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Matthew Harrigan and the value of being in the same room
Before Company Ventures wrote checks, Matthew Harrigan helped give founders a place to work. His New York experiment began with a year of free rent and a bet on the people at the next desk.
Company Ventures made free rent an investment strategy
Before Company Ventures wrote checks, it put founders in the same room. Its bet is that the person at the next desk can help a young company as much as the investor across the table.
Charles Bonello
Charles Bonello is the co-founder and CEO of Vivvi, a New York-based company reinventing child care and early learning by partnering with employers to make full-time and backup care more accessible and affordable for working families. Before Vivvi, he co-founded Grand Central Tech, one of New York's largest and most selective startup communities, and worked in investment research and venture financing. His work is driven by a conviction that child care is the single biggest pain point for working parents, and he has built Vivvi into a network of NYC campuses backed by $17.2 million in funding.