First to believe. We lead pre-seed and seed rounds for founders shaping their product, defining their market, and building their team.
San Francisco & Palo Alto, CA
Joined February 2009
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Every growth and marketing team is drowning in more channels, more content and more data than they can keep up with… that’s where Nectar steps in
Engineers stopped writing every line of code and started directing agents.
Growth and marketing teams are in that moment now.
Meet the next chapter of Nectar: the agentic growth stack. One platform replacing 5+ legacy tools. Agents that work every message, creator outreach and creative research about your brand, and tie it all back to revenue 🍊
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The Nuclear Company CEO @JonathanWebbKY reveals why Kentucky coal country beat 1,500 other sites for a massive 6.6 GW nuclear project:
"This is our beautiful campus of Prosperity One, about 4,000 acres on the Ohio River."
"Growing up in a coal state, seeing a lot of the coal plants shut down, we got a need for power in the region. Behind me, there’s the 765 kV line. It’s the largest transmission line in the country, and it connects us to PJM, which is the entire Northeast. And the Ohio River’s got about six times the amount of water we would need for the reactors."
"We’ve looked at about a dozen states, met with governors, and looked at about 1,500 properties. Today’s the day that we’ve officially announced the project to the world."
@TheNuclearCo
Rohit Sharma took the Builders Stage at @TechCrunch Disrupt with Austin Clements and Sandhya Venkatachalam on winning pre-seed without a product. With nothing to demo, investors judge how a founder reads a problem and why they’re the one to chase it. Thanks for including us, TechCrunch.
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Announcing Prosperity One: a proposed 6.6 gigawatt nuclear campus in Lewis County, Kentucky
Some software only needs to work for one conference. Some adapts to each person using it. True Partner Mike Montano on what gets built when building gets easier: trueventures.com/writings/bu…
Nectar is changing how brands use social to talk with their biggest fans, in the comments and DMs where people actually hang out.
Congrats to Misbah, Farah and the team on being named a 2026 @Inc Power Partner 🍑
There's just something about rocket launches 🚀
Another clean launch for ICEYE and their SAR satellites. They can image Earth day or night in any weather, and now two of them will watch over Portugal's Atlantic waters. Proud to be along for the ride.
ICEYE has successfully launched and deployed four new SAR satellites aboard the SpaceX Bandwagon-5 mission, including two for Portugal’s Atlantic Constellation with CTI Aeroespacial and the Portuguese Air Force (@fap_pt). Each spacecraft has established communication, and commissioning operations are underway.
Read more: hubs.li/Q04BML2Y0
Video: @SpaceX
This is the kind of product instinct we look for in founders. Less clever. More 'why was this still dumb.' xitter.cf/nbaschez/status/211192…
Tomorrow at our SF office: Physical AI demo day with @keerthinalabotu. Open to anyone building in the space who wants to demo or watch. xitter.cf/keerthinalabotu/status…
hosting a physical ai demo day next tuesday at the @trueventures office
open to anyone building in the space who wants to demo or pull up to watch :)
luma.com/zihrg3u0
Tomorrow at True: @keerthinalabotu is hosting a physical AI demo day at our office. If you're building robots, hardware, or anything AI that moves, come demo or just watch!
hosting a physical ai demo day next tuesday at the @trueventures office
open to anyone building in the space who wants to demo or pull up to watch :)
luma.com/zihrg3u0
True Partner @tonysphere on Polsia: "We funded Ben and got out of the way. He needed space to create, and he called me right before Christmas and said, 'I think I got it. These agents can build a company from scratch, from your idea, almost like a tech co-founder. It can build your site, market it, communicate it, do all of it.' His ability to accept as a partner a piece of technology that allows him to go build... it's been incredible to watch."
Polsia is about to hit $25M run rate.
Next stop: $100M ARR.
And things keep accelerating:
$0 → $1M in 12 weeks
$1M → $10M in 10 weeks
$10M → $20M in 6 weeks
I just published one of my favorite and most successful aisloP episodes yet: “The Run Rate.”
I tell the whole story, from idea to $20M, month by month.
The episode ends in Tokyo, where I went a few weeks ago.
Probably the best place on Earth to take a deep breath, get inspired, and rethink what’s possible.
I came back with an even bolder vision for Polsia.
The road from $25M to $100M is going to look very different.
Polsia v2 is coming soon.
@puneet324 judged the Enterprise session of Startup Battlefield at @TechCrunch Disrupt on Wednesday, alongside @badgalgge, @gimmedadeetz, @rischter_scale, and @marklxu1.
True Ventures retweeted
hosting a physical ai demo day next tuesday at the @trueventures office
open to anyone building in the space who wants to demo or pull up to watch :)
luma.com/zihrg3u0
True Ventures retweeted
What’s overhyped, what’s overlooked, and what should venture CFOs act on now?
@EisnerAmper's Navin Sethi and Jennifer Cuello join @trueventures’ Ulrike Kellmereit to dig into tax changes and the important judgment calls behind fund valuations.
Thank you to our presenting partner, EisnerAmper!
#NVCASOPS
If you're raising right now, start at 35:11. @tonysphere on how much money a startup actually needs, why AI founders are overraising, and how to survive when capital gets tight.
Then go back to the beginning for the Slack and Blue Bottle stories.
My first conversation with Tony Conrad (@tonysphere), partner at @trueventures.
Tony has backed companies including @SlackHQ, @bluebottleroast and @polsia.
00:00 What the best founders get right
02:59 How Tony discovered and invested in Slack
07:20 What made Blue Bottle Coffee different
13:25 Backing founders before they know exactly what they’ll build
16:32 How AI changes SaaS and company building
19:52 Building radically better customer experiences
22:44 Where the next great companies will come from
23:14 Concept-market fit before product-market fit
25:10 The early Fitbit thesis
28:00 How founders should allocate their money
31:46 Surviving when capital gets difficult
35:11 How much money should a startup raise?
35:22 Why AI founders are raising too much
41:00 Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and founder control
41:45 Why companies need checks and balances
44:06 How big should a board be?
47:28 When a founder should stop being CEO
49:46 What founders who scale all the way have in common
50:16 The trait you cannot teach founders
50:45 SpaceX, Starlink and expanding into new markets
True Managing Partner @puneet324 joined @techcrunch.com’s Build Mode for a candid conversation about early-stage fundraising.
More here: youtube.com/watch?v=cRdy7DXd…
Key moments worth a listen:
3:21 - Why the earliest stage gets overlooked as capital concentrates
5:41 - When anyone can build an MVP, why True looks for a founder “spike”
7:46 - How @ Fitbit and @ Peloton took True into hardware, a market it wasn’t looking for
21:03 - What a first pitch needs: the founder’s “why” and a market narrative over a market number
30:49 - Choosing between term sheets: why the investor relationship is like a marriage
44:16 - The founder trait Puneet finds most predictive: product sense