Cendana Capital

A rather simple algorithm, actually invest in very smart GPs who have deep and broad networks and have a good nose for outstanding founders. Excited to partner with Ross Fubini at XYZ!

Plastic free by 2025 is a remarkable goal! Grove Collaborative leading the way

We are incredibly happy for our great friend Saar Gur and his journey with DoorDash . Founders, if you want to talk to one of the smartest (and nicest) VCs, You will do no better than Saar!

Excited to partner with Better Tomorrow for seed stage fintech investing. Congrats Sheel and Jakepsyched to see what’s in store tomorrow and beyond . H/t Connie Loizos.

Clean personal care products and no plastics! Already carbon neutral. Check out Grove Collaborative’s new line called Peach ! They even have a shampoo bar (like a bar of soap)

Great post by the team at Oper8r Fundraising is hard, but understanding what different LPs seek is critical.

Just as the name suggests! FastAF is now available in LA, part of Darkstore, a portfolio company PivotNorth

Sheel Mohnot from our portfolio fund BetterTomorrow will be on ZoomBachelor tonight! Go Sheel!

We are grateful partners with Ashmeet Sidana and super excited to see what lies ahead for Engineering Capital

Super happy to announce we have closed on about $280 million for our new funds, meaningfully oversubscribed. We are very lucky to have such supportive investors for the past decade and it’s exciting to bring new relationships to the Cendana Capital family. Truly grateful to our fund managers who make it all happen and to our team: Graham Pingree, Kelli Fontaine, Kirk Dizon and Jon Coquia. Thank you Connie Loizos for the fun podcast and gracious TechCrunch story!

We are sponsoring annually an intern from Historically Black Colleges and Universities to help them start a career in the institutional LP world. In 10 years, that will be 10 young people who will become investors. Had a great conversation with Connie Loizos and Alex Gove for their podcast StrictlyVC Downloadand we discuss (at the 31:57 mark) how we are supporting Lo Toney at Plexo Capital to provide this on-ramp to the LP & GP world for HBCU students

Had a great conversation with @Jason last week, covering seed VC, how we are thinking about the market opportunities, what our portfolio fund managers are seeing and more

For you millennials and Gen Z, check out Kinship (co-founded by Alison Pandell Haljun and Christin Powell), which is now available at one of the largest clean beauty companies, Credo .

PSA: In case you want to order in-home Covid tests, #hims is now offering them (yes, it’s a portfolio company of one of our fund managers, Matt Cheng/Cherubic Ventures)

Equity ownership means you get the ups but also the downs. All-around great investor Roger Ehrenberg applies this to the current situation with the owners and players Major League Baseball.

A very good essay on the value of Red Teaming your thinking. Can you equally make the counterpoint to your thesis?

Had a fun follow-up session with Lindel D Eakman from FoundryNext and Joanna Rupp from the University of Chicago endowment. Hopefully, we provided some good advice! Thanks Jim Marshall and the SVB team for organizing this.

For those with college age children studying compute science. Our portfolio fund Neo, founded by Ali Partovi, has a remarkable program to mentor CS students with senior and well-known technologists. Share with your childrenit can really provide a significant advantage. Thanks!

Excellent summary by the Kauffman Fellows program on how LPs can engage with emerging managers before and after investing.

A creative initiative from our friends at NextView.