BCV's Year in Review

On this last day of 2023, we decided to collect some of what made this year a big one for BCV. While there are too many highlights to mention, we’ll do our best.

Growing the portfolio

First up, we added some stellar companies and founders to our portfolio, including: Navro , Contextual AI , EvenUp , unstructured.io , Apollo.io , Cleanlab , MaintainX , Halcyon and Ansa .

Launching two large new funds

In February, we launched two new funds — our largest to-date — to continue our deep and engaged support of founders and technology startups of all stages.

Building an AI community

Last month, we officially announced BCV Labs, our AI incubator and community that’s made for exceptional AI engineers, product people and researchers in the Bay Area.

Doubling down on writing

We were also prolific writers. One popular piece came from Sarah Hinkfuss and Tina Dimitrova , who explained the why and how of fintech valuations in recent years, as well as thoughts on where fintech will go next.

Plus, our team put their heads together to create the Head Start guide for ambitious founders.

Expanding the team

We welcomed many new faces to the BCV team, including Saanya Ojha , Angela Liu , Michele Wang and Ron Miasnik on the investing side.

We also welcomed many new members to the platform team: Miranda (Cornejo) Piatt , Jooli H. , Tiffany Rivera , Katherine Brown , Lauren Batres , Mel Hurwitz, Nicole LoRusso , Myles M. , Sophia (Yamauchi) Schwanke , Jack Keleher, CPA, MBA , Tingyi (Tina) Dong and your very own newsletter writers, Richard Feloni and Rachel Colson .

Hosting a ton of events

You might have even seen us IRL—we hosted more than 100 events this year! These included the Fintech CEO Summit, an "Oppenheimer" screening, two Fogo do Ch?o dinners and our first Inflection event, which gathered our portco CEOs in San Francisco to learn from each other and from speakers like Palo Alto Network's Nikesh Arora, Anthropic's Daniella Amodei and Cloudflair's Michelle Zatlyn.

Looking ahead

While 2023 was a big year for us, we can’t wait to share with you even more in 2024. To get an idea of where our heads are at, check out our partners' set of predictions if you haven't already. We'll leave you with this new video we produced — and on that note, subscribe to our YouTube channel, also new, which we'll be updating throughout 2024. Cheers!

This edition of the newsletter was edited by Rachel Colson, director of communications, and Richard Feloni, head of content. If you're not already a subscriber to The Weekly Download, scroll up and make it happen!