Equal Ventures retweeted
So excited to welcome @rosemajeed8 to the @EqualVentures family!
Rose is one of those people who reminds me of how much more impressive and hard working young people are today than when I was coming up. Rose had more experience in PE AND VC at 20 then I had when I was nearly 30, having served as Managing Partner of The Johns Hopkins University student led venture fund (@ALevelCapital) and worked at Graham Partners (a $5b AUM PE fund). She also interned at multiple venture-backed startups and graduated JHU in 3 years with a double major! That’s hustle!
Please join us in welcoming Rose to the team! 🎉🎊🥳🎉🎊🥳
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Rose is one of those people who reminds me of how much more impressive and hard working young people are today than when I was coming up. Rose had more experience in PE AND VC at 20 then I had when I was nearly 30, having served as Managing Partner of The Johns Hopkins University student led venture fund (@ALevelCapital) and worked at Graham Partners (a $5b AUM PE fund). She also interned at multiple venture-backed startups and graduated JHU in 3 years with a double major! That’s hustle!
Please join us in welcoming Rose to the team! 🎉🎊🥳🎉🎊🥳
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Excited to announce I've officially joined Equal Ventures!
The move couldn't have been any more emblematic of venture in the serendipitous nature of joining this hard-working and incredibly thought provoking team. I initially met @Rick_Zullo years ago during a shared portfolio nd over the course of many more quarters realized a shared philosophy perhaps best summed up in his own words - "are you winning or are you whining?"
The shared sense of an innate desire to compete and win in areas of domain expertise was something that I still find aspirational. That is only furthered by the team's humility and ever-present desire to continually learn and be the first call for founders.
Incredibly lucky to now be operating in the same sphere as @zchelseaz , @AliKAfridi , @achadroff, and Sophia Nguyen.
Already raring to go - if you're transforming legacy institutions, hit me up!
The move couldn't have been any more emblematic of venture in the serendipitous nature of joining this hard-working and incredibly thought provoking team. I initially met @Rick_Zullo years ago during a shared portfolio nd over the course of many more quarters realized a shared philosophy perhaps best summed up in his own words - "are you winning or are you whining?"
The shared sense of an innate desire to compete and win in areas of domain expertise was something that I still find aspirational. That is only furthered by the team's humility and ever-present desire to continually learn and be the first call for founders.
Incredibly lucky to now be operating in the same sphere as @zchelseaz , @AliKAfridi , @achadroff, and Sophia Nguyen.
Already raring to go - if you're transforming legacy institutions, hit me up!
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1) Last month we presented our "State of the VC economy" to our LPAC
We decided we’d release that report today and it turns out another much larger firm released theirs too😳
Lots of differences so check out how @EqualVentures sees the world in 2026
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We decided we’d release that report today and it turns out another much larger firm released theirs too😳
Lots of differences so check out how @EqualVentures sees the world in 2026
docsend.com/view/d246fpkgd…
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Excited to have beaten our donation goals to the @TheVFoundation for both EMC Summit and our @EqualVentures holiday party with a total of nearly $20k!
For those who haven't donated yet, please consider donating to help us achieve "victory over cancer"! vfoundation.donordrive.com/campaigns/Equa…
For those who haven't donated yet, please consider donating to help us achieve "victory over cancer"! vfoundation.donordrive.com/campaigns/Equa…
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Is seed venture evolving or ending? EMC hosted a spirited debate on what defines the next generation of winning seed firms. Themes that resonated:
- Smaller funds, deeper partnerships
- Operational discipline as edge
- Founder proximity as power
#EMCSummit
- Smaller funds, deeper partnerships
- Operational discipline as edge
- Founder proximity as power
#EMCSummit
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David Thurston of Cambridge Associates on what history teaches us about today’s venture cycle. #EMCSummit
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Differentiated experience creates differentiated insight. @RickZullo @xuezhao @pboyce @cpaik @stevejang on insiders vs. outsiders and what defines edge. #EMCSummit
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LPs aren’t chasing what’s hot. They are backing what endures. The signals that matter:
Team coherence over narrative polish
Repeatable sourcing edge
Clear path to liquidity
#EMCSummit
Team coherence over narrative polish
Repeatable sourcing edge
Clear path to liquidity
#EMCSummit
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Some of the most exciting emerging funds in the market discussing the “art of going solo” and their paths to
Building their firms with @dmdehrey @nchirls @semil @addielerner @du_ro
Building their firms with @dmdehrey @nchirls @semil @addielerner @du_ro
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Great partnerships survive cycles. Andy Golden on why patience and trust are still the strongest signals. #EMCSummit
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Solo doesn’t mean alone. @dmdehrey @nchirls @semil @du_ro @addielerner on conviction, clarity, and trust as the new scale. #EMCSummit
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Equal Ventures retweeted
1) My investing career has progressively moved earlier in the stack: PE→growth→early→seed
Recently, weve seen success even earlier (Pre-EVERYTHING). We call this "Before Day Zero"
Today, we're announceing our "Hatch" program, click 👇to learn more
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Recently, weve seen success even earlier (Pre-EVERYTHING). We call this "Before Day Zero"
Today, we're announceing our "Hatch" program, click 👇to learn more
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1) Today, I'm excited to announce @EqualVentures' 4th Annual Emerging Manager Circle Summit!
