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If you’ve ever wanted a look under the hood of how a VC firm runs its investor relations function, M13 Partner & Head of IR Sarah Tomolonius is a great place to start. Few can truly take a long-term view like Sarah, whose approach to venture is shaped by her interest in finance, sustainability, and family legacy. Her unique career includes an MPA in International Finance, a stint at National Resource Defense Council, and working for centuries-old financial firms—where she began to hone the art of the 100-year relationship. According to Sarah, “We’ve been lulled into thinking that the VC Cinderella stories that seem to bloom before our eyes are instantaneous, and that’s never the case. There are so many points of crisis, and near-failures, and feelings of catastrophe and agony and anxiety on behalf of founders along the way. There is a ton of work and effort going on behind-the-scenes for founders, investors, and LPs.” Learn more about this work, how Sarah cultivates long-term relationships and builds trust with M13's LPs, how IR is evolving, and more: https://lnkd.in/eu-RwUsU? ?? : Sarah on stage at M13's 2024 annual meeting in LA #WomenInVenture #VentureCapital #Investors

What types of founders do some of M13's partners love to work with? What makes a founder stand out? Hear from Anna Barber, Brent Murri, W. Christine Choi, and Karl Alomar below.

Consumer experiences in healthcare are hard to navigate and lack the personalization consumers have in other industries—making it challenging to acquire, engage, and retain members. RadiantGraph, led by former founder of Ginger (which merged with Headspace) Anmol Madan, is leveraging the superior power of AI/ML platforms to implement healthcare personalization at scale, generating personalized marketing and engagement tools to fight these issues. The result? More personalized engagement, more tailored program enrollment, better clinical outcomes, and ultimately happier members. While there are many players building healthcare-specific AI capabilities, we’re especially excited about RadiantGraph: -We believe the team has found exceptional founder-market fit -The platform is already processing personalization models for more than 3.5 million people, despite launching just last year -This team really gets that the limitations are not with AI technology itself, but rather barriers around its implementation—and their platform is designed to overcome those challenges Read more of why we led their Series A, from M13’s Morgan Blumberg and Latif Peracha: https://lnkd.in/ebjtYWuU #AI #MachineLearning #HealthTech

Congratulations to RadiantGraph (and CEO Anmol Madan) on raising their $11M Series A! We're excited to lead the round and support their mission to help healthcare orgs engage with customers in a more personalized way. "The company has a low burn and they've priced their contracts in a way where the gross margins are significant — and with software gross margins, they will only increase, as a level of automation continues to go up," M13 partner Latif Peracha says. Healthcare organizations that provide consumers with accessible, affordable, and high-quality care surpass those that don't, per a recent McKinsey report. RadiantGraph is helping healthcare organizations meet that need by tracking patterns in patient populations and tailoring care. Read about RadiantGraph's technology in Axios from Aaron Weitzman: https://lnkd.in/giUaByw9 #HealthTech

Kudos to M13 partner Anna Barber, who's in the news again—this time for landing on AIM Research's impressive list of 10 women VCs transforming AI through investment in the US. As she shares in the article, Anna is particularly interested in AI solutions for small and medium-sized businesses, tackling complex data problems like inventory planning and customer success, and AI infrastructure related to compliance and data integrity. She also sees AI agents (like those being built by M13 portfolio companies Norm Ai and Maven AGI) as the next frontier and believes AI is a transformative force. Read more on Anna and 9 other women VCs from Anshika Mathews: https://lnkd.in/guFKQSxF #WomenVCs #WomenInvestors #WomenInTech And learn more about Anna’s approach to investing in her partner profile: https://lnkd.in/gfbjQYnr

Technical interviews are much harder today than they used to be. So is getting in the door at companies. In Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview, co-authors Aline Lerner (founder of M13 portfolio company interviewing.io), Gayle McDowell, Mike Mroczka, and Nil Mamano cover pretty much everything you need to know to succeed in today’s #hiring climate. This book is a fountain of knowledge, and Aline's chapters in particular draw on interviewing.io's data to cover advice for getting into companies, balancing interview prep with applications, getting your offers to come in at the same time, and leveraging them to negotiate the best offer. Learn more and pre-order a copy: https://lnkd.in/eNxFtsNT #TechnicalInterviewing

At M13, we consistently revisit our investment thesis to evaluate whether we have the right, risk-adjusted exposure to trends. Today, our focus is on infrastructure and applications enabled by B2B and B2B2C business models. We’re interested in the future of work, health, commerce, and money—and how emerging technologies like AI and blockchains can open up these markets.? One observation we’ve made repeatedly is that we are investing in technologies that we believe could take a decade to get to scale (if not longer) and then grow explosively. Just look at the rise of mobile: IBM released the first touchscreen phone in 1994, BlackBerry released its 5810 smartphone in 2002…then adoption exploded in the 2010s after the launch of the iPhone in 2007, reaching penetration rates upwards of 80%. We believe the biggest sea changes in technology occur slowly, then abruptly. Check out this innovation curve in the graphic below. We’re witnessing this in real time with trends like the AI wave that grew slowly for a decade (we’re coming up on the 10-year anniversary of Google’s DeepMind acquisition) then burst into its recent Cambrian explosion. Read our annual letter from Latif Peracha for more on how we're thinking about investing today including macro factors at play, our investment areas of interest, and how we support our portfolio companies: https://lnkd.in/eMNAHFNc #Investing #VentureCapital

For your weekend listening: new apps, crypto trends to watch for the rest of 2024, Solana Breakpoint, and more. M13 investor Mark Grace recently chatted about the current state of crypto with Amanda Young (Collab+Currency), Winnie Lau (BlockTower Capital), and Regan Bozman (Lattice Capital): https://lnkd.in/eJg8ETFQ #Blockchain #Crypto

M13 partner Anna Barber has been making waves across the internet recently! ICYMI ? Read why Anna is optimistic about the impact of the recent 50-basis point rate cut for both investors and founders in Bloomberg from Katie Roof: https://lnkd.in/eD-anesJ? Check her out on Business Insider's list of the 19 best female early-stage investors, from Ben Bergman, Rebecca Torrence, and Samantha Stokes: https://lnkd.in/eBP_YB8J? What makes a founder stand out to Anna? She shared her thoughts with the M13 team: ?? "Founders with a lot of courage, who aren’t afraid of contrarian thinking? ??? Founders who see venture capital as a tool, not the end goal ??? Founders with deep perspective on the market they’re building in because of prior experience—it’s probably not a coincidence that I tend to be drawn to older founders ?? Founders with a deep conviction about their purpose and the business they’re trying to build" Learn more about what (and who) Anna is excited to invest in: https://lnkd.in/gfbjQYnr #Investors #VentureCapital

What should founders look for in investors? What's the impact of the lack of investor diversity? What's the key to making it as a founder? Get insights from Elizabeth Ruzzo, PhD, founder of M13 portfolio company adyn which has developed the first and only test designed to prevent birth control side effects, on the Brydge Club podcast with Ruffin Mitchener (link in comments). #WomensHealth #BioTech #Founders