What were the most typical backgrounds of new unicorn founders in the US and UK between 2013 and 2023? Over 2,000 unicorn founders reviewed!

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Excited to announce Salvo Health has raised a $5M round from City Light Capital & Human Ventures to expand our work with GI practices + hospitals across the US. Read more on our blog The Salve. salvohealth.com/blog/salvo-hea…

NYC unicorns on the rise! 🦄📈🚀

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HeatherHartnett Human Ventures #LPs are being challenged. It's not obvious who is going to emerge!

💎What will attract the next phase of innovation?
💎What you evaluate in the-past will not necessarily work moving forward.
💎LPs should wait a few fund cycles so you know can execute.

#ARPowerTalks

HeatherHartnett Human Ventures One final piece of advice from HeatherHartnett:

💎If you're in this industry, make sure you're working with people you respect. People are everything in this. Don't compromise that. Resist the urge to go where the mob is going. Be okay with being different. #ARPowerTalks

Be sure to register for next week's Power Conversations event! 📣

The next edition of this series is Thursday, November 16th at 12:30pm ET/ 9:30am PT, featuring Paige Hendrix Buckner talking 'Redefining Influence' with HeatherHartnett of Human Ventures.

Below is my conversation with Raja Doddala 🇺🇸 🇮🇳 (directly posted on X) on how Churchill Asset Management ($47 Billion AUM, subsidiary of TIAA $1.2 Trillion AUM) diligences venture managers. Special thank you to HeatherHartnett at Human Ventures for the introduction.

Raja Doddala,

Thanks for the best questions Kate Clark! Great event.

Thanks nihal for being a great host 🙌

Loved seeing you in nyc now!

Venture studios and incubations have exploded in popularity.

800+ venture studios around the world. $100B+ in enterprise market value created. Several IPOs: Snowflake, Hims & Hers, Pure Storage.

The model is extremely hands-on, bespoke, and potentially very lucrative.

When did a 6:00 dinner reservation become the new 8:00, most prized table of the night - and will it last?

I used to do a lot of video editing and it blows my mind how much Capsule is changing the game for video creators and content teams. 🔥

Anyone up for a #pitchnrun Tel Aviv?

Here for a week!
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A great article by Scott Harley at Everywhere (The Fund) with mention of HeatherHartnett's most recent Forbes piece on rebranding the 'Emerging Manager' to ‘Alpha Generator.’

Read the full article here:
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📈'With rising interest rates why would anyone invest in venture capital?

The dispersion and skewness in #VC returns means if you back Mean, rather than Median, performance, you're winning as an #LP . Read about Manager Selection in VC by Scott Harley.

ideas.scotthartley.com/p/manager-sele…

I'm not saying the machines have already won, but when my Apple Watch stays 'stand!', I stand.