Theorems

Our lessons learned and stories from startups.

Mariana Garza Mariana Garza

LottieFiles: Motion Design That’s Accessible to All

Clearly, collaboration is our thing. Many of our investments center around enabling teams to get more quality work done together and faster. LottieFiles is no exception, democratizing access to best in class motion design and graphics animation.

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Mariana Garza Mariana Garza

Switchboard: The Cloud Collaboration Space

Over the past two years, we’ve needed more real-time collaboration, knowledge capture, and seamless room transitions. That’s why we’re excited to tell you about Switchboard.

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Mariana Garza Mariana Garza

Sardine: The New Standard for Fraud Prevention

We’re privileged to work with operators who have been knee deep in their industries for decades – Sardine’s team is no exception with years of executive experience at top fintech companies like Coinbase, Revolut, Google Pay, Bolt, and PayPal. This made it a no-brainer to partner with CEO Soups Ranjan and his team at the earliest stages of company building.

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Mariana Garza Mariana Garza

Ascend: Elevating Modern Insurance Payment Offerings

We’re passionate about the formation stage of company building. That’s why we’ve loved having a ringside seat to the work Andrew and Praveen have done building Ascend since they first conceived of modernizing insurance payments.

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Mariana Garza Mariana Garza

TurbineOne: Frontline Perception for our Public Sector Heroes

As always, here at XYZ we value insight and experience. It is not lost on us that the importance of these two qualities is nowhere more apparent than the frontlines. That is why we are proud to partner with TurbineOne, the frontline perception company.

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Mariana Garza Mariana Garza

Elotl: Commoditizing the Public Cloud

Unique insight is a great benefit of deep lived experience. As operators, it was clear to us that the insight Madhuri had from more than two decades of experience at companies like Oracle, VMware, and ClusterHQ — that cloud compute for enterprises should and will also be commoditized — rang true.

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Mariana Garza Mariana Garza

Hex: Driving Impact from Data

There are two things we love working with here at XYZ: Palantir alumni founders and multiplayer applications. Combine those two and you get something pretty special. That’s what we encountered with Hex.

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Mariana Garza Mariana Garza

Highnote: The Power of Fintech for All

Building insights through lived experiences is something we deeply value. Over the course of the past year, the Highnote team has built this in spades and launched the world’s most modern card platform purpose-built for embedded card experiences.

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Mariana Garza Mariana Garza

Introducing Daffy: It’s Time to Give

Here at XYZ, we focus on fintech, enterprise, and tech-forgotten spaces. Most recently, we’ve bet on something so obvious and yet so tech-forgotten — charitable giving, the timeless idea that individuals should help those less fortunate than themselves.

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Cocoon: Employee Leave, Simplified

When a unique insight is discovered by an execution-oriented team, an enduring company is sure to be found. CEO & Cofounder, Mahima Chawla left Square to start Cocoon after having spent months delving into the world of family and finance. Along with two other fintech veterans coming out of Stripe, Lauren Dai and Amber Feng, they’d discovered an unmet need in leave management.

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Mariana Garza Mariana Garza

Chapter: Medicare, Maximized

Aging in 2021 should be simple, personalized, and empowering. Chapter is delivering this with their tech-enabled platform and end-to-end guidance. That’s why we’re excited to partner with them as they reimagine Medicare for all Americans.

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Mariana Garza Mariana Garza

Blues Wireless: The World’s Machines Connected

We believe that mass IoT should be affordable, accessible, and seamless. That’s why we’re excited to partner with Blues Wireless as they build out embedded cellular solutions that make this a reality.

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Mariana Garza Mariana Garza

Rootly: Developer Time is Precious

Incident management can be a learning opportunity for everyone, however the current tools fall short. We are excited to partner with the Rootly team as they deliver an elegant collaborative solution that not only resolves, but prevents incidents.

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Mariana Garza Mariana Garza

Sanlo: Game Development Reimagined

We believe that game and app developers should have the financial tools to run and scale their businesses so that they can get back to creating compelling products. That’s why we backed Sanlo.

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Mariana Garza Mariana Garza

Bond and The Future of Fintech

Every company ultimately will have to become some form of a fintech, but it’ll be really hard. Roy wants to enable that future.

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