believed the biggest blocker to electrification was something fundamental - affordability. Energy-efficient upgrades like heat pumps are clearly the future and significantly reduce energy costs. But the median US household has $8K in total savings, and expecting the average homeowner to pay thousands more upfront for future energy savings just isn’t realistic. At Coral we’re reimagining how we pay for these upgrades – changing the math for building owners, installers, and incentive providers. We’ve started with an instant rebate platform that has already helped leading installers sell almost 4,000 heat pumps through Coral. This funding will help us expand nationwide, support a broader set of upgrades like water heaters and batteries, and launch new financing products that reduce the energy burden for building owners. Nizar Dhamani and I are thrilled to partner with a world-class group of fintech and energy investors to help us achieve this vision including ResilienceVC, Twelve Below, Floating Point, Accion Ventures, Blackhorn Ventures, Remarkable Ventures, New Climate Ventures and Watsco Ventures. We’re also so grateful for our founding team Colin O'Rourke, Jack Clayton, Dan Schaub, Julia Michel, Shimmy Cohen, and Nadia Marcus for always being there for our customers and partners, building an amazing product, and being incredible teammates and people. It’s such a joy to get to build Coral together with you every day! This is just the beginning, and we’re hiring across the team to scale Coral and make electrification accessible for all. Links to our careers page, blog announcement, and Axios coverage are in the comments. We’re grateful for this milestone and can’t wait for everything to come!
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Taylor Greene reposted thisTaylor Greene reposted thisI am excited to announce that Step has been acquired by Beast Industries. (MrBeast) Together, we are focused on closing the financial literacy gap, amplifying the Step platform, and bringing more groundbreaking products to the world. We couldn’t imagine a better partner to help us pursue our mission than Beast Industries, and we can’t wait to share more in the months to come. None of this is possible without my amazing family, the Step team, our investors, partners, and customers. Thank you for believing in us and for the opportunity to build Step. I am grateful for the opportunity and ready for the next step in our journey. Let’s do this! Read the press release: https://lnkd.in/g2mhzN5G
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Taylor Greene reposted thisTaylor Greene reposted thisThis week, we opened the doors to the Goodwin HQ Hangar! It's not in a typical tech start-up office. There are no bean bags or ping-pong tables. Just an active hangar filled with the people who make charter aviation what it is. Nearly 50 brokers and operators joined us for real conversations about the backbone of this industry: operations, trust, speed, and how modern technology (and now modern banking) can actually support the way brokers work. The day was full questions, the shared perspectives, and the belief that when the industry comes together, we can all win. Grateful to everyone who showed up like Dirk Vander Sterre, Justin Firestone, R. Drake Sneed, Reid Postle, Marc DeLeonibus, Wynona Dyer, David Young, John Kasich, Jay Weintraub and more who shared insight, and helped shape what we’re building next. Here’s a look inside the night: https://lnkd.in/e-Fngm-B
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Taylor Greene reposted thisTaylor Greene reposted thisOver the past six years, Michael Sutherland Brown and Teamshares have been conducting a grand experiment in small-business ownership. The company, which is going public, has bought some 90 businesses—promising never to sell them—and then converted those companies to employee ownership. Even amid the uncertainty of 2025, Teamshares businesses generated more than $400 million in revenue and about $60 million in profit, with a surprisingly low failure rate and unusually high employee retention. In our latest 21 Hats Dashboard podcast episode, Brown, co-founder and CEO of Teamshares, talks about what Teamshares has learned about buying businesses from aging owners, what employee ownership really changes inside a company, and what is likely to happen when an experiment like this collides with the public markets. One thing he acknowledges is that, early on, Teamshares did not do a good job picking presidents to run the companies they bought: "I think the biggest thing we've learned, which is just so obvious in hindsight but was a miss of projection, is that industry experience is really what you want. I think because we were total outsiders and generalists, and we figured out how to run small businesses—through very humbling experiences, by the way, lots of trial and error and mistakes—we came into it with this perspective that, Oh, if you bring in people from McKinsey, that's a scalable template. "It turns out that in some businesses, that can be a great answer, especially if that person not only worked at, say, McKinsey, but they also were an engineer and were in the military, and they worked at Caterpillar. That's a very different profile than I was, coming out of investment banking and never having managed anyone. It's so funny because early on, we tried hiring from industry and it didn't go that well. I think over time, we just realized that, we're not picking the right people. I think that that was very key.” You can find the 21 Hats Podcast wherever you get podcasts. #smallbusiness #entrepreneurship #employeeownership
