📢 HCP Newsletter: 10 Years of Harlem Capital – Jan 2025 📈
Harlem Capital’s monthly recap on our portfolio, industry news & beyond! 🏎️💨
The Headlines 🗞️
🚀 2024 Unpacked: HCP’s Year of Growth
Since 2015, Harlem Capital has been on a mission to change the face of entrepreneurship. Starting as an angel syndicate a decade ago, we’re now investing out of our Fund II, and we’re more fired up than ever before. Thanks for being on the journey with us!
In 2024 alone, Harlem Capital:
Invested in 13 intrepid founders building in insurtech, vertical software, digital accessibility & more!
Hosted 7 events across 4 cities
Published 16 reports
Hosted 20 interns
We can’t wait to unlock an even more momentous 2025!
🎨 Canvas & Connections at Basel
The Harlem Capital team hosted our annual Welcome to Basel event in Miami alongside Amazon Web Services. We had great conversations with founders, investors, and our partners!
🌟 Gen Z Power Players
Gen Z is known for being digital experts, starting viral trends from food to music on TikTok. But how will this generation shape the workforce and technology?
In HCP’s latest blog, 2024 fellow Alivia Jiang and Managing Partner Jarrid Tingle discover how and why Gen Z prioritizes financial stability from work and tends to have an entrepreneurial streak.
As a result, there will be four key areas of investment among Gen Z consumers, including:
Business-in-a-Box Solutions 💼
Consumer Fintech Products 💸
AI Copilots 🤖
Consolidated Search Tools 🔍
Portfolio News 🏆
🕺 Portabl x Prove
Portabl was acquired by Prove! Well done to founder Nate Soffio and the team. This unstoppable partnership is working on building seamless, secure, and interoperable identity networks.
🎉 Assemble’s Next Chapter
Assemble was acquired by Deel to change the ecosystem of global compensation management. We’re excited for Enrique Esclusa, Lisa Wallace, and the Assemble team!
🅰️ Expanding Tapestry
Tapestry raised a $5.75 million Series A co-led by Union Square Ventures and Fabric Ventures. Harlem Capital is proud to participate in the round. Tapestry is a Solana-based social graph protocol designed to create an ecosystem of applications with social features.
📦 Your Stuf’s Home Away From Home
Next-gen self-storage startup Stuf completely reimagines how we think about space. In this fascinating sit-down, founder & CEO Kat delves into how her stacked background positioned her to sell to commercial landlords with unused space, outfitting them as the ultimate places to store your stuff.
Harlem Capital Related 🚀
👑 Where Legends Feast
We hosted our Black Male Unicorn Dinner at Tatiana NYC, an iconic Caribbean restaurant led by NYC’s top Black chef. We brought together founders who have raised over $100M in VC, and superstar Colin Kaepernick, a 🦄 in his own right.
🔮 VCs Peer Into 2025
Our Partner Gabby Cazeau shared her 2025 predictions with TechCrunch! She speculates that the IPO market will fully re-open and that 2025 will be the ultimate make-or-break test for AI startups.
🏔️ Changing the Faces of Future Millionaires
Our Managing Partner Henri Pierre-Jacques reveals what he believes the common denominator is across the most successful startup founders, expounds upon the intricate relationships between VCs and their portfolio companies, and why he remains bullish on Miami.
❄️ Welcome to the Winter 2025 Intern Class!
Our brilliant interns have been engaged in busy weeks of deal calls, learning from Harlem’s syllabus, and starting their intern projects! Every intern is paired with a team lead to work on a project throughout the 10 weeks of the internship.
This season, interns are working on projects ranging from:
Designing customer case studies for a portfolio company
Researching AI tools for Harlem
Writing profiles on founders & industry leaders
Our Summer Internship Applications close Feb. 5th. Apply now!
🚨 Jobs in VC 🧑🏾💻
Must Reads 💯
700+ decks to reference across various rounds
American VC Female Founders Dashboard 📊📊
A breakdown of female-founded VC deal count
Insights on where to build in the AI agent space