Brian

Excited to announce our new $126M @KaporCapital Fund III 🚀 Backed by over 50 LPs, this is one of the largest Black-led impact funds! From being an intern in 2011 to Managing Partner today, it’s been quite a ride. @unolil and I are excited for what’s next! forbes.com/sites/alexkonr…

1/ NEWSFLASH 🚨: @Career_Karma has been acquired by @ClimbCredit We built Career Karma to help millions of people navigate their careers. Climb shares that mission and will take it even further, helping learners not just find programs but get the financial support to start them. This move allows our team to go all in on @OutRivalAI prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

Omada Health IPO signals healthier market, avoids 'down-round' trend | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2025/06/06/oma…

@ycombinator is back in person! Amazing ⚡️⚡️⚡️ in the building and feels like 2016! Good luck to the founders pitching today! LETS GOOOOOOO!

@fallontpetty @AfroTech @Kaepernick7 Yes!

@MrStartup @AfroTech @Kaepernick7 Innovation Stage?

Today I'll be hitting the @AfroTech stage with Colin Kaepernick (@Kaepernick7) for a powerful conversation about AI, the creator economy, and owning our narratives. From the football field to founding Lumi, Colin's journey inspires transformation— can’t wait to see you there!

📣 @KaporCenter has teamed up with @NBAFoundation & @warriors for the 2025 #NBA All-Star Pitch Competition! We are proud to champion this competition as a platform to uplift gap-closing founders. Apply by Nov 9th to pitch your business + get funding: bit.ly/3YwUdFx

1/ Today, we announce @OutRivalAI, designed to transform how businesses connect with their customers through Conversational AI, starting with Admissions Teams in Higher Education. After years of helping people break into tech w/ @Career_Karma we’re expanding our mission. Here is what we are focused on: outrival.com/blog/ai-for-th…

We’re hiring a new investor at @btv_vc! We are small and collaborative team, so you’ll get exposure to nearly every aspect of being a VC. We’ll expect you to play a critical role in sourcing new investments, conducting due diligence, and supporting portfolio companies. We're looking for someone who is curious and ambitious, builds relationships easily, has a passion for working with founders, operates in a high sense of urgency by default, and maintains high standards of excellence in their work. Bonus points for startup or technology company operating experience and a passion for fintech. We absolutely love our work and hope you have the same level of passion for it as we do. We’re looking for someone early in their career (~4-6 years in) in the Bay Area or willing to move. If the above sounds interesting to you, you can learn more and apply by following the link below!

Honored to receive the 2024 Silicon Valley Culture Shifting Award 🙌🏿 13 years ago, I began my journey as the first MBA intern at @kaporcapital, and today, as Co-Managing Partner, I’m proud to keep pushing forward our mission of empowering diverse founders.

@HarryStebbings @levie 👀👀👀

@levie Love to do a 20VC with you on this my man! Dropped you an email

Once a decade or so in tech we get an industry-realigning platform shift, and today we're fortunate enough to all be living through the AI wave. When these moments occur, you have a brief period of a few years where the winners and losers will emerge in almost every category, which means you're essentially signing up to be going 24/7 during this window. When we first started Box right at the beginning of the cloud wave, for the first couple of years until we could at least feel like we had reached a point of "survival", we worked nonstop. Coding, selling, marketing, partnering, fundraising, hiring, pivoting, launching, everything. Sure, looking back we could have avoided 16-18 hour days by avoiding the time wasted on what would ultimately be useless work, bad decisions, or strategic misadventures. If we could go back and delete them from our calendars, we'd get all that time back.   But, it's impossible to know in the moment which is the wasted time and effort. The good decisions came as a result of pivots from the bad ones, and the misadventures only taught us how to be smarter in the future. There's basically no way we could've "worked smarter not harder" and achieved any similar outcome. And perhaps most importantly, we had a blast doing it -- sure it was straining, but we certainly wouldn't have worked that hard if we weren't at least *mostly* having fun. Now back to AI. There's probably more change happening at an even faster pace in AI than some of the biggest prior platform shifts like cloud and mobile. In comparison to cloud and mobile, there are billions of people that instantly can use AI so the markets are larger to start; there are more major platform providers competing for prime positions in the market; and there is a far higher rate of breakthroughs that advance the state of the art. So when you're in the middle of one of these windows like we're in with AI, the only thing you can do is just crank. It will by no means ensure success, but it will definitely improve your odds, which generally are quite low to begin with. So take every advantage you can get. And you’re not having fun doing it, you probably shouldn’t!

Check out our Co-Managing Partner @MrStartup featured in @BusinessInsider, discussing his thoughts on how #AI is ushering #edtech into a new era! Read more here: bit.ly/44ILZgk businessinsider.com/heres-why-inve…

We’re thrilled to welcome Brandon Boros as our new #KaporCapital Venture Partner! Brandon brings a wealth of experience and is committed to investing in gap closing startups. Join us in welcoming Brandon and read more about his new role in @sfexaminer. bit.ly/4dB2jDC

~~ eXciTed t0 anNouNCe ~~ @typecapital, the 𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 for founders to take their first check. I spoke with @FortuneMagazine about building Type –still in its earliest stages– and how excited I am about the next-generation of founders and fund managers. There’s still a ton more work to do, but I haven’t felt this excited, focused, and (dare I say) convicted in a long time. To the builders, always. You’re exactly our type. fortune.com/2024/05/13/ter…

@nihalmehta @EniacVC @0wenChun @mon__lim @sofbadalamenti @Kristine1ise @DJaeck @timy0ung @Hadley @vicsingh Congrats!!!!

It's a dream to do what you love- serving founders- with who you love. Today we @EniacVC are proud to announce $220m in new funds from majority mission driven LPs. Grateful to our team, founders, LPs, #nyctech, and the community (you!) for this continued opportunity. 🙏🏾

@rubenharris Happy birthday! Enjoy 🇯🇵!

Today is my birthday. 37. Feeling blessed to be a builder during this time in history. For some of you it's still Friday, but I'm in Japan right now, on Saturday, March 30, in the future, thinking about my purpose and what I have been chosen to do. Grateful to the believers.

Announcing the Winners of the 2024 SXSW Pitch Competition bit.ly/3wOgCE5

I'm speaking at SXSW Pitch: Smart Cities, Transportation & Sustainability at SXSW starting in 30 mins! schedule.sxsw.com/2024/events/PP…

Congratulations to #KaporCapital Co-Managing Partners @MrStartup and @unolil on being featured in the DEIC Power100 list of Asset Managers! Check out the announcement here: bit.ly/49ynbsN

Attending #SXSW today? Don't miss these Kauffman Fellows' sessions! 🧵 Join @noramayc (KF23) for SXSW Pitch: Food, Nutrition & Health to hear from startups focused on human-centric applications that advance nutrition and connect individuals to care. schedule.sxsw.com/2024/events/PP…

Women won big tonight! We are so proud to announce @MaroHealth as our #SXSWEDU 2024 Launch Startup Competition grand prize winner, @natakallam as the Impact Award winner, and @strugglymath as the Community Choice Award winner! Congratulations! ow.ly/q3HK50QMbEq