| Date | Title | Description |
| 26.03.2024 | Real Estate Negotiation for Startup Office Space |
Whether your startup office space lease is soon up for renewal or you’re looking for a new space t... |
| 26.03.2024 | True Talk Los Angeles: Unfiltered Insights on the Ups and Do... |
As a team, we’re constantly thinking about how we can both support and better connect our communit... |
| 31.01.2024 | Next-Gen Technology Trends: Habits, Money, and (Of Course) A... |
How does Gen Z feel about technology today? We can make some assumptions about how the social pres... |
| 01.01.2024 | 2023 at True: Our Year in Review | This year was a big year of change, as well as growth and opportunity. So much of what we saw in 202... |
| 11.11.2023 | 2023 True Holiday Gift Guide | Whether you’re the write-your-list-and-check-it-twice type or that last-minute shopper with a travel... |
| 16.10.2023 | Best practices for pitching contributed articles to the medi... | How can you remain in the public eye and in front of potential investors, customers, and hires when ... |
| 05.10.2023 | The Bay Area Org Reclaiming Storefronts in the Name of Commu... |
Sarah Kirnon and Miles Dotson, co-founders of Sanctuary for Sustainable Artistry, have a new visio... |
| 06.09.2023 | True Ventures Fellowship Now Accepting Applications | How do you seek out alternate points of view to incorporate into your work? Some of us informally pi... |
| 23.08.2023 | Evolving the Writing Workflow With Lex | When you think about it, the act of writing has remained foundationally unchanged for many years. Th... |
| 09.08.2023 | Start@Spark | Our friends at Spark today announced Start@Spark, a seed program designed to support earliest stage ... |
| 03.08.2023 | Nurture, don’t network: getting the most out of industry eve... |
On the heels of True’s Leadership Summit in London, where we gathered founders and executives from... |
| 27.07.2023 | True Leadership Summit in London: Our Platform Expands Prese... |
Our team has a long-standing tradition of gathering with our European community members, fellow in... |
| 10.07.2023 | Putting Our Values to Work: Meet the 2023 True Ventures Fell... |
Our newest class of 15 True Ventures Fellows has begun a summer of startup work at True Portfolio ... |
| 27.06.2023 | Our Master List of Interview Questions for Sales Development... | Over the course of my career I’ve interviewed hundreds of candidates for jobs at all levels of sales... |
| 02.06.2023 | The Startup Boilerplate: An Opportunity for Alignment | A lot of the companies we fund are so early on they often don’t yet have boilerplates. Sure, they ma... |
| 28.05.2023 | WordPress Turns 20 |
Two decades ago today, WordPress came to life thanks to founder innovation and big vision — enabli... |
| 12.05.2023 | True Climate Action Guide |
This spring we launched our Climate Action Guide to give the True Founder community a framework on... |
| 08.05.2023 | Reuniting the True Ventures Fellowship Community & What’... |
Since 2009, the True Ventures Fellowship has placed over 200 students in roles across our portfoli... |
| 04.05.2023 | The Power of Intellectual Partnerships | One of my favorite things about VC is getting to work with so many different perspectives and seeing... |
| 20.04.2023 | True People & Product Leadership Summits |
As part of True’s event strategy, we create opportunities for forging connections among senior lea... |
| 06.04.2023 | The Crypto Clarity Crisis | Last year started with such promise.
In March 2022, President Biden issued an executive order that ... |
| 23.03.2023 | The Product Is the Platform | Hi all! Our team asked if I’d share some of what we’ve been up to at Hatch and what wisdom I have to... |
| 17.01.2023 | Black Outside’s Alex Bailey on Connecting Black Youth to Nat... | More than 96% of all land in Texas is privately owned. “We have city parks,” said Alex Bailey, found... |
| 20.12.2022 | 2022 at True: Year in Review | We end 2022 with immense gratitude for the creativity, tenacity, and inspiration we get to see every... |
| 07.12.2022 | Handshake’s Journey to the White House and Beyond | When we saw Handshake Co-founder Garrett Lord on the cover of Forbes, it was one of those moments wh... |
| 18.11.2022 | True Holiday Gift Guide 2022 | In this year’s True Holiday Gift Guide, we’re showcasing a few of the new companies making waves in ... |
| 30.09.2022 | When to Hire a VP of Sales for Your SaaS Business | I’ve written before about the first five hires a founder should make if they want to drive revenue e... |
| 01.09.2022 | Interested in our fellowship? Apply now to our summer 2023 p... |
The wait is over! We’re now accepting applications for our summer 2023 True Ventures Fellowship. T... |
| 11.08.2022 | Ameelio’s entrepreneurial approach to criminal justice refor... |
The more than 400 founders across the True community are in constant contact, asking one another f... |
| 09.08.2022 | Pitching an investor for the first time? Here’s how to captu... |
Foremost I’m a founder – of Upsie, (ahem…) a platform for buying warranties for the electronics yo... |
| 13.04.2022 | Executive Coaching: Is it worth all the hype? |
A question I often hear from founders is whether or not they should consider working with an execu... |
