K9 Ventures

08/08/2024

As college students or parents of students, one of the most time-consuming things we do is take the information we receive in emails or newsletters and mark the important stuff on our own calendars. It's always been frustrating for me that there isn't an easier way to do this!

Well, now there is. Thanks to Caren Cioffi at Agenda Hero (a K9 Ventures and Upfront Ventures portfolio company), you now have the magic to make this very important but tedious task a breeze.

Check out this video from Caren about what Agenda Hero's Magic can do for you.

If you're a student, or a parent, you have to try it out.

Hi, I'm Caren, co-founder of Agenda Hero, and I'm thrilled to introduce Agenda Hero Magic, designed to simplify adding events to your calendar. With Magic, effortlessly create and customize calendar events, convert images and emails into events, and streamline event management. No action requested f...

07/18/2024

The best part of building a company is working with amazing people. I'm very excited to welcome two of my favorite people, Shana Simmons and Eugenio Pace, to the HiHello board!

I had the privilege of getting to know Shana Simmons while she was the Chief Legal Officer on AJ Shankar's team at Everlaw. Shana recently joined Zendesk as their Chief Legal Officer. I'm delighted to welcome Shana to the HiHello Board and to learn from her extensive experience at Google, Everlaw, and Zendesk!

Eugenio Pace is the co-founder and CEO of Auth0. He built an amazing company that was acquired by Okta for $6.5B. I was fortunate to have been an investor in Auth0 through K9 Ventures alongside some amazing folks like Sunil Nagaraj, Karan Mehandru, David Cowan, George Bischof, Anders Ranum, and Rob Theis. As a board observer, I had the opportunity to learn not only from them but also from Monica Enand, Matias Woloski, Jennifer Ceran, Sameer Dholakia and the amazing team that Eugenio had built around him. Eugenio could be on the board of any company today, and I'm honored to have him on our board at HiHello.

HiHelloo has built the world's first software platform for digital brand and identity. We've created a new category of and are working with thousands of companies worldwide to provide a software-only solution for digital business cards, email signatures, and virtual backgrounds.

We're just getting started, and I'm grateful to have folks like Shana Simmons, Eugenio Pace, Lindel D Eakman, and Villi Iltchev help guide us on the journey to building a big company in this space. 💜 🙏🏽 🙇🏽‍♂️

https://www.hihello.com/blog/hihello-welcomes-shana-simmons-and-eugenio-pace-to-board-of-directors

08/26/2023

If you remember and loved CardMunch (that was acquired by LinkedIn ), like so many people did, you’ll love the latest AI-powered business card scanning from HiHello!

Until now HiHello did not use algorithmic approaches for card scanning because the technology didn’t yet meet our bar for the quality we would want.

But recent advances have allowed us to build a system that uses a hybrid AI and human approach that combines multiple AI approaches with human fallback to improve our paper business card scanner and create one that is quite likely the best on the market.

You will now get almost instant turn around times and we’ve updated our pricing and packaging for HiHello Professional and HiHello Professional + Card Scanning to deliver exceptional value to customers.

HiHello Free users also get to use our AI powered card scanning.

You can sign up for HiHello Professional + Card Scanning here: hihello.me/pricing by choosing HiHello Professional and then adding the Card Scanning add on during checkout. And of course the AI powered card scanning is included in all of our Business and Enterprise plans.

Create digital business cards for free or sign up for a premium plan. Subscriptions give you access to even more features and customization and start at $6.00/month.

03/15/2020

K9 Founders, please follow what is recommended in this post below for

It’s Time for all of us to act boldly on COVID-19

12/07/2019

At HiHello, we want to make it easy for any two people to exchange contact details, even if only one of them has the HiHello app. You can…

05/05/2019

Go HiHello!

Apps like Cardhop and HiHello help you streamline your contacts app and keep it tidy, so it can become the center of your digital universe—and they promise never to share your data with anyone.

02/18/2019

Go HiHello! Welcome Villi Iltchev. It's awesome to partner with you again. Especially when we also get to welcome your k9 at The Kennel.

HiHello Phase 2: Contact Management

08/14/2017

42: The answer to life, the Universe, and everything.

…and the size of ' new fund (K9 Ventures III)

http://www.k9ventures.com/blog/2017/08/14/announcing-k9-ventures-iii/

42: The Answer to the ultimate fund size? Those of you who have read or watched the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy are aware of the pop culture meme around the number 42. Yes, 42: The answer to life, the Universe, and everything. For anyone who hasn’t seen the movie, here’s a clip courtesy …

07/05/2017

Jenna Abdou interviews Manu Kumar in a candid conversation around the startup journey.

Manu and Jenna discuss the night he went from being a hacker to an entrepreneur as a student at Carnegie Mellon and his experiences running his first startup SneakerLabs, including the massive data outage that nearly compromised the company. They chat about why humility is a crucial trait all founde...