Paige Finn DohertyFounding Partner, Behind Genius · Founding Partner at Behind Genius Ventures

who are Statusphere CEO Kristen Wiley's favorite investors?

27 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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In this interview excerpt, Statusphere CEO Kristen Wiley talks about two investors she particularly values. She highlights 1984, a recent round participant, praising their candid fundraising advice, honesty, and willingness to guide her on investor interactions, which she says leveled her up. She also commends Hearst, a century‑old media company with multiple divisions and an investment arm, noting the surprising and helpful resources provided by the Hearst Lab team, and describing the partnership as exceptionally supportive.

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Who are some of your other favorite investors that you have on board? Yeah, yeah, for sure. So 1984 was in the last round and they've been amazing. I feel like, you know, can always count on them for running questions by, like they'll be really candid. My background is not fundraising and I told them that and they told me, they're like, our background, like we can help you with that. When they asked like, where can we help the most? They're just super honest with me about like how to interact with investors and like how the game works. And I just really appreciate that and I feel like it really leveled me up. The other investor that is actually recently invested that I've been just really impressed with is Hearst. Hearst is a 100-year-old media company, but they're much more than that now, I've learned. They have like multiple different arms within them and they have an investment arm as well. And they've just been so surprisingly, honestly, like pleasantly surprisingly helpful in the resources that they've given. And just like all of the humans on the Hearst Lab team have just been amazing to work with.