From Ubiquity Ventures
Deep dives into our early reads on software in the physical world, the founders building it, and what we learn backing deeptech.
Tim Brown of Allbirds - "3 Must do's for your startup culture"
Tim Brown co-founded Allbirds with six employees and spent eight years thinking carefully about how people worked together. In this Ubiquity University session, he walks through three exercises every founder should do on day zero — before the team gets too big to shape.
Free Financial Model Template for Early-Stage Startups, Updated for 2026
A company's financial update showed eight months of runway. Forty-five minutes into the board meeting, the real number came out: three months. The culprit was a downloaded template nobody fully understood.
The 6-Slide Board Deck I Recommend to Seed-Stage Founders
Most VCs skip board meetings at the seed stage. Sunil doesn't, and he has a six-slide template that takes 30 minutes to update each month.
Make Your Customer the Hero, with Nathan Kundtz
Most founders make themselves the hero of their company's story. Nathan Kundtz has mentored 100+ entrepreneurs, and says that's exactly what gets in the way.
Ubiquity Ventures is growing its investment team: Welcome, Cami Gil!
After nearly a decade as a solo GP, Sunil is bringing on Cami Orozco Gil (operator, VC, and LP) as Ubiquity's first Investor.
The “Waterfall” Method for Better Board Updates, with Esper CEO Yadhu Gopalan
Most board updates compare actual results against the plan set at the beginning of the year. That plan is important on January 1, but it becomes progressively less useful as we get deeper into the year.
What Investors Hear in the First 30 Seconds of Your Pitch
The "look what I can do vs. look who cares" spectrum has four stops, and most founders open on the wrong one.
A Government Grant Is Your First Government Customer
What WindBorne Systems CEO John Dean learned winning more than ten SBIRs, every one of which became recurring revenue
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From the Nerdy & Early Substack
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Press
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TechCrunch · Jan 2024
Ubiquity Ventures secures $75M for Fund III to invest in "software beyond the screen"
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TechCrunch Live · Dec 2021
Seed to $6.5B: Eugenio Pace (Auth0) + Sunil Nagaraj (Ubiquity)
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SpaceDotBiz · Feb 2025
Interview with Investor Sunil Nagaraj, Partner at Ubiquity Ventures
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SpaceNews · Apr 2025
Software Beyond the Screen with Sunil Nagaraj
Building software beyond the screen?
Send the company that is too early, too technical, or too weird for everyone else.
