Venture capital can do more harm than good. The best founders are the ones who figure out how to get funding. Rudy Cline-Thomas (my brother) returns to break down all things entrepreneurship, scaling a business and finding the RIGHT funding. Rudy is the co-founder of MASTRY Ventures with a portfolio that includes Coinbase, Robinhood, Dapper Labs, Uber, PagerDuty, Zoom, Cloudflare, Qualtrics, DataDog, Marqeta, GOAT, Carta, and others.

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About MASTRY Ventures:

MASTRY Ventures is an early stage tech venture capital fund, built on the team’s track record of investing in iconic tech companies including Coinbase, Robinhood, Dapper Labs, Uber, PagerDuty, Zoom, Cloudflare, Qualtrics, DataDog, Marqeta, GOAT, Carta, and others.
In 2023, MASTRY Ventures acquired a majority stake in Athletes First, the number one NFL agency representing superstar athletes such as Aaron Rodgers, Dak Prescott, Aaron Donald, and Justin Herbert. Rudy serves as Chairman of Athletes First.
MASTRY Properties is a real estate investment fund which invests in developments that seek to empower the communities in which they are located. The first portfolio investment is a $1B joint venture with Tishman Speyer to develop the first phase of the Harvard Enterprise Research Campus (ERC), located in Allston, MA. Harvard ERC is a 900K square foot future hub of innovation comprising a science lab, apartment units, hotel, and a conference center.