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Swoot Creates Social Space for Podcast Listening

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Jon Callaghan announces True Ventures investment in Swoot, a social podcast player that shows you what friends are listening to.

Why We Believe in Torontos Founders and Startup Scene

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Having recently invested in a cluster of Toronto-based startups, the True Ventures team takes a moment to applaud innovation rooted in Canada.

Voiceflow Enables Anyone to Create Voice Apps Without Code

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True Ventures announces its investment in Voiceflow, a platform enabling anyone to easily create voice apps without writing code. Tony Conrad welcomes the Toronto-based team to the True community.

Fauna Bio Leverages Natures Secrets for Better Human Health

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Fauna Bio is on a mission to improve human health by learning from the vast diversity of life on earth. Rohit Sharma and Priscilla Tyler share why True Ventures invested in the companys co-founding team of scientists.

Sofar Unlocks the Power of Ocean Data for All

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Jon Callaghan announces Trues investment in Sofar Ocean Technologies, a new company formed by the merger of ocean exploration startups OpenROV and Spoondrift.

Give Robots the Repetitive, Tedious Work

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Automation and AI bring complex questions to surface. True Partner Rohit Sharma believes now is the time to ask and answer these questions as we begin to outsource physical labor and other tedious work to machines. He believes automation will enable the human workforce to spend more time and imagination on what matters most.

Ensuring a Gender-Diverse Talent Pipeline

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To celebrate International Womens Day, we asked several True company founders and an expert in creating diverse and inclusive teams how to ensure startups have gender-diverse talent pipelines. Heres what they had to say.

You Dont Need to Be a Certain Type to Work in Tech

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Our team has toured universities across the country to introduce students and graduate-age professionals to True Ventures Fellowships. LaTrisha Hollines debunks the myth that theres a certain type most suited for Silicon Valley.

Career Advancement Tips From Helpshift CEO Linda Crawford

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Linda Crawford is on a mission to empower women to become leaders in tech. Since she joined Helpshift in 2017, the company has seen a more than 100 percent increase in ARR. We interviewed her for The True Blog to learn tips for advocating for yourself in the workplace.

2018: Our Year in Review [infographic]

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With several notable acquisitions, an award for Venture Firm of the Year, and 56 new, visionary startup founders adding their unique brilliance to the True community, the True Ventures team celebrates 2018 and eagerly looks ahead at what's next.

Welcoming Howdy

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I recently wrote a piece in Fast Company about what I call “assistive intelligence”—a movement to augment our increasingly overwhelming daily lives with automation. We have reached a point in technology where tasks and processes can be completely automated, which changes how we as humans operate in the workplace and in our daily lives. The […...

Welcoming Cloverpop

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Humans make an average of 35,000 decisions a day. Decisions are what move life forward. Decisions are how work gets done. But how do we know if we are making “good” decisions? How do we know if we’re going about it the right way? This anxiety deepens when applied to business decisions, where one manager’s […]

Welcoming Hatch Baby

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One of the first companies True ever invested in was Maya’s Mom, a social network for new parents co-founded by Ann Crady. Ann and I overlapped at Yahoo!, and were introduced by Caterina Fake, Co-Founder of Flickr and True portfolio company Findery. Ann is an incredible entrepreneur, effortlessly mastering that elusive combination of product vision...

Life at 200 Employees: Ten Insights from Namely CEO Matt Straz

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It’s been a record year of growth for Namely, the HR, Payroll, and Benefits platform that I founded in 2012. We’ve more than doubled our employee headcount in 2015 to break the 200-employee barrier, hiring a new person every business day in our New York and San Francisco offices. All that growth has brought big […]

Account Based Sales Development: A New Methodology in Lead Execution, Target Outbound, and Pipeline Generation

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This post, written by True Special Advisor Lars Nilsson, was originally published in the funnelholic. Here’s a plain and simple truth: the best sales development teams today leverage technology to perform smarter, better and faster. The proliferation of, and advances in, sales technology have presented today’s sales development teams with an opport...

Welcoming Lumity

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The way businesses approach health benefits for their employees has been massively disrupted by Obamacare. While the discussion on the positives and drawbacks of the Affordable Care Act is nuanced and ongoing, one fact is clear: choosing the right plan for a business and its employees has become a cumbersome, confusing process. Small and mid-size [...

Welcoming Datos IO

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It’s well understood that growth in unstructured data is continuing at an incredible pace, and that the NoSQL movement is real. We at True are strong believers in this ecosystem and think that several category-leading companies will emerge. Recovery management, in particular, is a must-have for driving further adoption, which is why we are happy [&...

