Lorimer Ventures

??Congrats?? to Kirti Shenoy, Pranab Krishnan and the entire team at Zeal on their??$15M Series B allowing them to continue their work to Revolutionize Payroll for Modern Work. This round was led by Portage with participation from Spark Capital, Commerce Ventures, Cohen Circle, and Long Journey. (?? Y Combinator & BoxGroup as well) Read more from Zeal's Co-founder & CEO Kirti here: https://lnkd.in/gSgh426F

Congrats to James McGinniss and the entire David Energy team on their $23M Series A-1 funding led by Cathay Innovation alongside Union Square Ventures, Equal Ventures, BoxGroup & Keyframe Capital. David Energy is a Brooklyn based retail energy provider building the operating system for the clean energy grid and we couldn't be more excited to back this amazing team. Read more from Rebecca Szkutak at TechCrunch: https://lnkd.in/g3nJfU_s

?? Some builders are just different. When we met Joe and Stepan at ?? Win Son Bakery in Brooklyn back in September of 2022 - it was obvious that they had a magical combination of unique talent, a novel insight and an audacious vision for the future. 2 years of focused execution later we could not be more proud to announce their ?? $3.4M seed round from Y Combinator, SV Angel & Lorimer Ventures with participation from Paul Graham (Co-founder of Y Combinator), Greg Brockman (Co-founder of OpenAI), Jeff Dean (chief scientist of Google DeepMind), Amjad Masad (Founder of Replit), Karri Saarinen (Co-founder Linear) & more. 1?? Read Frederic Lardinois's wonderful piece in TechCrunch here: https://lnkd.in/eTUEtGkH 2?? Read Joe's essay on the round here: https://lnkd.in/e8V2hb74 3?? Read Hacker News piece on open sourcing Instant: https://lnkd.in/dEVCyFmy

?? Congrats to Craig Battin, Michael Sachse and the entire Airship team on their $4 million ?? pre-seed round led by QED Investors with participation from Lorimer Ventures, Silence, Four Acres Capital and Twine Ventures. Airship is building software and financial products for the trades, starting with a point-of-sale solution for HVAC, plumbing, and electrical companies that account for nearly $200 billion in annual homeowner spend in the US. Craig and Michael aim to build tools that unlock growth (and bigger paychecks) for the hardworking tradespeople of America, and free money for their end customers. ?? Learn more here: https://www.airship.us/ ?? TechCrunch article from Rebecca Szkutak: https://shorturl.at/M6TRG

?? Congrats to Grant, Jon and the Gamma team for making Andreessen Horowitz's (Olivia Moore) Top 100 Gen AI Apps list! Gamma is one of the few companies to make this list for the 3rd straight time alongside other amazing products like ChatGPT, Character.AI, Perplexity, Hugging Face, Midjourney and You.com. https://lnkd.in/exUqJXRn

Congrats to Andres, Mateo, Paulo, Joaquín, and the entire AltScore team on their $8.5M Series A round, led by Haymaker Ventures (Olivia & Phin), with participation from Caffeinated Capital (Varun & Raymond), Techstars, Kamay Ventures, BuenTrip Ventures, Far Out Ventures, Miguel Fernandez Larrea and more. AltScore's AI-driven ‘Rails of Lending’ empower any company to build and launch their own credit products in just weeks. Some of Latam's largest enterprises, such as Coca-Cola LATAM, use AltScore to offer digital credit solutions to millions of underserved small businesses. If your company is interested in offering new credit products to your customers or suppliers, or improving existing lending experiences, let’s talk. https://lnkd.in/etsn5Z9W

We couldn't be more excited to lead this round and partner with ?? Tim Barnes and the entire Scout Climate team. Grant writing is a critical but extremely taxing process for entrepreneurs. A typical grant requires 100+ hours from an on-staff grant writer OR ~$10K in outsourced spend, with no guarantee of success. In fact, the typical grant has a 90% failure rate. Scout offers an automated end-to-end discovery, writing, compliance and reporting platform for ?? scientific ?? grants so that Defense, Climate, and Healthcare companies can access this $750B global market??. https://lnkd.in/eS7sVxap Shoutout to our friends at Forum Ventures (Michael / James) for tag-teaming this one with us!

?? Congrats to 1?? UserEvidence (Evan & Ray), 2?? Zeal (Kirti Shenoy), and 3?? Gamma (Grant & Jon) for making Will Reed's Top 100 - Class of 2024! This list consists of 100 "emerging tech companies who are building high-performance cultures rooted in leadership, communication, appreciation, and conviction". https://lnkd.in/dreNwt85

At Lorimer Ventures we love partnering with repeat founders who've not only built enduring businesses, but have also personally experienced the pain of the problem they're trying to solve. Eric Boduch and Dustin Amrhein at Revcast fit this archetype perfectly. Have a ?? listen below to hear ?? Eric's founding story at Pendo.io and how Revcast was born to allow Sales leaders understand where their next dollar ?? is best spent to accelerate ?? their business. Revcast combines sales planning, sales reporting, and revenue risk detection into a single platform. The solution enables revenue leaders to build full, bottoms-up sales capacity plans, monitor execution against the plan in real time without requiring ops support, and automatically identify revenue risk as they navigate?the year. The platform drives increased planning collaboration, removes the need for ops to spend time on key reporting, and provides much earlier insight into capacity related risk in the business. ??: CRV, Murat Bicer, GTMfund, 24 and Up, The Full Ratchet, Nick Moran Learn more here: https://www.revcast.com

A recent article from the NYT covered the ‘progress’ we’ve made in youth mental health in America. Two years ago, 57% of female students reported extreme depressive symptoms. This past year, that number dropped to 53%. We should celebrate progress, but this pace of improvement is hardly a banner achievement, and for many kids, things aren’t getting better at all. Suicide risk among girls hasn’t changed, and 1 in 5 students who identify as LGBTQ attempted suicide in the past year. At Marble, we’re working to make more progress, faster. If our mission resonates, and you want to be a part of the founding team building a new teen mental healthcare system, please reach out. We’re looking for exceptional talent. If you don’t see a fit, we’d still love to hear from you! Drop us a line at [email protected]