Last year, we hosted >350 emerging managers and LPs for one of my favorite events of the year and this year is going to be bigger and better than ever before🧵
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Last year, we hosted >350 emerging managers and LPs for one of my favorite events of the year and this year is going to be bigger and better than ever before🧵
newsletter.equal.vc/p/announcing-t…
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New @ThePeelPod out this morning
Learn everything you've ever wanted to know about the employee benefits market, AI and software opportunities in insurance, and kickstarting a vertical SaaS marketplace
Learn everything you've ever wanted to know about the employee benefits market, AI and software opportunities in insurance, and kickstarting a vertical SaaS marketplace
Episode #98: Inside the $2 Trillion Employee Benefits Market
Ryan Sachtjen is the Co-founder and CEO of Threeflow, building software for employee benefits brokers and insurance carriers.
We do a deep dive into the nearly $2 trillion dollar employee benefits market, including actually give the smallest companies the most leverage.
We also talk insurance more broadly, AI opportunities in insurance, lessons from kickstarting a marketplace doing nearly $3B in volume, and when his wife got cancer two months after closing Threeflow's seed round, and how his co-founders adjusted to support him.
Thanks to @boltdotnew for supporting this episode + to @thejoefloyd and @Rick_Zullo for introducing me to Ryan and help brainstorming topics!
Full episode here on X or links in the replies.
Timestamps:
3:57 Threeflow: B2B benefits marketplace
5:50 How the benefits industry works
9:20 The importance of brokers in insurance
12:32 Benefits broker software stack
15:36 How to make money in employee benefits
21:11 Ways to compete in insurance
26:34 How AI is changing insurance
31:01 What its like to be an insurance broker
35:37 Starting ThreeFlow in 2016 pre-LLMs
40:13 The 128 day walk through Europe before Threeflow
44:47 When his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer
50:23 Advice for founders on surviving large personal events
52:46 Threeflow’s unorthodox Seed round
59:46 How to vet your investors
1:04:14 Why insurance brokers exist
1:05:08 How to build a marketplace on top of Vertical SaaS
1:10:53 Choosing a marketplace entry point
1:15:05 $2.5B in premium volume on Threeflow workflows
1:26:39 Importance of supply side volume in a marketplace
1:31:21 Fundraising without a formal process
1:33:03 Hiring for “just get stuff done”
1:36:22 AI opportunities in insurance
1:41:05 Building software in insurance
1:44:56 Tactics for running a distributed team
1:49:04 Creating your own playbooks
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Excited to welcome @00hughes_sam to @EqualVentures as our 1st Platform Manager
We've been blown away by our experience w/ Sam and know she'll be invaluable in helping us bring community, conviction and capital together unlike anyone else
👏👏👏
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Excited to welcome @00hughes_sam to @EqualVentures as our 1st Platform Manager
We've been blown away by our experience w/ Sam and know she'll be invaluable in helping us bring community, conviction and capital together unlike anyone else
👏👏👏
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Kicking off our first annual Insurance Capital Summit with @BrianHaney44, President & COO of @kinsaleins in a fireside with @achadroff
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One of the most anticipated panels of the Summit: how AI & Automation are impacting Insurance.
Featuring trailblazers like @gwintrob (COO @newfronthq), @sychou (CEO @9rootai), Ryan Sachtjen (CEO @ThreeFlowTech), Michael Saltzman (Co-CEO @evolution_iq), & @jcthaler (@_theinsurer)
Featuring trailblazers like @gwintrob (COO @newfronthq), @sychou (CEO @9rootai), Ryan Sachtjen (CEO @ThreeFlowTech), Michael Saltzman (Co-CEO @evolution_iq), & @jcthaler (@_theinsurer)
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