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When we thought about who we wanted as a long-term partner, @arampell and a16z were our first call. Excited to build with a firm so aligned with our vision.
We’re thrilled to lead Lassie’s Series A.
Most small businesses are run by reluctant operators. Owners set out to serve their customers and communities but end up buried in back-office work.
Dental practices are a perfect example. Dentists train to care for patients, but much of their time is consumed by insurance claims, payment reconciliation, staffing, and cash flow.
Lassie is building AI that runs small businesses, starting with dental practices.
Before writing a line of code, Cofounders Steijn Pelle and Frédéric Renken spent months working inside a dental office, processing payments by hand to deeply understand the workflow.
Lassie is not a copilot that creates more work for the practice to review. It does the work.
We’re excited to partner with @steijnpelle, @fredericrenken, and the @lassieai team as they build toward the small business that runs itself.
By @arampell and @omooretweets
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Frédéric Renken retweeted
Jun 6
Love seeing people build better software for reluctant operators of small businesses.
The baker who ends up running a bakery. The hair stylist who ends up with their own salon. And here, the doctors and dentists who end up with their own practice.
More attention on these small businesses, please. We've been building for them for two decades, and I can tell you they're starved for great, straightforward software.
I'd bet on these guys. They've got the dirt of real work in the field under their fingernails. There's no better way to know than to do.
Jun 3
Today, we're introducing Lassie and $47M in funding led by a16z.
We're building AI that runs small businesses, starting with doctors' offices.
Lassie is already trusted by 700 practices across the country, working autonomously to provide them with 30 hours of labor per month.
To get here, we first had to leave Robinhood and Superhuman to work in offices ourselves.
Here's how that went.
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RT @levelsio: This is how you do a great startup video
Humble and chill and a real cool backstory
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Frédéric Renken retweeted
Jun 3
Today, we're introducing Lassie and $47M in funding led by a16z.
We're building AI that runs small businesses, starting with doctors' offices.
Lassie is already trusted by 700 practices across the country, working autonomously to provide them with 30 hours of labor per month.
To get here, we first had to leave Robinhood and Superhuman to work in offices ourselves.
Here's how that went.
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Frédéric Renken retweeted
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Jun 3
Today, we're introducing Lassie and $47M in funding led by a16z.
We're building AI that runs small businesses, starting with doctors' offices.
Lassie is already trusted by 700 practices across the country, working autonomously to provide them with 30 hours of labor per month.
To get here, we first had to leave Robinhood and Superhuman to work in offices ourselves.
Here's how that went.
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Grateful to Alex for telling the story behind Lassie!
Jun 3
EXCLUSIVE: Lassie's AI agent helps dentists save hours of busywork. Now it's raised $35M from a16z.
It started when CEO @steijnpelle heard his own dentist complain about a sea of paperwork -- then embedded in his practice to learn first-hand.
My @UpstartsMediaCo exclusive 👀
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10 Sep 2023
I'd love a way to snooze tabs in @arcinternet
I often keep tabs around because I need them later, but they add clutter until I can act on them
and not always worth moving from tab to actual task
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Frédéric Renken retweeted
15 Jun 2022
Super excited to finally share what our team has been working on for the past few months 🙂
@useinterval: build internal tools right in your app's codebase with zero frontend code. interval.com
🧵Some backstory: (1/?)
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Frédéric Renken retweeted
19 May 2022
1/ Feels like just yesterday I was posting here about kicking off a search to find employees #4 and #5 for Lassie. Well, time flies when you’re having fun. Welcome aboard, @yousefa01 and Jeffrey Tang!
Lassie has grown from a team of 3 → 5 and momentum is building! 🔥
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20 May 2022
jack-of-all-trades!
we're looking for the first business hire to help doctors across the country run their practice
someone who loves navigating complex systems as much as building relationships — and is hungry to own problems from 0 to 1
DM if that sounds like you!
19 May 2022
Come work with me to put doctors — running their own SMB practice — in control of their finances.
We’re recruiting teammate #6, the founding business hire, next.
If that sounds enticing, DM me!
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Great team and great opportunity, 🚀🚀🚀
12 Mar 2022
work with me! 👋
we're building the financial OS for health practices
applying what we learned at Robinhood and @Superhuman to make doctors enjoy running their own business
if that sounds fun, DM me!
lassie.notion.site/Founding-…
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Frédéric Renken retweeted
12 Mar 2022
Another great example of the 2020s being the decade of healthtech!
@fredericrenken and @steijnpelle are building products for a space dominated by shifty agencies and banks--a true pain killer for a massive TAM.
Huge opportunity 👇
12 Mar 2022
work with me! 👋
we're building the financial OS for health practices
applying what we learned at Robinhood and @Superhuman to make doctors enjoy running their own business
if that sounds fun, DM me!
lassie.notion.site/Founding-…
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Frédéric Renken retweeted
12 Mar 2022
Do you agree that doctors learn medicine— not business— and shouldn’t have to be experts at both?
Does building financial software to help doctors run their own, small practice sound like music to your ears?
We’re hiring engineers #2 and #3 next: notion.so/lassie/Founding-So…
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Frédéric Renken retweeted
12 Mar 2022
Yes, a 🧵- In recent days I've been fortunate to get to know @steijnpelle (first Growth PM at Robinhood and Coinbase) and @fredericrenken (engineer turned first Product hire at @Superhuman ), who are building Lassie, a company reinventing the antiquated back-office financial /1
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12 Mar 2022
work with me! 👋
we're building the financial OS for health practices
applying what we learned at Robinhood and @Superhuman to make doctors enjoy running their own business
if that sounds fun, DM me!
lassie.notion.site/Founding-…
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23 Apr 2021
Taxes on investing in yourself would remain at 0%
Few understand this
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5 Mar 2021
I just put my coffee cup on my wireless charger so that's where my mind is at
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