Avid Knowledge Seeker; #InvestHER, Ecosystems Strategist; MD @techstars, ED @vencatdet
Joined April 2008
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Monica Wheat retweeted
16 Oct 2024
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Monica Wheat retweeted
8 Oct 2024
Met with a family office LP today and he asked about my ‘breakout’ companies from our 2022 pre-seed fund. I told him: We don’t have any breakouts, our job is to help keep these companies alive until they find P/M fit.
The LP seemed shocked.
Think he writes me a check? 🤷🏼♀️
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Monica Wheat retweeted
2 Oct 2024
Funny when people think I work in finance 🤷🏼♀️ Being an early stage VC is much more like being a shrink, football coach or chef than being a finance bro.
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Monica Wheat retweeted
4 Sep 2024
The fall fundraising season has officially kicked off. In my opinion, this is the best 10 weeks of the year for startups to raise capital. Investors are fresh from the summer and many are now behind on deployment pace. Founder friends, run at it hard and get the 💰💰💰
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Monica Wheat retweeted
27 Aug 2024
I’m hosting an AI founders dinner in September and we actually need more men to keep the ratio even-ish. Gotta love #NYC tech 🔥🔥🔥
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Monica Wheat retweeted
16 Aug 2024
Shoutout to my Techstars classmates over at Reportwell for raising their $1.1M round ibj.com/articles/indianapoli…
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Monica Wheat retweeted
5 Aug 2024
If you can’t get an early stage investor over the line in a reasonable amount of time, stop trying. Instead, fill the top of the funnel with more qualified investors. There are soo many of them out there. Dig around to find even more!
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Monica Wheat retweeted
25 Jul 2024
I’m Kamala Harris, and I’m running for President of the United States.
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Monica Wheat retweeted
9 Jul 2024
Here's my 3rd (last minute) update for buildspace’s nights & weekends👇
Super exciting news- we got a verbal commitment to be our 4th partner institution for @MeetYourClass. I've been using these 6 weeks to really master b2b sales.
I've attached a one-pager I worked on this week in the thread, I'd love some feedback🫶
cc: @FarzaTV @_nightsweekends @_buildspace
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Monica Wheat retweeted
5 Jun 2024
this is the most infuriating thing as a vc:
the best founder and the worst founder look nearly identical at the idea stage
5 Jun 2024
99% of advice on here is aimed at the ‘average founder’.
It is rarely relevant for the best founders.
In fact the best founders will normally find better results from doing the opposite.
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Monica Wheat retweeted
1 Jun 2024
The care put into our program is top notch, love those folks
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Monica Wheat retweeted
1 Jun 2024
The back of our Techstars Detroit jackets has the logos of all of our companies! Very cool
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Monica Wheat retweeted
30 May 2024
The best MD, shoutout to Monica for how she has supported us through our time with Techstars! Demo Day tomorrow, let’s go
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Monica Wheat retweeted
23 May 2024
Anyone who has ran payroll realizes that being a CEO isn’t a flex it’s a responsibility
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When I was just starting out in venture, a very experienced VC gave me the this advice:
"Our best investments are the ones that don't squarely fit our model. They're too high priced, or low ownership, or off thesis, or maybe the founder doesn't reference well. The fact that we were willing to break our rules to invest was a signal that it was a special company. We put rules in place not to follow them, but to know when something is an extreme outlier"
I think about that all the time.
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Monica Wheat retweeted
7 May 2024
🤦🏿♂️ at all this techstars hate. That program changed my life. I knew nothing about this fundraising/VC game before I got into the program. Got a bunch of terrible advice before it. No program is perfect but they’ve done a lot of good for a lot of founders.
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Monica Wheat retweeted
29 Mar 2024
I pass on a lot of companies where I like some things about the deal but have not reached conviction. I offer to stay in touch.
90% of founders don’t do this (I get it).
But the ones that do, I always revisit the decision when they reach out - did I make the right decision, should I look again, can I be useful with intros or connections?
Staying top of mind is an underrated founder superpower 🚀
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Monica Wheat retweeted
19 Mar 2024
The Techstars staff does an amazing job at supporting us during our time here and after shoutout to @mwheat14
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Monica Wheat retweeted
22 Feb 2024
Reports of @Techstars demise are greatly exaggerated:
The program will focus on 30 smaller markets 4 core cities - & write 100 more checks in 2024 vs 2023
We may need @bayareawriter / @alex @EquityPod to weigh in & keep #panic here from escalating
techstars.com/newsroom/techs…
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