Dear Operators, The venture market has changed dramatically in the past six months; there’s no doubt that founders want operators with experience in their space as their investors. From a founder’s perspective, you have the most up-to-date experience, customer connections and relationships with potential recruits. While I was at Dropbox…

Written by Niniane Wang After advising a dozen startups and a VC fund, some of the most common questions I encounter are about the VP Engineering in a startup. When should a startup hire one? What profile of candidate should they look for? How do they interview for this role? First Off: What Does the VP Engineering Do? …

Dear founders, we have a new fund to support your dreams! We love enterprise companies focused on transforming the way we work. We spend a lot of time looking at scalable infrastructure, intelligent collaboration tools, automated workflows and autonomous machines. You don’t have to have a strong thesis to chat…

by Lan Xuezhao and Rhonda Allen, on behalf of Basis Set Ventures, and /dev/color Communities of support are essential for women working in tech. The growth of organizations like Women in Product and All Raise over the last few years have amplified the voices of women from product teams to…

I started Basis Set Ventures a few years ago with the belief that machine learning would reshape the future of work by allowing companies and industries to operate better and more efficiently. To bring this vision to life, we’ve taken a fresh approach to investing that is informed by extensive…

Climate change presents an existential crisis for business owners. In a matter of hours, an unexpected weather event can spell the end for companies unable to cough up the cash to deal with damage. Even large enterprises share in the risk, with trillions of dollars of assets laying in the…

Learnings from launching products at Niantic and Google — Are you preparing your technology to scale for a product launch, Black Friday, or a major PR / marketing campaign? A few weeks ago, we hosted one of our advisors Niniane Wang for a tech talk at our office. She shared lessons learned from being the VP Engineering at Niantic…

It might be easy at first pass to succumb to the belief that the labor shortage is just another platitude of the technocrats — how can the robots take all the jobs from workers if workers don’t occupy the jobs to begin with? But the labor shortage isn’t just a…

BSV frequently hosts invite-only dinner discussions with leaders and innovators in a given industry; recently, we held a dinner that gathered entrepreneurs and innovators from the real estate tech sector to discuss the shared challenges and potential opportunities across the space. …