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Kate Beardsley reposted thisKate Beardsley reposted thisHannah Grey is proud to launch our newest edition of Cultural Vibrations - Collective Coefficient Spring 2026! This Journal is an exploration of the symbiotic world where people and machines operate as partners, personally and professionally. The Journal includes team essays around investment themes we're digging into such as the Economics of Intelligence, Hybrid Human x AI workforces, Screenless Interfaces and more, along with fresh perspectives from our brilliant network: ✨ The Hardest Part of Building Right Now Isn’t Building with Scott Dadich, former Editor-in-Chief of WIRED ✨ From Extraction to Sustainability: The Human-Centric Economy with Kevin Walker, former Head of Consumer & Cultural Insights at CAA ✨ Epic Disruptions & The Adaptive Enterprise with Scott D. Anthony, Author Epic Disruptions: 11 Innovations That Shaped Our Modern World ✨ Reality Somms: How to Cultivate A Discipline of Knowing What’s Real with Matt Klein, Head of Global Foresight at Reddit and Futurist-in-Residence at Hannah Grey, and Brian Lange, Co-Founder of Future Commerce ✨ New research from the Vibrations Index assessing human readiness for emerging technology in partnership with Okay Human ✨ Generative insights from Hannah Grey VC's Foresight Engine With additional thoughts from contributors including: Ben Jenkins, Ben Lang, Ding Zhou, Jon Levy, Justin Borgman, Katie Klumper, Kimberly Kreuzberger, Nick Uhas, Nikki (Bogopolskaya) Scott, Taj Singh, and Tzafon’s Noah Taghdisi Löfquist Leopold Pluto Hermansson & Nikita Khomich. Link in the comments to download 💫
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Kate Beardsley reposted thisKate Beardsley reposted thisKence Anderson’s latest article in Supply & Demand Chain Executive explores how AI is helping supply chains navigate increasing volatility and variability. As disruption becomes the norm, the ability to embed operational expertise into real-time decision-making systems is becoming critical. Link to the full article in the comments.
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Kate Beardsley reposted thisKate Beardsley reposted thisOn April 7, Kate Beardsley will join Peter Walker, Head of Insights at Carta, and Chris Bull, CFA, Managing Director at Kline Hill Partners for a practical discussion on LIQUIDITY. Between extended timelines, shifting LP expectations, and evolving secondary markets, many fund managers are navigating this most pressing topic in real time without a clear playbook. We’re partnering with Carta and to host a conversation on: 📈 How liquidity is actually showing up across funds today 📈 How managers are communicating with LPs in this environment 📈 What’s changing in venture financing dynamics If you’re a fund manager or LP facing these dynamics firsthand, please consider registering for this event by using the link in the comments.
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Kate Beardsley reposted thisKate Beardsley reposted thisWe’re proud to share that Kate Beardsley and Jessica Peltz-Zatulove have been included in the 2026 Power100 Asset Managers list for the 3rd year in a row. The Power100 Presented By Blueprint Capital Advisors LLC recognizes leaders across venture capital, advisory platforms, and institutional investment firms who sit at the center of capital allocation: sourcing managers, conducting diligence, and backing the next generation of market-defining companies. Kate and Jessica's inclusion reflects the conviction and perspective they bring to our work at Hannah Grey: partnering with founders early, identifying emerging signals across technology and culture, and helping build enduring companies.
