Theorems

Our lessons learned and stories from startups.

Mariana Garza Mariana Garza

Highnote: The Power of Fintech for All

Building insights through lived experiences is something we deeply value. Over the course of the past year, the Highnote team has built this in spades and launched the world’s most modern card platform purpose-built for embedded card experiences.

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Mariana Garza Mariana Garza

Introducing Daffy: It’s Time to Give

Here at XYZ, we focus on fintech, enterprise, and tech-forgotten spaces. Most recently, we’ve bet on something so obvious and yet so tech-forgotten — charitable giving, the timeless idea that individuals should help those less fortunate than themselves.

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Cocoon: Employee Leave, Simplified

When a unique insight is discovered by an execution-oriented team, an enduring company is sure to be found. CEO & Cofounder, Mahima Chawla left Square to start Cocoon after having spent months delving into the world of family and finance. Along with two other fintech veterans coming out of Stripe, Lauren Dai and Amber Feng, they’d discovered an unmet need in leave management.

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Mariana Garza Mariana Garza

Chapter: Medicare, Maximized

Aging in 2021 should be simple, personalized, and empowering. Chapter is delivering this with their tech-enabled platform and end-to-end guidance. That’s why we’re excited to partner with them as they reimagine Medicare for all Americans.

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Mariana Garza Mariana Garza

Blues Wireless: The World’s Machines Connected

We believe that mass IoT should be affordable, accessible, and seamless. That’s why we’re excited to partner with Blues Wireless as they build out embedded cellular solutions that make this a reality.

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Rootly: Developer Time is Precious

Incident management can be a learning opportunity for everyone, however the current tools fall short. We are excited to partner with the Rootly team as they deliver an elegant collaborative solution that not only resolves, but prevents incidents.

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Mariana Garza Mariana Garza

Sanlo: Game Development Reimagined

We believe that game and app developers should have the financial tools to run and scale their businesses so that they can get back to creating compelling products. That’s why we backed Sanlo.

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Bond and The Future of Fintech

Every company ultimately will have to become some form of a fintech, but it’ll be really hard. Roy wants to enable that future.

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Mosaic: The Financial Tool Every Modern CFO Needs

The CFO role has become more expansive and technical than it has ever been before. Financial data is part of the ground truth of the company, but it can only be as potent as it is readily and immediately available.

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Announcing XYZ

After Backing Companies Worth More Than $6 Billion With Initial Fund, Ross Fubini’s XYZ Venture Capital Debuts $80 Million Fund II for Early-Stage Investments. XYZ’s unique approach helps startups transform tech-forgotten industries and enables fintech and enterprise startups to go faster.

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Why We Backed Newfront Insurance

It’s not every day you find a tech-forgotten corner within the finance stack. Disruption waves have been washing over the industry for more than two decades and yet, insurance has been largely left untouched.

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Q&A: Sanish Mondkar, Founder & CEO @ Legion

Legion is a workforce management platform that helps companies manage their hourly employees’ schedules, timesheets and payroll. Legion’s key differentiator is that it is very inclusive of employees allowing them to play an active role in their own schedules. Using machine learning, Legion does all these things while helping employers maintain time and cost efficiency.

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Q&A: Tyler Scriven, CEO & Founder @ Saltbox

Q&A with Tyler Scriven

My name is Tyler Scriven, and I’m currently the Co-Founder & CEO of Saltbox. I started my first company when I was a sophomore in high school. By my junior year, I’d somehow negotiated with my school’s principal to allow me to leave school two hours early to run my business; thus, my love for entrepreneurship began.

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