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Consumer
Current Investment

5s MLP

The New Jersey 5s are a Major League Pickleball (MLP) pickleball team formed in 2022 by Gary Vaynerchuk and Ryan Harwood. The team's name is a tribute to Vaynerchuk's favorite number, 5, which was also the number of his first jersey when he came to the US. The team's logo features a character from Vaynerchuk's NFT project, Competitive Clown, from the series Vee Friends. The character is also the team's mascot.
Software
Health Tech
Current Investment

Arketa

A wellness platform intended to help fitness instructors grow their online businesses. The company's platform helps instructors host life fitness classes and sell monthly memberships, enabling customers to purchase or subscribe to videos to maintain their physical and mental health.
Consumer
Web3
Sports
Current Investment

Autograph

Developer of non-fungible tokens designed to connect athletes, artists, and brands more closely with their fans and communities in Web3. The company's platform creates unique digital collections for users around the world, the collections unlock utility and rewards ranging from unlocking access to content and signed merchandise, to exclusive event and experiential invites, enabling collectors to come closer to the athletes' passions, from style to shoes and cars.
Health Tech
Current Investment

Beckley Psytech

A drug pipeline intended to treat mental health and central nervous system disorders. The company's pipeline focuses on developing psychedelic medicines to facilitate innovation and clear differentiation in the marketplace over existing treatment options, enabling patients suffering from neurological and psychiatric disorders to get alternative assistance over currently available neuropsychiatric treatments.
Software
Prior Investment

Braze

A customer engagement platform that powers customer-centric interactions between consumers and brands. The company provides solutions for Retail & E-commerce, Media & Entertainment, Financial Services, and Travel & Hospitality related industries. The company offers a single, vertically integrated platform that encompasses the various functionalities, or layers, required for modern customer engagement: data ingestion, classification, orchestration, personalization, and action, all of which is supported by Sage AI by Braze, its AI engine designed to power AI functionality across all layers of this stack. It generates a majority of its revenue from the United States.
Software
Health Tech
Current Investment

Carda

A virtual rehabilitation platform intended to treat cardiac patients. The company's platform offers a short program delivered through an application, regular messaging, and phone calls with health coaches, rehabilitation experts, and exercise physiologists and includes a care package consisting of a heart rate and a blood pressure monitor, enabling patients to reduce stress, lose weight and stay healthy.
Consumer
Current Investment

Chloe's Soft Serve

A frozen snacks brand intended to offer flavored ice creams and pops. The company's ice creams are natural and gluten-free and act as a vegan alternative to frozen yogurt and ice creams, enabling users to taste delicious and vegan ice creams.
Consumer
Experience
Current Investment

Dorsia

A members-only booking platform intended to provide access to coveted reservations at in-demand restaurants in major cities. The company's platform offers a curated marketplace for people who love dining, culture and flavors, enabling people to book reservations at top-tier restaurants by committing to a guaranteed minimum spend. New York, London, Miami, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
Web3
Fin Tech
Current Investment

EToro

Asocial trading and investing platform designed to open the global markets for everyone to trade and invest simply and transparently. The company's platform helps investors manually invest in instruments across different asset classes and automatically copy the trades of other traders on the platform and access investment portfolios, enabling clients to connect people with expertise in everything from investing in traditional asset classes to cryptocurrencies.
AI
Software
Current Investment

Embrace AI

An interaction and engagement platform intended to improve the relationship between customers and companies. The company's platform uses a company's internal knowledge with the help of artificial intelligence to create sales and marketing materials, answer customer questions and onboard new employees, enabling sales, marketing, customer success and support teams to work efficiently and effectively.
Consumer
Prior Investment

Empathy Wines

A subscription-based wine platform designed to sell wine at a discounted price. The company's portal cuts the price of wine by reducing the supply chain in which wine is supplied directly to customers from the company, thereby enabling customers to enjoy a better quality of wine at a lower price.
AI
Current Investment

Etched

An artificial intelligence-based computing hardware designed to cut LLM inference costs radically specialized for transformers. The company offers hard-coding chips for the transformer architecture, allowing for fast computation of language models compared to general-purpose GPUs, enabling developers to generate new content in real time.
AI
Software

Frame AI

A collaborative messaging platform designed to improve business conversations. The company's platform produces structured analytics that can help businesses make decisions and improve performance across all message-based interactions, enabling employees to interact with customers and each other in a more efficient and consistent manner.
Experience
Software
Current Investment

