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Brad Armstrong Has Spent a Career Making Software Companies Shake Hands
From AppExchange to Slack, Rippling and Lovable, Brad Armstrong has built a career around a quiet conviction: software gets more useful when companies learn to work together.
FUSE Is Betting Seattle’s Best Network Can Beat Silicon Valley’s Biggest Checkbook
The six-year-old venture firm has more than $420 million to deploy and a deliberately local edge: turn the Pacific Northwest’s operators, buyers and repeat founders into an unfairly useful network for the next generation.
The Home-Service Rollup That Lets Local Operators Keep the Keys
Legacy Service Partners is building national scale behind local HVAC, plumbing and electrical brands. Its wager is that shared systems and patient capital can travel farther when the name on the service van stays familiar.
Lorimer Ventures Is Turning 100 Operators Into a Venture-Capital Product
The Brooklyn-rooted firm writes early checks for enterprise-AI founders, then puts a network of more than 100 working operators on the cap table. Its wager is that access to buyers, builders and follow-on capital can be packaged into something more useful than advice.
The $250,000 Check That Wants to Go Everywhere
Everywhere Ventures turned a New York side project into a global pre-seed machine. Its edge is not a bigger check, but a loop: founders fund the fund, find the deals and help the next founders through the door.
The Fund That Bet Its Whole Pitch on the People, Not the Money
Four operators who never quit their day jobs built a venture fund where the check is the smallest thing in the room. The real asset is a rolodex of 100+ people who have already done the job.
CharterUP
CharterUP is a real-time marketplace for charter bus and group transportation, connecting customers to hundreds of vetted operators and thousands of vehicles with instant pricing, live tracking, and a booking flow that takes about 60 seconds.