Managing Partner at THCAP, an early-stage VC firm backing founders in the US, Canada & EU. Family, traveling, skiing and squash are my passions outside THCAP.
I'm thrilled to announce that Ezra AI Labs has raised a pre-seed round with participation from a16z speedrun, Telegraph Hill Capital, New Enterprise Associates (NEA) Angels Fund, and other strategic investors.
Ezra is an AI interviewer that supercharges your recruiting teams. It learns your job, understands what you're looking for in a perfect candidate, conducts convenient and quick interviews with candidates, and evaluates them for you. It's built on top of my proprietary voice AI system that's low-latency and contextually-aware.
After 18 months of solo development, what started as a simple question — can AI truly understand the human elements of hiring? — has evolved into something our early customers are finding transformative. I'm excited to work with Jonathan Lai at a16z speedrun as we scale.
I'm now ready to grow the team (beyond just me!). If you're passionate about AI, recruiting, or building products that genuinely help people connect, I'd love to hear from you.
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@chudson@newmike Agree strongly but I have to admit we’ve seen notable exceptions across our portfolios w/ distributed teams from the start. Some led by 1st time founders, others led by repeat founders. No clear pattern. But again these are a minority so I generally prefer non-distributed.
💥 Cusp Capital and Stage 2 Capital invest €6.2 million in Taclia. Congrats @AlexCasals and @taclia_es team. Honored join your journey since the early days. And welcome to new partners @Stage2Capital and @CuspCapital https://t.co/PqRyNmYzZ6
Felicidades @AlexCasals y a todo el equipo @taclia_es. Gracias por dejarnos compartir vuestro viaje desde los inicios. Bienvenidos @Stage2Capital y @CuspCapital !! Ahora a seguir remando 🚣♀️ https://t.co/OVxhDYdxT7
@etarczynski Great thread, @etarczynski! As I was reading, could see myself and everything I’ve gone through since launching @Thcap2 over a decade ago. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, so keep up with it and you’ll get the rewards… eventually!
The VC slowdown is real
But 400+ brave VCs still invested over $1M in seed deals last month
If you're raising soon, maybe start with them?
To help, I made a list of 418 investors who led round over $1M
If you want it
1. Comment "Nov Leads"
2. RT + Follow so I can DM it
The goalposts for raising a Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A round have changed since the Spring. Here are benchmarks that I would aim for as a founder of a SaaS or b2b fintech company in this current market
𝑛𝑜𝑡𝑒: 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒
Great session on “Talent for the Mediterranean” organized by #bnew2022 with amazing speakers such as @talentdotcom ‘s co-founder, co-CEO @lucas_martinez 👏🏼