Funnel

A cloud-based real estate marketing software designed to manage inventory and optimize the renter experience from prospect to close. The company's software offers complete marketing and leasing management services, enabling residential professionals to manage inventory, track leads and deals, advertise listings, and access performance analytics.
AI
Experience
Fin Tech
Current Investment

Gynger

A sales acceleration platform intended to close deals by adding capital to the stack. The company's platform specializes in offering custom financing to pre-qualified leads and underwrites, approves, and issues each loan with EMI options and combines software management and financial services, enabling businesses to improve sales and manage credit by improving the cash flow of financing.
Software
Health Tech
Current Investment

Healthie

A practice management and telehealth platform designed to empower providers to succeed in coaching and care. The company's platform provides an all-in-one, health insurance portability, and accountability act-compliant platform that connects users with nutrition experts, enabling clients to grow their business and build client relationships seamlessly and increasing revenue.
AI
Software
Fin Tech
Health Tech
Current Investment

KarmaCheck

An employee verification platform designed to provide background checks for employment needs. The company's software uses artificial intelligence and blockchain to provide real-time and actionable background checks including comprehensive criminal checks, employment verification, and education verification, enabling businesses to run fast and efficient checks on their new hires and employees, achieve a fast turnaround, and increase retention ratio.
Software
Space
Current Investment

LeoLabs

Low earth orbit mapping and space situational awareness services intended to conduct safe and sustainable operations in space. The company leverages radar technology to investigate the earth's ionosphere and offers rapid orbit determination, early operational support, and ongoing conjunction awareness, enabling commercial satellite operators, government regulatory, and space agencies to deploy their services safely and improve visibility.
Consumer
Current Investment

Liquid Death

Producer of canned mountain water intended to refresh and quench thirst. The company offers still and sparkling mountain water that contains natural electrolytes and minerals packaged in aluminum cans that can be recycled, enabling customers to consume purified water and also promoting a healthy environment while discouraging the use of plastic bottles.
Software
Prior Investment

MapAnything

Developer of a geo-analytics and location intelligence platform designed to improve enterprises productivity. The company's platform offers a routing and scheduling engine, integrated GPS tracking capabilities and creates a location-based workflow layer that helps to answer complex spatial questions, enabling businesses to visualize their data on a map and interact with it to increase field sales efficiency by managing their sales team, improve marketing efforts and drive productivity.
Consumer
Current Investment

Mercato

Operator of a grocery marketplace intended to connect consumers with local merchants. The company's marketplace helps users to order fresh groceries online from the stores they prefer and have them delivered to their door from a single store or combine items from multiple merchants in the same order, enabling consumers to order all sorts of ingredients and get them delivered to their doorsteps.
Consumer
Prior Investment

Meta

The world's largest online social network, with nearly 4 billion family of apps monthly active users. Users engage with each other in different ways, exchanging messages and sharing news events, photos, and videos. The firm's ecosystem consists mainly of the Facebook app, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and many features surrounding these products. Users can access Facebook on mobile devices and desktops. Advertising revenue represents more than 90% of the firm's total revenue, with more than 45% coming from the US and Canada and over 20% from Europe.
Consumer
Experience
Current Investment

Osiris Media

A media platform intended to offer musical and culture-based podcasts. The company's platform streams live telecasts, podcasts as well as videos and audio, and other authentic content for different genres of music, enabling users to listen to their preferred music and artists to connect with their passionate fans and increase the fan base.
Consumer
Web3
Gaming
Current Investment

Pixel Vault

A non-fungible token-based media firm intended to decentralize entertainment content creation. The company's platform allows artists, creators, and collectors to participate in the ownership of digital content through non-fungible tokens and also features a metaverse governed by the thousands of fans who purchased membership tokens, providing content creators and collectors with a forum for buying and selling content in a through a content ecosystem.
Consumer
Gaming
Prior Investment

Scopely

An interactive entertainment platform intended to create and publish a diverse portfolio of immersive content. The company's platform offers game design and development, live services, marketing and analytics, enabling clients to get enhanced
Consumer
Sports
Current Investment

Slamball

Operator of a high-energy and gravity-defying sport intended to combine the top elements of basketball, football, and hockey. The company offers a unique platform utilizing trampolines to propel athletes up in the air, attracting a new generation of sports consumers who demand non-stop action, enabling individuals to gain access to old-school sports entertainment.
Consumer
Gaming
Sports
Current Investment