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Kate Beardsley shared thisI enjoy discussing liquidity with founders and CFOs, often referring to its potential as “fluid cap tables.” The market has evolved significantly, with private investors now pursuing a wider range of goals and timelines. This shift offers founders a unique opportunity to be more intentional when choosing their partners. Many founders underestimate the influence they hold, but this is a powerful lever they can and should use strategically. Hannah Grey VC can help.Kate Beardsley shared thisFounders: Liquidity requires intention in this market. Secondaries can play a critical role when executed with discipline. In this month’s "Hello, from Hannah Grey" newsletter, we share how we think about strategic liquidity as stewardship, a discipline that strengthens companies over time. Great founders treat their cap tables like living systems. They evolve them with care. They create room for aligned partners. They manage information flow intentionally. They use secondary windows to reinforce ownership and conviction. When liquidity is designed thoughtfully: • Friction decreases • The right investors lean in • Alignment becomes visible • The company’s narrative strengthens This venture environment will reward founders who approach liquidity with clarity and discipline. Thoughtful circulation of capital creates durability. Stewardship protects mission, governance, and long-term alignment. If you are building for endurance, this conversation matters. Read the full newsletter below. 👇How Hannah Grey Helps Founders Think About SecondariesHow Hannah Grey Helps Founders Think About Secondaries
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Kate Beardsley shared thisCongratulations Mike Vilardo and the Subject team for continuing to provide cutting edge resources to educators and students!Kate Beardsley shared thisToday, I’m incredibly excited to announce a $28M investment in our mission to make students' and teachers’ lives better. When we started this journey 5.5 years ago, we committed to helping every student, regardless of their zip code, receive an incredible education. As we built our platform to serve the needs of students, teachers, and districts everywhere, we saw how much of an impact we could make - and we kept pushing to increase that impact. In the last 24 months, we’ve seen 400% growth in ARR, and this latest investment tells us how much others believe in our mission, too. Thanks to our partners, we’ll be able to broaden our reach to serve more districts, reach more students, and scale high-quality instruction worldwide. Thank you to Vistara Growth for leading this round, to our new investors NextEquity Partners, Green Street Impact Partners, and Outcomes Collective Growth Capital for jumping on board, and to our existing investors Kleiner Perkins, True Equity, L'ATTITUDE VENTURES, and Hannah Grey VC for continuing to believe in us. We can’t wait to start an amazing new chapter at Subject. This is just the beginning.
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Kate Beardsley reposted thisKate Beardsley reposted thisAMESA was featured in the San Francisco Business Times this week. We're grateful for the spotlight on what our team has been building in agentic AI. Enterprise organizations are finally asking the right question: 👉 What real value is AI delivering? As mentioned in the article, AMESA’s work in agentic AI is already being recognized for driving upwards of $100M realized across deployments. Our approach trains teams of AI systems that learn, practice, and execute real work in complex industrial environments. When you combine deep expertise with autonomous agents that can reason and act, the results speak for themselves: ✅ Capturing tacit operator know-how ✅ Improving process outcomes ✅ Scaling autonomy where it matters most Thank you to Sara B. for the feature and to all of our customers and partners who are pushing the frontier of AI autonomy with us. Read the full piece in the comments below. #AI #AgenticAI #EnterpriseAI #Manufacturing #Autonomy #Industry40 #OperationalAI
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Kate Beardsley reposted thisKate Beardsley reposted thisRecently, we shared five signals we believe will shape the next generation of power-law companies. The first is Emergent Organizations. The traditional corporate hierarchy is dissolving, but it’s not being replaced by chaos or fully autonomous systems. What’s emerging instead is a new kind of structure: fluid "collectives" with small, highly strategic human teams at the center. These core teams function less like managers of humans, and more like conductors of a hybrid workforce. Their role is orchestration. They identify the task to be solved, breakdown what needs to be done, and whether the work is best handled by: ✅ Automated Agents ✅ Internal humans ✅ Fractional specialists ✅ Or some combination of all three This paradigm shift will create a new category of startups building the essential infrastructure for this new company. We're watching for: 💡 Orchestration: Platforms to define missions and deploy swarms of both human and AI resources with trust and accountability. 💡 Management: Tools to handle the credentialing, security, and access control for millions of ephemeral AI agents. 💡 Payments: Systems to automate complex, real-time financial operations for a task-based workforce. 💡 Trust-as-a-Service: APIs to instantly verify the identity, capabilities, and past performance of any resource (human or AI) For founders who plan to launch a business in any of these categories, we want to learn more!
