Alexa Gellman

Venture investor @InspiredCap
Harvard grad
NYC born & raised
Obsessed with all things future of tech, compute, and consumer experience

[Alexa Gellman @LexGellman]

Seems like as good a time as any for my first post... go @InspiredCap, exciting things ahead! cc: @alexavontobel @mbatny @almostcmb @kamrandali @jefrankle @rosehandaly @aljshapiro

[Alexa von Tobel @alexavontobel]

Today, our team is excited to announce @InspiredCap Fund IV, $450M in new capital to back early-stage founders.

There has never been a moment in history when more is possible. It takes just one person with exceptional ambition to take on the world’s problems and change billions of lives for the better.

[Alexa Gellman @LexGellman]

should we all boycott NVIDIA gpus?

[Alexa Gellman @LexGellman]

@aljshapiro @InspiredCap so true! also nobody better than @aljshapiro at identifying the top talent (not only saying this bc she's hired me 2x)

[Alexa Gellman @LexGellman]

@RojaGarimella it me 😅

[Alexa Gellman @LexGellman]

@RojaGarimella Omg should we collab on an event 👀

[Alexa Gellman @LexGellman]

Really excited to be spending more time up at Harvard with the most ambitious future founders (and students interested in joining startups or venture investing)! Link to apply to Inspired x Harvard here - https://t.co/sIFGGQYY0F. I’ll be on campus Nov 18-20th, let’s connect! @InspiredCap

[Alexa Gellman @LexGellman]

@InspiredCap Apply! And come hang with us on campus November 18-20th!

[Alexa Gellman @LexGellman]

@CameronLMcCord @Nominal_io @lightspeedvp @insightpartners Congrats!!! Way to go @CameronLMcCord

[Alexa Gellman @LexGellman]

Come join the best team in the industry :) @InspiredCap

[Inspired Capital @InspiredCap]

We are hiring! At Inspired, we back the 0.01% of founders who inhabit the future and bend the world to their realities. Our team has 100+ years of combined experience working together.

We’re expanding our team with two roles:

Investor: Source exceptional early stage opportunities and drive thoughtful, rigorous diligence

Editorial Lead: Set the editorial bar for everything Inspired publishes, grow our existing content programs, and launch new ones

If either sounds like a fit for you, apply below!

Investor: https://t.co/dtbS51zial
Editorial Lead: https://t.co/X8KgC8LPJx

[Alexa Gellman @LexGellman]

Casual @sydney_sweeney run-in on my commute today filming a new movie. Fun fact, she is a venture girlie!

[Alexa Gellman @LexGellman]

My sister @lindsaygellman has the keen ability to spot people and trends before they are mainstream cool
(Also a good skill for a venture capitalist... must run in the family)

[Lindsay Gellman @lindsaygellman]

For @nytimes Styles, I profiled Szilveszter Makó, fashion world man-of-the-moment. Our conversation marks the first time Makó, who prefers to communicate in writing, has granted a sit-down interview with a journalist. Link in replies.

[Alexa Gellman @LexGellman]

What do boutique fitness and inference have in common? @isabholt @AWSstartups @tonehouse

[Alexa Gellman @LexGellman]

@RojaGarimella but you're actually amazing at cooking...

[Alexa Gellman @LexGellman]

@yesadok @InspiredCap @kamrandali L'Industrie! But should we try Lombardi's next?

[Alexa Gellman @LexGellman]

Just another day @InspiredCap @kamrandali

[Alexa von Tobel @alexavontobel]

Could not agree more! @Naveen is a force. So proud to back him and the @unconvAI team, and grateful to be along for the ride.

[Alexa Gellman @LexGellman]

My quick take -- if the dilution is not prohibitive, and capital options are available to you, take $ sooner rather than later

[Alexa Gellman @LexGellman]

Question on many founders' minds: Will capital be hard to come by in the next year? No one can know for sure, but there are certainly a lot of exogenous factors at play over the coming months:
- anthropic & openai IPOs
- data center debt
- inflation
- midterm elections

[Alexa Gellman @LexGellman]

@NWischoff couldn't agree more

[Brian Distelburger @bdistel]

Growing companies think their biggest problem is hiring, but they are wrong. It’s only half the story.

In reality even the best candidates will fail if they are not set up for success from the start.

I experienced this at @yext across a team of 2,500, and today, with the pull of our growing customer base, Windmill is launching the system I always wanted

An agentic onboarding system to give every new hire the best chance of being successful as quickly as possible.

@trywindmill now has over 250 customers and many of them growing faster than any companies before in human history. Our customers feel this pain viscerally. You spend millions on recruiting and closing candidates only for them to show up to an onboarding based off a couple slides and a Notion doc.

Onboarding is one of the most important things a company does. It’s a new hire’s introduction to the company culture and how it runs. And in today’s rapidly changing world, it’s harder than it’s ever been before.

Effective onboarding isn't about teaching people everything. It's about getting them to real contribution as fast as possible, with clear goals, regular feedback, and a manager who stays in the loop.

Windmill puts an AI agent in charge of making that happen for every new hire, and holds everyone accountable along the way.

We’re currently live with amazing customers like @Etched (among others) and it’s incredible to see the results. Every one of our customers I’ve shared this with has raised their hands and we’re including it as part of their subscription.

If this is something your team struggles with, we’d love to show you the system that’s helped customers around the globe onboard and ramp their teams 3x faster.

[Alexa Gellman @LexGellman]

Obligatory @AnthropicAI S-1 post: Interesting use of analogies throughout, which made me think of my own... I suspect that compute procurement will look a lot like old-school consumer goods manufacturing, i.e. we may see the bullwhip effect in action (coined by P&G in the 90s)