Benjamin Döpfner

@hkimia @trynationgraph Crushing it! 🚀🚀

I'm excited to share that @trynationgraph has raised $18M USD to help businesses predict and win public sector sales. Selling into government is uniquely complex. 110,000+ institutions, each with its own portals, formats, and funding cycles. Here's what we're doing about it. 👇

@samdblond 🚀🚀

We're launching Monaco today. Monaco automates customer acquisition and revenue growth for startups. The platform disrupting sales with AI has finally arrived.

Incredibly excited to see Monaco launch. We replaced our CRM and 4 other sales tools with Monaco... in <2 days. What Sam & team have built is the most powerful GTM engine out there.

@STLChrisH Your CFO should be automating this with @getvesto for real-time visibility

EVERY Monday morning, my CFO sends me this: - cash balance across every operating account - outstanding balance on all credit facilities - availability on revolving facilities - 30/60/90 cashflow forecast What liquidity measures do you monitor in your biz?

@patrick_oshag @JeremySternLA Incredibly well put together @JeremySternLA

I first knew how incredible this authoritative profile of Josh Kushner and Thrive would be when the author, @JeremySternLA, sent me a 500-page document full of interview transcripts he’d done with members of the Thrive team. That dossier ended up being less than half the total background material reviewed to make this profile possible. But even still, what I didn’t expect was a story that swept this far back in history and became a series of vignettes about American history and culture coming together in a single firm, which has become one of the most important in technology, if not the most. Here is our profile of Josh Kushner, his team, and the institution they are building together

Every week I meet entrepreneurs who say listening to Founders has changed their lives. Can’t wait to see what’s next!

@KyleKashuv 🇺🇸🦅

We have naturalized @bendopfner

@trumansacks1 @cubbylaw @Ludlow @samhinkie @psumvc 🚀📈🐎!

@joshuabrowder Congrats! 🚀

Sequoia Capital, Marc Andreessen and top institutions back New $30m Browder Capital Fund Four: Today, I’m excited to announce that I’ve raised Browder Capital Fund Four, a $30,000,000 fund backed by Sequoia Capital, Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, Arthur Patterson (founder of Accel), Walter Kortschak (founder of SignalFire) and some of the world’s top institutional investors, including Cendana Capital, General Endowment Management, Level Ventures, Hummingbird Ventures (Nomads), and Slipstream. I’m an accidental investor. In 2018, I stopped out of Stanford to take the Thiel Fellowship. One in ten Fellows goes on to build a billion dollar company. That’s how I met Adam Guild. I didn’t have a fund. I didn’t have any real savings. But my Thiel Fellowship payment had just hit my bank account. So I decided to invest it into Adam’s company as his first investor. Yesterday, that company, Owner, announced their Series C at a $1 billion valuation. Since then, I’ve been lucky to back many of the best young founders across previous funds (Whop, Wander, Assured, Pilgrim, Yuzu Health, Micro1, among many others), including other unannounced pre-seeds to unicorns. Indeed, Browder Capital is an investor in more Thiel Fellows than any other person or fund, including 50% from last year’s class (2023). While many funds back dozens of startups at once, often chasing hype, I prefer to go all in on one overlooked technical founder at a time. I’ve hosted 19 year old strangers at my apartment, put their visas on my personal credit card, co-signed their first leases. Whatever it takes to get them to start their company. Fund Four will double down on that mission: becoming the first believer to rare individuals who build billion dollar companies from scratch.

@mylesmarino @Dan_Tamkin @getvesto Would love to see if we can help @Dan_Tamkin! We're helping a ton of hold-co's connect, view, and now transfer funds across all their banks and entities from one place.

Ben at @getvesto may be able to help here. Are all your cos under different banks? Or the same? I find that at a certain point, you have to just hand over the reins because the juice from you personally isn’t worth the squeeze. Your optimization of the bank accounts should be focusing on making them bigger :)

One of the things about HoldCo life in the non-ZIRP era is learning treasury management. Transferring money around is a huge pain so I tend to try to optimize inside the bank's product set. I am loathe to delegate since its sensitive info but probably should do it.

