![]() Hyper's program helps companies "stage up."įrom forming your early team, finding your 100 true fans, to scaling growth.Ģ. Hyper is a $60MM early-stage venture firm that focuses on funding a small group of high-quality founders a few times a year with its program. Let's walk through how Prologue starts to address this.ġ. Of the more than 900 unicorns that exist today, nearly 50% come from outside the US.Īmerican investors aren't paying enough attention to these regions. What was once breaking news is now lost in a Twitter timeline.ģ) Further, Silicon Valley is rapidly decentralizing It’s harder than ever for startups to break through and rapidly scale customer acquisition. In 2021 alone, $621 billion was invested in startups globally, setting an all time record.Ģ) It's difficult for startups to rise above the noise The idea of Prologue originated from a conversation between Ashley Higgins, Josh Buckley, and myself where we realized: Our two starting brands include Product Hunt and Hyper, with plans for more in the future.Īs a sign of big things to come, this the first time Sequoia and A16Z have come to together to co-invest in a structure like this. We're launching Prologue, which is a new type of tech holding company.Īs part of this-we closed $23M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital. ![]() ![]() ✨ Don't forget - the world is your Oyster®! □ If you want to change the IDKWIDK to IYKYK, I've partnered with Lanre Akinyemi at Product Hunt to share an exclusive offer so that you *can* learn more about how your business can go global easily and compliantly. □ Global employment and international hiring can feel daunting and complicated causing many companies to not explore it as an option for expanding their talent pool, tapping into more diverse applicants, and finding the right-fit individual for a hard-to-fill role - regardless of where that person is located. □♀️ □♂️ "I don't know what I don't know" aka IDKWIDK □♂️□♀️ġ️⃣ This is the #1 phrase I've heard from CEOs, Founders, Heads of Sales, Partnership Managers and other leaders across dozens of companies whose core business function is to offer in-country payroll and payments services to talent when posing this question: how do your customers manage and pay cross-border freelancers, contractors, and full time employees?
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