Our call for 2025 interns for the Craft portfolio is now open! The Craft Ventures talent team is partnering with a number of our portfolio companies to gather applications for sharp, hard-working, ambitious juniors, seniors, and recent post-grads looking for 2025 internships. Fill out the form and if you're a fit for one of our companies' opportunities, we will be in touch: https://lnkd.in/gtVRhDqA
Craft Ventures
Financial Services
San Francisco, California 22,805 followers
B2B software investors dedicated to the craft of building great companies.
About us
Craft Ventures is an early-stage and growth fund with proven, repeated success building and scaling SaaS businesses.
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http://www.craftventures.com
External link for Craft Ventures
- Industry
- Financial Services
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2017
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855 Front St
San Francisco, California 94111, US
Employees at Craft Ventures
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Craft Ventures reposted this
Thank You Everyone For Joining Us At This Years Black Hat 2024 “Lock It Down” Networking Reception and Party at Mandalay Bay 1923 Prohibition Bar and Minus 5 Ice Bar. It was one of the Best Networking Events at Black Hat. We melted the Ice Bar yet again! A Huge Thanks to our Sponsors! Armis - Legato Security - DigiCert - WaveStrong, Inc. - BforeAI - Red Sift - Abusix, Inc. KCPR and Craft Ventures We appreciate your continued support. Here is a nice video we created with Photos from the Party! Hope you all enjoy. Please feel free to like and share! If you see yourself in one of the pictures and would like a copy let me know. We are already planning for the 2025 Event! #BlackHat2024 #Cybersecurity #CISO #Executive #CISONetwork #CxoInsyte #BestParty
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Craft Ventures reposted this
What a great way to kickoff #BlackHat2024. Craft Ventures traveled in style with a group of incredible #CISOs, plus Snehal Antani from Horizon3.ai & Amiram Shachar from Upwind Security.
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Congratulations to Horizon3.ai, Peregrine and Cortex for being named to Forbes Next Billion Dollar Startups 2024! Peregrine partners with public safety agencies, empowering them with the data to keep their communities safe. Horizon3.ai allows enterprises to continuously assess the security posture of their business across many attack surfaces with their innovative NodeZero technology. And Cortex helps engineering teams build better software at scale with its single-pane-of-glass developer portal. https://lnkd.in/eADCXisD
Next Billion-Dollar Startups 2024
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Huge congrats to Bob Remeika and Mohammed Rafiq on the launch of Ragie, offering fully-managed RAG-as-a-Service. Read more in VentureBeat below, or in Craft's latest blog post: https://lnkd.in/gvj9BTCC
Big news today!!! We’ve landed $5.5M in seed funding from Craft Ventures, Chapter One, Saga and Valor Equity Partners AND Ragie is now open to the public for self-signup! Our team has been working incredibly hard to build a product with a first class DX, several knowledge base connectors like Google Drive and Notion, and APIs that keep your application up-to-date with the latest and greatest in Retrieval Augmented Generation with no maintenance. Mohammed Rafiq and I recently sat down with VentureBeat to discuss the details. https://lnkd.in/gYiJNkHK If you'd like to learn more, then please ping me either in a reply or in a DM! I'm so excited to use this raise to accelerate our growth at Ragie!
RAG-as-a-Service platform Ragie takes flight to bridge corporate data and AI
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Vote now for SXSW panel "Deepfake Dilemma: Balancing Innovation and Policy" Zohaib Ahmed of Resemble AI and Craft Ventures Operating Partner Chris Massey will dig into AI voice technology, discussing how detection technology no only prevents deepfakes but supports responsible innovation, balancing progress with protection. Want to see this panel in the lineup at #SXSW? Give it an upvote - Panel Picker closes 8/18! https://lnkd.in/dt8rkVZW
I'm always excited to support our Craft Ventures portfolio companies and joining them for fireside chats and panel discussions. I am very excited to be working with Resemble AI at SXSW 2025. We are in the running for an exciting session on AI and the Deepfake Dilemma: Balancing Innovation and Policy, but we need your help! Please support us in the panel picker - https://lnkd.in/dt8rkVZW While you're at it, please consider supporting another potential panel with our friends at Resemble - From Idea to Apple Award: Inclusivity in Crayola Adventures - with Red Games Co. https://lnkd.in/dHmXTVnm Help us make an impact at SXSW 2025 !
