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Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town
- ▶ 1:15:20 Harry Stebbings Um, Excel leading with Nvidia doing half.
Inside Sequoia's Investment Committee | How the SpaceX & Citadel Deals Went Down | Julien Bek
- ▶ 1:24 Harry Stebbings Yeah, you were in Excel, and you were there, very nice officers, and I was, just joined Atomaco, I think, and we were both, like, very young, and we were like, wow, it worked.
- ▶ 4:22 Harry Stebbings You joined from Excel.
- ▶ 16:44 Julien Bek Uh, we worked together at Excel before, so I've worked with Luciana for most of my career now.
How to Build a $100M Growth Engine: Lessons from Wispr Flow & Superhuman | Matt Swulinski
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings Matt Swalinski, he's worked at Superhuman, he's worked at Whisperflow, and now he's just joined ExcelBankedVictor.com, and he's looking to make it third time, I wouldn't say lucky, because he is a master of growth.
AssemblyAI Now Handles 4x YouTube's Daily Volume
Will Open-Source Threaten Anthropic's Business & Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | Matt Murphy
- ▶ 38:06 Harry Stebbings And I think this will be the worst performing category of venture in this vintage because firms like you and Founders Fund and Benchmark and Sequoia and Excel, and the list goes on and on, are so effective with a very good seed product…
Accel: The Quiet Firm Behind Facebook, Cursor, Nebius, Lovable, Vercel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:29 Molly O'Shea You are the growth team here at Excel.
- ▶ 0:53 Molly O'Shea We have the growth team at Excel. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:29 Molly O'Shea So let's go back to the, the lore and history of Excel. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:30 Miles Clements And, um, the, the same premise applies today as always has at, at Excel in the way that we've just sort of practiced the job. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:17 Molly O'Shea Excel is more of a silent partner than some of the flashier names, even on this road or down the block. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:20 Miles Clements I think one way that we think about it, and this is where, again, we're incredibly lucky to work at a place like Excel that allows us to prosecute what we all agree is this generational technology change, um, holistically across every… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:29 Matt Miller Those are the priorities here at Excel.
- ▶ 21:02 Matt Miller And it was actually one of the founders of Excel, Jim Schwartz, who introduced me to Arkady.
- ▶ 26:42 Miles Clements And I think it is like very emblematic of original thinking and how we try to function at Excel.
- ▶ 47:54 Molly O'Shea Um, I'm just kidding, but, uh, you guys, you are the growth team here at Excel.
- ▶ 54:10 Miles Clements Something that I'm excited about over the next year, to bring it back to sort of the Excel viewpoint, watching some of the younger members of this team thrive, you know, the generational continuity here extends from the partner role to the…
How 3 Friends From Coimbatore Run Olympics and Super Bowl | The Untold Amagi Story
- ▶ 24:47 Baskar Subramanian So incidentally in 2021, early 20 21, we did a deal with, uh, Axel, Norwest and others only as a secondary transaction.
Anthropic's Fable Banned by US Government | Wix & Adobe Hit All-Time Lows | Mistral Raising at $20BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:27 Harry Stebbings The amount, the amount of Excel, the amount of Excel GPs I've met that did the Facebook deal.
Perplexity CEO: Micron Will Be More Valuable Than Meta & How Export Controls Helped Not Hurt China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:10 Harry Stebbings I watched your commencement speech on the back of speaking to Samir at Excel, and he said I had to watch it, so obviously it watched it, um, and one of the points you made was the defining skill of the AI era is asking better questions.
Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:59 Harry Stebbings Excel adds four billion leaders fund to follow into hot AI growth rounds. 2 times in the scene
The AI Brokerage Quietly Taking on Schwab, Fidelity & Vanguard · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 8:26 Leif Abraham Um, there's a great little podcast actually on, um, about Excel with the Excel founders, um, where they made that same argument because they also were like a duo that started Excel, the VC firm, and they made this argument of like balanced… 3 times in the scene
She raised $20M from Accel to replace QuickBooks with AI. | Helen Hastings, Founder of Quanta · PMF Show
- ▶ 1:22 Pablo Srugo I just raised fifteen million series A from Excel.