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Kate Beardsley reposted thisKate Beardsley reposted thisWe put our VibrationsOS Foresight Engine to work, analyzing hundreds of 2026 technology predictions from operators, researchers, customers, and other industry titans. We looked for inevitable signals and the second-third order effects that will materialize in the decade to come, and places where execution could break at scale. From that analysis, five key themes emerged. These are the early stage forces we believe will define the next generation of $100B+ power law companies: 1️⃣ Emergent Organizations We see a shift from static corporations to a fluid Emergent Organizations, where work is performed by lean collectives of human talent and on-demand AI agents, all managed and verified by intelligent orchestration layers. 2️⃣ The Compute Reckoning AI capability is accelerating faster than infrastructure efficiency. Compute cost is becoming the binding constraint, forcing a shift toward radically more efficient platforms, models, and architectures. 3️⃣ The Sentient Data Stack As models commoditize, advantage shifts to proprietary data. The winners will be companies that turn unstructured data into living systems that learn, adapt, and compound over time. 4️⃣ Ambient Intelligence AI is moving off the screen and into the environment. Intelligence becomes embedded, contextualized, and always present, shaping behavior without demanding attention. 5️⃣ The Scarcity of (AI) Trust As AI systems move into real workflows, trust becomes the barrier to deployment. New infrastructure is emerging between intelligence and execution to govern, validate, and control when and how AI is allowed to act. We’re have already backed companies building in and around these themes. If launching a startup in these areas is in the cards for you, we should talk.
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Kate Beardsley liked thisKate Beardsley liked thisThis weekend, I had the honor of introducing the 49th Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris, at Power100. I'm still sitting with how it felt to be on that stage looking out at that room. We talk so much about what it's like to be an audience to the people we admire, but I want to take a moment to reflect on the impact of being in front of them all at once. During the few minutes I had, I told a story about being a geography major in college (thanks for convincing me, Dr. Hobbs!), and how much I grew to love maps. Maps literally give us directions, but they also tell us what matters, what danger lies ahead, and they show us where there's still possibility. Every map is drawn by someone who dared to go there, and their perspective shapes who gets represented and who doesn't. As I looked out at that room, all I could see were the people drawing the next one. Allocators. Fund managers. Founders. Operators. The ones who decide what capital moves, who gets backed, and what kind of future actually gets built. I was looking at the people deciding what comes next. The cartographers of capital, the explorers of a world we’ve only caught a glimpse of. Thank you to Blueprint Capital Advisors LLC, Jacob Walthour, Kourtney Gibson, and the Power100 family for the invitation, and to everyone who made that room what it was. #Power100 #AllRaise Power100 Presented By Blueprint Capital Advisors LLC
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Kate Beardsley liked thisKate Beardsley liked thisOur Cleveland team has a new home ✨ Our Cleveland office began inside the Human Fusions Institute—an environment that provided a strong foundation for Afference in its earliest days. Founded by Dustin Tyler, HFI and Afference share common roots, and we’re grateful for the support, collaboration, and momentum that helped bring Afference’s vision to life. As we continue to grow across Cleveland and Boulder, we’ve outgrown that original nest. We are stepping into a space designed for what’s next—more room for our team, new ideas, and the future of neural haptics as a seamless part of everyday life. With appreciation for where we started and excitement for what’s ahead—welcome to our new Cleveland home. Centric! #Afference #NeuralHaptics #DeepTech #Innovation #FutureOfTechnology #HumanComputerInteraction #StartupGrowth #WearableTech #TechInnovation #BuildingTheFuture
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Kate Beardsley reacted on thisKate Beardsley reacted on this👏 Jacob Segil took home Mighty Capital's CEO Award for AI Innovation Bridging Physical and Digital Life. Congrats to Jacob and Afference for our outstanding leadership!
