Prior: Co-founder, Third North Creative; Co-founder/CEO, SportsEngine (acq: CMCSA). Current: General Partner, @rallyvc - Investing in SaaS+ & select experiments
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📣Calling all Sqt/10U, PW/12U, and Btm/15U families📣
Tomorrow, July 30, is the final day to take advantage of early registration pricing for the 26-27 season!! After tomorrow, fees at these levels will increase by $50!!
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For years in enterprise SaaS, the software was the moat. AI is changing that fast. What holds up now is the workflow data and trust a platform builds over years.
@jmkaufenberg breaks down four layers of that advantage and why context wins the AI era:
rallyventures.com/the-contex…
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📣Calling all SAHA Members, Alumni, Friends and Neighbors!!📣
Registration for our Ninth Annual Golf Outing is now live and we hope to see you there!!
Visit stillwaterhockey.net/golftou… for more info, to register for the event, and to learn about sponsorship opportunities.
Really enjoyed collaborating on this @rallyvc SaaS+ post with @EhrmanRick who is now at @VerticalInsure and running the partnership playbook that we executed together previously at SportsEngine.
📢 New in our SaaS+ Series: @jmkaufenberg and @EhrmanRick share practical lessons on how building a great partner ecosystem can change the trajectory of a business and generate billions in value. rallyventures.com/building-a…
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In this edition of #whyweinvested, @jmkaufenberg talks to @blankmetal_ai Co-Founder and CEO @mcjohnson about the vision behind the company, what it takes to lead through a time of rapid change and how to be successful in the AI era. rallyventures.com/blank-meta…
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Today we announced that Allen Control Systems has raised $30M in Series A funding.
Led by @craft_ventures with continued support from @InspiredCap and @rallyvc, this investment will accelerate our engineering growth and fast-track the deployment of Bullfrog™—our autonomous weapon station built to stop unmanned threats with precision, speed, and scale.
Drones have radically reshaped the battlefield. Bullfrog is built to counter them.
Justin Kaufenberg retweeted
@allencontrol has raised $30M in Series A funding to accelerate deployment of autonomous weapon systems and counter the rapidly proliferating drone threat.
We are grateful to our investors @craft_ventures @jefffluhr @DavidSacks @jmkaufenberg @InspiredCap @rallyvc for believing in the urgency of this mission.
Justin Kaufenberg retweeted
💡 Next up in the Rally Ventures SaaS+ Series: The Top 5 Ways to Monetize Funds Flow Out.
Don’t miss @jmkaufenberg’s breakdown of how to capitalize on the emergence of funds flow out as the next frontier in payments monetization.
rallyventures.com/the-top-5-…
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We're honored to be recognized as one of @a16z's 50 influential companies building the future of American defense, resiliency, and exceptionalism.
We're just getting started! 🇺🇸 🚀
Our third annual American Dynamism 50 is out. Read about 50 companies shaping the fight of the future. a16z.com/american-dynamism-5…
Really proud, but not surprised to see @rallyvc portfolio company @allencontrol on the @a16z Dynamism 50 list
Our third annual American Dynamism 50 is out. Read about 50 companies shaping the fight of the future. a16z.com/american-dynamism-5…
My @rallyvc partner Ben Fried, the long time Google CIO, wrote a short piece on DeepSeek and how it impacts our investment thesis
The emergence of DeepSeek, an open-source LLM family and chatbot, has sparked upheaval in the tech industry. Rally Venture Partner Ben Fried unpacks its significance and how it reinforces our AI investment thesis. rallyventures.com/our-take-o…
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Congratulations to our CFO, Stephanie McCoy, who was recently recognized as a 2024 Notable Chief Financial Officer in @TCBmag! Stephanie has been instrumental in laying the foundation for Rally and growing the firm to more than $1B in AUM. tcbmag.com/notable/stephanie…
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Rally Ventures recently hosted a masterclass for our portfolio on how to craft an outstanding fundraising pitch. We’re sharing the deck here, which outlines the critical components of a successful pitch, including our recommended pitch deck template. rallyventures.com/the-pitch-…
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Zivian Health connects nurse practitioners & physician assistants with vetted collaborating physicians to tackle staffing shortages, support treatment plans and ensure compliance. rallyventures.com/zivian-hea…
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The average executive has 329 pieces of personal information exposed publicly, which includes home addresses. Hackers use this information to craft digital and physical attacks.
@getpicnic's Founder and CEO shared a few tips on how to protect yourself. rallyventures.com/make-key-e…
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The Sales Rep Time to Break Even Model is an underutilized yet crucial metric for evaluating sales efficiency and deciding when to hire more sales reps at a SaaS+ company.
@jmkaufenberg explains how to think about using this model here: vimeo.com/998288381?share=co…
When I was running SportsEngine, it took me a while to appreciate just how important it is to package up this financial data for consumption by employees and by outside investors. It's important in SaaS, but it is mission critical in SaaS+ given the variable fintech nature of that usage revenue
Next up in our SaaS+ Series: The Nine Financial Metrics Your CFO Needs to Know. As your business shifts to include usage-based revenue, you must adjust how you track and report financial metrics. rallyventures.com/the-nine-s…
It’s been a total pleasure getting to know Colby and team. They’ve been incredibly impressive from pre-seed to general availability
In this next edition of our "Why We Invested" series, @get_abstracted Co-Founder and CEO Colby DeRodeff talks about the Abstract platform, why legacy solutions haven’t kept pace and his favorite ways to unplug. rallyventures.com/abstract-s…
