Danika Robinson Lyon Koenig

First Round is a venture capital firm that works with founders exclusively at the earliest stages of company building, often when all they have is an “imagine if.” We fill in where we can until the team is filled out, tackling crucial early hiring and equipping those who are great at building product with the skills to sell it, too. By getting the foundational firsts right, we increase the odds of finding extreme product-market fit. Our founders’ “imagine ifs” have turned into companies like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square.

At Ness, were building a fintech company that offers credit cards to reduce the cost of wellcare so everyone can afford to be healthy. Request an invite to Ness Rewards at www.nesswell.com.

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Stripe builds programmable financial services. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Headquartered in San Francisco and Dublin, the company aims to increase the GDP of the internet.

In the early days of Palantir and Stripe, Peterson and Faith started to collaborate, bringing together people that had dreamed of starting their own company–whose every decision since they were young was towards this goal–for small events in places outside the Bay Area. From Canada to Singapore, we hosted technical talks and traveled with engineers working on the world’s toughest problems to find others that were staring down tenure, safety and short term gain when all they wanted was to change things. And be surrounded by others that did as well. We helped PayPal, Palantir and Facebook scale and dominate their markets. We built the early teams at Brex, JUUL, Skybox (Google) and GrabTaxi (Uber). From the first engineer, to the board, we found the people that would later become legends.