David J. Phillips

Cedar Ventures invests and advises in startups in the San Francisco Bay Area. To learn more please reach out.

Fondo is the accounting platform for high growth companies. We make tax credits, taxes, and bookkeeping easy for 1,000+ startups. Fondo is the automated way for startups to get cash back from the IRS ($21k on average). We file your taxes & close your books, and you get cash back.

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.

Cedar Ventures invests and advises in startups in the San Francisco Bay Area. To learn more please reach out.

Hackbright Academy is the leading engineering school for gender equality with a mission to increase diversity in tech through education, mentorship, and community. The school has a 12-week accelerated software development program designed to help diverse individuals become software engineers. Graduates have received jobs at top tech companies such as Facebook, Eventbrite, and New Relic. New online courses have been recently launched in order to give individuals an opportunity to pursue their technical goals in a more flexible setting. Hackbright Academy is dedicated to changing the gender ratio in the tech industry.