Jenny Fielding

To make the assembly waiting room at Jury Duty more productive… find the richest looking guy in the room, casually sit next to him and pitch him your startup (or fund). 90% hit rate getting a check...

Some VC firms are great asset gatherers, we are great people gatherers. Welcome @annawbarber to the @EverywhereVC team. Venture is changing but emerging managers are the future! 🚀🚀🚀 https://t.co/aD...

I swear that tech people are starting Substacks just to talk endlessly about how venture is dead. TLDR - it’s not.

Why did all the tech media platforms stop covering startups to focus only on big tech? I miss the days of baby startup launches and cool new products hitting the market. How much OpenAI news can we...

A leading AI software co offered to hire my friend to write thought leadership for the exec team. My friend doesn’t know much about the AI industry but he’s well versed using Claude 🤷🏼‍♀️

Even after all these years, making the first investment out of a brand new fund vintage feels impactful / scary / exciting 💥

There are 4 rounds of capital before Series A right now. Seeing this all the time as the goal posts continue to move. Hard time to be a founder outside of the top 5%.

There are people (some smart, all well meaning) that coach founders to ask lots of questions to an investor during the first meeting…Are you actively deploying? What’s your investment process? How ...

Seeing lots of pre-seed deals with some nice traction already. Seems like the days of raising on a napkin are fading. Founders are moving much faster, building and selling first before raising. Go...

We write modest $250k checks at our fund. It’s a business model not a sign of our conviction level. Annoying to keep hearing that objection 👎🏼

Got bad advice not to ping people today, the first day back. Ignored it and sent 12 emails at 8am to super busy people. Got 10 responses before noon. Always ignore bad advice 🙌🏼

Last deal of the year wired 💰 Healthcare - that tracks. But not software - oh my! Now shush to the people saying my deals are not weird enough 🤐

On the subway home tonight I ran into a founder who is closing $10m in deals this week. They were so excited and full of energy at 9pm - and heading home to the see kids before bed. Impressive!

It’s tiring to hear all the proclamations about needing to be invested in one of the 5 AI companies to matter as a VC. Remeber that doesn’t apply to small funds. We can out-perform and not be inves...

An investor said my deals weren’t weird enough for him. Eye roll. Then another investor said the same thing to me. 👀