Welcoming Everywear

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Every new screen that has entered our life has been a catalyst for new entertainment experiences, each one optimized for that screen. Angry Birds benefitted from the rise of the iPhone. Supercell dominated on the iPad. Now, we are ready for a newly imagined entertainment experience based on wearable computing. Apple Watch is one of […]

Welcoming SlamData

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At True, we look for visionary teams to invest in whom we believe will help create and lead new and emerging markets years from now—as opposed to simply attacking an already existing large market. This is exactly why we jumped at the chance to invest in SlamData, an open source solution that makes it easy […]

Welcoming UXPin

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Years ago, when I started practicing web design, we spent our time trying stand out from a sea of drab pages with just a dozen HTML tags. Today, contemporary design work is made up of increasingly specialized practitioners solving problems we never dreamed of those many years ago. Designers have had to reinvent ourselves continuously. […]

Caspida Acquired by Splunk

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Splunk (NASDAQ: SPLK) announced today that it has acquired True portfolio company Caspida to improve Splunk’s ability to detect, respond and mitigate advanced security threats and insider security threats. This partnership will enable the incredibly talented team at Caspida to contribute to Splunk’s already strong market position in the data intell...

ABR – Always Be Raising!

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Note: This is a re-post from my personal blog. You can read the original here. I read the interview that Matt Straz, CEO and Founder of Namely, gave in Alley Watch http://www.alleywatch.com/2015/07/this-nyc-startup-just-raised-4 5m-in-record-time/ . It talks about Namely raising 5 different rounds of capital in the past 12 months.  We at True Ventur...

Welcoming Sano

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True portfolio company Sano announced their funding last week, and I am very excited to publicly welcome the company and Founder Ashwin Pushpala to True. Working privately for nearly three years, Sano has developed a breakthrough biometric sensor that will help people understand what’s happening inside their bodies through continuously monitoring i...

Congratulating Connectifier on Their Series A Raise

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True portfolio company Connectifier announced its funding this morning, and we are thrilled to welcome this exciting company and team to the True portfolio. We were introduced to Connectifier by Sean Ellis, Founder of True portfolio company Qualaroo. Whenever a company is recommended by a trusted entrepreneur in the True ecosystem, we know there is...

True University Day Two Recap

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True University day two started out with incredible energy as Jennifer Chatman led a general session on accelerating growth by investing early in a company’s culture. More great classes followed, including Marc Hemeon teaching us how to be awesome at design, Lars Lofgren sharing the three fundamental growth levers for SaaS businesses and Alex Cowan...

True University Day One Recap

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What an incredible first day of True University. We were thrilled to see so many employees from the True portfolio show up ready to learn, collaborate and make connections. As with every year, the True University “professors” delivered thoughtful, engaging, empowering presentations. Soleio Cuervo led a session providing guidance on how to think abo...

True University 2015 Commences!

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The sun is shining, the Stanford classrooms are prepped, and we at True are awaiting the arrival of over 300 True Founders, their employees, and visiting professors to True University. This is a banner year for us, as it marks the 5th True University and our biggest and most exciting event yet. We created True U […]

Welcoming Glowforge

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True portfolio company Glowforge announced their funding last week, and we are incredibly excited to welcome this awesome, beautiful 3D laser printer into the True Ventures hardware lineup. As previous investors in Makerbot (acquired by Stratasys), we understand the 3D printing marketplace very, very well. Glowforge is a clear standout in this spac...

Announcing the Priya Haji Fellowship

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Many of the best ideas at True come from listening to our Founders. Founder Camp, True Forums, True University and the True Entrepreneur Corps all exist today because our Founders suggested to us that there might be something we could do to help them better connect with one another, better support their employees, and better […]

Jon Callaghan Appointed Chairman of NVCA

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We are very excited to announce that True’s very own Jon Callaghan will serve as the 2015-2016 Chairman of the National Venture Capital Association’s Board of Directors. Jon’s appointment was made official today at the NVCA’s annual meeting, VentureScape. As the voice of the U.S. venture capital community, the NVCA empowers its members and the [...

True joins the Peloton

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When it comes to hardware investments, there is nothing more exciting to us than that magical combination of beautiful hardware, immersive content and a rich, vibrant community. Connectivity and design now change the actual atoms of hardware, turning ?things? into living, vibrant experiences. This transformation is the driving force behind so many ...

True joins the Peloton team

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When it comes to hardware investments, there is nothing more exciting to us than that magical combination of beautiful hardware, immersive content and a rich, vibrant community. Connectivity and design now change the actual atoms of hardware, turning ?things? into living, vibrant experiences. This transformation is the driving force behind so many ...

Welcoming tray.io

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There are literally thousands upon thousands of SaaS apps today, creating a world where APIs are the new standard of communication among the different services people access. With the proliferation of SaaS applications and APIs comes the need for a new integration platform. Legacy platforms have simply not been architected for this new world, which...

Welcoming tray.io

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There are literally thousands upon thousands of SaaS apps today, creating a world where APIs are the new standard of communication among the different services people access. With the proliferation of SaaS applications and APIs comes the need for a new integration platform. Legacy platforms have simply not been architected for this new world, which...

