🚀 Founders, Funders & Friends: Newsletter Launch!

Founders, Funders & Friends is coming to your inbox with the launch of our monthly newsletter

Each newsletter will feature our IRL event recaps, community updates, and opportunities & asks from the founders, funders and friends part of the 57 community and Studio Management Portfolio

At Studio Management, we partner & invest in early & growth stage tech companies. If you’re raising a round, we would love to connect. Email us at [email protected]

💻 You’re Invited to 7/19 FFF: Social Media Edition

We are excited to announce our next speaker, Tobias Rose-Stockwell, Author of the Outrage Machine: A book about how the internet has broken our brains, and what we can do to fix it. Tobias Rose-Stockwell is a writer, designer, and technologist whose work has been featured in The Atlantic, WIRED, NPR, The BBC, CNN and many others

RSVP here to join us on Wednesday, July 19th for our special Social Media Edition of Founders, Funders & Friends

🎙️ June FFF: Health Tech Edition

• Speakers: Hamilton Morris from the hit Viceland docuseries Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia in which he explores the history, chemistry and social impact of psychoactive substances, and Michael Brotherton, Dragonfly 44 Capital

• We are grateful to have partnered with Microdose X and our sponsor NFP that helped support the success of the event! Check out photos here 📸

🇺🇸 May FFF: American Dynamism

• Speakers: David Ulevitch, General Partner at a16z & Former CEO of OpenDNS & Alap Shah, Managing Partner at Studio Management & Founder of Sentieo (acquired by AlphaSense)

• Thank you to our sponsors Cooley & Trinet for helping make the event possible. Check out photos here 📸

💡 Community Asks

• Coa, an online learning platform for employee effectiveness & mental well-being. Companies like Chanel, NBC, Skillshare, General Assembly, & more are driving employee effectiveness with Coa's platform

  • Introductions to Heads of People / HR / L&D

• Lucky, enables same-day pickup or delivery for your online customers by connecting your retail inventory to your DTC website

  • Looking for introductions to brands that sell in Sephora, Nordstrom, or Walgreens & connections to agencies that work with consumer brands that sell in retail

If you have contacts to support Coa or Lucky’s ‘ASKS,’ please email us at [email protected] to get connected to the founders!

🚀 More About Studio Management

At Studio Management, we're curating a community of our favorite builders, investors and talented folks in NYC. If you tell us about your work, we’ll tell you who you may want to chat with at our events and also help you elevate open roles and asks within the community. Submit your information here to stay connected

Studio Management is a data-driven asset manager investing across public equities and venture capital. Our mission is to influence the flow of capital into companies that improve society & push culture forward

👩🏻‍💻 Studio Management: Portfolio Companies Hiring

• Director of Sales @ Clair (apply here)

• Senior Full Stack Developer @ Braid Health (apply here)

• Technical Product Manager @ Lightning Labs (apply here)

• Senior Executive Assistant @ Thesis (apply here)

🗣️ Studio Management: Portfolio News & Announcements

• Clair, a mission-driven fintech company that's created the first free, compliant, on-demand pay solution backed by a FDIC-insured bank, raised a $25M Series A extension led by Thrive Capital (more here)

• Thesis, DTC customized nootropic supplement brand, raised a $13.5M Series A (more here)

• HUNGRY, a B2B food tech marketplace, raised a $10M Series C1 round (more here)

• Lightning Labs, building faster, cheaper, global layer-two bitcoin, raised a $70M Series B (more here)

When you’re ready, here are three ways to get involved!

1) Text us! Join us at our next Founders, Funders & Friends! Just text “FFF” to +1 (917) 634-4915 & follow 57 on IG. To get plugged into our community resources, submit your information here

2) Do you need support for your startup? Fill out your details here to help us get to know you more

3) Fundraising? Send us a note at [email protected] to share more about your round. We’d love to hear from youN