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The Story Behind Haystack's Investment in Blockit
Today, the team at Blockit launches publicly and announces their $5M seed financing, led by Pat Grady at Sequoia.
Jan 22
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Aashay Sanghvi
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December 2025
12 predictions for 2026
Maybe it’s a little early for 2026 predictions and maybe these scream ‘perma-bull’ but I wanted to have some fun with tech and macro predictions for the…
Dec 2, 2025
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Aashay Sanghvi
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May 2025
The Story Behind Haystack's Investment in Type Five
In the late fall of 2024, our friend Kevin Mahaffey sent us some background information on a team he had backed – founders working on what was described…
May 14, 2025
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Aashay Sanghvi
December 2024
Full stack startups, revisited
About a decade ago, Chris Dixon and Balaji Srinivasan popularized the idea of “full stack startups.” The premise was that as software moved from an…
Dec 20, 2024
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Aashay Sanghvi
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February 2024
The Story Behind Haystack's Investment in Bench IQ
In the late summer of 2023, our friends at Lazer Technologies (thank you Zain and Arif!) messaged us about meeting their friend Jimoh Ovbiagele. Jimoh…
Feb 29, 2024
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Aashay Sanghvi
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September 2023
Haystack VII
Announcing our newest fund and some team updates
Sep 10, 2023
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August 2023
Minimum Viable Raise
I was recently with a friend who has been a seed investor for the good part of the last decade.
Aug 22, 2023
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Aashay Sanghvi
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The Story Behind Haystack's Investment in Haus
Since 2010 or so, e-commerce companies, retailers, brands, and other consumer-facing properties had a clear understanding of how they grew their…
Aug 3, 2023
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Aashay Sanghvi
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February 2023
Tools & Platforms in 2023
What building blocks are entrepreneurs picking up these days?
Feb 26, 2023
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Aashay Sanghvi
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January 2023
The Story Behind Haystack’s Investment in Finley
In college, I used to get coffee with a local investor named Tom Rutledge. Tom has a rich background in capital markets and credit origination, and he…
Jan 31, 2023
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Aashay Sanghvi
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December 2022
The liquidation preference
Why should I care?
Dec 30, 2022
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Aashay Sanghvi
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4 questions on AI
Hopefully I can breathe some life back into this newsletter.
Dec 6, 2022
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Aashay Sanghvi
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