By Carey Lai With the Federal Funds rate having gone from 0% in February 2022 to 5.25% today, gone are the days when capital no longer has a cost. In an elevated interest rate environment, VCs and CEOs alike have now shifted from a “growth at...
After a CEO finds product-market fit, the inevitable question he or she asks is, “How fast do I grow to raise my next round?” It isn’t a simple question. Unfortunately, the venture community creates oversimplified benchmarks around minimum revenue growth rates of 2x, 3x or,...
Conductive Ventures raised a $200 million Fund III to continue its focus on investing in founders where other venture capital firms did not see the potential. You might remember our profile of the firm back in 2018 when it officially launched with a $100 million enterprise fund. Carey Lai...
Doubling Down On Capital Efficient Non-traditional Entrepreneurs By Carey Lai and Paul Yeh We are both excited and humbled to announce our oversubscribed $200M Fund III, which brings total assets under management to $450 million. When we first launched Conductive Ventures in 2017, we had a vision...
How did we first meet? We first met Steven Jiang, Founder & CEO of HireEZ, over a bowl of Vietnamese Pho soup noodles during the summer of 2021. We were initially impressed by his scale and growth. I couldn’t believe I had never come across this...
“We’d like to hire you!” – Being recruited for a role is a great feeling, until you get the same message from every recruiter and it starts to feel like white noise. A good friend who’s a DevOps engineer told me that he receives one...
Customer service is making and breaking companies over the past two years as shopping moved online and consumers wanted more out of the traditional service companies were offering. Zingtree provides interactive contact center software that guides agents to the next best action so that they can cater...
Tripalink, a technology-driven residential brand specializing in co-living and standard apartment rentals, raised $30 million from a combination of equity and debt in its Series B+ funding round after an explosive year of growth. The round is co-led by new investors Conductive Ventures and Altos Ventures,...
We are deeply saddened by the passing of our advisor, mentor, and friend, Ryan Popple. Ryan always puts others before himself. Having served his country as an Army officer, then choosing an altruistic career path in clean energy, in order to make the planet a better...