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Exciting news from WndrCo’s portfolio! Pango Group, one of our early Builds, has merged with Total Security, the provider of the award-winning antivirus protection TotalAV. Together they are rebranding as Point Wild (Formerly Pango Group). 6 years into our journey together, Point Wild has developed into a leading cybersecurity holding company, now serving over 25 million users globally with a portfolio of security, privacy, and identity theft protection solutions. Following the merger, the combined company is hitting incredible milestones: $600M in revenue $150M TTM EBITDA 20%+ annual growth Congratulations to Hari Ravichandran and the teams at Point Wild and Total Security on the exciting news!

Congrats to the Writer team on their $200M Series C fundraise at a $1.9B valuation! It’s a testament to the team’s relentless pursuit of helping their customers tackle the hundreds of business challenges that are now solvable by leveraging the power of full-stack generative AI. I have such admiration for May’s leadership as Writer has more than 10x’ed in scale since we first met just last year! When Writer's Series B was announced, I shared: “We (at WndrCo) have high conviction that Writer’s platform will continue to resonate among the Fortune 500 and beyond.” Since then, Writer has emerged as the go-to partner for any enterprise looking to leverage generative AI within their organizations. It’s been a blast working with Andy, Alex, Kevin, Diego, Andrew, James, and the rest of Writer’s GTM team as we’ve been all over this year (Las Vegas, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Austin, Cannes, LA, NYC, SF, etc) to bring Writer’s capabilities to the world’s largest companies. Looking forward to everything ahead. Also kudos to Waseem, Roger, Maiko, Rohan, Rowan, and everyone else at Writer!

Yesterday I had the privilege of participating in a small leadership summit for chief information officers and chief marketing officers. Jeffrey Katzenberg spent time sharing lessons from his remarkable career of being the Chairman of Disney, being fired from Disney, cofounding DreamWorks with Steven Spielberg and then selling DreamWorks. He now has a venture fund called Wndr Co. As a reminder, his legacy includes Pretty Woman, Beauty and the Beast, Good Morning Vietnam, Dead Poet Society, Rodger rabbit, Lion King, Home Improvement, and so much more. He shared a quote that has been a mantra for him and really resonated with me: “Never let your memories be better than your dreams.” He also shared some wisdom, specifically in reference to his being fired from his role as the chairman of the Disney: “There is great value in owning your misses, just as much as owning your wins and successes.” Thank you Alexander Rosen Jeffrey Katzenberg Yousuf Khan Justin Wexler and team for a remarkable day. Lara Hood Balazs Jen Felch Zena Srivatsa Arnold Andrew Springate

Founding Partners Jeffrey Katzenberg and Sujay Jaswa joined Caroline Hyde on Bloomberg this week to share more about WndrCo's recent raise of over $460 million for our new Seed and Venture funds. https://lnkd.in/ge2PbkSs

We’re excited to announce that WndrCo has closed over $460 million in new capital for our Seed and Venture funds. Read how this supports our mission in the future of work, consumer tech, cybersecurity, and developer infrastructure in this CNBC coverage: https://bit.ly/3VolPfz

So great to host another AI dinner with my partner Anthony and our friends at Outset Capital - Ali Rohde and Kanjun Qiu. Code-gen (end of software engineering?), LLMs beyond transformers, data curation/pre-training, and applications in computer vision were just some of the fun dinner conversations. And then Kevin Kwok pulled out a stuffed parrot with a 7B model that follows voice instructions...only in San Francisco!! Thank you to everyone who attended - we had a blast! Josh McGrath Aarti Bagul Ulrik Stig Hansen Scott Johnston Raphael Gontijo Lopes Devon Rifkin Tori Seidenstein Michael Makhlevich Itay Shemer Ian Thompson Isaac O. Daniel C. Liem Tina Jiang Evan Ellis Michael Andregg

Jeffrey Katzenberg Sujay Jaswa and Tomás P. giving the Alembic Technologies, Inc. team a masterclass in business and the current state of tech! #startuplife #masterclass #marketingroi

WndrCo is excited to announce our $14M Series A investment in Alembic Technologies, Inc. I'm also thrilled to be joining the company's Board of Directors. “Deploying AI allows companies to increase productivity in ways not possible before. Alembic is using AI developed for scientific research applications to predict ROI from marketing. NVIDIA marketing is using Alembic with great success.” - Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA At WndrCo, we continually ask Fortune 500 CMOs about their top challenges. The most common response is around proving the effectiveness of marketing spend. With Alembic, enterprise brands can now leverage the power of AI and cutting-edge statistics to understand marketing effectiveness and predict future ROI across all of their campaigns (social, TV, radio, out-of-home, sponsorships, etc). This is made possible by groundbreaking techniques originally developed during COVID-19 to trace causes and patterns in disparate public health datasets. “Alembic has a breakthrough solution for a problem I’ve seen throughout my career: Measuring results from marketing initiatives. All enterprise marketing organizations should consider Alembic to solve this problem in marketing." - Jeffrey Katzenberg Looking forward to partnering with Tomás Puig, John A., Lloyd Taylor, Seth Little, Jayden Ziegler, PhD, and the Alembic team on what Jeffrey describes as the "Holy Grail of Marketing": enabling marketers to understand the value of their spend. Joe Montana, ChenLi Wang, Laura Maness, Mark Ghermezian, Aristomenis Capogeannis

🚨 Hiring alert 🚨 We are growing our investing team at WndrCo! - Come work with Sujay Jaswa and me as we partner with the next generation of founders from seed to growth - Learn from our prior experience building Dropbox and DreamWorks and see how we help companies with storytelling (Jeffrey Katzenberg) and supercharging GTM (Justin Wexler) - Looking for curiosity, hustle, analytical thinking, strong personal networks, and a passion for both technology and investing We are back to working in the office every day (in downtown Redwood City), and you will get to work directly with Sujay and me, along with our team in LA/NY - Anthony Saleh, Jeff Nykun, Erika Panico, Armaan Grewal, and Sharon Pan. If you know anyone who we have to hire, tell them to apply below! https://lnkd.in/dz2GTRej