COMMUNITY
COMMUNITY
RESOURCES
Vive wants to do anything we can to help our portfolio companies succeed - we’re in it for the long haul alongside you. Here’s a dynamic list of resources compiled to support the various needs you’ll come across as you build your company at every stage.
Amazon Business Prime
How does it Work?
Visit https://a.co/fltij2z and enter GD86N2
Sign up or link an existing Amazon Business account
What do I get?
50% off of a one-year subscription of Amazon Business Prime Essentials, Small, or Medium plans and fast, free business delivery.
Progressive Discounts
Unlock lower prices and save money on the products your company buys the most.
Exclusive Discounts on Amazon Private Label Products
Access to discounts on over 2k Amazon Private Label Items via the Private Brands Discount Program. Get discounts on items such as cleaning supplies and eco-friendly products.
Access to Clearlake Specific Pricing
Unlock discounts that may become available through the purchasing volume and patterns of accounts linked to the Clearlake account.
How much does it cost?
You can create a free Amazon Business Account. No commitment, no minimum turnover. If you sign up for Business Prime, then the packages and pricing are as follows (with the one-year discount):
- $179/year $89/for 1st year (plus tax) up to 3 users
- $499/year $249 /for 1st year (plus tax) up to 10 users
- $1,299/year $649/for 1st year (plus tax) up to 100 users
Culture Facilitator
Christina Curtis - Curtis Leadership - Leadership Consulting
curtisleadership.com
christina@curtisleadership.com
Life Labs
We research the skills that make the biggest impact in the shortest time and share them with managers, executives, and teams at amazing companies.
Lindsay Pollak - Career & Workplace Expert
A Positive Adventure - Leadership Training Program
apositiveadventure.com/we-are-experts
Leillani Brown
leilanimbrown.com
Lauren Young - Leaders in Tech
leadersintech.org/retreats
A Stanford GSB Interpersonal Dynamics facilitator, and former tech exec
Tony Levitan
tony@inwhack.org
linkedin.com/in/tlevitan
Jenny Sauer Klein - Play on Purpose
playonpurpose.com
jennysauerklein.com
Reboot - reboot.io
Hello Social Impact
hellasocialimpact.com
Hella Social Impact exists to Notice, Name, and Dismantle™ systems of white supremacy, patriarchy, and other forms of oppression that marginalize, exclude, exploit, and harm Black and Non-Black People of Color (NBPOC). In all of our policies, practices, programs, and partnerships, we work to co-create a world where Black and NBPOC can show up as their authentic selves, tell their stories, and be heard.
Flannel and Blade
flannelandblade.com
Our founders provide top flight creative direction and strategy and our collective contains a multitude of individual skills and the talent exactly where it’s needed.
AWS Activate Partnership
Privileged Access
AWS wires you to an army of talent that is available in a free advisory capacity. As an example, our solution architects have deep industry knowledge coupled with a mastery of AWS services and experience working with customers to solve problems and build amazing things. They can save countless hours by sharing best practices, sanity checking architecture, cost optimizing, providing peaks and access to upcoming capabilities, and consulting on new and audacious applications all while keeping security and regulatory compliance front and center.
Credits
AWS Activate is our benefits program designed to help early-stage startups (i.e. pre-series B) experiment risk-free with cloud infrastructure and services. Underscore portfolio companies are entitled to up to $100,000 in promotional credits. Portfolio companies should enroll in Activate here and use OrgID {1kUDL}.
Market
If and when appropriate, we want to help companies raise their public visibility and tell their story globally. Many find this useful just from the standpoint of recruiting talent. Others find it builds their credibility in the market. We’re forever on the hunt for transformational companies whose results and stories will inspire others. If and when appropriate we can also explore opportunities to partner in approaching the market or facilitate connections with key stakeholders across the ecosystem in an
effort to win business.
Designers
Godling Studio
It’s a SaaS month-to-month model and they do all different kinds of design work. I recently used them for a magazine-style publication deliverable for one of our corporate partners and am also working on a special landing page project.
