Dalton Caldwell

Cool to see Whatnot at number 3 in the App Store today!

New video posted this week: "How Great Founders Approach Sales" We discuss common startup sales mistakes such as excessive discounting and misinterpretations of "consulting." With all of the recen...

We have announced 6 Standard Capital Series A portfolio companies so far. These are all companies that are growing incredibly quickly, and a great window into what the future of AI looks like. Co...

One of the reasons we invested in Magic Patterns was hearing how many companies are switching to it over Figma. If you are curious to see what an AI-native Figma replacement looks like, I encoura...

We led the Series A in Concourse. The Concourse founders are deep domain experts with a great set of customer logos and a phenomenal growth rate. As of today, the Concourse product is generally ...

New episode of Dalton + Michael: Building A Big Company: Non-Obvious Insights We discuss the times where hill climbing isn't enough https://lnkd.in/gNAj-PMr

Just released a "2025 Year In Review" episode of Dalton + Michael. We discuss a grab bag of topics including: depopulation, San Francisco, AGI, self-driving cars, talk of AI bubbles, "abundance" a...

PSA: The application deadline for Standard Capital's Winter 2026 funding cycle is in 16 days. If you know a founder that is considering raising a Series A in 2026, tell them to look into Standard...

We have been recording interviews with the the founders of Standard Capital portfolio companies as part of their Series A announcements. In my opinion, hearing a founder talk about their startup i...

Know someone that's ready to raise a Series A? Applications for Standard Capital's next funding cycle are now officially open! The application deadline is January 7. Learn more about what Standa...

Just published an interview I did with two of the founders of Trigger.dev as part of the $16M Series A led by Standard Capital. Trigger.dev has four founders, was in the Y Combinator W23 batch, an...

Today we are announcing that Standard Capital led the Series A in Trigger.dev Trigger has really broken in the recent months as a top infrastructure provider for companies building & deploying AI ...

Way to go Gigs!

New video: "Is My Startup Growing Fast Enough?" Startup founders are constantly hearing from investors that they need to go from 0 to 1M in ARR in a matter of days and be growing at least 10X year...

PSA: we have started uploading new Dalton + Michael episodes to Spotify as well as our new YouTube channel: https://lnkd.in/ghVmNaKh https://lnkd.in/gnZi7tQa

"Real vs Fake Startups" Just released a new Dalton + Michael video. In this video we discuss the caricatures of a "fake" vs "real" startup and how founders can avoid falling into the trap of carg...

For folks not living in the Bay Area, you may find this graph surprising. It’s worth contemplating that: 1) self-driving is actually happening 2) it’s coming to you 3) the ramifications are big...

Standard Capital just led the $15M Series A in Momentic. In this video I sat down with the founders of Momentic, Wei-Wei W. and Jeff An. We discuss the background of Momentic, how they help cust...

Proud to say that Standard Capital led the $15M Series A in Momentic. As AI coding tools become rapidly adopted, Momentic serves as a customers product quality guardrail. Think of Momentic as the ...

New Dalton + Michael video just released: "How To Get Better Advice" We discuss some ways to get the most helpful advice from a mentor or investor. https://lnkd.in/gm7D9bwR