Splash Sports

Developer of a real-money gaming platform designed to compete in games of skill. The company's platform specializes in empowering contest organizers to safely and legally run their peer-to-peer contests with content and community management tools as well as an integrated payment platform that removes the hassle of chasing down entry fees and paying out winners, enabling gamers to bring the sports pool space into the modern age and chance to earn money.
Consumer
Web3
Current Investment

SuperRare

Operator of an online digital art marketplace intended to provide tools to issue limited-edition NFTs. The company's platform facilitates collecting and trading single-edition digital artworks created by artists in the network and tokenizes them as a crypto-collectible digital item that anyone can own and trade, thereby enabling customers to buy a piece of artwork issued by the original artist at ease.
Consumer
Experience
Current Investment

Superfly Events

An entertainment and creative platform that offers event organization services and live events to brands to establish themselves in the market, enabling brands to connect more meaningfully with their audiences to organize and promote their events.
Consumer
Current Investment

The 1916 Company

A global platform for buying, selling, and trading collectible luxury watches. The company offers a curated selection of timepieces by the most respected watch brands as well as emerging independent watchmakers through a managed inventory model along with the support of trusted advisors, a dynamic media platform, digital infrastructure, and offices and showrooms worldwide it delivers white-glove service at scale to a vibrant global community of collecto
AI
Consumer

Thredlands

An AI-powered education platform that lets individuals, organizations and teams generate conversational courses and quizzes on any topic. These bite-sized and gamified experiences make learning any subject more effective, engaging, social and fun.
AI
Consumer
Software
Prior Investment

Torre

Self-driving AI recruiters who replicate human intuition (100 matching factors + 9 types of AI). The company's end goal is all jobs and all candidates, making thousands of job boards, hundreds of ATSs, and millions of old-style recruiters obsolete. TAM is $200B+/year.
AI
Software
Current Investment

Tribble

A cloud-based automation platform designed for automating repetitive tasks, simplifying businesses, and managing customer relationships. The company's platform eliminates the need for redundant content creation with customer data management, marketing automation, and sales, enabling clients to focus on business and accelerate growth and revenue.
Consumer
Web3
Experience
Gaming
Current Investment

Vee Friends

A NFT project intended to provide intellectual property, offline and in-person utility through curated experiences. The company's platform offers token NFT projects, creates meaningful intellectual property and creates an extraordinary community, providing token holders with extreme value. Savvy Games Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF), acquired the company in July 2023 for $4.9 billion.
Experience
Space
Current Investment

Xona Space Systems

Space systems designed for smart transportation and infrastructure industries. The company's systems include a constellation of low-cost, low-earth orbiting satellites to offer higher availability and location precision, enabling businesses to have navigation for autonomous vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles, mobile robotics and other location-critical applications.

Kass & Mike Recognition

Shoveling $h!t A Love Story

In this honest account, Kass & Mike will tell you the crap you can expect to find in the $h!t-filled fields, how to avoid stepping in some of it, and how to scrape off the rest.

The world needs to be exposed to Kass and Mike. Entrepreneurs who don’t devour this book are grossly negligent.
Gary Vaynerchuk, Chairman of VaynerX, CEO of VaynerMedia & CEO of VeeFriends
An unflinching look at what it really takes to succeed. Kass and Mike dive into the crap every entrepreneur has to deal with building a business and emerge with hard-won lessons about starting, managing, pivoting—and learning to love the shovel along the way.
Scott Galloway, Professor NYU Stern School of Business, Host Prof G Pod & Co-host Pivot Podcast
Mike and Kass is the greatest partnership I've ever been lucky enough to witness in person. Not just in business but in life, they bring out the best in each other and all of those around them. This book is a wonderful map to success both personal and professional from two of the most special people I know.
Seth Meyers, Host of Late Night with Seth Meyers
Kass and Mike have been invaluable to me as a first-time entrepreneur. Shoveling $h!t: A Love Story captures the universal entrepreneurial journey in an authentic, insightful, and undeniably powerful way.
Mike Cessario, Founder & CEO of Liquid Death
Kass and Mike’s transparency and expertise shine through every page—this is entrepreneurship as it’s meant to be understood.
Ron Conway, Founder & Managing Partner of SV Angel
If you're building a company, you want Kass and Mike in your corner. Their startup and life journey offers a rare glimpse into true resilience, ingenuity, and heart—a chance to learn from the best.
Karin Klein, Founding Partner, Bloomberg Beta
With their signature blend of honesty and experience, Kass and Mike deliver a powerful narrative that captures, unlike any book on the topic, what it means to be an entrepreneur.
Kevin Colleran, Managing Director of Slow Ventures & Early Facebook Employee
Mike and Kass have crafted a masterpiece that uses poignant stories to share invaluable lessons for anyone serious about succeeding as an entrepreneur.
Rick Farman, Founder, Superfly
I have lived Kass and Mike’s cheat codes for entrepreneurs as a product leader at Buddy Media. They worked for me and they will work for you. The lessons they share in Shoveling $h!t have informed my success at Sure and I will take them with me forever.
Wayne Slavin, Cofounder & CEO, Sure

