Monica Wheat

Avid Knowledge Seeker; #InvestHER, Ecosystems Strategist; MD @techstars, ED @vencatdet

[Saba Karim @sabakarimm]

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[Jenny Fielding @jefielding]

Met with a family office LP today and he asked about my ‘breakout’ companies from our 2022 pre-seed fund. I told him: We don’t have any breakouts, our job is to help keep these companies alive until they find P/M fit.

The LP seemed shocked.

Think he writes me a check? 🤷🏼‍♀️

[Jenny Fielding @jefielding]

Funny when people think I work in finance 🤷🏼‍♀️ Being an early stage VC is much more like being a shrink, football coach or chef than being a finance bro.

[Jenny Fielding @jefielding]

The fall fundraising season has officially kicked off. In my opinion, this is the best 10 weeks of the year for startups to raise capital. Investors are fresh from the summer and many are now behind on deployment pace. Founder friends, run at it hard and get the 💰💰💰

[Jenny Fielding @jefielding]

I’m hosting an AI founders dinner in September and we actually need more men to keep the ratio even-ish. Gotta love #NYC tech 🔥🔥🔥

[Josh @JoshuaOgundu]

Shoutout to my Techstars classmates over at Reportwell for raising their $1.1M round https://t.co/FUqUXhqBZK

[Jenny Fielding @jefielding]

If you can’t get an early stage investor over the line in a reasonable amount of time, stop trying. Instead, fill the top of the funnel with more qualified investors. There are soo many of them out there. Dig around to find even more!

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

I’m Kamala Harris, and I’m running for President of the United States.

[Monica Wheat @mwheat14]

@jefielding They are. Very strange behavior

[Monica Wheat @mwheat14]

@BlakeMischley This is good stuff ! Let’s go!!!

[Blake Mischley @BlakeMischley]

Here's my 3rd (last minute) update for buildspace’s nights & weekends👇

Super exciting news- we got a verbal commitment to be our 4th partner institution for @MeetYourClass. I've been using these 6 weeks to really master b2b sales.

I've attached a one-pager I worked on this week in the thread, I'd love some feedback🫶

cc: @FarzaTV @_nightsweekends @_buildspace

[Monica Wheat @mwheat14]

@StephNass Ditto on the stop gaslighting founders part

[shai 🌻 @shaiunterslak]

Is this a top signal

[☔🔥☔ @kirbywinfield]

this is the most infuriating thing as a vc:

the best founder and the worst founder look nearly identical at the idea stage

[Josh @JoshuaOgundu]

The care put into our program is top notch, love those folks

[Josh @JoshuaOgundu]

The back of our Techstars Detroit jackets has the logos of all of our companies! Very cool

[Monica Wheat @mwheat14]

@ChiokeMcRae @JoshuaOgundu Thank you sir! I hope you are well!

[Josh @JoshuaOgundu]

The best MD, shoutout to Monica for how she has supported us through our time with Techstars! Demo Day tomorrow, let’s go

[Josh @JoshuaOgundu]

Anyone who has ran payroll realizes that being a CEO isn’t a flex it’s a responsibility

[Ed Suh @edsuh]

When I was just starting out in venture, a very experienced VC gave me the this advice:

"Our best investments are the ones that don't squarely fit our model. They're too high priced, or low ownership, or off thesis, or maybe the founder doesn't reference well. The fact that we were willing to break our rules to invest was a signal that it was a special company. We put rules in place not to follow them, but to know when something is an extreme outlier"

I think about that all the time.