- ▶ 15:48 Helen Hastings Again, it was from the partner that I worked with at Excel, who actually led RA as well. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:19 Helen Hastings But I, I always like to bring on a lot of angels and strategic funds, and so I, I did go and fill, like, leave space and fill out the rest of the round and, and did some of a process there, but the lead was locked in from the very…
How TeamSupport Reached $10M–$25M ARR With 1,000 Customers | Grant Stanis
- ▶ 15:26 Nathan Latka He's worked at companies backed by Excel, KKR, other massive private equity firms.
Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:38 Harry Stebbings We'll get to selling because I used it as an example in a show we did with Miles Clements from Excel.
Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | The Data Center Arms Race | The Ultimate Stock Picks · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:54 Harry Stebbings Excel lead that round.
"Cursor is Dead" is Total BS: Here is Why | Miles Clements · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:14 Harry Stebbings Myles helps lead Excel's growth investing practice, where he's buying some of the best in the business, including Atlassian, Linear, Cursor, and many more.
- ▶ 22:58 Miles Clements I've been very lucky at Excel to learn from a lot of really great people.
- ▶ 27:20 Harry Stebbings Why are we not in Anthropic and OpenAI as an XLLP? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:28 Miles Clements You know, I go back to Arthur Patterson, co-founder of Excel, always says this thing, focus on hitting singles and doubles and let the home runs take care of themselves.
- ▶ 51:10 Harry Stebbings Who's the best sourcer inside Excel?
- ▶ 54:50 Harry Stebbings And it can't, obviously, obviously you put all your money in Excel.
- ▶ 58:33 Miles Clements Um, Arthur says this thing that anybody, any firm can be professional over short periods of time, but his aspiration in starting Excel with Jim was to maintain a standard of professionalism over long extended periods of time.
- ▶ 1:03:07 Miles Clements Honestly, the thing that I'm the most excited about is watching the younger team at Excel flourish. 3 times in the scene
He raised $150M with $0 revenue. Then hit $1M ARR in 4 months. | Michel Tricot, Co-Founder of Air... · PMF Show
- ▶ 29:29 Pablo Srugo I mean, I'm just looking at a crunch a bit here, you know, five million seed from Excel, twenty-six million Series A, like a few months later from Benchmark, which is epic in its own right, and then one hundred fifty million dollars at the…
- ▶ 39:26 Michel Tricot And whether it's Axel, whether it's, uh, it's Thrive, whether it's, uh, Benchmark, they have all invested in very, or Koto, they have all invested in, like, very success.
Anthropic’s $380B round, Paramount vs. WB, Higgsfield ragebait drama | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 24:29 unnamed speaker After raising eighty million from firms like Excel and Menlo in mid-January, the startup is now in talks
Anthropic's Super Bowl Ad: Who Won & Lost? | Sierra Hits $150M ARR: Is Customer Support Too Crowded? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:13 Mike Cannon-Brookes I'll give you an example from history, which I'm sure the Excel guys wouldn't mind. 4 times in the scene
The SaaS Massacre: Public Market Collapse |Microsoft Lost $360B & NVIDIA’s $100B Dispute with OpenAI
- ▶ 37:52 Harry Stebbings I actually interviewed the founder of Podium, Eric Rea, which is an Excel backed company.
Anthropic Inference Costs Skyrocket |TikTok Deal Closes |The IPO Market:Wealthfront & EquipmentShare · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06:04 Harry Stebbings Um, Ethos, the institute provider, um, funded by your Sequoias, your Excels, provider of life insurance, um, going public today when this show airs on the 29th, um, valued at 1.3 billion, high end of the range.
Elon Musk vs Sam Altman | The Implosion of Thinking Machines | Can VC Survive Public Pricing? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:16:37 Jason Lemkin Oh yeah, add Excel too.
