Haley Kwait Zollo

@alexiskold Biggest mazels!!! 👏

I am thrilled to share that we raised an oversubscribed $82M Fund III to lead pre-seed and seed rounds in Vertical AI, Deep Tech, Healthcare and Biotech startups in NYC and Boston. To be exact, we raised $82,048,000 - a number that felt on-brand for a nerdy firm like ours that loves riddles, the future, Morse code, and Easter eggs. We are immensely grateful to our LPs for their ongoing belief in our strategy and approach. We are equally grateful to the founders who have chosen to partner with us. Here is 2048 Ventures Ventures Fund III in a nutshell: - We back exceptional, ultra-competitive, visionary founders. - We lead pre-seed and seed rounds with $500K - $3M checks. - We invest in Vertical AI, Deep Tech, Healthcare and Biotech. - We invest primarily in NYC and Boston. - We seek businesses with strong data moats. Read more about where we’re excited to invest: 2048.vc/blog/2048-vent… If you are a builder and visionary looking for the highest conviction first-check investor, please reach out or re-share with your network!

@erica_wenger @EzraMoGee @parkrangerscap @agarfinks @FortuneMagazine 🫶🫶🫶

@EzraMoGee @parkrangerscap @agarfinks @FortuneMagazine thanks so much Ezra!! glad we’re on 1 cap table together, hoping for more! @HaleyKwaitZollo is one of my absolute favorites

Excited to finally share that @parkrangerscap quietly closed our first fund earlier this year: a $4.3M debut fund backed by 130 LPs. Huge thank you to @agarfinks at @FortuneMagazine for telling the story so well! More in the article below!👇 fortune.com/2025/11/14/ter…

BREAKING: Superpower is now available for only $199 almost every American spends a few hundred $ per year on things like: – Netflix – Spotify – Amazon Prime – Dating or meditation apps – Annual credit card fees and never thinks twice. but there has never been an accessibly priced, canonical consumer membership for the most important thing of all: YOUR HEALTH. it’s our goal to build the most valuable, lowest price health membership in America. and now it’s never been simpler to get started: – full body health testing (100+ labs annually) – one home for all of your health records, unified in one place – a personal health LLM to chat with and make sense of it all – plus a human medical team + marketplace for anything you need, like prescriptions, supplements, tests, or health answers – all at 20% cheaper than elsewhere all for only $199. it pays for itself. it’s taking control of your health. “But Jacob — I have a bit more budget to spend on my health, this feels too cheap” feedback we get often. however it’s our belief the greatest consumer companies are built with low floors ⬇️ and high ceilings ⬆️; accessible enough to welcome anyone in, yet expansive enough to grow with those who want to invest more deeply. (eg. almost every American has an Amazon account, half of which pay ~$200/yr for prime, and 30% of which account for 70% of sales. our top superpower member has already spent over $30k on their health within the ecosystem) this moment has been a long time coming and couldn’t be more thrilled to unveil it to the world alongside such an incredible team. ps – we’ve also just launched the mobile app, DM if you’d like the test flight!

Honestly this may be the single strongest lineup Chicago has ever put under the same roof in a one afternoon. With several more exceptional founders to be announced in the next 48 hours. Still one week left to apply to join us!!! Link below.

@CharliCohen ♥️♥️♥️

It is with a heavy heart that I announce the wind-down of RSTLSS. Myself and the team have given RSTLSS everything. As founder, it’s been my life and my baby and I’ve gone to war for it every single day of the past 4 years. We have always put the long term vision first: helping creators win - and whilst I would of course do 1000 things differently if I were starting over today, I don’t regret the values that drove our strategy and I still believe wholeheartedly in the vision. If we had any option to continue building, we would. The technology we have built will remain with Chromia, and Ben and I will personally take custody of our legacy NFT collections, should the opportunity arise to provide value to holders in the future. I leave RSTLSS proud of what we built, deeply sad that it’s the end, immensely grateful for our amazing team, for our community and the investors who have supported us through this 4 year rollercoaster - and still with the utmost conviction that crypto can and will fix the creative industry.

No fluff, no boring speeches, just great content and exceptional people. The room is capped at 100 and applications to join are open now. Zero cost. New speakers will be added every week. Apply here! lu.ma/7p44q1pf

We're bringing together 100 of the most ambitious founders + founder-curious operators in the city to learn directly from the CEOs building the best known and fastest growing startups in the city.

🥳 Pumped to kick off Chi tech week with FoundersCHI, a half-day summit we're hosting on July 21st in the West Loop.

@danshipper @every @reidhoffman @startinglinevc Woo!! 🥳🥳🥳

so, we raised some money for @every! $2m from @reidhoffman, @startinglinevc, and Will England from Walleye Capital

@ashleymayer 👏🫶🙌

Link dump: Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/7KZ0qGRQG… Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gre… YouTube: @GreatChatPod" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@GreatChatPod

Some personal news: @helen_min, @sallyshin, @macbohannon, Angela Du (too cool for X) and I are finally joining the podcast party. We didn’t mean to start a podcast, but a fun and feisty dinner in 2024 turned into an unhinged group chat and weekly zoom hang. We bonded over our love of deconstructing the tech industry’s latest drama (2025 really over delivers) and our disenchantment with the loudest voices shaping the narrative for tech. Apparently you can just do things, so today we’re launching @greatchatpod, a podcast mostly about tech. As operators, we’ve scaled startups from incubation to unicorn rounds and IPOs. As investors, we’ve started our own firms and worked at the very largest VC platforms. We’ve worked in and with media, and bring a unique view on the stories behind the headlines. With Great Chat, we’re hoping to create something fun and useful that helps the next generation building and funding startups make sense of this crazy, amazing, high stakes moment we’re all in. So if you prefer your pro-tech, pro-capitalist commentary served without a side of disgruntled billionaire, check us out! First episode just dropped: we debate whether a personal brand is now table stakes for venture investors, cover the latest on LLMs, and Angela confesses to hoarding eggs. greatchatpod.com

Was great to be back hosting the most exclusive poker game in Chicago with my partners ⁦@ScottBoehme⁩ ⁦@HaleyKwaitZollo⁩. Sincere appreciation to special guest ⁦@Austin__Berg⁩ for joining and sharing all the work they do to make our city a better place.

@CharliCohen Omgg iconic. I was obsessed with these growing up, I had multiple 💜💗🩵

literally the only watch flex i care about (market agnostic)

@EzraMoGee 💔💔💔💔

Our prayers failed us. We tried. Baruch Dayan Ha'emes.

@mosbacher 👀💉

@rebeccakaden @usv Yayy congrats!! 👏👏

New fund, same @usv approach: small fund, thesis driven, high conviction, low velocity, true partnership model, long term believers. Endless interest in markets undergoing the most radical change and the approaches that allow outsiders to not just inch them along but completely transform them. Can't wait to continue to work with the outlier builders that are doing that. (More below)

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@talivog @AvidVc @addielerner @ZeezaCole Congrats!!!

Grateful to be part of this one-of-a-kind team as I step into this new role as Partner at @AvidVc after 4.5 years of learning from the best in the business (@addielerner)! And, this team just got even better with the addition of @ZeezaCole -- I'm honored to call you my partner!

@CharliCohen Best treat ever, HBD @CharliCohen !! 🥳🥳

birthday day, treated myself to a 3 hour nap

@mercebent Aww yayy congrats @mercebent !!

Announcing the latest addition to the portfolio….and my new most important role We are so blessed