Deepfake Dilemma: Balancing Innovation and Policy
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Another funny, entertaining, and highly informative Super Cyber Friday. Today's was unique. Topic was "Ask a CISO Anything" and that's exactly what we did. We got a ton of questions from our audience and we tried to plow through as many of them as possible. Huge thanks to my guests, Steve Zalewski, co-host of Defense in Depth, and William Harmer, CISSP, CISM, CIPP, CISO, Craft Ventures. Please join CISO Series in TWO weeks when our Super Cyber Friday topic will be "Hacking the Demo: An hour of critical thinking about how to be pitch perfect.” All of us have seen or been a part of a demo. What makes one memorable and one not memorable? JOIN US on Friday, August 16th, 2024 at 1 PM ET/10 AM PT. REGISTER: https://lnkd.in/gPxXMDeJ #CISOseries #CISO #security #infosec #informationsecurity #cybersecurity
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For all the poker lovers + data leaders in the Bay Area, go all in at Secoda's Data Royale charity poker tournament, happening next week Details below... ♠ ♣ ♦ ♥
♠️ Poker. Data. Libations. ♠️ Secoda presents Data Royale: our inaugural charity poker tournament, exclusively for data leaders in San Francisco. All proceeds will go to support The San Fransisco Education Fund, a non-profit organization dedicated to public school students in San Fransisco who are under-served and under-supported. The details: ♠️ Thursday August 15, 2024 @ 6pm ♣️ Location: The Howard SF ♦️ $100 Buy-in ♥️ Enjoy a complimentary menu of exquisite craft cuisine and cocktails served all night This event welcomes all skill levels. Whether you're a seasoned pro or new to Texas Hold'em, you'll benefit from expert guidance and tutorials to help you get in the game. Don't want to play? No problem. Stay for the great food, drink, and company 🥂 ♠ Apply today to get your VIP ticket - with buy-in, dinner, and drinks included: https://lnkd.in/gb4KyX6b
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Craft Ventures reposted this
🚀 We were thrilled to co-host a recent webinar with Vanta and Craft Ventures, diving deep into the world of cloud marketplaces! Our CEO and Co-founder, Jon Yoo, alongside Jessica Gray from Vanta, Tom Pinckney from Sourcegraph, Jason Lee from Snowflake, and moderated by Sarah Blanchard (formerly Buckley-Green) from Craft Ventures, shared valuable insights on leveraging cloud marketplaces to drive business growth. 🌐 Key Takeaways: 👉 What is a Cloud Marketplace? B2B equivalent of app stores, providing streamlined procurement, shortened sales cycles, and access to pre-committed cloud budgets. 📈💡 👉 Why Should Businesses Care? Enhances credibility, facilitates easier procurement, and strengthens partnerships. 🤝✅ 👉 Key Benefits: Simplified procurement, access to cloud budgets, enhanced credibility, and co-selling opportunities. 🛒💼 👉 Lessons Learned: Start with a project manager, enable internal teams, focus on quick wins, and understand the commitment required for success. 📝🔍 👉 Cross-Departmental Collaboration: Success in cloud marketplaces requires involvement from IT, engineering, finance, partnerships, sales, and more. 🌟📊 Special thanks to our speakers for sharing their experiences and best practices! As the digital landscape evolves, embracing cloud marketplaces is essential for companies to stay ahead, streamline procurement, and unlock new growth opportunities. 🚀💼✨ Catch the full webinar with their breakdowns below! Learn more on Blog: https://lnkd.in/efgp4d5h Watch on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/eeMErUWs #CloudMarketplaces #Webinar #BusinessGrowth #CloudComputing #SaaS #StrategicPartnerships #CoSelling #Suger
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Craft Ventures reposted this
Upwind is named among 2024's top 10 hottest cloud security startups 🚀 ☁️ We are humbled and honored to have been listed by CRN as a top cloud security startup, recognizing our commitment to providing an industry-leading cloud security solution for our customers. Read the article below for all the details! Up & Upwind! 🏄♂️ #upwind #cloudsecurity #devsecops https://lnkd.in/gt-D6Rtj