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YPO Global Marketing Summit Barcelona
Speaking
March 15, 2024

YPO Global Marketing Summit Barcelona

Kass and Mike were invited as keynote speakers at the YPO Global Marketing Summit in Barcelona, where they shared insights from their entrepreneurial journey. Mike reflected on the highs and lows of building a company, while Kass emphasized the importance of shared values, resilience, and clearly defined roles in both their business and relationship.
Primary Venture NYC Summit
Speaking
September 12, 2024

Primary Venture NYC Summit

Kass and Mike led a session at the Primary Ventures NYC Summit, where they shared their insights on building companies from the ground up as a married couple, emphasizing the importance of communication, adaptability, and prioritizing your mental and physical wellbeing. Drawing from their experiences with Buddy Media and other ventures, they provided practical guidance for navigating the challenges of entrepreneurship.

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Kass and Mike’s stories, rich with real-life examples and lessons, capture the grit and tenacity necessary to succeed as entrepreneurs. They brought a humanity and humility to our global summit in Barcelona that not only inspired our hard-charging members but also resonated with spouses and key associates unlike any other speakers we have hosted...

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Erik Dochtermann
YPO Marketing Network Board Member, YPO Global Marketing Summit 2024 Champion

Kass and Mike delivered an engaging, raw, and frequently hilarious keynote interview at the Primary NYC Summit that resonated deeply with both founders and investors. Their unfiltered insights into the messy realities of building businesses captivated the room. They brought humor, authenticity, and invaluable lessons about how to succeed as an entrepreneur. It was humbling and practical, and at the same time enlightening and inspiring. And it left me dying to read the book!

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Brad Svrulga
Cofounder & General Partner at Primary Venture Partners

Kass and Mike Lazerow are not only two of the greatest founders I've ever worked with, but they’re also two of the greatest humans I've ever met. My partners have walked away with more insight, and our founders have walked away with incredible confidence in their ability to tackle the biggest and best opportunities and challenges in the world.

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Josh Rahn
Cofounder and Managing Partner, Oceans Venture Capital

Kass & Mike have a rare ability to turn challenges into opportunities, making them invaluable to the entrepreneurial community. Having lived the stressful life of entrepreneurs, they bring to every conversation a whole-person approach that I haven’t been able to find anywhere else.

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Matt Britton
CEO of Suzy

Kass and Mike are exceptional. Their combination of experience, IQ, and EQ make them the ideal speakers at any event. Our attendees are a tough crowd - every single one had built and sold a business -  they hate fluff. Folks emerged with tears in their eyes and smiles on their faces - of course, it was the magic of Kass and Mike.

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Grant Gittlin
Founder, Lasagna & ChapterX

Their story is not just inspiring; it's a testament to the power of perseverance, the impact of visionary leadership and the beauty of struggling.  But most importantly, Kass and Mike are wonderful human beings.  Big hearts filled with empathy give Kass and Mike a unique ability to connect with people, inspire teams, and drive transformative change. Their insights are a goldmine for anyone looking to start a company.

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Jimmy Nguyen
Founder & CEO of New Win Global

Kass and Mike brought an incredible energy to the panel, engaging the audience with their insightful perspectives and genuine passion on being entrepreneurs. Their ability to communicate complex ideas with clarity and humor made the session both informative and enjoyable. Their dynamic interaction and complementary expertise left a lasting impression, making them standout speakers of the event.

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Ed Reitler
Managing Partner, Reitler Kailas & Rosenblatt LLP

If you are not following Kass and Mike, two of the best founders and investors sharing their advice, you are missing out! [They] are insightful, inspiring, authentic, transparent and so entertaining!

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Tami Holzman
@queenconnector