Jonathan Ehrlich

Sidebar is a private leadership program that accelerates your career. We have the people, the process, and the technology to drive your impact and growth. Imagine tapping into a core group (think Fortune 500 execs and innovative start-up CEOs) who are best-in-class. Members say it’s like having their own Personal Board of Directors. Nothing will get you further in your career than learning from your peers — it’s a true competitive advantage. See what we mean at sidebar.com, and request an invitation to join.

At Castro Labs, we build technology that helps queer people feel seen, safe, valued and desired.

As founders of multiple e-commerce brands, we’ve operated and sold businesses before and intimately know the process. Celebrate a profitable exit and keep earning as we grow together, taking your brand to the next level.

Chord AI is the data platform and commerce copilot that makes data instantaneous, accurate, and actionable. Commerce teams today are under pressure to grow faster, spend smarter, and make AI work for them. The problem? Most stacks aren’t built for it. Data is siloed, pipelines are brittle, reporting is slow, and layering AI on top only leads to guesses, not growth. Chord AI changes that. We combine the foundation of a modern data platform with the intelligence of a copilot, all purpose-built for commerce—so every answer, recommendation, and action is grounded in truth, not hallucinations. With Chord AI, brands can: → Unify and govern their data across channels, customers, orders, and campaigns. → Eliminate tool sprawl by replacing CDPs, BI, analytics, and orchestration with one platform. → Trust their insights thanks to explainable outputs and full transparency into the data and logic behind every recommendation. → Move faster with plain-language queries, predictive segments, real-time activation, and campaigns launched 2x quicker. → Lower costs through consolidation—saving up to 30% on martech and reducing manual reporting by 50%. Trusted by leading commerce brands like Sonos, Ruggable, and Sakara, Chord AI is built by operators who have scaled DTC and omnichannel businesses from the inside. We meet teams where they are—whether they’re stuck in manual reporting cycles, buried under vendor contracts, or evaluating CDPs and analytics tools—and help them evolve into unified, AI-powered operators with clarity, speed, and confidence. One platform. No duct tape. No hallucinations. Just AI that actually works. Visit https://www.chordcommerce.com/ to learn more today.

Clubhouse is the easiest way to hear your friends’ voices throughout the day, to meet their friends, and to talk about anything. We believe that life is better when you’re with your friends, and our mission is to fill everyone’s life with rich and meaningful friendships. As the world goes increasingly remote, we think being with friends is more important than ever. We take pride in being a small and productive team, with a relentless focus on building a product that people love. As a company we are well funded, with backing from a16z and dozens of the best angel investors in the world, providing us with years of runway. We love what we do and have a lot of work ahead of us. If this sounds interesting to you check out our open roles, we’d love to talk!

Yaguara is the only fully-connected and collaborative platform for commerce companies that centralizes data, puts it into context, and then offers key insights and recommendations, empowering them to be more data-informed, transparent, and forward-looking organizations. Whether your team is hunting for a new approach or curious to learn more about a career at Yaguara, please drop us a note at hello@yaguara.co

We're building something new for the painting industry. Visit withhoist.com to discover more.

Bulletin is a premium wholesale community. Our platform helps retailers source inventory from a highly curated portfolio of brands. Retailers can shop self-serve on our marketplace and get net-60 terms on all wholesale orders.

Shelf Engine uses machine learning to help grocery stores dial in their orders to minimize waste and maximize profits. Were hiring across all functions! Were looking for stellar engineers, operators, and marketers. Are you interested in joining a tight-knit team thats committed to reducing food waste? Get in touch!

Easol is the all-in-one platform for managing your entire experience business, on your terms. Sell directly on your own website with smart booking, payment, and marketing tools that all work together, brilliantly.

Vetted PetCare brings honest and stress-free veterinary care to the comfort and convenience of your home. By connecting pet parents with the best vets for their pets, we improve vet care and create peace of mind for pet lovers everywhere.

Foundation Capital was founded in 1995. As an early-stage venture capital firm, our fintech, enterprise, and consumer investments have reinvented industries and defined new markets. For over a quarter of a century—through boom and bust, prosperity or calamity—Foundation Capital has endured, evolved, and thrived, with over $3B assets under management, 34 IPOs and ICOs, and 80+ acquisitions to our name. Building companies is in our bones. We back individuals who want to nudge the world ahead in some way, using a transformative business as their fulcrum. Great companies, like Apple or Amazon or Netflix, aren’t formed from code and corporate charters. They’re built on a foundation of dreams and desires; raised up through struggle and sacrifice. For such companies to succeed, the people who start and lead them have to want success badly. It has to come from the deepest part of them—a hunger to create something consequential, something lasting; a need to prove themselves, whether out of a sense of mission, or a yearning for significance, or a heart full for disobedience. We look for people who believe—even if they would never speak it out loud—that the purpose of life is to be briefly extraordinary. We think that since the beginning of invention, humanity has advanced because the remarkable have pushed us forward. Because select women and men of their times have dared to think different, to build it better, to do what’s never been done. Across the ages, we’ve had many names for these people. Today, at Foundation Capital: we call them founders.

Sidebar is a private leadership program that accelerates your career. We have the people, the process, and the technology to drive your impact and growth. Imagine tapping into a core group (think Fortune 500 execs and innovative start-up CEOs) who are best-in-class. Members say it’s like having their own Personal Board of Directors. Nothing will get you further in your career than learning from your peers — it’s a true competitive advantage. See what we mean at sidebar.com, and request an invitation to join.

At Castro Labs, we build technology that helps queer people feel seen, safe, valued and desired.

As founders of multiple e-commerce brands, we’ve operated and sold businesses before and intimately know the process. Celebrate a profitable exit and keep earning as we grow together, taking your brand to the next level.