Forbes October 23, 2024
Mark Goldberg, Ethan Kurzweil and Kristina Shen left top jobs at blue chip VC firms to launch Chemistry, a new equal partnership focused on backing Series A startups.
After leaving his partner job at venture capital firm Index Ventures in a surprise move last December, Mark Goldberg headed out on holiday vacation with his family, promising his wife that no work call would interrupt time with their two small kids. Then, like clockwork, Ethan Kurzweil rang. “This is an exception, a friend calling!” Goldberg, 39, insisted. He picked up.
But Kurzweil, a partner at another established firm, Bessemer Venture Partners, wanted to talk shop – more specifically, a seed that Goldberg had planted weeks before, that perhaps they should team...
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