Heartland Ventures

Heartland Ventures is hiring a Partner with CRO, or Head of Sales/Customer Success Experience! We're building the largest community of mid-market business owners in the country, and we need a resourceful leader to help scale our network team and processes. At Heartland Ventures, you’ll be at the forefront of connecting transformative technology from around the world with top leaders in the industrious Midwest. Please share, tag, or apply! We’d love to hear from you. #hiring #CRO #salesleadership #growth

We released our first Venture Investor Top List in 2018, with the aim of bringing attention to the most active institutional and corporate venture capitalists investing in the built world.?That year, the list included 27 investors. Not even enough to fill out our 50 slots. Today, we track hundreds of active investors. This year’s Venture Investor 50 includes investors that you may recognize from previous years—such as Fifth Wall, Aramco Ventures, Zacua Ventures, Blackhorn Ventures, and Nemetschek Group—but also plenty of newcomers—including CRH Ventures, GS Futures, Heartland Ventures, and Camber Creek—with quite a shakeup in the most active investors, as well. Learn more about all of the VCs featured on our Venture Investor 50 here: https://lnkd.in/gXuUzamm Foundamental, MetaProp, Suffolk Technologies, Brick & Mortar Ventures, Fifth Wall, Zacua Ventures, Navitas Capital, Ironspring Ventures, Building Ventures, Leonard, Energy Impact Partners, Breakthrough Energy , Y Combinator, GS Futures, KOMPAS VC, BDC Capital, Lowercarbon Capital, Cemex Ventures, B Capital , noa (formerly A/O), General Catalyst, Heartland Ventures, Blackhorn Ventures, UFP Ventures, SE Ventures, DCVC, Nemetschek Group, Insight Partners, BoxGroup, HTGF | High-Tech Gründerfonds, NOVA by Saint-Gobain, CRH Ventures, WND Ventures, Camber Creek, AEC Angels, Great Wave Ventures, Plug and Play Tech Center, FJ Labs, Andreessen Horowitz, Aramco Ventures, Shell Ventures, Munich Re Ventures, Keyframe Capital, Hitachi Ventures, National Grid Partners, RET Ventures, Koch Disruptive Technologies, Seedcamp, Trimble Ventures, Pi Labs

????????????????: Pay attention to how VCs accomplish their due diligence. If VCs are constantly pestering you to make intros to your customers (or relying fully on Tegus), that means they don't have direct/natural access to those same customers themselves ?? (and therefore won't be able to help with future intros to other customers). VCs that will have the most post-investment value will be the ones that already are talking to your current customers because they have a strong network, and will be able to rally that same network after to become buyers.

Today is Workstream’s 7th birthday! 7 years ago today --- Max, Lei and myself started Workstream after going door to door around San Francisco Bay Area talking to hundreds of business owners and learning that there was not a good all in one solution built for hourly businesses. Business owners were doing manual tasks from payroll, onboarding, hiring to HR tasks and spending 10s of hours each week manually running HR processes. Therefore, we started Workstream together! We have never looked back since. On our 7th birthday, I like to share 7 learnings from the past years 1/ Find truly great co-founders to be on this journey together I am incredible thankful to say I found not one, but two amazing co-founders. Just last week, Max, Lei and myself had our usual weekly sync and we had a 6+ hours call on Friday late night till midnight. To be able to be at it for 7 years, and still feel the same passion, determination and drive -- I'm thankful to have met the best co-founders one can ever have! 2/ Find a pain point that you want to invest 10 or 15 years in To build something great, you need time. Media and PR often glamorizes businesses & startups growing overnight. That is often not the truth. Choose wisely what you really want to spend 10 or 15 years on, because you will spend that and more on it. 3/ The team you build is the company you build Find great people who align with you on values, mission and purpose. The people you hire and work with is the team you build = the company and product you will build for your customers. 4/ Embrace the lows and highs Building a business is not easy. There's more lows than highs on the average, but one should learn to embrace both of them. Michael Jordan often says "I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. That's why I win" 5/ Find a mission and purpose you care about Both my parents are hourly workers and I grew up seeing how hard it is for hourly businesses to manage payroll, HR and hiring all in the same place. Find a calling that you really want to work on and care about, despite the lows and highs. 6/ Go all-in 120% Building a business, whether you are an early employee/streamer or a founder, is extremely hard. We need to go all in to have a chance at winning. 7/ Enjoy the journey The days are long but the years are short. Enjoy the journey! Happy birthday, Workstream! P.S Photo was taken in 2018 when Workstream was a 6 months old baby (I would say we all looked younger back then too!) as we were outside our co-working space in San Francisco at South Park / Soma.

We are excited to announce that Aldoa has closed a $3.75M round of financing! ?? New investors include Heartland Ventures and TIA Ventures, alongside existing investment partner MetaProp. Aldoa offers the first all-in-one business management platform purpose-built for environmental consulting and engineering firms, enabling teams to deliver quality projects on time and within budget. "This industry has been neglected by modern technology for far too long," said Adam Loewentheil, CEO and Co-Founder of Aldoa. "This funding allows us to build the highest quality tools to empower consultants and engineers, enabling them to focus on sustainably building and protecting our nation’s infrastructure." #FundingAnnouncement #ProjectManagement #EnvironmentalConsulting #Engineering