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Taylor Greene reposted thisTaylor Greene reposted thisWe're excited to announce our partnership with Barnwell Bio, leading their $6M seed round, as they bring their metagenomic biosurveillance system to market, bringing a new level of animal health intelligence to the global food supply chain. As the cost of genomic sequencing has dropped nearly 99.9% in the last two decades, an explosion of innovation is only recently possible, and in the case of Barnwell Bio, their ability to look beyond a single pathogen and capture the entire microbial ecosystem of a barn, starting with the poultry industry. The results allow producers and veterinarians to catch emerging disease threats earlier, along with driving profitability and biosecurity in an era of rising regulatory pressure and global disease challenges. The team behind Barnwell Bio (Michael Rhys Casey McGinley Jake Byrnes) helped setup the nation's first Covid-19 waste water surveillance system, pioneering one of the early detection systems at the beginning of the pandemic. Taking a similar playbook, they saw an opportunity to apply that infrastructure into modernizing the entire food supply chain, one of the largest markets in the world that is substantially behind scientifically when compared to human and companion animal health. We're excited to partner with them as they bring a unified data and biosecurity layer to the global food supply chain. https://lnkd.in/exgNgHJGBarnwell Bio raises $6m to bring COVID-era bio-surveillance playbook to poultry barnsBarnwell Bio raises $6m to bring COVID-era bio-surveillance playbook to poultry barns
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Taylor Greene liked thisSave the dogs, Save the World.Taylor Greene liked thisAnyone with a dog would do just about anything to help them live a longer, happier, healthier life—and Fi is leading the way in pet wearables. Proud to see Jonathan Bensamoun featured in The New York Times this morning as the pet longevity boom continues to reshape how we care for our dogs. Lots more to come, stay tuned! https://lnkd.in/eXcEU2Kj
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Taylor Greene liked thisReally happy for my friend and close collaborator Zal. People preach consistency all of the time but Zal lives it with his investment style and craftsmanship. He focuses on tough and impactful problems instead of me too innovation and he prognosticates and sees around corners instead of investing lineraly. Proud to be investors in Solugen and Hexium alongside of him as well. To many more years of doing the same thing extremely well. Better call Zal indeed!Taylor Greene liked thisToday, I'm pleased to announce Refactor 5! 🥳 New fund and new site! (links in the comments) Another $50M fund backing seed-stage hard tech founders. Nearly all Refactor funds have been $50M in size. I bring a new one online every 2.5 years and work with 20-25 companies per fund. Beyond lucky to have a small group of LPs, all US-based, who continue to back me and our companies fund after fund. 🙏🏽 That trust matters more than I can say. 5 funds, 10 years, $300M in AUM, 1 employee. That's the model, and I love it because I spend nearly all my time with founders like Gaurab Chakrabarti, MD, PhD and Sean Hunt at Solugen, John Gedmark at Astranis Space Technologies, Charlie Jarrott at @Hexium, Martin Hermez at Brelle, Dar Mehta and Yue (Kelsie) Zhao Zhao at Causal Labs, Alexander Ksendzovsky and Jonathan Pomeraniec at The Biological Computing Co. (TBC), Halen Mattison and Luke Neise at General Galactic, Rayhan Ahmed at Droyd, Aidin Aghamiri and Mohammad Javanbakht at Inferra, Charles Gertler and Samuel Melton at New Mantle, Ivana Muncie-Vasic at Vitra Labs, Jenny Lesser Herbach at Adventris Pharmaceuticals, Jake Adler at Pilgrim, Akash Bakshi at YourChoice Therapeutics, Danny Wells, and so many more. A quick reminder of what we do: Refactor has invested in the "hard but not impossible" since we launched. In fact, my first check as a GP after leaving a16z was in Astranis, which announced its Series E yesterday, and PathAI was acquired today by Roche! 💪🏽 Which categories? Aerospace, bio, critical materials, energy, robotics. The vast majority have AI at their core, so I'll add "physical AI" for those interested. I just call it hard tech cuz I'm old school. 😎 This is what VCs call a dry close. I'll bring Refactor 5 online next year as I continue to invest $1-2M checks from my current 4th fund. Rya Jetha kindly wrote a nice piece about me and the launch in Business Insider. Take a look in the comments. Founders: reach out on the new site's Contact page or drop me a DM. #BetterCallZal
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Taylor Greene liked thisThe AI race just flipped. A year ago, the story was "can anyone catch OpenAI?" Today, Anthropic answered it, raising $65B at a $965B valuation and officially leapfrogging OpenAI as the most valuable AI lab in the world. Let that sink in. Anthropic came from behind and is now ahead. The numbers tell the story: → $965B post-money valuation → $47B+ annual revenue run rate And the product velocity remains unreal: → A new flagship model, Claude Opus 4.8, shipping now This isn't hype. It's demand. Enterprises and everyday users are choosing Claude, and the market is repricing what leadership in AI actually looks like. The lesson for anyone building? Being first doesn't mean staying ahead. Execution, trust, and the right bets compound — and they can close any gap faster than you'd think. The race is heating up. And the lead just changed hands. Who knows for how long. Congrats to Krishna Rao Wayne Chang Jon Turow and the entire Anthropic team. 