Samir Mirza

Excited to announce our $11.5 million Series A at Pie @trypieapp, where we're on a mission to defeat social isolation. Our vision: doing things you enjoy with people you like should be as easy as calling a Uber. Looking for new friends? Easy as Pie. wsj.com/articles/bonob…

We're so excited to announce that Elle Ramel and @svmirza are joining the @chicago_blend board of directors! Read the full press release! chicagoblend.org/news-insights/…

Founders in the Casa! #Chicago #startuplife

NEW: I looked at a white paper by @fifthstarfunds, which seeks to serve as a "family and friend" round for founders without such network. I looked at the impact this could have: on average, Black founders raise less than 1,000 from family and friends. techcrunch.com/2023/04/06/fri…

Everyone is talking about Black founders only receiving 1% of venture capital. But what is actually happening and how do we solve it? A 🧵

It's been incredible to see the impact of our partners and community these last 2 years as we continue to fight to make Chicago the inclusive tech ecosystem that we know it can, should, and will be. 💪🏾

The @FifthStarFunds team was honored to receive WBC's Innovation Champion award with our friends at @TechRiseChi & @LongJumpFund for our work to invest in Chicago's underestimated entrepreneurs. Huge thx to @KuriakoseAbin & @WorldBizChicago for their immense support to our org's.

@lindsayknight Always a pleasure seeing you pal and let’s keep it going! Also a walk with @lindsayknight never feels cold because she is fire. 🔥

If there’s one thing I’d like to become known for in the chicago tech community it’s making people go on cold weather walks with me ❄️ cc @svmirza

The Fifth Star team is proud to announce that our portfolio has grown to 20 Black-led startups here in Chicago! Please meet our newest investments: @BarterE_ @thebetterspot @FlareFinSys @health_hciss @nxgrad @PiggyBackNetwrk @findthatspark_ @joinsupperclub fifthstarfunds.com/post/20-startu…

@ellieINchicago @KathrynFinney This is so dope! Can’t wait to listen!!! 🤗

A wonderful night bringing together founders from the Fifth Star portfolio. This is what the future of Chicago Tech looks like. Stay tuned for announcements soon on our newest investments! 🙌🏾

@ClaudeCimeus Courtside next year! And hopefully the Win next year too. 😅

Tradition of unplanned running into @svmirza at Bulls home opener continues

Thanks to our guest speakers Halima Nguyen & @AlyaAWoods of @CooleyLLP, @tmgrace of @longjumpfund, @SamaraMHernandz of @ChingonaVC and @svmirza of @fifthstarfunds, who talked to our Chicago Venture Fellows yesterday about the basics of fund formation.

@KuriakoseAbin @svmirza we out here for @Bask_N_Robbins 😍

@ellieINchicago @fifthstarfunds Thank you so much @ellieINchicago for the kind words and for amplifying this role! And you were my favorite human first! 🙌🏾

Fifth Star is hiring a full-time Managing Director to lead the organization and scale our impact as the nation’s preeminent Friends and Family fund for Black tech founders. See our link below for more info and please share the role in your networks! fifthstarfunds.com/managing-direc…

We’ve been selected as recipients of @GoldmanSachs One Million Black Women grant! This initiative is the largest of its kind in scope and provides Fifth Star with multi-year investment to close the Friends & Family funding gap for Black women. More info: fifthstarfunds.com/post/partnersh…

Congratulations to @FifthStarFunds portfolio companies @Buoypricing and @Eventnoire for being selected as recipients for the third Google for Startups Black Founders Fund! When we #FundBlackFounders, we all win. Congrats to Candice & Jeff! More info here: blog.google/outreach-initi…

@longjumpfund @ChicagoInno Love it! Congratulations to our friends at @longjumpfund and the amazing portfolio! 💥

We're thrilled to share that we've now made *15* investments in overlooked founders in Chicago, totaling $1.5M. And we're just getting started! 🚀 "'The check was secondary': How local VC LongJump is supporting 15 Chicago startups" bizjournals.com/chicago/inno/s… via @ChicagoInno

@ClaudeCimeus @ClaudeCimeus and @NickBlackburn8 were looking fresh that night. Ah memories! Looking forward to many more. Go Bulls!!!

Randomly ran into @svmirza — very wholesome home opener!

Me and @NickBlackburn8 were there!🥹