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Their latest funding was raised on 20.06.2024. Their latest investor Forerunner Ventures. Their latest round Seed
Index Ventures
Index Ventures is a venture capital firm based in London, San Francisco and Geneva.
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Forerunner Ventures
Forerunner is a venture capital firm that invests in companies focused on understanding the modern consumer and meeting their future needs.
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Forerunner Ventures
Forerunner is a venture capital firm that invests in companies focused on understanding the modern consumer and meeting their future needs.
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Kirsten Green
Combining a unique and unconventional blend of professional history and acquired investment experience, Kirsten formed San Francisco-based Forerunner Ventures in 2010, where she serves as Founder and Managing Partner. Noticing that emerging purchasing processes were linear and ripe for improvement, Kirsten developed a pacesetter mentality and analytical eye to remain ahead of experience-driven retail trends and identify compelling brand platforms and visionary entrepreneurs. In an unpredictable consumer landscape, Kirsten’s 20+ years of evaluation and investment success stems from a combination of product savvy, retail acumen and a thesis-driven approach that has been the basis of all her investments — from pre-revenue startups to multi-billion-dollar enterprises- to date. As a founder, Kirsten has lead efforts to raise over $2B from leading investors and Forerunner has invested in nearly 150 companies. She currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors at Glossier, Faire, Ritual, The Yes, Curated among other Forerunner portfolio companies. She also served on the board of Dollar Shave Club and Bonobos, two Forerunner portfolio companies with notable sale transactions. Kirsten has been honored in Time’s 100 Most Influential People, named a Top 20 Venture Capitalists by The New York Times in 2017 & 2018, is part of Forbes 2017 - 2022 Midas List, in addition to being named in the magazine’s World’s 100 Most Powerful Women in 2017 - 2021, as well as named to Vanity Fair’s New Establishment list in both 2017 & 2018. Kirsten is a founding member of the female mentorship collective, All Raise, and champions women in the tech industry. Combining a unique and unconventional blend of professional history and acquired investment experience, Kirsten formed San Francisco-based Forerunner Ventures in 2010, where she serves as Founder and Managing Partner. Noticing that emerging purchasing processes were linear and ripe for improvement, Kirsten developed a pacesetter mentality and analytical eye to remain ahead of experience-driven retail trends and identify compelling brand platforms and visionary entrepreneurs. Prior to Forerunner, Kirsten was an equity research analyst and investor at Bank of America Securities, formerly Montgomery Securities, covering publicly-traded retail and consumer stocks. Kirsten graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Business Economics, and has earned a CPA license and a CFA certification.
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Index Ventures
Index Ventures is a venture capital firm based in London, San Francisco and Geneva.
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Danny Rimer
Danny joined Index in 2002 and established the firm's London office. He later opened the San Francisco office with Mike Volpi. His current investments include 1stdibs, Discord, Farfetch, Figma, Glossier, GOAT, Good Eggs, Grailed, Humu, Patreon and Scoop. Prior to Index, Danny was a General Partner at The Barksdale Group, where he invested in over a dozen companies. Earlier in his career, he was at Hambrecht & Quist (now owned by JP Morgan), where he began the Internet sector equity research group. He was managing director and underwriting analyst and took Amazon, Netscape and Verisign public among others. Previously, Danny was a director of Betfair, Dropbox, Etsy, Sky, Last.fm, Lovefilm, MySQL, and Skype; and formerly on the Board of Trustees at SFMOMA and MAGGIE’S Centres. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to business and charity.
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GV
GV is a venture capital firm that provides funding to innovative startups in various fields.
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Frederique Dame
Frederique is a partner at GV, focused on disruptive technologies in the consumer space. Frederique has spent the past fifteen years building consumer and enterprise products for both public companies and startups in Silicon Valley. She is inspired by passionate entrepreneurs, high-impact products, and urgent execution at scale. Prior to joining GV, Frederique led product and engineering efforts at Uber, where she helped scale the company from 80 employees to over 7,000, and from fourteen cities in four countries, to 400+ in 68 countries — in just four years. During her time at Uber, she spearheaded two strategic programs that focused on building tools to onboard and manage the global driver force, and to support employee growth and productivity worldwide. Previously, Frederique pioneered social at Yahoo!, building online communities and adding user generated content to their Yahoo! Search and Marketplace products. Frederique subsequently joined Photobucket, and then SmugMug, two online photo-sharing products for which she built social gaming mechanics to engage their audience and drive revenues. Frederique serves on the Board of Directors of both Ubisoft and Les Mills International, bringing her deep expertise in digital customer experience and in scaling products and teams. She holds a Master of Science in Spacecraft Technology and Satellite Communications from University College London and a Master of Science in Telecommunications Engineering from Télécom SudParis. Frederique was born and raised in Nice, France and now calls San Francisco home.
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