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Kate Beardsley liked thisKate Beardsley liked thisToday is epic day for pickleball. Excited to have been on this journey for five years and even more excited for the future. Thrilled to welcome Apollo Sports Capital to the team and to have Dundon Capital Partners LLC and Southpaw Capital Partners continue to participate here. Time to step on the gas and accelerate the growth. https://lnkd.in/e2PuxrAJApollo Sports Capital and Tom Dundon make landmark $225 million investment in pickleballApollo Sports Capital and Tom Dundon make landmark $225 million investment in pickleball
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Kate Beardsley reacted on thisHannah Grey VC's Cultural Vibrations has become one of the more distinctive pieces of thought leadership in the emerging manager landscape. This edition's framing around the Economics of Intelligence and human-AI symbiosis sits at exactly the inflection point where early-stage conviction matters most: not whether AI reshapes work, but how much of that reshaping happens in the seams between humans and machines rather than in pure automation. The network that Jessica Peltz-Zatulove and Kate Beardsley have assembled around these questions reflects a genuine philosophy of how venture should be practiced. Proud to back this team.Kate Beardsley reacted on thisHannah Grey VC is thrilled to launch our newest edition of Cultural Vibrations - Collective Coefficient Spring 2026! This Journal is an exploration of the symbiotic world where people and machines operate as partners, personally and professionally. VC and thought leadership isn't a solo sport. This edition combines exclusive new research, essays from our team, and fresh perspectives to elevate the brilliant people in our network. As an inception firm, we recognize the importance of building networks where smart people are excited to share ideas, it pushes us to expand our thinking in a fast moving environment. Highlights from the Journal include themes we're digging into around the Economics of Intelligence, Hybrid Human x AI workforces, Screen-less interfaces and more. Along with: ✨ The Hardest Part of Building Right Now Isn’t Building with Scott Dadich, former Editor-in-Chief of WIRED ✨ From Extraction to Sustainability: The Human-Centric Economy with Kevin Walker, former Head of Consumer & Cultural Insights at @CAA ✨ Epic Disruptions & The Adaptive Enterprise with Scott D. Anthony, Author Epic Disruptions: 11 Innovations That Shaped Our Modern World ✨ Reality Somms: How to Cultivate A Discipline of Knowing What’s Real with Matt Klein, Head of Global Foresight at Reddit, Inc. and Futurist-in-Residence at Hannah Grey, and Brian Lange, Co-Founder of Future Commerce ✨ New research from the Vibrations Index assessing human readiness for emerging technology in partnership with Okay Human ✨ Generative insights from Hannah Grey VC's Foresight Engine With additional perspectives from sharp contributors including: Ben Jenkins, Ben Lang, Ding Zhou, Jon Levy, Justin Borgman, Katie Klumper, Kimberly Kreuzberger, Nick Uhas, Nikki (Bogopolskaya) Scott, Taj Singh, and Tzafon’s Noah T. Leopold Pluto Hermansson & Nikita Khomich. Proud of the incredible team effort to bring this to life, hat tip to Kate Beardsley Gillian Katz Haley Lopez Yujin Chung Pawan Murthy Niley Barros David Johnson 🫶 Link in the comments to download. 💫
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Kate Beardsley liked thisOnce upon a time, not so long ago, Waymo was a futuristic concept. Today, it's a daily essential. 🚕✨ Proud of this team for building a world-class brand from the ground up that people trust every single day. Onward! 🚀 #TIME100Kate Beardsley liked thisWe are honored to be named to the inaugural TIME100 Companies: Industry Leaders list! 🏆 This recognition comes during a milestone year for Waymo. We’ve officially surpassed 20 million public rides and expanded our magical service to 11 major U.S. cities — bringing us closer to our goal of making the roads safer and more accessible for everyone, everywhere. A huge thank you to our riders, community partners, and the entire Waymo team for making this journey possible. We’re just getting started. 🚕✨ #TIME100CompaniesIndustryLeader https://lnkd.in/e2PkQ6-G
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Kate Beardsley liked thisKate Beardsley liked thisAl Hemmingsen is the CIO of a prominent US-based single family office. He is also, as far as I know, the only CIO in the LP world vibe-coding and publishing open-source code on GitHub (how cool)! That combination tells you something about how he thinks and his unique approach to AI adoption. When he joined me on The Agentic Allocator this week, the conversation wasn't about high-level AI theory. It was about what he and his team built, how long it took, and what changed because of it. What stayed with me is how he thinks about the line between collaboration and competition. Family offices are not competing the way fund managers do, and Al shares freely on that basis. But at the same time, speed and quality of access to the best GPs matters. AI augmentation is what sharpens that edge: the LP that can process more information faster, arrive better prepared, and get in contact first has a genuine and compounding advantage. Listen to the full conversation here: - YouTube: https://lnkd.in/exMN9yVZ - Spotify: https://lnkd.in/eiX44uCY -ApplePodcasts: https://lnkd.in/ebyN4-hr #FamilyOffice #InstitutionalAI #AIAdoption #AlternativeInvestments #AgenticAllocator #SingleFamilyOffice