Welcoming Operable.io

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Last week, Mark Imbriaco slyly announced our funding of his new company, Operable.io, via a very kind tweet: Mark got it right; we do care about our Founders and their ability to solve the biggest problems facing technology and the world, regardless of geography. (Operable is based in Raleigh, North Carolina, with an incredibly talented […]

Welcoming Operable.io

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Last week, Mark Imbriaco slyly announced our funding of his new company, Operable.io, via a very kind tweet: Mark got it right; we do care about our Founders and their ability to solve the biggest problems facing technology and the world, regardless of geography. (Operable is based in Raleigh, North Carolina, with an incredibly talented...

Welcoming Hedvig

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I am very excited to finally be able to publicly welcome Avinash Lakshman and his company, Hedvig, to the True Ventures portfolio. True led the seed investment in Hedvig three years ago, and it has been a joy to watch Avinash build an amazing product and, now,?launch his company. Avinash has invented, architected and designed […]

Welcoming Hedvig

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I am very excited to finally be able to publicly welcome Avinash Lakshman and his company, Hedvig, to the True Ventures portfolio. True led the seed investment in Hedvig three years ago, and it has been a joy to watch Avinash build an amazing product and, now,?launch his company. Avinash has invented, architected and designed some of the...

Welcoming Gyroscope

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As the self becomes more quantifiable and our activities more shareable, the need emerges for a single, beautiful platform for tracking and displaying all the data we collect throughout our lives. Enter?Gyroscope, a personal website automatically powered by the different services that track your personal data. Gyroscope integrates with services lik...

Welcoming Gyroscope

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As the self becomes more quantifiable and our activities more shareable, the need emerges for a single, beautiful platform for tracking and displaying all the data we collect throughout our lives. Enter?Gyroscope, a personal website automatically powered by the different services that track your personal data. Gyroscope integrates with services lik...

Welcoming Twin Prime

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In today’s mobile-first Internet economy, every millisecond counts. Speed wins. Google won because of speed. Amazon won because of speed. The next Internet winners will be apps and services that most quickly and most intuitively get information into the palms of users’ hands. To that end, we are very happy to introduce a new addition […]

Welcoming Twin Prime

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In today?s mobile-first Internet economy, every millisecond counts. Speed wins. Google won because of speed. Amazon won because of speed. The next Internet winners will be apps and services that most quickly and most intuitively get information into the palms of users? hands. To that end, we are very happy to introduce a new addition […]

Welcoming Twin Prime

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In today?s mobile-first Internet economy, every millisecond counts. Speed wins. Google won because of speed. Amazon won because of speed. The next Internet winners will be apps and services that most quickly and most intuitively get information into the palms of users? hands. To that end, we are very happy to introduce a new addition to the True Ve...

Working with Atoms: Thoughts on Building Next-Generation Connected Device Startups

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In 2011, I attended my first Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. While there were a handful of startups scattered throughout the main expo floor, including True-backed Valencell and Makerbot, the majority of companies in attendance were the traditional consumer electronics manufacturers that have ruled the shelves of Best Buy for the past few d...

Working with Atoms: Thoughts on Building Next-Generation Connected Device Startups

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In 2011, I attended my first Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. While there were a handful of startups scattered throughout the main expo floor, including True-backed Valencell and Makerbot, the majority of companies in attendance were the traditional consumer electronics manufacturers that have ruled the shelves of Best Buy for the past few d...

Welcoming NoRedInk

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Writing is fundamental, and writing education is hurting: 73% of students in the U.S. are below proficient in writing. Grading English papers requires a huge amount of work from teachers, with their ?red ink? corrections often going unnoticed or unread by students. Many times, the teacher drowning in work doesn't have the bandwidth to always follow...

Congratulating Always Prepped

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I am thrilled to announce that True portfolio company Always Prepped has been acquired by Portland-based educational technology company Alma. Alma provides schools with both a learning management system and a student information system, and Always Prepped?s data-driven technology will be an exciting addition to the Alma platform. I have known Alway...

Welcoming Jeff Veen

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I still remember when I first met Jeff Veen, when he was not yet a close friend and colleague to me, but a generous designer in the room next door. Sphere, a company Toni Schneider and I co-founded, had just wrapped up our MVP (Minimum Viable Product) and were ready to launch. This was in an era that...

The Brands They Are A-Changin?

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Monday's Wall Street Journal story on the SuperBowl ads reported the ?largest number of newbies since the dot com boom in 2000″ had run TV ads during the game. More new brands dipped their toes into the world of big game TV advertising; new brands, big markets, National TV advertising. This is an important turning point in something we've......

Congratulating Screenhero

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In May 2013, Pradeep Elankumaran, Founder of Kicksend and an enormously dedicated member of the True Founder community, introduced us to a new startup called Screenhero, which was rethinking collaboration and real-time sharing from the ground up. Screenhero was born out of the needs of four developers: J Sherwani, Vishal Kapur, Jason DiCioccio and ...

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