![]() ![]() It’s been the ride of a lifetime so far building Pogo with the best co-founders in the world ( Oskar Melking & Shikhar Mohan), along with our unbelievably talented team.Ī special shoutout to Ryan Delk, Erik Torenberg, Siqi Chen and Lenny Rachitsky for being among our first believers. With prices continuing to skyrocket, our team is more motivated than ever to be building features that help the everyday consumer. We’re just getting started, but we’re proud of the stories where we’ve been able to save families thousands of dollars. Pogo uncovers ways to seamlessly earn and save across your every day shopping, finances, and finds you ways to get paid for your data - only if you choose. Think of Pogo as your agent in today’s digital world. In fact, people use Pogo as much as their favorite social apps! We’ve created a fun and simple way for people to interact with their data to improve their financial health. Time and time again, we’ve heard about how valuable our data is, but there has yet to be an easy, engaging way for consumers to actually profit. In a world where corporations are benefiting from your data without your knowledge, we believe that you deserve the tools to put your own data to work for your own benefit. Our funding round was led by Josh Buckley, alongside Slow Ventures, Village Global, Harry Stebbings’ 20VC, MrBeast’s Night Ventures, Hyper, Shrug, the founders of Honey, Front, Carta, Rent The Runway, the CXOs of Stripe, Adobe and creators like The Chainsmokers, Sophia Amoruso, Ryan Tedder, Lenny Rachitsky and more. Our goal is simple: to help you make more money by unlocking the power of your data. I’m thrilled to share that Pogo has raised $14.8M! This past year, we’ve launched an app used by hundreds of thousands of families, consistently generating millions of dollars in earnings and savings. Read more about our plans with Prologue here: Having Hyper and Product Hunt operate within this new parent company gives us strong competitive advantages to identify and fund the best founders, provide them with high-quality distribution, and a world-class tech community. We launched on Product Hunt in June 2016 and within 24 hrs had over 3,000 people signed up and using the product. When I co-founded Loom, I saw first hand what quality distribution could do to a great early product. Tie these together, and you see how can materially help founders with their distribution.Īs we add more brands, it strengthens the flywheel-resulting in stronger distribution and an increasingly powerful business model. Over $100B in startup value has been launched on Product Hunt since its start in 2013. Product Hunt is a millions-strong global community for early-stage entrepreneurs, making it the perfect place for us to identify, fund, and amplify anomalous talent. Hyper's program helps companies "stage up."įrom forming your early team, finding your 100 true fans, to scaling growth.Ģ. Hyper is a $60MM early-stage venture firm that focuses on funding a small group of high-quality founders a few times a year with its program. Let's walk through how Prologue starts to address this.ġ. Of the more than 900 unicorns that exist today, nearly 50% come from outside the US.Īmerican investors aren't paying enough attention to these regions. What was once breaking news is now lost in a Twitter timeline.ģ) Further, Silicon Valley is rapidly decentralizing It’s harder than ever for startups to break through and rapidly scale customer acquisition. In 2021 alone, $621 billion was invested in startups globally, setting an all time record.Ģ) It's difficult for startups to rise above the noise The idea of Prologue originated from a conversation between Ashley Higgins, Josh Buckley, and myself where we realized: ![]() Our two starting brands include Product Hunt and Hyper, with plans for more in the future.Īs a sign of big things to come, this the first time Sequoia and A16Z have come to together to co-invest in a structure like this. ![]() We're launching Prologue, which is a new type of tech holding company.Īs part of this-we closed $23M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital. ![]()
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