The AI Opportunity that goes beyond Models
- ▶ 1:03:49 Alex Rampell So we have the capacity to do lots and lots of deals, but if it's the best deal in the world, we need to assume that our counterparty is Roloff at Sequoia, or is, you know, a top partner at Excel, or Reid Hoffman at Greylock.
AI + B2B in 2026: Find the Tailwinds or Get Left Behind | Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 15:48 Jason Lemkin I, I, uh, I took this from Excel's recent analysis. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:25 Jason Lemkin This is, um, again, I saw this one from the Excel and Analysis Excelscape that's on SASTER.
Predictions for 2026: Top Buy & Biggest Short | Why Salesforce Could Win & NVIDIA’s Challenges · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:40 Harry Stebbings Crandom have, uh, created a phenomenal premier dominant brand that is rivaling index and Excel in a way that very few people have done in the last few years.
An Honest Conversation About What Being a Founder Really Feels Like | Arpita & Ananda
- ▶ 30:15 unnamed speaker The second was when we raised money from Axel and, uh, uh, Shunve.
#2288 She had people do AI’s work
- ▶ 36:46 Helen Hastings Uh, in the recent series, a, we raised fifteen million dollars, uh, led by Excel, and, uh, we also had a seed round previously, so it's been twenty million in total so far.
20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster
- ▶ 11:56 Harry Stebbings And I don't mean that badly, but it's a little bit like a GP at Excel or Sequoia or you name it, spinning and doing their own.
Peter Thiel and Softbank Sell NVIDIA - Why? & Why VC Will Hit $1TRN and The Opening of Retail · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:51 Harry Stebbings Andreessen, Thrive, Koto, DST, Excel, all the big players all involved.
- ▶ 54:52 unnamed speaker Well, but here's the thing, if I'm, it depends what you mean, I'm, I'm just looking at Excel's, uh, global scape they published this week.
The 48-Hour Rescue That Turned Into a Profitable Acquisition
- ▶ 8:24 Jesse Tinsley And again, this is because we've had a good track record working for other funds like Prelock and Excel and others that brought us, you know, businesses they've rolled equity into, um,
The High School Dropout Who Made Billions & Bought An NBA team
- ▶ 19:37 Ryan Smith Like, we'll still operate two in the box, we'll divide the world, but like, it's a cool moment, and then it was like, you're a first time CEO, they're giving you, we're now in the big leagues, like, we've taken this money from Excel, this…
- ▶ 31:10 Ryan Smith And then, you know, we decided to go raise money from Sequoia and Excel. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:42 Ryan Smith So when we got down to it, Excel and Sequoia, and we brought Insight in, they, they agreed to that.
OpenAI Restructuring: Who Wins and Who Loses & Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:02 Jason Lemkin Excel gets another play, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:03 Harry Stebbings When we sit and look at Series A, we don't sit and be frightened by Index or Excel or the big European players.
He burned $4M to hit $100K ARR—but with 1 big change, he grew to $4.5M ARR in just 12 months. | G... · PMF Show
- ▶ 46:48 Guy Podjarny Uh, yeah, it was, but I got great investors, you know, I got Bold Start and GV, Tom Hima GV, it was great, and I got Carlos at Index, and, you know, got some Excel backing from Philippe, and so very good investors, an amazing team that I…
Why VC Today is Worse than 2021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:33 Jason Calacanis At three million AR because everyone else wants to do it, Harry, and you beat the, and you're, you're patting yourself on the back for beating out Sequoia and Excel and, and, and Stride and all those guys.
20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
- ▶ 1:06:01 Harry Stebbings Well, I mean, Excel are in lovable too, so you got, you just got a transition of, you know.
Thinking Machines Co-Founder Joins Meta for $3.5BN, Industry Venture's $665M Acquisition · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:24 unnamed speaker I didn't realize he'd left his unicorn and just raised twenty million from Excel to do his next company.
- ▶ 46:49 Harry Stebbings CalSheep, the direct comp, raises from Andreessen and Excel at five billion dollars.
