Startup

It’s been a dizzying two years in the U.S. housing market — 2021 was arguably the hottest year on record for residential real estate, driven by pandemic-related fiscal stimulus and historically low interest rates. In 2022, the Federal Reserve reversed course and began aggressively hiking interest rates in an…

Meet Recast, the latest addition to Lerer Hippeau’s portfolio. HQ: New York Founders: Michael Kaminsky and Tom Vladeck The problem: Every year, billions of dollars are wasted on marketing spend that is either misguided or ineffective. These dollars flow from innovators, investors, and entrepreneurs and wind up in the coffers…

Last month, I officially graduated from the Executive Master in M&A and Valuation program at the University of Groningen. This executive degree focuses on the full spectrum of the M&A process, including valuation. In the program, we have analyzed deals such as the merger between Ahold and Delhaize, discussed Heineken’s…

by Nihal Mehta As a seed investor, I’m always thinking about how to find the next unicorn before they’ve even built a product. Recently, I’ve realized that I’m looking for a new category of founder, which I’ll describe as “low code, higher go-to-market” — founders who may not have exceptionally…

Loved by millions of developers, ngrok’s ingress-as-a-service platform empowers developers to deliver their apps to any user anywhere with security, scalability and observability built-in. Several years ago, I was looking for an easy-but-secure way to remotely access the servers and apps I maintain in my home lab. (Yes, I still…