And we were so lucky to get to meet Liu Jiang's Sunflower Capital Ryan Hoover and Vedika Jain at Weekend Fund Sriram Krishnan and Sunil Chhaya at Kearny Jackson and Matthew Hartman and Hilary Mason's Factorial Capital and that they all agreed to come onboard for this incredible journey. Tom and I have wanted to work with Hunter Walk and Satya Patel at Homebrew for a while. □ Any process like this is an opportunity to expand your network. Douglass Kobs, Michael Segal, Bling Capital, and SVA worked with us since the earliest days of Periscope Data, and decided for some reason that working with us again was a good idea! □ □ Speaking of investors we've been working with for 10+ years: Ellen K. □ We took the opportunity to bring on data industry powerhouses and experienced operators like Barry McCardel, Colin Zima, Cristina Cordova, Edith Harbaugh, Emilie Schario, Gokul Rajaram, Harold Giménez, Hilary Mason, Jamie Davidson, Josh Wills, Kelley Rivoire, Nate Smith and Sean Byrnes whose expertise will be invaluable in building the product and scaling the company. Looking forward to deepening the partnership! Many thanks to everyone there we've gotten to know, like Sri Chintala, Jeff Hollan, Benjamin Gotfredson, Carly Hayden, Harsha Kapre and Stefan Williams. □ We're also honored to announce that ❄️ Snowflake ❄️ invested in Modelbit! They've been our closest partner and most popular model endpoint these last several months. During this process, many Principals, Associates and backoffice staff deployed models to put the product through its paces. □ The lead investor is our old friend Leo Polovets at Susa Ventures. Love this from Alon Lederman: people say luck is grabbing opportunities when they pass in front of you, right? Well, space immersion helps you learn to identify an opportunity when it passes by… and even allows you to be in the physical place where opportunities tend to pass by )īig day for Modelbit! We raised $5M in seed funding! So if you want to learn a new space, don't waste time reading industry publications or speaking with so-called experts - pursue an "immersion" strategy instead. The role almost doesn't matter, as long as you're curious and ask questions - most companies and execs are quite open with strategy, challenges, etc. Even consider working for free (aka pro bono), especially if the alternate is sitting around doing industry research. Then just work at a smaller company in the space. ![]() You might say: hold on, large companies aren't hiring now or are hiring too slowly. Want to learn payments? What better place than Stripe or Square? Want to learn PLG? Why not consider HubSpot? The space could be either domain or function. Would-be founders: One of the best ways to truly "learn" a new space is to work at a best-in-class company in the space for 6-12 months. (I've seen 3 smart people do this recently, so wanted to share this tactic). Planera Raises $5.4 Million in Seed Funding to Transform Construction Industry Project Planning Companies like Webcor and Shimmick Construction, and many more have the same vision.įortunate to have amazing co-founders like Erik Swenson Saif Lodhi Wahid Tadros and Noor Lodhi and engineers like Mike Guzewicz and Griffin Shaw on the team. ![]() and we believe that will result in better business outcomes. We empower every construction professional to be able to build, visualize and optimize their critical path schedule without relying on other experts. ![]() ![]() We are building a collaborative digital whiteboard that is as easy to use as Excel or Miro with the power of Oracle P6. At Planera, we think that is a false choice. It's too complicated, and so people default to using Excel. No one likes their construction scheduling software. Excited to announce Planera, Inc seed round led by Ken Elefant from Sorenson and with participation from an amazing operator like Gokul Rajaram and 10+ construction industry execs.
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