Founder & GP at @relationalcap, founder @usekojo, board @orascomdevelop. Formerly @8vc, @oxfordunion president. Love California.
San Francisco, CA
Joined December 2012
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I'm excited to launch Relational Capital, a $50m solo GP fund.
I spent the last 8 years as a founder, building @usekojo into the largest US construction procurement platform.
Now I'm backing founders at the earliest stages with $1m-$5m checks.
An abundant future lies ahead 🇺🇸
Thanks for having me @MTSlive.
There’s a huge gap between frontier model capabilities and how little benefit most people see from AI.
A lot of underserved sectors and massive opportunity.
We’re still so early.
Relational Capital founder @MariaDavidson explains why the gap between frontier AI labs and construction sites is creating a massive opportunity for startups:
"The most important thing to me is always the founder. Do they have a unique insight that other people don’t have about distribution, about the market, about the way to win. Building a company has never been easier, and so it is actually so much more competitive than it was even 10 years ago."
"One of the areas that I love is investing in these really gritty, operationally heavy industries. As I look at SF and the insane progress we’re making on the frontier lab side, and then I think about my experience of spending a lot of the last eight years on job sites, the gap between those two is huge."
"Closing that diffusion gap requires an enormous amount of new companies to really be operationally excellent."
@RelationalCap
Maria Davidson retweeted
Bullish Maria!
Congrats 🇺🇸
I'm excited to launch Relational Capital, a $50m solo GP fund.
I spent the last 8 years as a founder, building @usekojo into the largest US construction procurement platform.
Now I'm backing founders at the earliest stages with $1m-$5m checks.
An abundant future lies ahead 🇺🇸
Leisuremaxxing is an art.
And @FDavidsonT is an artiste 👨🎨
SF finally gets its own call her daddy.
@vivianmshen and @MilksandMatcha are cooking 👩🍳
“Do you think that getting married young has made you less ambitious?”
Welcome to the first episode of SOTA Wives with Sarah Chieng (Head of DevX at Cerebras, @MilksandMatcha) x Vivian Midha Shen (General Partner at Y Combinator, @vivianmshen).
In episode 1: finding your person before getting rich, turning down startup funding to finish MIT, what a YC partner sees in founders, and how a birthday post became “psychological violence.”
4:08 Finding your husband before the exit
8:48 Did we marry away our ambition?
18:04 The internet called Sarah's birthday “psychological violence”
20:47 Does your YC partner secretly think you’re doomed?
23:47 Building a startup with your ex-boyfriend
28:54 SF cat parties
Visiting @ghostai’s factory was incredible.
Building beautifully designed consumer hardware is notoriously hard.
But, a few minutes into seeing production at work, it was clear this team was building something special.
Congrats @zainmfj, I’m grateful to be an investor!
Introducing Core, The Personal Al Computer
The most powerful technology humanity has built should belong to you
Order today: ghost.ai
Convincing future founders from the UK to move to San Francisco with @finbarr and @ycombinator.
California’s not perfect, but it’s by far the best place in the world to build a tech company.
I spent 8 years helping contractors across the US adopt technology.
Sales cycles in construction can feel endless. There’s a huge amount of complexity to navigate - especially when you consider how many types of trades and projects there are.
I’m so excited for Aidan to actually finally help cut through these.
Congratulations @Nim_Ravid1 and @sablehq team!! I’m pumped to be on board
Introducing Aidan, your newest AI employee
Aidan is the first computer-using AI built for realtime conversation
We’ve raised $45M from @sequoia and @8VC to bring Aidan to the world
@NotionHQ and @DecagonAI already use Aidan to run customer interactions. This is how @sablehq works:
It's crazy that booking travel still requires opening 15 different tabs.
I want one place that remembers all my preferences where I can easily book flights, hotels, plan itineraries, and optimize points.
Now it's finally here! @OdessiaTravel @FDavidsonT
Maria Davidson retweeted
At the interaction of hospitality and technology, @FDavidsonT with his new startup.
I've spent my entire adult life thinking about travel. Built Sonder from the ground up as a college student to a $600M a year business in under 10 years.
For the last six months I've been obsessing over how AI will change travel. TLDR: it will change everything.
I've put together a stellar team and next week we're launching a preview of what we've built.
It's been a game changer for early testers.
Comment below for early access.
How we travel is about to change
I've spent my entire adult life thinking about travel. Built Sonder from the ground up as a college student to a $600M a year business in under 10 years.
For the last six months I've been obsessing over how AI will change travel. TLDR: it will change everything.
I've put together a stellar team and next week we're launching a preview of what we've built.
It's been a game changer for early testers.
Comment below for early access.
SF spends $102k a year per homeless person.
It spends $20k a year per resident.
SF spends more per homeless person than the 10 largest US cities combined spend per resident.
5 of the 10 cities that spend the most per homeless person are in California.
SF alone spends more per homeless person than NY and Portland combined.
College tuition has grown 4× faster than wages since 1980.
The cost of public college tuition is up 1,351%.
Median weekly earnings are up just 342%.