👏Taylor Greene liked thisAnthropic has raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation, led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital. This Series H financing also includes many of the world's most prominent investors, as well as strategic infrastructure partners and hyperscalers. This investment reflects the continued rapid growth in demand for Claude across enterprises and the people who use it for their everyday work. We will utilize this capital to advance our safety and interpretability research, continue to expand our compute footprint, and scale the products and partnerships our customers rely on. I am grateful to our investors, our customers, and our employees for their continued collaboration and support. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gxmPJfueAnthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuationAnthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation
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Taylor Greene liked thisTaylor Greene liked thisCan I brag a bit? I have had the deep pleasure and honor to work side by side with Kirsten Green for the past 14+ years. I can honestly say, she is the BEST in the industry -- the sharpest, most strategic, visionary, creative, and most of all compassionate investor and friend one could hope for. She shows up for me and our team at Forerunner every day as the passionate founder she is, and she shows up every minute of the day (and night) for all of the founders we back. When you are lucky enough to get Kirsten on your team, you get more than a Midas List stamp of approval -- you get someone who cares more deeply about you and what you are building than most of the people who even work at your company. It's rare to have the combo of IQ and EQ that Kirsten has, and it's what's led her to be an outstanding leader in venture for the past decade, and it will certainly continue to power her presence for the next decade. 🥂 to all the amazing investors and friends on the Midas List this year, and all the other investors and team members who contributed to the collective success of these standout companies that have driven generational value in venture.
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Taylor Greene liked thisIncredible milestone, and yet still so early in our journey. Grateful to our customers, investors, and partners for believing in what we’re building. Excited for what’s aheadTaylor Greene liked thisWe’ve raised over $1B at a $26B valuation, led by Lux Capital, General Catalyst, and 8VC. We’re grateful that our existing investors have doubled down including Founders Fund, Definition, Omri Casspi, Conversion Capital, Positive Sum, Avenir, Vitruvian Partners, Bain Capital Ventures (BCV), 137 Ventures, Soma Capital, and Alpha Wave Global. And we are excited to welcome new investors including Ribbit Capital, Atreides Management, LP, and Layer Global. We launched Devin two years ago as the first AI software engineer. Since then, cloud agents have gone from niche to mainstream, and today they are the fastest growing way to create software. Our enterprise usage has grown >10x since the start of this year, and our run-rate revenue grew to $492M. We've also started building our model training program. We recently launched SWE-1.6, which has become the most used model in Windsurf, and which customers love for both its cost and speed (up to 950 tok/s). Today, Devin is responsible for 89% of the PRs written at Cognition. Devin has dramatically accelerated our product roadmap, building and shipping new features like Devin Review, Auto-Triage, Managed and Scheduled Devins, Windsurf 2.0, and more. We’ve been working to scale our team to match this moment. Cognition began as a team of 9 engineers working out of a living room, and now stands as a global team of more than 250. In the past few months, we have opened international offices in London, Tokyo and Singapore. If you’re excited about building the future of software engineering in a world with many more software engineers, join us. And if you haven’t seen the latest in Devin firsthand, try it out now. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eNuuevpc
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Taylor Greene liked thisThis is what producer aggregators look like once the flywheel is spinning. Build a holistic, “all-in-one” operating system that advisors actually want to run their business on, and the best producers join. Their clients follow. Network effects do the rest. Congrats to Taylor Matthews, Bradley Genser, and the whole Farther team. The best really is yet to come.Taylor Greene liked thisI’m super excited to share Farther's $150 million Series D, led by General Atlantic! Bradley Genser and I founded Farther in 2019 with a simple belief: that Wealth Management needed to be rebuilt from the ground up to close gaps in the legacy experience and drive improved outcomes for Advisors and Clients. Seven years later(!) what makes this moment special are the people who helped make it happen. To every Advisor who believes in what we're building, to each Client who puts their trust in us, and to the Farther team that shows up daily to build something worthy of that trust: thank you. The best is yet to come. https://lnkd.in/gKwYMxzBFarther raises $150 million Series D led by General Atlantic to scale Intelligent Wealth Management | The Farther OutlookFarther raises $150 million Series D led by General Atlantic to scale Intelligent Wealth Management | The Farther Outlook
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