GSBuilds-Stripe Partnership, a16z’s Scott Kupor, Funding Announcements, and More
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GSBuilds Event: Scott Kupor of a16z
We’re excited to host Scott Kupor, Managing Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, for our next GSBuilds Event, September 23 at 2 pm. Scott will share his reflections on the current state of venture capital and the opportunities and challenges for founders. Register here. The event will be limited to the first 50 GSBuilds community registrants.
Announcing The Founder Stack
We’re thrilled to be launching the GSBuilds Founder Stack, a set of special partnerships we’ve arranged giving GSBuilds founders exclusive discounts on the tools they need to start & operate their businesses.
If you are a GSB student or alum starting or scaling a business, you are eligible to take advantage of these deals & discounts... for free!
Flagship partners include:
Stripe. The exclusive payments partner of GSBuilds
Cooley. For GSBuilders’ legal needs, from incorporation to IPO (Check out Cooley’s latest venture financing report)
Arc. The new way for founders to finance their companies (Read more from Arc’s own GSB founders on this new partnership)
Mercury. The most trusted banking platform for new companies
Symphony. For all of your tech development needs
AWS. GSBuilders’ go-to cloud computing platform
In the coming months, we’ll be announcing a number of other partners as we make the Founder Stack the go-to place for faster and cheaper ways to build your company.
Interested in becoming an exclusive partner of GSBuilds and powering the thousands of founders in the GSBuilds community?
Funding announcements 👏💰
Since our last newsletter, a number of incredible GSBuilders have raised fresh rounds of capital...
Guild Education (Series E) - Rachel Carlson (MBA ‘15)
Forum Brands (Series A) - Brenton Howland (MBA ‘21), Ruben Amar (MBA ‘21), and Alex Kopco (MBA ‘21)
Pulsar (Seed) - Matias Castillo (MBA ‘20)
Osmind (Series A) - Lucia Huang (MBA '20)
Glyphic Biotechnologies (Series A) - Josh Yang (MBA ‘21)
Divvy Homes (Series D) - Adena Hefets (MBA ‘16)
Plentina (Seed) - Early Valencia (MBA ‘09)
Ping (Seed) - Vartika Bansal (MBA ‘15)
Vannevar Labs (Series A) - Brett Granberg (MBA ‘20) & Nini Moorhead (MBA ‘20)
Are you a GSB founder with funding news to share? Let us know here so we can include it in our next newsletter
GSB Class Funds 🚀
The 2020Fund and 2021Fund continue to be highly active, investing in dozens of exciting companies emerging from the GSB MBA classes of 2020 and 2021. If you’re interested in learning more about the funds and their recent investments, check out the latest here.
Welcome to the Class of 2023!
In the coming weeks, the MBA Class of 2023 and MSx Class of 2022 will be arriving at the GSB. If you know any founders among them, encourage them to add their company to the GSBuilds site and subscribe to this newsletter for updates. With several thousand founders in the community, GSBuilds is the definitive platform for any GSBer starting or running a company.
$200B and Counting; ILTB
Stanford GSB founders have created $200B+ in market cap over the last decade alone. That’s according to an awesome new analysis by Brent Westbrook (MBA ‘22) and Warfa Jibril (MBA ‘22) leveraging the GSBuilds database. Here’s to those founders, and to all the GSBuilders out there working on the next $200B.
Looking for a new podcast? Check out GSBuilds Advisory Board Member Renata Quintini (MBA ‘08), founder of Renegade Ventures, on Invest Like the Best.
Best,
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