austin byrd

Deal architect | Investing @investbev @pitchandrunchi

[austin byrd @austinjbyrd]

🚨 ATTN: I moved to Chicago! 🚨

My time in New York has taught me that cities are what you make of them. The city that you think is dead is the city that is making a profound impact on someone else.

[austin byrd @austinjbyrd]

Forgot a team @BadgerSwimDive @UWBadgers

[Wisconsin Badgers @UWBadgers]

Freshly stitched. Never frozen.

A partnership rooted in Wisconsin and built to create meaningful opportunities for Badger student-athletes.

#OnWisconsin x @culvers

[austin byrd @austinjbyrd]

@jspujji ugc

[The Internet Remains Undefeated @WebUndefeated]

She got up like the undertaker 😂

[austin byrd @austinjbyrd]

Agreed

[Maddie @baddiemaddie43]

Unfortunate news for Trivoli Tavern haters, this place is fucking incredible

[austin byrd @austinjbyrd]

Good carving - just needs a bit of cleanup through the wakes. Let’s see you in a course.

[travis kalanick @travisk]

Lake Austin. SuperAir Nautique slalom… 🤠😳😱… who’s on the water this weekend?!

[austin byrd @austinjbyrd]

@Nrcoope hbd!

[austin byrd @austinjbyrd]

Assault

[Empire State Building Observation Deck @EmpireStateBldg]

Nvm I got it

[austin byrd @austinjbyrd]

Terrible look for GSB… not for the whole not learning thing, but because they should only be accepting people smart enough to know that an MBA is for networking, not learning

[GBR @GayBearRes]

Incredibly damning article about 1 of the Top 3 MBA Programs in the country.

I’ll try to get some key excerpts here but I would suggest reading the whole article.

[austin byrd @austinjbyrd]

@landon20s Not even top half of Hogsalt restaurants

[austin byrd @austinjbyrd]

hilarious that their net income might be greater than their gross revenue

[Mengxi Lu @mengxi]

$2bn seed round, putting in a money market account at a 4% APY. That makes Thinking Machines Lab a $80M ARR company already.

Founders, what stops you from doing this?

[austin byrd @austinjbyrd]

friendly reminder to anyone I know. Also - hmu if you are in town!

[Alex Cohen @anothercohen]

I have definitely been sleeping on Chicago.

Incredibly cool city

[austin byrd @austinjbyrd]

@johnmgannon Not sure if it’s a Chicago thing, but when I started out as an analyst, showing up with a backpack was borderline blasphemy

[austin byrd @austinjbyrd]

@anothercohen Hoxton West Loop, work from Good Ambler

[austin byrd @austinjbyrd]

@Rick_Zullo So sorry, Rick

[austin byrd @austinjbyrd]

@MayaBakhai 👀

[nihal @nihalmehta]

This story is another reminder of how life is long—especially in venture. I first met @kevinrunsnyc back in 2011 when he was early at MoPub and I was running my startup LocalResponse. Kevin and I became friends and we co-invested in many companies together (including Attentive and Ghost) and we eventually co-founded @PitchandrunNYC together in 2019. Independently, in 2016, @EniacVC met and led the seed round for Herman Yang's martech startup, Chatgrid.

So when we heard last year that Kevin, Herman, along with co-founders Mike Chang and Seth Yates, were teaming up to leverage generative AI to disrupt creative budgets and help marketers seamlessly create and stream TV ads, we jumped at the chance to lead their pre-seed.  Right team, right time.

Today, we're thrilled to share that the company is coming out of stealth and announcing $5.5M in funding in preseed and seed rounds from Eniac, @M12vc and @nvpcap. Marketers, please try us out and let us know what you think.  And of course, we're hiring! Check us out at https://t.co/JqIudL81XZ.

[austin byrd @austinjbyrd]

Massive congrats to my buddy, @tejpaul!! Is there a still a height limit to get to space? Once it’s up to 6’5” I’ll know who to call.

(P.S. it’s official Tej > Bej)

[Tejpaul Bhatia @tejpaul]

It’s my honor to serve as the next CEO of @Axiom_Space. I have been inspired by space exploration since childhood, and leading Axiom Space at this critical inflection point is a culmination of my experiences and dreams. We are accelerating our investment in next-generation stations, suits, missions and space platforms. We are actively seeking passionate, visionary engineers, technologists, and entrepreneurs who want to help build humanity’s future home in space. I am proud to lead #TeamAxiom. 
https://t.co/h8WTTA6K6F

[PitchAndRunDUB @PitchAndRunDUB]

Oi, Dublin! 🍀 Lace up your runners; it’s time for Pitch and Run Dublin! We’re the cheeky lovechild of a run club and a startup mixer, inspired by NYC’s @PitchandrunNYC. Think sweat, chats, and maybe a few million-euro ideas born over a jog

[austin byrd @austinjbyrd]

@Rick_Zullo Happy birthday, man! Great advice, bookmarked

[Circe @vocalcry]

Severance is a 105 IQ person’s idea of a 130 IQ show