Insights today on creating tomorrows transformationThe Underscore team is excited to share that our Core’s love for content creation has driven us to develop our very own community blog! We hope you’ll join us there.A sneak peek at what you can expect from the new blog!See you there!Introducing The Core Community Wire was originally published in Underscore VC on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story ..read more

Our new blog series, “Preparing for Lift-Off: 11 Founders Launching Bold New Startups,” features exclusive interviews with the founders from the latest cohort of our UFirst Summer Accelerator program. We’re sharing their stories and the daring ideas that are moving their companies forward. We’re excited to be working with them this summer, and hope you enjoy hearing about their journeys thus far and where they’re headed.This week, meet Brittany Greenfield, founder of Wabbi, who is pioneering the field of SecDevOps with a platform that integrates and automates application security processes int ..read more

The founders revolutionizing research and content marketing with AIOur new blog series, “Preparing for Lift-Off: 11 Founders Launching Bold New Startups,” features exclusive interviews with the founders from the latest cohort of our UFirst Summer Accelerator program. We’re sharing their stories and the daring ideas that are moving their companies forward. We’re excited to be working with them this summer, and hope you enjoy hearing about their journeys thus far and where they’re headed.This week, meet Tomas Ratia, co-founder of Frase, which is building an Answer Engine Platform along with his ..read more

This founder made a translation app for his Dad. Then thousands of people started using it.Our new blog series, “Preparing for Lift-Off: 11 Founders Launching Bold New Startups,” features exclusive interviews with the founders from the latest cohort of our UFirst Summer Accelerator program. We’re sharing their stories and the daring ideas that are moving their companies forward. We’re excited to be working with them this summer, and hope you enjoy hearing about their journeys thus far and where they’re headed.Up next: TransKey founder Aleksander Skjoelsvik. While most cross-language communicat ..read more

Why Underscore VC Invested in Hi Marley’s Series AIn this age of customer-first, competing on Customer Experience (CX) is no longer a nice-to-have, it is paramount.Customers now expect immediate, contextual, personalized, well designed, and streamlined communication that meets them where they are.While executives identify Customer Experience management as a high priority, the majority of enterprises, particularly in industries that are still early in their path to digital transformation, face a gap between prioritization and execution in creating winning customer experiences. In one study:But ..read more

Meet the Founder Empowering Businesses with Smart ContractsOur new blog series, “Preparing for Lift-Off: 11 Founders Launching Bold New Startups,” features exclusive interviews with the founders from the latest cohort of our UFirst Summer Accelerator program. We’re sharing their stories and the daring ideas that are moving their companies forward. We’re excited to be working with them this summer, and hope you enjoy hearing about their journeys thus far and where they’re headed.This week we’re joined by Steve Flanagan, founder of Bountium. Steve is actively redefining how business transactions ..read more

Meet the Founder Transforming Conversational AIIn our series “Preparing for Lift-Off: 11 Founders Launching Bold New Startups,” we’re introducing the world to the members of our upcoming UFirst Summer Accelerator program. These are some of the most promising emerging entrepreneurs around and we couldn’t be more excited to share their stories with you. Dive into their journeys and discover the work they’re doing to push the boundaries of what’s possible.This week we’re interviewing Karan Kashyap, Co-Founder of Posh, who is rethinking what’s possible with conversational AI and transforming how c ..read more

PM to VCFrom building products to building portfoliosWhen I first started thinking about a career in venture capital, I had a few misconceptions about the role, especially as it pertained to early-stage VC.Now, as I near the 1-year marker in my role at Underscore VC, I wanted to dispel a number of myths and share some insights from the perspective of a product manager turned early-stage investor:(PM)isconceptions about VCYou need a “finance” or “MBA” backgroundThough helpful, most companies at the earliest stage often don’t have meaningful metrics to truly grok or assess. A background in build ..read more

These Founders Are Rerouting the School Bus IndustryOur new blog series, “Preparing for Lift-Off: 11 Founders Launching Bold New Startups,” features exclusive interviews with the founders from the latest cohort of our UFirst Summer Accelerator program. We’re sharing their stories and the daring ideas that are moving their companies forward. We’re excited to be working with them this summer, and hope you enjoy hearing about their journeys thus far and where they’re headed.We are excited to introduce Keith Corso and Chris Fischer, the founders of BusRight, who are out to revamp the school bus in ..read more

Two entrepreneurs harnessing ML to improve work meetingsOur new blog series, “Preparing for Lift-Off: 10 Founders Launching Bold New Startups,” features exclusive interviews with founders from the latest cohort of our UFirst Summer Accelerator program (beginning June 18th). We’re sharing their stories and the daring ideas that are moving their companies forward. We’re excited to be working with them this summer, and hope you enjoy hearing about their journeys thus far and where they’re headed.We’re kicking things off with John Keck and Ankith Harathi, founders of Marlo, who are using machine l ..read more