| - | it’s still about the founders | Each year, we invite every Founder in the True portfolio to join us for a truly special day of shari... |
| - | Best Practices for Distributed Teams: Automattic Shares All | Remote teams, distributed companies — jargon aside, the age of working from anywhere is resoundly he... |
| - | True University Day Two Recap | True University day two kicked off with a general session from Diane Adams, Chief People Officer at ... |
| - | MODE Helps Companies Collect Data From the Physical World | Sensors are and will increasingly become a key part of our future. We wear them on our wrists to imp... |
| - | You Eat What You Measure | When you first get your website up and running, what is one of the first things that you do? One of ... |
| - | Interface (Il)literacy: Learning How to Read & Write in ... | Back in 1991, Mark Weiser, a researcher at Xerox PARC, wrote an article for Scientific American call... |
| - | Chia Network to Build Eco-friendly Cryptocurrency | Today, we are excited to announce our investment in Bram Cohen, Ryan Singer, and their new project C... |
| - | 2015: Our Year in Review [infographic] | - |
| - | The True Meaning of True Founder Camp | This week, we are hosting our third Founder Camp for the True Ventures portfolio. Founder Camp at Tr... |
| - | A New Investment in Digital Health | Last year, as requested by our Founder community, we hosted our first-ever True Healthcare event to ... |
| - | True University 2013 Yearbook | 2 days, 24 classes, 31 speakers, 88 companies, 298 attendees. True Ventures’ third annual True Unive... |
| - | Fortune Favors the Bold | I have always loved that quote from Virgil. My partner, Jon Callaghan, and I grew up with that quote... |
| - | What’s Working: Suicide Detection and Prevention With Voi | Today, on World Mental Health Day, we’d like to draw attention to a company within the True portfoli... |
| - | Voiceflow Enables Anyone to Create Voice Apps Without Code | We’ve witnessed numerous iterations of the web which have had a profound effect on how the world dis... |
| - | Om Joins True Full-Time! | In 1999, I was interviewed by Forbes for a story about the company I co-founded with David Perry cal... |
| - | Give Robots the Repetitive, Tedious Work | For every new company creating autonomous machines, there is debate about whether or not, when, and ... |
| - | Why Emotional Intelligence Matters in Venture Capital | Venture capital has traditionally been measured in exits. As an industry, we’ve grown to celebrate t... |
| - | CES 2013: Software’s Coming-Out Party | Historically, CES has been true to its name: a tradeshow featuring the latest and greatest in consum... |
| - | Piavita Is Evolving Veterinary Care | Over the past year, we’ve had the pleasure of meeting with the Founders of some incredible medical t... |
| - | How Founders Hire | Hiring can make or break a company. From the first few critical team members to senior leadership fu... |
| - | My Advice for Women Founders Seeking Funding | In 2005, I left Yahoo! to start my first company, a social network targeting new moms called Maya’s ... |
| - | Congratulating MakerBot | One of the magical moments for us at True is when we are sitting in front of a Founder who possesses... |
| - | Congratulating Entrepreneur Magazine’s “Brilliant 100” | Entrepreneur Magazine has announced its “100 Brilliant Companies” for 2013—100 companies who “have t... |
| - | Happy Holidays from all of us at True | Though the events of the past year have certainly been no laughing matter, our team shared a hearty ... |
| - | Newly Funded Callstats.io Pioneers WebRTC Analytics | True Ventures’ latest portfolio company, Callstats.io, announced its Series A funding today. I’m thr... |
| - | John Burke back in action | John Burke, True’s partner in Northern Virginia, is looking for the best in tech.
Venture Capital V... |
| - | Urban Airship Raises $5.4M Second Round |
Congrats to the Urban Airship team for raising their second round of financing led by our friends ... |
| - | Join Us For A Glass or Three To Celebrate True’s Best VC Cru... | As you may know, True has been nominated for a Crunchie Award as the Best Venture Capital firm – you... |
| - | Welcoming Gradle Inc. | True portfolio company Gradle announced their funding today, and we are very excited to welcome Co-F... |
| - | Welcoming Trinity Ventures to Loggly | On Monday, Loggly closed its $4.2M Series B funding led by Trinity Ventures. We could not be happier... |
| - | Out of Africa | Note: This was originally written by Summer TEC Intern JP Bonner on the True Ventures TEC Program Bl... |
| - | An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Self Management | When I started working on my current startup, there were times when I would end the day, look back a... |
| - | It’s official! | After 9 months of fundraising we have officially closed our first fund: True Ventures I. We had an i... |
| - | The Importance of Ron | I woke up this morning to see venture capitalist Ben Horowitz and Mike Arrington are focusing on Ron... |
| - | Cast’s Rachel Skelly on Reimagining the Fine Jewelry Industr... |
Certain markets dominated by large incumbents seem to beg for a dash of imagination.
