Patrick Mandia
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Patrick Mandia
@patrickmandia
making @districtdotnet, investing @uncommonhq. previously @snap.
New York, NY Katılım Haziran 2024
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Today, we're announcing A* III, a $450 million early-stage fund.
We started @A_StarVC with the simple idea to be a founder's first believer.
We are generalists by sector, but specialists in the stage and craft of seed investing. We partner with founders before there is consensus, before there is traction, and often before there is even a product. We are not organized around a market thesis. We back exceptional builders and follow them into the most important categories.
That matters because seed investing has changed. It is more crowded, more visible, and increasingly transactional. Too often, firms use seed to secure an option and then wait for proof before investing real time and attention. Seed has become a market of access. We believe it should be a market of conviction.
We built A* around a different model. We commit early. We show up before external validation, deploying both time and capital from day zero to help founders find their first customer, make an early hire, or work through the decisions that define the company.
We are selective at the start and concentrated over time. We partner with a small number of founders and deepen our commitment as their companies take shape. The best outcomes come from knowing where to go deep and having the discipline to do it.
This approach has led us to companies like Ramp, Decagon, Whop, Cape, Simile, Paraform, Watney Robotics, and Mercor.
We're grateful to the founders who have chosen to build with us and to the limited partners who have backed us. With this fund, A* manages over $1 billion in assets less than five years after launch. Our job remains what it was on day one: back exceptional founders early and be the partner they need when it matters most.
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what's a good nyc cafe to do @airstreetcafe takeover for a day or afternoon?
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Can @tryramp please kindly stop with the whole vibecoding thing for a second so I can upload my invoice and get paid?
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Life is fun when you get to partner with one of your best friends and watch them do some of their best work.
Excited for the @districtdotnet crew to finally start to tell their story more.
one of my favorite and most ridiculous pictures of @patrickmandia and i:
Patrick Mandia@patrickmandia
Super excited to finally talk about all of the incredible businesses we support with @districtdotnet! We are also announcing our $14.7m seed round from @a16z, @KindredVentures, @GreylockVC, @CompoundVC, @JarenGlover, @gokulr, @jacobandreou, and so many more. Onwards!
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Super excited to finally talk about all of the incredible businesses we support with @districtdotnet!
We are also announcing our $14.7m seed round from @a16z, @KindredVentures, @GreylockVC, @CompoundVC, @JarenGlover, @gokulr, @jacobandreou, and so many more.
Onwards!
District@districtdotnet
Today, we’re introducing District to the world! District is an AI commerce platform that lets anyone build and manage a world-class commerce business. Create online stores, marketplaces, live selling platforms, and more, designed for how you sell today. More than a thousand businesses are already powered by District with top performers already generating millions in sales. We’ve raised $14.7M in funding to date led by @a16z and @KindredVentures , with participation from @GreylockVC , @JarenGlover , @gokulr , @soleio , @dottkhan , @jacobandreou , @petersellis , @jsiegz , @svangel , @20vcFund , Maria Raga, Deborah Liu, and others.
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@hanseulnam @coatuemgmt @sparkcapital @YasminRazavi @willreed @claymfisher @JamesKuklinski @coen_armstrong @jgphilips let's gooooo hanseul
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I joined @coatuemgmt as a partner today!
I spent a formative, incredible ~5 yrs @sparkcapital and was so genuinely lucky to have learned from + worked alongside the best ♥️ @YasminRazavi @willreed @claymfisher @JamesKuklinski @coen_armstrong @jgphilips
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the goat. we owe so much of our success to bk! hardest working investor on the cap table (and kindest!!)
Bryan Kim@kirbyman01
PERSONAL UPDATE: After 5+ years, I am leaving @a16z to start a fund! This was the toughest career decision of my life. I learned from the best partners and was privileged to work with incredible founders. So why leave? It is simply time to build. More to come on this.
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starting to roll out this little gesture on threads that lets you hold down on a subject anywhere in an image to segment it and attach it to your reply
(powered by sam!)
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lets go @aashaysanghvi_ !!!
Laura Mandaro@lauramandaro
Introducing The Information's 2026 list of rising venture capitalists. Some takeaways: -Sourcing fast-growing AI companies (Mercor, Together) was a common thread -Defense was hot! -Some had exits (Groq, Windsurf) via @julia_hornstein theinformation.com/articles/intro…
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codex this claude code that. where is gather for agents.
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where is loren brichter? it's time to invent the pull-to-refresh of AI
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@willdepue go here next time you're in nyc. elite selection of auralee, comoli, margaret howell, etc
instagram.com/ven.space/
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