Consumer Coffee & Croissants with Headline, Torch Capital, 645 Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, and FJ Labs
Join us for a morning of coffee, croissants, and curated conversation with consumer founders and investors in NYC. 🥐
Hosted by Headline, Torch Capital, 645 Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, and FJ Labs.
Headline - A global venture capital firm backing category-defining founders from day one, with investments spanning consumer, software, fintech, digital health, and marketplaces.
Torch Capital - A New York-based venture capital firm backing founders who turn new technology into new behavior. We specialize in turning founders visions into their first customers. Our portfolio spans companies like Ro, Rho, Recess, Sweetgreen, Compass and many others.
645 Ventures - An early-stage venture capital firm based in New York and San Francisco. The team backs founders with deep insight into the problems they’re solving and the conviction to pursue ideas others might overlook, supporting them with capital, connections, and hands-on help as they build and grow.
Lerer Hippeau - An early-stage venture capital firm based in New York City that has backed more than 400 iconic enterprise and consumer companies, including Warby Parker, Hungryroot, Prose, K Health, and ZenBusiness. Their team invests early and partners closely with founders as they build enduring companies.
FJ Labs - The largest investor in network effect businesses globally. They're a stage and sector-agnostic co-investor. The portfolio spans 1,300+ startups globally, including Airbnb, Alibaba, Anduril, Figure, Flexport, Klarna, Nubank, Revolut, SpaceX, Stripe, Uber, and Vinted, with 40+ unicorns and 300+ exits.
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Reitler - A top-ranked venture capital law firm with offices in New York, Los Angeles, and Princeton. Reitler has advised on thousands of venture financings and partners with startups and investors from formation through growth.
Brex is an all in one solution that offers financial products & software for businesses. It combines corporate cards, expense management, bill pay, business banking & more in one place. Owners/founders get real time spend visibility, automated receipt tools, while purchasing and reimbursements become seamless for employees.