Slope Agency
Superliminal
superliminal.studio
Designty
designity.com
As a referral from this community in the past and I am very pleased so far.
Lightboard
lightboard.io
Executive Coaching
Jane Finette
Chris Holmberg
linkedin.com/in/chris-holmberg-a9042b
Barbara Gottesman
linkedin.com/in/barbaragottesman
Raymond Stern - ClearPath Partners
Chase Damiano - Sales Leadership Coaching
Tammy Jones - Selling to Scale - Sales Leadership Coaching
tammy@sellingtoscale.com
Michael Hess - Core 6 Management Advisors - Sales Leadership Coaching
linkedin.com/in/core6mgmtadvisors
Finance
Propeller Industries - Alexandra Kerns
akearns@propellerindustries.com
calendly.com/propeller-ak/30min?month=2022-05
propellerindustries.com
Propeller is an amazing partner as they offer a comprehensive, yet economical alternative to hiring an in-house finance team. They shine when your startups encounter a growth spurt, or outgrow basic bookkeeping and need to level up their reporting and strategic finance function.
Propeller has partnered with 700+ startups across consumer & enterprise tech, health tech, SaaS, blockchain & digital assets, as well as D2C & consumer products. They work with dozens of firms in this community already and have deep expertise to truly support your PortCo’s.
In addition to outsourced accounting & finance, Propeller helps portfolio companies when you’re looking to fundraise or sell their business with their unique Transaction Advisory services. Their TA team is a group of former investment bankers and investors who engage on a project basis to support throughout the process.
Countsy
Consero Global
BridgeView CFO Solutions - Diana McDonough
415-677-5350
conseroglobal.com/investment-management-firms
Burkland Associates - Debbie Rosler
650-248-8911
Lawyers
Regulatory
McDermott Will & Emery (MWE)
- Jerry Sokol (Partner): jsokol@mwe.com
- Adam Rogers (Partner): arogers@mwe.com
Kirkland & Ellis
- Chad Ehrenkranz (Partner): chad.ehrenkranz@kirkland.com
- Dennis Williams (Partner): dennis.williams@kirkland.com
Reimbursement due diligence
General Counsel
Andrea Cohen - Acceleron Law Group - smaller group
linkedin.com/in/andrea-cohen-2151a728
Michael Esquivel - Fenwick - digital health experience
linkedin.com/in/mtesquivel
Maggie White - Gunderson
linkedin.com/in/maggie-white-0a065a6
Craig Schmitz - Goodwin
linkedin.com/in/craigschmitz
Real Estate Brokers
T3 Advisors
- Shane Snow: jsokol@mwe.com
- David Bergeron: arogers@mwe.com
Jon Cannon - Newmark Carey
Jon.Cannon@nmrk.com
Colliers
Recruiters
Christina Finster - Jobot
linkedin.com/in/christina-finster-33499224
Great service for IC engineers, contingency fee so lightweight option
Albert Liao
Consultant/ RPO style for IC- eng leaders, and esp great for anything with hardware
Zac Isaacson - Pac Heights Partners
One of the best for any companies AI/ ML/ heavy backend infra
Zoe Siegel - Artisanal Talent
Done some health tech and lots of SaaS and Infra, engineering leaders probably best for Series B-C
SPMB - spmb.com
Thrive Search - thrivetrm.com
Jennifer Loftus - Swing Search
linkedin.com/in/jenniferloftus
Daversa - Sales and BD
- Gary Constance: linkedin.com/in/gary-constance-ba0a1a1
- Kat Stefanski: linkedin.com/in/katherinestefanski
Mike Mayeri - Mayeri Partners - SDRs
Riviera Partners
- Ali Behnam: linkedin.com/in/alibehnam
- Eóin O’ Toole: linkedin.com/in/eoinotoole
Kevin Bucky - Carbon Partners - Marketing, Growth, BD
Cody Voellinger - Engineering and Technical Recruiting
linkedin.com/in/codyvoellinger
Tim Gordon - East Coast Based
Other
Advanced HR - Reach out if you would like to run a report
VCES Compensation Survey - Reach out if you would like this done
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