I’m hiring an investor. You’ll be the first hire working with me on the most interesting, complex and asymmetric special situations in tech. You’ll be a good fit if you: - trade annual letters like Pokémon - are high pace and biased to action - are unapologetically money motivated - have created and sold a product - ideological minority at a top 10 school - debated risking it all with an SBA loan - bought a stock before you could drive - work in PE but long for higher MOIC - work in VC but long for higher ROIC - went through YC but yearn to invest - can get a meeting w/ anyone on earth - made money online in high school - value heterodoxy over consensus - value making money over being right Steve Schwarzman defines eights as those who can follow marching orders, nines as those who can execute and strategize and tens as those can sense problems, design solutions, explore new directions and make it rain. Eights and nines need not apply. This role will have an equal focus on sourcing, analysis, execution and operations. In essence, you’ll wear every hat as we build the firm together. It will be all encompassing and demanding, but autonomous and yours to shape. You’ll invest and transact with the best operators and financiers in the world and produce work at an exceptionally high standard. Experience acquiring technology companies, as well as operating them is highly prioritized but not strictly required. This role is open to all levels of seniority and will be made bespoke for the right person. In person in NYC only. email me: jeremy@octavecap.com

@hkimia Amazing product & team - highly recommend!

Today, I'm thrilled to announce NationGraph is live 🎉

Everyone selling into govt. needs to meet @hkimia

We're hiring SWE's at Vesto! Join us to build the financial control center for multi-entity businesses.

Hey Bradley - Vesto founder here 👋 Happy to share more over email if you don't want to chat on a demo. We don't publish pricing on our site, because it varies quite a bit depending on the number of accounts and banks we'd need to connect with. We also find that most customers like to see the product in more depth on a demo, before onboarding.

@awilkinson Looks neat but it’s annoying when companies don’t put their pricing on their site. I don’t want to have to sit through a demo to find out what something costs.

At Tiny, we manage over hundreds of bank accounts across 40 odd businesses. That's a lot of cash to keep track of. Our finance team used to spend hours every week logging into hundreds of accounts just to copy/paste balances into Excel. Manually. One misplaced decimal and boom - the entire cash picture is screwed. We looked into treasury management systems. Most cost $100K+, take forever to set up, and look like they were designed when dial-up was still a thing. Hard pass. Then we found @getvesto. Vesto connects all our banks into one slick dashboard. Real-time cash position, automatic transaction categorization, and treasury management. Implementation? A few clicks. Cost? A fraction of the old-school solutions. It's so easy, it almost feels like cheating. For any company juggling multiple accounts - holdcos, real estate firms, PE shops - Vesto is a no-brainer. It's like hiring a financial wizard for pennies on the dollar. We're saving countless hours and headaches. And best of all, they even help us get yield on our cash, making it easy to move things between cash and treasury bills to ensure we're making yield on our cash balance. Juggling bank accounts and cash balances? I highly recommend checking out @getvesto and talking to its founder @bendopfner. PS: We like it so much that we invested in the company.

@MattSpoke @awilkinson Hey Matt, Vesto founder here 👋! Our cash visibility product is global by nature – so we work with companies in the US, Canada, Europe, South America, etc.

@awilkinson Canada or US?

@Ark__PL @awilkinson Hey @Ark__PL – Vesto founder here 👋 This is a great question! Because we largely rely on direct bank connections, accounts rarely (if ever) need to be re-auth'd if set up properly.

@awilkinson @awilkinson how many times a week you need to re-auth the bank feed with Canadian banks?

@AnthonyVicino @awilkinson Would love to personally show you the product Anthony — shoot me a DM or email at bd@vesto.com and we can set up some time.

@awilkinson Been looking for exactly this.