Venrock

So you can find that in the app.

And then after that, fireside chat with Venrock's Bob Kocher, and that's gonna be a great conversation, great w- way to meet an investor, ask your questions, get to understand their thesis, how they're thinking about investing right now.

And this conversation can continue on the member app, so if you are unfamiliar with how to engage, get involved on the app.

You can reach out to me or anybody else on the team, and we can help you out there.

That's been an amazing venture capital firm for, you know, thirty-plus years.

Then, uh, there is Venrock, a venture capital firm that... storied one from the 1960s, and still, uh, very active today.

Then there are venture capital firms that's been around maybe for twenty years.

Uh, for example, Emergence Capital, that's specializing in B2B SaaS, or Andreessen Horowitz, also known as a16z, that is investing in a lot of stuff and of course, this day, is leading, I think, in, uh, the field of AI.

yet?Yeah, great question.

I mean, look, we've been incredibly lucky and, and fortunate and, and grateful to all of our investors from General Catalyst to Venrock to Index, and as well as some of the great folks on, on our board and advisory group that have really advised me in kind of thinking about how to navigate this industry and be able to scale.

But then, um, additionally, incredibly grateful to our advisors and our team that we've been able to, like, partner with and, and help serve a lot of the clients and client relationships that they've built for, you know, a long time.

Um, and I think at the same time, being able to, um, build an incredible platform with, you know, really, really top-tier talent, um, in New York coming from companies like Plaid, Stripe, Ramp, Rippling, like you name it, um, just has enabled us to show and create that value so quickly that thus has kind of like, you know, um, resulted in our ability to scale our assets both on like by attracting advisors, but then also on the client side, um, as well.

So knowing all that going in, I wanted to find the right type of investors who would think in decades and not necessarily think in terms of like, well, this is a little seed roll of the dice and hopefully this lasts for a year and we can attract a second investor.

So my first investor was Nick Bimes from Venrock.

And Fedrock is the, you know, the name is kind of gives away, but it's a Rockefeller family's venture fund that they started back in the 1960s.

They were the first ever investor in Apple Computer and a whole bunch of other legendary companies.

They are who introduced me to a guy named Bill McNabb.

Bill was the former chairman and CEO of Vanguard.

And Bill was on the board of United Healthcare, which is one of the other Venrock partners was also on that board.

And so that's kind of how we made this, you know, two degrees of separation kind of connection there.

And he was right.

So I joined Venrock for a couple of years, learned from the best of the best.

And now at Overmatch, we're very focused on deep tech defense in space, which is where my passion has really been for the entirety of my career.

Awesome.