Overlooked Ventures

We are the friends and family round you never had. ✨ A venture capital fund investing in early-stage companies with one or more historically ignored founders.

[Blooming Health @GoBlooming]

We’re thrilled to have both @ChelseaClinton and @ArchelleMD here for Blooming Day - join the live stream to hear wonderful conversations about ways we can all help our communities thrive.

[Overlooked Ventures @OverlookedVC]

One of our favorite investors sharing update on the industry: https://t.co/xYQHHIyDJf

[Overlooked Ventures @OverlookedVC]

🎯 "The secret to successful task management is actually flexibility, powered by timely transparency."

[Alexis Ohanian 🗽 @alexisohanian]

Great founders are great at focus. When I started building @Reddit, I sucked at focus. I had to learn.

Being great at focus means having excellent task management skills.

What does that look like?

The basics of task management are pretty well-known at this point. You set goals for the year and the quarter, and then review those goals every quarter. Every task should ladder up to a project. Every project should ladder up to a goal for the quarter. The quarterly goals should mean you hit your year-end goals.

Not always easy, but pretty straightforward.

What founders sometimes get wrong is that they think of task management as a set of hard rules that can't be changed.

The opposite is actually true.

The secret to successful task management is actually flexibility, powered by timely transparency.

Flexibility helps you account for reality. Neither business or real life are not 100% predictable. Emergencies come up and you need to handle those with grace for yourself and your team. But even with emergencies, 80% of your focus can still be on your goals.

Transparency helps create accountability for goals and keeps everybody on the same page if things change. It should exist at the level of the organization AND the individual team member.

You should always be asking: What were we trying to do last week? Did we hit those goals? If not, what needs to change?

From there – and this is what most miss – it's important that *everybody* within the organization has access to those conversations to ensure your team is on the same page.

At the end of the day, great task management is a discipline. Like a muscle, you need to use it continually in order to keep it strong.

[Blooming Health @GoBlooming]

We are excited to announce our partnership with Madison County Office for the Aging.

Click here for more information: https://t.co/lfV5QOE9yt

#aginginplace #agetech #aging #aginggracefully #agingwell #agingservices #madisoncounty

[Overlooked Ventures @OverlookedVC]

Go Govalo!! 🎉

[Rhian Beutler @rhiankatie]

Signed a dream merchant over @fromgovalo

We have been steadily up and to the right and I’m expecting 2x growth YoY.

🎉

[Overlooked Ventures @OverlookedVC]

Let's hear it for the women founders! 📢✨

New study of unicorn founders finds most are ‘underdogs,’ and female founders are rising (📰 via @TechCrunch)

https://t.co/XNzshkzYkH

[Nima 🌎 @NimaRoohiS]

Stay tuned to hear more about our new platform: Blooming ONE !

For now, here is how we are working with stakeholders in New York state to support them with their infrastructure, automation, and data needs for the 1115 Medicaid Waiver.

#medicaid

[Nima 🌎 @NimaRoohiS]

We at @GoBlooming are about to pass 200k users on our platform across 15 states.

#AI #aginginplace

[Overlooked Ventures @OverlookedVC]

Congrats on the raise @FundArtemis! 🎉

[Overlooked Ventures @OverlookedVC]

@diamondhawkins_ @danizeres @gaby_goldberg @HustleFundVC 🤗 @danizeres @diamondhawkins_ we ❤️ u!

[Gaby Goldberg @gaby_goldberg]

Been helping a talented friend of mine build out his freelance writing practice. If any seed/Series A startups are looking for help publishing anything high-quality (think long-form essays, website copy, case studies, company manifestos, etc.), DM me and I can share details!

[Overlooked Ventures @OverlookedVC]

Congrats to @CarpeDMdating @Naza_Shelley @SaliHama_ and team on @CNBC feature! Such a great piece highlighting the importance of matchmaking for Black women!

Read the article here ➡️ https://t.co/iJX5KxF3ww

Watch here! ⬇️⬇️

[Rhian Beutler @rhiankatie]

Closed two monster deals in two days.

😮‍💨

Still just getting started over @fromgovalo

[Nima 🌎 @NimaRoohiS]

We ship product every other week. Lots of exciting functional and UX upgrades with a significant focus on data and automation:

[Overlooked Ventures @OverlookedVC]

Women- Led Firms Raised More Capital in 2023 Despite Lack of Mega Funds.

https://t.co/oGhOSNfomX

[Overlooked Ventures @OverlookedVC]

Happy 2024 to all of you! ✨

Last year was rough for a lot of us in the startup world.

Thank yourself for getting you through a hard time before you start telling yourself what you can do better.

[Blooming Health @GoBlooming]

1/We are thrilled to share the important news of expanding our partnership with @NYSAGING and @AgingNY to strengthen older adults’ access to community-based aging services across New York State.

Read more here: https://t.co/mEsdfEwhIa

[Overlooked Ventures @OverlookedVC]

Forever proud to be backing some of the best founders in the game. 🥹

[HLTH @HLTHEVENT]

Great conversation with @ChelseaClinton and our friends at @GoBlooming!

[Govalo @fromgovalo]

With BFCM right around the corner, we thought it'd be helpful to take a quick look at some of the good news and bad news about 2023's holiday shopping season.

The best news is that despite the challenges, your customers are ready to shop and spend 🎁👀

https://t.co/nUXWtidM6a