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Investing in outlier companies is what venture capital is all about - but venture is a loooong game. So today is a very proud milestone moment for @Frontlinevc as @Navan lists on the Nasdaq at a $6.45B valuation, marking the first IPO for a Frontline portfolio company. 🛎️🛎️🛎️ Navan was also our first investment from our US Growth Fund so helped us shape our strategy. As my partner @stephenpmc neatly puts it "Customers love Navan because it’s a great product. Frontline loves Navan because it helped us define our product as a venture capital firm." lnkd.in/gfJsgQiw

Sometimes a founder can describe their vision for their startup so vividly that all it really takes is one conversation. When @seanmullaney described his vision for Seapoint seapoint.co/ it was clear he was thinking through to the end game of how founders should be able to manage their finances. It was also clear he cared deeply about other founders - and wanted to apply all he had learned at Stripe, and as a former founder, to solve their finance needs. What I underestimated is how complicated managing finances has gotten for startups.  One founder described how - "We have ended up with a financial stack more complex than the product we're trying to build." Most startups now have 5-6 tools to manage finances. Think traditional bank, neo-bank, neo-bank for fx, payroll, invoices, cards, expense management. Delighted that @Frontlinevc got to lead Seapoint's $3m pre-seed round and to be joined by Tapestry , Andrena, Angel Invest and the ex COOs of Stripe, Revolut and Tines - Claire Hughes Johnson, Laurence Krieger and Colm Long. If you find yourself running out of fingers to count your finance stack on - sign up to seapoint.co/ now.   You can thank Sean Mullaney later. seapoint.co/building-the-fin…

Huge congrats to Marty & @HydrolixDB team on their $80M Series C 🚀 Top minds in data infrastructure and now, one of the most important platforms in the observability and AI stack. As cloud infrastructure, AI, and security workloads explode, enterprises are drowning in log data but can’t afford to analyze it. @HydrolixDB flips the economics of log analytics on its head 💪 hydrolix.io/blog/series-c/

From Seed to TCV Series B: @cloudsmith 's $23M Milestone. Hats off to Glenn Weinstein, Alan Carson ☁️ & Lee Skillen for outstanding execution on realising the Cloudsmith vision. ☁️ frontline.vc/blog/cloudsmith…

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Very sad to see this. NDRC was key in the development of many of the companies we got to work with including @brightflaghq, @Boxever, @FrescoCooks, @logentries and @QualioHQ. There are literally thousands of founders they have helped (and continue to help) in company creation.

Nudge.xyz is excited to announce the launch of a new primitive that will redefine where assets, liquidity, and onchain activity are flowing onchain: Re:allocation But what is this Re:allocation Primitive, and how does it boost your wallet balance? A 🧵👇(1/7)

Very excited for @TrustVanta on another amazing milestone! Congrats to @christinacaci & the entire team. It's been incredible to see the EMEA business explode over the last couple years and things are just getting started!

Happy 4th of July to all of our American friends, founders & collaborators 🇺🇸

Expanding a SaaS company to a new continent 🌎🌍 is extremely difficult, but the rewards of getting it right are huge. Europe HQ'd raising seed? US HQ'd coming to Europe? Let us share what we have learned working with other great founders going global techcrunch.com/2024/03/21/fr…

0 - > $100m ARR in 5 years 7,000 customers (happy ones from those I talk to) and already 40 people on the ground in Europe. @TrustVanta for the 🌎🌍 win

📣 Introducing Navigator by Cloudsmith: your trusted tool for OSS package quality. Navigator is a free tool that helps developers select the best packages for their projects early in development. Now out of Beta, we've made it available for all: cloudsmith.com/navigator

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Frontline is expanding! 🚀 We’re hiring two new Associates on our Seed team, based in London and Dublin🇬🇧🇮🇪 Are you curious and driven with strong communication skills? Find out more and apply here 👇 frontlinevc.bamboohr.com/car…