NY State of Seed for #NYTechWeek
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◉‿◉:D^◡^•‿•❛o❛ᵔ▾ᵔ:)>.<-‿-Please join NextView Ventures, Founder Collective, Bling Capital, Stellation Capital, and Gunderson Dettmer for a delicious lunch & learn panel, focusing on the current state of seed investing.
Panelists will include the following partners:
- Melody Koh, NextView Ventures
- Kyle Lui, Bling Capital
- Amanda Herson, Founder Collective
- Peter Boyce II, Stellation Capital
- Colman Lynch, Gunderson Dettmer
A light lunch and refreshing drinks will be provided. The exact location of the venue will be revealed upon registration approval. We can't wait to see you there!
ABOUT NEXTVIEW
NextView Ventures is a high-conviction, hands-on venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs build companies of consequence to shape a future of collective prosperity. NextView specializes in leading seed and pre-seed rounds in pre-traction businesses that leverage software to tackle mass-market human problems. Since 2011, NextView has invested in 200+ portfolio companies nationally, including Attentive, ThredUP, WHOOP, Devoted Health, Setpoint, TripleLift, and Bobbie.
ABOUT BLING
Bling Capital is an early stage venture fund founded in 2018 by Ben Ling, a former product executive at Google, Facebook, and YouTube. Since inception, Bling Capital has backed over 100 companies that have collectively raised over $2B. Bling Capital offers a unique Product Council of 100+ top executives as resources to its portfolio companies. We are honored to have been featured by TechCrunch as “The VCs that Founders Love the Most” and Ben Ling was ranked every year the Midas Seed List has been published, most recently at #4 and #5 (2023, 2024).
ABOUT FOUNDER COLLECTIVE
Founder Collective is a seed-stage venture firm based in Harvard Square and SoHo. We’ve backed more than two dozen billion-dollar startups—including Uber, Coupang, Shield AI, Whoop, Airtable, The Trade Desk, Suno, and SeatGeek—by staying true to our mission: to be the most aligned fund for founders at the seed stage.
ABOUT STELLATION
Stellation is a Brooklyn-based venture fund investing in philomath founders building mission-critical software. We lead or co-lead pre-seed and seed rounds, writing checks across US-based companies. Our focus is on promising technical teams — founders in the early days of their careers, with their most significant achievements still ahead.
ABOUT GUNDERSON
Thank you to our partner and sponsor, Gunderson Dettmer. Gunderson is the preeminent international law firm with an exclusive focus on the innovation economy. They help pioneer companies through inception, growth and maturity through exit.
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This event is a part of #NYTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
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