OpenAI's Multi-Billion Deal with AMD & Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:19 Rory O'Driscoll Someone, smart dudes at Excel, looked at the two billion and said, you need, whatever, three hundred million dollars, and then six months later, they pick up another hundred.
Tira, Bombay Shaving Co., Inde Wild | WTF is Fueling India’s Beauty & Skincare Revolution? | Ep. 25 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 2:41:49 Nikhil Kamath He founded a venture capital company called Axel.
20VC: Why 90% of Founders Build Startups Wrong | Why AI Growth Rates are Sustainable & Remote Work is BS and the AI Talent War | Competing with Brett Taylor and Sierra: Who Wins the Customer Service War with Jesse Zhang, Decagon
- ▶ 15:48 Jesse Zhang So we, we want to excel for the A and yeah,
OpenAI’s $10BN Secondary Sale, Ramp Hits $1BN ARR & Brex Hits $700M · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:05 Harry Stebbings Sorry, Jeff, I didn't mean to interrupt you there, but if you look at the people who did really well from that, say your Excel's in scale, they have the University of your Wisconsin or Michigan or the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, the…
ElevenLabs CEO/Co-Founder, Mati Staniszewski:The Untold Story of Europe’s Fastest Growing AI Startup · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:39 Harry Stebbings That was quite a shock, because it wasn't a London fund, it wasn't Index, it wasn't Excel.
Anthropic Raises $13BN & OpenAI Buys Statsig for $1.1BN All Stock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:03 unnamed speaker One's two billion because Excel wants the deal.
Paul Graham Said His Startup Was Worthless—2 Months Later He Hit $1M ARR. | Jon Noronha, Co-Found... · PMF Show
- ▶ 19:49 Jon Noronha So we, we raised a proper seed round from Excel.
- ▶ 27:49 Pablo Srugo Especially when they manage massive funds like Excel does. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:55 Jon Noronha Uh, and so we decided to raise money from our existing investor, Excel, who'd led this fees around. 3 times in the scene
Anthropic's $10B Round, Klarna's IPO, Inside a16z's 72 Deal Seed Investment Machine ft. Marc Benioff · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:23 unnamed speaker Great company around since 2012 can all congrats to Lightspeed who own a big chunk of this along with Excel.
Sam Altman's Masterplan or a Gift to Anthropic? Palantir & Shopify Crush Earnings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:51 Harry Stebbings Um, Excel led the round, um, massive. 5 times in the scene
He grew to millions in ARR in 18 months—by fighting with his co-founders on purpose. | Ross McNai... · PMF Show
- ▶ 16:56 Ross McNairn What I did do actually, which was superb, I called my mate who I went to school with, who's actually now a pioneer at Excel.
Miles Dieffenbach: Inside Carnegie Mellon’s $4BN Endowment & The Math Behind DPI, TVPI, Illiquidity · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:10 Miles Dieffenbach Um, usually the, the, the multi-stage firms think your perennial, like Excels,
- ▶ 21:41 Harry Stebbings Whereas like before I sign the term sheet, I'm gonna go to Index, Excel, Sequoia,
Figma’s IPO: The Full Breakdown & Why Melio’s $2.5BN Acquisition is “Discouraging” · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:33 Rory O'Driscoll Excel just had scale and, um, the, the, the, the, the stable coin deal.
KKR's Head of European PE, Philipp Freise: Do Andreessen & General Catalyst Scare KKR? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:33 Philipp Freise You look with great admiration at the Excel's benchmarks and indexes and Kleiner Perkins of the world, um, but that's not our business.
Navan Files to Go Public and Canva Pulls the Brakes: Why and What Happens? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:57 unnamed speaker But if Alexander Wang's highest and best use is as a senior employee at Meta, then isn't it wonderful that the free market system was able to pay everyone else, fifteen billion dollars, all power to excel who probably booked a two billion…
Weekly Recap: Elon's Starship Explodes, OpenAI's Defense Contract, Nvidia's Robots, We Test Cluely
- ▶ 55:04 John Coogan You got Lightspeed, Excel,
Chime IPO: Are IPOs Hotter Than Ever? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:45 Harry Stebbings Excel made 2.5 billion dollars.
Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:13 Harry Stebbings You spin out of Excel, or you name your big firm, and we fund you.
15 Years Of Investing Lessons In 75 Minutes With Prime Ventures and Stellaris Partners | Neon Show
- ▶ 41:16 unnamed speaker I said, I'll quit Axel and put my own money if you guys don't invest.
Elon’s Empire: SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink After the Storm & Anduril’s $2.6BN Power Move · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:40 Jason Lemkin Rich Wong from Excel said this last week, 20% will fail. 2 times in the scene
He hit $1M ARR in 10 months—after doing of a full, 180 pivot. | Merrill Lutsky, Founder of Graphite · PMF Show
- ▶ 1:52 Pablo Srugo You know, in your case, fifty two million dollar round from Excel, Series B, you had a Series A few years ago, twenty million dollar round from A-sixteen.
He didn't raise VC for the first 7 years— then grew to $1B in ARR. | Dax Dasilva, Founder of Ligh... · PMF Show
- ▶ 34:57 Dax Dasilva At 70, by the time we're done bootstrapping and got our series A from Excel, I would say we're about that at about 45, 50 people. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:34 Dax Dasilva And that was actually, that was a huge part of the transformation that we did with Excel, uh, that was huge, hugely successful and allowed us to, to do everything we're doing now.
Matt Smith from Kickstart on Early-Stage Investing in the Mountain States
- ▶ 3:21 Matt Smith I joined between Series A and Series B when Sequoia and Excel came in.
What's Happening To VC In India w/ All In Capital, Peer Capital & Upekkha
- ▶ 17:17 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Most of, even if you see the larger funds in India, like Bloom, Solaris or Axel of the world, 90% of their money comes from outside India, mostly US, right?
- ▶ 33:48 Kushal Bhagia Like if a company is ready for Axel, Sequoia, Bloom today, then likely I'm already late. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:57 Siddhartha Ahluwalia It was like, uh, Abhishek from Traxon and that took, and he was an associate in Axel then that took a standing that I'm going to put my money in it. 4 times in the scene
OpenAI, SBF & Perplexity: What VCs Know That You Don’t · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:06 Harry Stebbings Five hundred million dollar rumored round at a fourteen billion dollar price rumored to be led by Excel. 2 times in the scene
Nikhil Kamath ft. Police Comm'r & Traffic Police Comm'r of Bengaluru | WTF is Policing? | Special Ep · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 13:55 Nikhil Kamath I did and Axel did.
Bucky Moore @ Lightspeed Venture Partners: Why You Cannot Do VC If You Do Not Do Pre-Seed · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:41 Harry Stebbings I, I do see it impacting companies when you have your excels and your indices. 2 times in the scene
How LP Deployment to Venture Will Change in 2025 & Are Endowment Funds in Trouble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:45 Jason Lemkin They all, it's, you know, at last, you know, Excel figuring out how to buy 30% of Atlassian back in the day was the genius move.
1Password’s growth story | How they went from bootstrapped to $6B company | Jeff Shiner (CEO)
- ▶ 52:17 Jeff Shiner So at the end of 2019, we announced the, you know, the first ever funding round was the two hundred million round with Excel. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Foundation Models: Who Wins & Who Loses | How Economies and Labour Markets Need to Change in a World of AI | China vs the US in an AI Race: What You Need to Know | Rich Socher, Founder @ You.com
- ▶ 1:46 Harry Stebbings I discovered this on Harmonic, the complete startup database used by Excel, Insight, Menlo, and hundreds of other leading VCs, as well as go-to-market teams, from the likes of Notion, Brex, and Google, to find the best startups and…
- ▶ 1:01:40 Harry Stebbings I discovered this on Harmonic, the complete startup database used by Excel, Insight, Menlo, and hundreds of other leading VCs, as well as go-to-market teams, from the likes of Notion, Brex, and Google, to find the best startups and…
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