Simran Suri

@clairejyz @Lightspeed YAY!!!!

I'm beyond excited to announce that I’m joining @Lightspeed as a Partner on the early-stage investing team and helping to build everything they're doing in new media. I've spent the last six years investing in early-stage companies, and the last year building a media platform in parallel. What started as a side quest has reached 350,000+ followers and millions of viewers a month. For me, investing and storytelling have always been two halves of the same job. This work has put me in rooms with incredible founders, researchers, and operators - many of whom have become close friends, collaborators, and early stage bets. There's so much happening at the frontier right now, and the media platform has given me a way to be in those conversations early (and to bring the people I admire most into a wider audience). When Lightspeed reached out, we saw the same opportunity. Venture and media are converging, and the next generation of great firms will need to show up differently: reaching founders and builders before they've even started a company, and being the place where people first get excited about what's happening in tech. With more than $50 billion in AUM, Lightspeed has been building alongside founders at the frontier of technology for decades. It's a firm I've admired for years since I started investing - for its intellectual rigor, its long-term conviction, and the way it approaches company building. I’m excited to join a team that brings real depth and substance to its work, and I hope to bring that same ethos to everything I put out. Thank you to @ravi_lsvp, @bsomaia , and @Machiz for believing in this vision and trusting me to help build it. I’m so excited to see what we do together. If you're an early-stage founder, building or thinking about starting something, or just curious about this ecosystem - please reach out. My DMs are open and I’d love to chat!

lore team killing it per usual!!

I've been thinking a lot about longevity lately… not the peptide-injecting, supplement-stacking version, but what it looks like when it reaches the rest of us. The first wave of companies (@prenuvo, @function, @GrailBio) did something important: they proved consumers will pay for preventive care. But that customer is still largely a highly activated early adopter. McKinsey puts that group at just 25% of the market. The other 75% want to age well too, they're just not building a parallel health system outside their doctor to do it. I think that the next wave of longevity won't win by going deeper on biohackers, but by solving for adherence over diagnosis, earning provider trust instead of bypassing it, and treating brand as infrastructure in a category where consumers are being asked to hand over their most personal data. More here: maveronvc.substack.com/p/longevity-fo…

so proud of our team for the official Maverick Mindset launch! we’ve been fortunate to work closely w extraordinary consumer operators and are pumped to help tell their stories, starting w @ntdillon’s first episode w @KatColeATL!

never surprised to see @zehranaqvi killing it!! the og fangirl building for fans anywhere and everywhere 🤩🫶🏽😏 check out the @loreobsessed beta to dive deep into alllllll your fav fan theories, from the bravoverse to Harry Potter✨

🚨ATTN: NYC CONSUMER FOUNDERS🚨 Here is your guide to local consumer products investors around the area who are actively investing in consumer products businesses across the VC > PE spectrum. 👉 Founder Collective (VC) 👉 Left Lane Capital (VC/growth) 👉 Aria Growth (growth) 👉 TZP Group (PE) 👉 Bansk Group (PE) 👉 Stripes (growth) 👉 Rosecliff (VC) 👉 Maveron (VC) 👉 RiverPark Ventures (VC) 👉 CULT Capital (VC/growth) 👉 Alliance Consumer Growth (ACG) (growth) 👉Imaginary (VC/growth) 👉 Coefficient Capital (VC/growth) 👉 Prelude Growth Partners (Growth) 👉 True Beauty Ventures (VC) 👉 Silas Capital (VC) NYC has a ton, can't tag them all! So Who did I miss? Follow me for more city investor maps coming this week!

@mira_amin1 love this!!!

p.s. don’t sleep on the hopkins ecosystem :) some of the most talented and viciously hardworking people I know. stay tuned for the next one!

hosted my first official supper club called 8w8 in NYC … and had to start off with the @JohnsHopkins tech ecosystem ✨ menu: charcuterie, cheddar jalapeño biscuits, burrata + kiwi salsa + heirloom tomatoes, cucumber gazpacho, basil lemon ricotta lasagna, & figs & peaches cake

6/6 If you’re building in this space or you’re a brand looking for new returns solutions, I'd love to connect! Check out our full thesis here: maveron.medium.com/returns-retail…

5/ As investors in REBEL, which is redefining returns for baby gear and home goods, we know it’s possible to build and scale a returns retailer. The same thesis applies across categories — soft goods, consumer electronics, and more.

1/ At @Maveron, we're looking to invest in a returns retailer that builds its own brand — one that attracts & retains customers w/o relying on the independent brands it carries. Read more on our POV below 👇🏾

1/ Back in college, a single $35 overdraft fee could ruin my week. Today that pain fuels a $10 B IPO dream: @Chime just filed its S-1. Here’s the teardown investors need 🧵👇

25 Grand Problem & Opportunity Areas across Retail & eCommerce One of the best parts of focusing on specific sectors for investing is that we can attempt to proactively identify some of the top shifts and opportunity areas where startups can capitalize. In an effort to shed a light on some of these, I just published the results of a ‘breadth-first search’ in the Retail (& eCommerce) space – looking at the top areas where investors and industry insiders would like to see innovation across the sector. This draws on the collective wisdom of over a dozen top investors and operators active in the space. I'm excited to share this first post in a new series that will look at opportunities across markets.

@AliKAfridi @marshallporter @adrianalfieri @briansugar @Cflexman @zchelseaz @jodikrakess @jordanbuckner @QasimAMohammad @sibjeet so fun to chat on this!!

Full Post linked here: sandhill.io/p/retail-oppor… A huge thank you to the investors and operators that contributed: @marshallporter, Tehmina Haider, @adrianalfieri, Alex Malamatinas, @briansugar, @Cflexman, @zchelseaz, @jodikrakess, @jordanbuckner, @QasimAMohammad, @sibjeet, @simrangsuri, @SophiaJDodd, and @YuriyDov.

5/5 read more below and let us know if you’re working on one of these ideas! we would love to hear from you. maveron.medium.com/ai-unleashed-h…

4/ 🏟️ the business of college sports

1/ @jstoffer and I are excited to share the final installment of our AI Unleashed series, covering @Maveron’s Power Redistribution focus area!