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Kate Beardsley reacted on thisKate Beardsley reacted on thisThere’s a specific kind of quiet that happens when you spend years building something the world isn’t ready for. You learn to sit in it. You learn to work in it. You learn, eventually, to stop needing it to break. Last night, it broke. I was at the #TIME100 Gala as a TIME100 AI honoree — where trust in AI and the need for AI governance took center stage. Last night, those same ideas were in the room with Senators and astronauts, Olympic champions and Oscar winners, novelists and activists, and a ninety-six-year-old Dolores Huerta who brought a thousand people to their feet with two words: Sí, se puede. The room didn’t feel like glamour. It felt like gravity. Every person who took that microphone used their two minutes to say something true. Alan Cumming chose love in a moment when cruelty pays better. Chloe Kim, on her twenty-sixth birthday, admitted she was afraid of the mic and spoke anyway. Zoe Saldaña toasted the grandmother who crossed an ocean so that one day her granddaughter could stand on that stage — and reminded the next generation that we belong everywhere. Nita Ambani announced TIME100 Next India, building a bridge between the two countries that raised me. Nikki Glaser held it all together with a scalpel disguised as a punchline. A hundred people. A hundred different fights. And underneath every speech, the same quiet refusal: the world as it is, is not the world I’m willing to leave. That’s what they all had in common. The refusal to accept things as they are. And one smaller, sweeter truth. My daughter is already proud of me. But last night, I won major points. For the first time, “AI trust and governance” had her undivided attention — because I met Hailey Bieber and David Beckham in the same evening. This morning, on FaceTime, she looked at me like I had invented fire. I’ll take it ;) To anyone reading this who is building something the world hasn’t caught up to yet: Keep going. The people who change the world are almost never the ones who waited to feel ready, or invited, or certain. They are the ones who kept showing up — in the small rooms, on the hard days, when the only audience was their own conviction. This recognition is not an end. It’s an invitation — to continue changing the world. To keep building. To keep believing. To keep turning “what if” into “what’s next.” Congrats to all the change makers Time 100 honoree - thank you for changing the world. Thank you TIME #TIME100 for a room that felt less like a party and more like a promise. Thank you to every person who believed in this work when belief was the only evidence available. Keep building 💪⭐️
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Kate Beardsley reacted on thisKate Beardsley reacted on this“Choosing your partner is the most important business decision you’ll ever make." I used to hear that line all the time. After one year of marriage, I really get it – but not for the reasons I expected. Phil is there for the wins, but it’s how he shows up for the "invisible" moments that matters most. The Series A fundraising crunch where he took over 100% of the cooking and cleaning for over a month so I could focus. The ER visits when I’ve pushed myself too hard. The emotionally exhausting journey of IVF where the toll is equal to any boardroom pressure. And I try my best to be there in the same way for him, too. We talk a lot about co-founder fit in the startup world. But life partner fit is even more consequential. It’s about finding the person who believes in the vision when you’re too tired to see it yourself. Pick the right partner.
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Middlebury College
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Rocky Mountain Venture Capital Association
- Present 8 years 5 months
The RMVCA represents entrepreneurs, VCs, and the service providers who support them in the Rocky Mountain Region, which includes CO, UT, NM, AZ, ID, MT, NV, and WY.
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Advanced Industries (AI) Grant Program Judge
Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade
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Supporting the commercialization of advanced technologies in Colorado in 7 advanced industries as an independent Judge/Reviewer for the Advanced Industries (AI) Grant Program, evaluating Proof of Concept + Early Stage Capital and Retention for Colorado companies operating in the Technology & Information industry that are applying for an AI Grant.
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Rockies Venture Club
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The Rockies Venture Club is an angel investing group dedicated to accelerating economic development by educating and connecting investors and entrepreneurs.
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