Jessica Verrilli

Congrats to Ethos on their IPO and the GV team on the journey along the way with them! I smiled reading this note and was reminded of Tyson Clark. Tyson led this investment and was always such a st...

Excited to see Celeste Amadon launch Known a new AI dating concierge. Everyone knows online dating is broken and helping people find life partners is an existentially important mission. Congrats, C...

AI automating software engineering is an inevitability. The crazy thing is... it's here. Not soon. Now. And the implications are wild. If AI is writing substantially all the code, then auditing and...

Congrats Kyle Hency and Dave Wardell and team! GoodDay Software raised a $7M round to build a AI-native ERP for retailers. They are customer obsessed, having previously *been* the customer when t...

Cool job alert! The Casa team is hiring a Head of Growth to build and scale all growth marketing for their AI property management service. Casa was founded by some of the earliest employees of Ub...

"Pricing is your biggest untapped growth lever" - Michael MacLennan, former Square exec, where he oversaw all of hardware. We were lucky to have Mike, who is building something new, join our Adver...

Hosting well takes a keen attention to detail and ability to intuit not just how a space should look, but more importantly, how people should feel being in it. Lucky for us, we had the best partn...

How do you grow a new consumer app? As software gets easier to build, the go-to-market playbook is a top of mind question for founders. And, lucky us, we got real talk, practical approaches from A...

I didn't grab a picture but loved getting an in-person catch up with Jonathan Chen in NYC (so, this old pic will suffice!). Jon and I worked together for the better part of a decade at Twitter and ...

The comms playbook has changed for startups, and no one better to give us the tea than former Box and Glossier comms exec, Ashley Mayer. She's now running Coalition and brought the 🔥 to a firesi...

Speaking of Adverb Ventures 💚 Founder Day, it’s a fun moment to reflect on what a joy it is to team up with my co-founder April Underwood. She’s “been to the moon 🌙 twice” in her journeys at Twit...

En route to NYC! And, still buzzing from our Adverb Ventures 💚 SF Founder Day last week. For one of our sessions, we stepped aside and let two of our founders, Kayvon Beykpour and Michael York, ...

The team that built breakout DTC commerce brand Chubbies Shorts is back at it, now bringing ALL the e-commerce companies the software they wish they had while building their business. Hello GoodDay...

Yesterday was 💚 Adverb Ventures SF Founder Day..... and next week, we're taking the show on the road to NYC 🍎 ! "Build an extraordinary company, in good company" is our mantra and the best way to...

One of the best decisions we made last year while building 💚 Adverb Ventures was to find office space with 2 extra adjacent conferences rooms. It opened the literal door for us to work alongside Ma...

And it's launch day for Le Walk! Aaron Sekhri and Stephen Boyle and team are bringing their consumer chops from prior roles at TikTok and Uber to create a new experience that gets you off your ph...

It's 🚀 Macroscope launch day! If you're a software development team, you'll want to use this tool to understand your code base and automate code reviews: https://prasso.ai/ And it's an especially ...

“I got to go to the moon—twice!—and now I get to help founders on their own rocket ship rides.” 🚀 It’s the perfect encapsulation of April Underwood’s journeys scaling Twitter and Slack and now sh...

Proof that the best ideas start over breakfast tacos 🌮☕ This morning, we hosted another Builder Breakfast Club in SF for 30+ founders & builders across AI, construction tech, fintech, and enterpri...

Rise and grind! We've got a few spots left for our Builders Breakfast Club! If you're a Bay Area engineer and want to connect w/ other builders, founders, and our team at Adverb, come join us for ...