Veterinary c... |
| - | Welcoming Splice | Over the past 30 years, software has disrupted the traditional music industry, greatly increasing th... |
| - | Mac Switch | I presented a ppt to a friend yesterday who congratulated me on finally making the switch to a Mac. ... |
| - | Founder Perspectives: Changing Your Company Name | It’s not atypical for early-stage companies to change their names once or even a few times until the... |
| - | Making Connections with Dinamundo | We’re huge believers in the power of the mobile revolution to change our lives in meaningful ways. A... |
| - | Will the Downturn Reinvent Venture Capital? | Excellent post by our friend Alan Patricof in the NY Times DealBook about the changing paradigm of v... |
| - | Hello, Brewster | Over the past six years, we’ve had the privilege of partnering with more than 200 talented Founders ... |
| - | Venture Capital 2012: A Year in Review | A few weeks ago, I had the good fortune to talk with Lizette Chapman of The Wall Street Journal abou... |
| - | 365 days, $10 Million, 3 Rounds, 2 Companies, all with 5 Mag... | - |
| - | What’s Working: Submittable’s In-Office Daycare | Building a startup in a small city like Missoula, Montana, has its advantages. Homeownership is more... |
| - | Venture Capital Outside of Silicon Valley | As someone who spends a quarter of my time in the Valley, a quarter of my time traveling around the ... |
| - | True Ventures Announces Fund VI and Select Fund III | Today, we are pleased to announce the closing of our newest early stage fund, True Ventures VI, LP, ... |
| - | Welcoming NoRedInk | Writing is fundamental, and writing education is hurting: 73% of students in the U.S. are below prof... |
| - | Welcoming Pioneer Square Labs | One of our commitments at True is to support not only innovation in our core markets, but also in ve... |
| - | Welcoming Operable.io | Last week, Mark Imbriaco slyly announced our funding of his new company, Operable.io, via a very kin... |
| - | A new chapter for Goodreads | Reading. It’s fundamental. It is essential to thought and understanding. It’s the foundation of huma... |
| - | Smile! Photo sharing made easy (again) | At True, we talk a lot about investing in Founders rather than companies. And we are passionately co... |
| - | Henrietta Moon on Carbo Culture’s Quest to Trap Atmospheric ... | Carbo Culture Co-founders Chris Carstens and Henrietta Moon | Photo by Miikka Pirinen
In conversati... |
| - | Meet Howdy, Our Digital Co-Worker | I recently wrote a piece in Fast Company about what I call “assistive intelligence”—a movement to au... |
| - | 2022 True Ventures Fellowship Application Period Open | Since 2009, our team has worked to align talented undergraduates with True Portfolio companies for a... |
| - | Braintrust’s Freelance Marketplace Rewards Quality Work | Today, we’re thrilled to announce our investment in Freelance Labs, the creators of Braintrust, and ... |
| - | Congratulating BrightRoll | We are thrilled to congratulate Tod Sacerdoti and the entire BrightRoll team on their announced acqu... |
| - | Aol acquires About Dot Me | “It’s beginning to feel like dejavu all over again!”
Today Aol announced it has acquired our portfo... |
| - | Welcoming Scale Venture Partners to BrightRoll | Today BrightRoll announced it’s $10 million Series C round of financing led by Scale Venture Partner... |
| - | Playdom acquires Hive7 | Today, Playdom announced the acquisition of social gaming company Hive7. True funded the team along ... |
| - | Revolutionizing the Comic Industry with Madefire | True portfolio company Madefire launched in the iTunes App Store this morning to much buzz and fanfa... |
| - | Hiten Shah of KISSmetrics: A Case Study on Pivots | Successful startups begin with an idea and then they change directions until they find something tha... |
| - | 2011 in Review [infographic] | As we leave 2011 behind and step into 2012, we at True Ventures pause for a moment to reflect on the... |
| - | What’s Working: Demand Gen at Duo | Non-marketers: Define demand generation.
If you’re quick to stumble over the term or confuse it wit... |
| - | Dave Balter Joins True’s Investment Team | Across the True team, we share the belief that the creative founder is the most powerful force in to... |
| - | Gameifying Culture with TastemakerX | All music lovers know there is a certain amount of clout and swagger that comes with being the first... |
| - | Making Database Access Easier | Database management can be a big pain point for CTOs. New employees join the team and request access... |
| - | Introducing Spoke: The True Ventures Scout Program
Introduc... | One of our unofficial mottos at our firm has long been to “work with who you know, but always know m... |
| - | True University Day One Recap | We were thrilled to be back at UC Berkeley for an incredible first day of True University. With more... |
| - | The Democratization of Art | (Limited Editions x Low Prices) + The Internet = 20×200
It is time to say hello to the democratizat... |
