helping Founders

Invent the future

Mission

We see things a little differently

After going through an acquisition in 2012, we started Kepler to support the next generation of startup founders.  

As founders first and foremost, we know what it takes to build great companies and we are energized by the process. Building companies can hardly be called fun, but watching something you’ve built impact the world and seeing the team you’ve assembled gel and grow is nothing short of addictive.

We created Kepler to go along that journey with some of the best founders in the world.

 

The impact any investor has on your outcome is nominal at best, but we’re gleeful about the ability to support great founders that are reshaping the world — changing industries from home-building to education.

While we know how to stay out of a companies way — we’ve dealt with the realities around strategy, team-building, management, fundraising, and scaling in ways that give us the ability to give good advice to founders as they grow.

Advice

Lessons we’ve learned.

Management and Hiring

Tyler interviewed several experts on management and hiring for AngelList Radio. Listen to interviews with people like Keith Rabois (Opendoor, Square, LinkedIn, PayPal).

Listen to the interviews

What problem do you solve?

Every startup faces a core challenge: does the market need what you’re making enough that they will put up with the annoyances of dealing with a young company?

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User Acquisition for Startups

I gave a talk about how to build and manage a growth team. I cover both the strategy and frameworks I used to acquire 2 million business customers at Involver.

Recommendations

 

Over the past few years, we’ve collected the stuff we’ve learned the most from in our career.

These are the books, talks, blog posts, and videos that have most inspired our leadership philosophy.

 

What We’ve Built

We aren’t full-time investors — backing startups is a (profitable and fun) hobby for us. Since 2017, we’ve been building Unsupervised, an enterprise software company that helps people at Fortune 500 companies automatically discover what’s important in their data.

Unsupervised is a horizontal deep-tech company that invented a new field of AI, building the first AI engine that was based on unsupervised machine learning. Unsupervised is used by a number of the companies you buy products from every day and is backed by Eniac Ventures, Coatue, and Disney, among others.

 

Noah and I met building one of the largest enterprise social media management companies, Involver, which was acquired by Oracle in 2012. At the time of acquisition, Involver had over two million business customers and was used by a good percentage of the Fortune 1000. Noah co-founded Involver with Rahim Fazal, and convinced Tyler to dropout of college and run marketing for the company.

Noah has also served in senior executive roles at Oracle (focusing on cloud infrastructure and middleware) and Ayasdi (data science tools).

After Involver, Tyler was a founding employee at Unified (a successful advertising and data management company). He has also played key roles at a few consumer companies, including AngelList (startup ecosystem), Hired (recruiting), and Branchout (networking).

Join the Kepler Community

We’re big on community — the world wins when founders help each other. Tell us a bit about yourself and we’ll share the occasional idea or event that might be helpful.

We’re busy running a startup right now. While we’re excited to get to know you, don’t worry about us overloading your inbox.

 

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