About Flybridge: Flybridge Capital Partners is a seed-stage venture capital firm focused on supporting and investing behind ambitious founders, at the earliest stages of company building across a range of sectors who share our vision for leveraging the power of community as a source of competitive advantage. While our core…

Originally posted on Hazard Lights by Chip Hazard Conventional wisdom for founders of early-stage venture-backed companies is that it is best practice to send out monthly investor updates — and we agree. We see a significant correlation between success and the companies whose founders maintain the discipline to follow this…

Adding a Head of Community to the Flybridge family has been a goal for a while as we continue to double down on our belief that communities create competitive advantage. We even wrote a book on this topic (or at least an eBook): The Community Playbook for Founders. Thus, we…

We are pleased to announce that Flybridge has raised a pair of new, oversubscribed funds with aggregate commitments of $150 million to continue our mission of backing ambitious founders at the pre-seed and seed stage. …

Job posts are kind of boring and rarely inspire. Thus, it’s unusual that you get people commenting on how thankful they are for including a few additional words, but that is precisely what we’ve heard over and over from people in the venture ecosystem. …

I’m not sure how many of you know the history of Flybridge but I wanted to share a little story about why Anna, Chip, Jeff, and I do what we do, together, at our firm. It’s been almost six years since I joined my partners and it’s been a blast…

This week, Valentina Ratner (formerly Toll Villagra), co-founder and CEO of AllSpice, announced the company’s $3.2M seed financing marking Flybridge’s 100th investment in a female-founded company in the last five years. AllSpice is essentially building “Github for hardware” — a collaboration hub inspired by software principles, powered by Git, and…

I am obsessed with community. From my entrepreneurial days, my six years on the founding team of WeWork (where I co-founded WeWork Labs), and my last six years as a general partner at Flybridge Capital (where I back early stage community-led companies), I have seen over and over again the…

Written by Julia Maltby and originally posted here. I am passionate about the creator economy as an investment theme for my work at Flybridge, where we have invested in a few leading creator economy platforms such as Splice, HiFi, and Fable. I recently wrote a post deconstructing the new monetization…