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Benjamin Döpfner Verified account @bendopfner · Oct 20

Excited to share that Vesto has joined @tryramp .

We started Vesto with a simple vision: give finance teams one place to manage all their cash.

Since then, we’ve helped hundreds of teams bring their treasury operations across banks, entities, and countries into one platform.

I’ve long admired what Ramp is building, and as I got to know the team better, it became clear that joining forces would let us bring this vision to life at a much greater scale.

At Ramp, we’re now building one place for finance teams to manage their cash alongside their spend, no matter who they bank with.

We’re starting by bringing bank connectivity, cash flow reporting, and forecasting together, giving teams a complete view of their cash in the finance platform they already use every day.

To the customers who’ve trusted Vesto over the years: thank you. Building for you has been the best part of this journey, and your feedback continues to shape what we’re building next.

I couldn’t be more excited to keep going with the team at Ramp. Job’s not finished.

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David Weisburd 🚀 Verified account @DWeisburd · Oct 5

One advisor with a handful of shares has helped a portfolio company more than every VC on its cap table combined. Will Robbins says that is why venture brands matter less now.

@whrobbins is founder of Robbins Capital, which backs technology companies from formation, and was Contrary's first employee before investing under his own name. He was also the first investor in Zepto. He has watched the Valley obsess over venture brand hierarchies while the customers founders actually need to reach have never heard of any of them.

Here is how he explained it on my podcast:
"If you pull a person off the street here in New York City, they've never heard of any venture fund and they don't really care. One advisor, formerly a senior executive at the US Medicaid program, has been more helpful to this company than all the VCs combined. Just one guy with a small number of advisor shares. Because the government and the insurance companies know who these Medicaid leaders are. They don't know who the VCs are."

For years, a tier one name on the cap table was a talent magnet and a signal. That worked when a handful of rounds made headlines. Today a high profile Series A is announced seemingly twice a day, and the signal has diluted. Meanwhile software has become cheap to build, so the real constraints are distribution, trust, and access to the people who decide what gets bought. Brand does not transfer into those rooms. Relationships do.

The edge in venture is shifting from who your fund is to who you can actually open doors for.

This episode is presented by @juniper_square, with additional support from @AlphaSenseInc.

Full episode below 👇
youtu.be/Q-U8nz77NCM

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Samir Vasavada Verified account @samir_vasavada · Jul 14

1/ @viseinc just crossed $100B in platform assets. 355% year-over-year growth and over $11.5B AUM in Vise Strategies. Our leanest team ever.

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Markie Wagner Verified account @markiewagner · Jun 10

Introducing @PoeticHQ: a new AI system that executes complex multi-hour tasks with 99%+ accuracy and 10x fewer tokens than agents.

We raised $50M at $500M from Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, First Harmonic, and Genius Ventures to build AI that does complex work inside Fortune 500 companies without hallucination.

While code is too brittle, agents are too unpredictable. The work that runs the global economy - anti-money laundering, fraud investigations, underwriting - needs extreme accuracy.

So we built a new kind of software that pairs the flexibility of AI with the predictability of code.

When the world stays the same, Poetic runs fixed code: fast, cheap, identical every time. When the world changes, Poetic uses AI to regenerate its approach and find its way back to the objective.

In one year, we went from zero to an eight-figure run rate as a team of four.

Since then, we’ve scaled the team and executed the highest-stakes processes at AIG, SoFi, and Chime. At SoFi, a large US bank, Poetic reached 99%+ quality on fraud investigations in five weeks.

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