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Escape Velocity.

Helping Founders Accelerate into the Stratosphere

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Cockroach > Thoroughbred | Matthew Black (Founder & CEO of Mav)

Matthew’s path to building Mav wasn’t linear — and that’s exactly why it worked.  From early tech obsession to hard lessons learned the hard way, he shares how failure sharpened his instincts and fueled the creation of Mav, an AI insurance agent replacing traditional call centers through friendly, always-on texting....
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Plan Z: Build for Upside, Not Survival | Trevor Summer (CEO of i-Genie)

From catching the first internet boom out of Princeton, to taking a company public early in his career, to founding and exiting a venture-backed business acquired by Blackstone, Trevor Sumner has lived nearly every chapter of the startup journey.  Now he’s doing something rare: stepping in as a professional-grade CEO...
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Never Trust a Lead You Didn’t Earn | Dan Simon (Founder & CEO of Qwoted)

Dan Simon has seen the media business from the inside—and from the bottom. Before founding Qwoted, Dan was a longtime media operator, former speechwriter to some of the biggest names on Wall Street, a published author, and a three-time founder. But when it came time to build Qwoted - a...
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Hiring for Velocity

Why most startups hire for résumé — and find themselves stalled on execution. Founders spend enormous energy on product, capital, and strategy. But too often, they quietly lose momentum through hiring. Early-stage companies don’t fail because they lack talent. They fail because they hire capable people who can’t operate in...
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Community-Powered Capital, Measured Through the Mudita SoulScore™

Category: FinTech Mudita SoulScore™: 4.7 / 5 Overview Honeycomb Credit helps small businesses raise growth capital directly from the communities that believe in them—customers, neighbors, and local supporters—while offering investors both financial return and a shared stake in local success. At Mudita Venture Partners, we invest in companies we believe...
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New Investment Alert _ CentSight

CentSight, AI-native financial intelligence for early-stage growth companies

Mudita Venture Partners is excited to announce an investment in CentSight, an AI-native financial intelligence platform that gives founders and finance leaders real-time clarity, forward visibility, and board-ready narratives—without spreadsheets, fragile models, or last-minute fire drills. Mudita invested $1.5 million in the pre-seed round. CentSight was founded and built inside...
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New Investment Alert _ Cableteque

Cableteque, AI-powered quoting and manufacturing intelligence for wire harness manufacturers

Mudita Venture Partners is excited to announce an investment in Cableteque, a cloud-based platform that helps wire harness manufacturers quote faster, reduce errors, and win more business by turning OEM (original equipment manufacturers) designs into production-ready data. Mudita joined 11Tribes Ventures and others in a $3 million SAFE round at...
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Beyond the Pitch

News from the front lines of company-building.

New Investment Alert _ CentSight

CentSight, AI-native financial intelligence for early-stage growth companies

CentSight doesn’t just report the past—it proactively flags risks, anomalies, and “heads-up” insights a great CFO would surface.
New Investment Alert _ Cableteque

Cableteque, AI-powered quoting and manufacturing intelligence for wire harness manufacturers

How Cableteque is tackling a mission-critical workflow for wire harness manufacturers.
New Investment Alert _ Pavewise

Pavewise, AI-powered real-time intelligence for construction verticals

How Pavewise consolidates all job-site inputs into an intuitive, all-in-one dashboard.

Playbooks for Scale

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Hiring for Velocity

Early-stage companies don’t fail because they lack talent. They fail because they hire capable people who can’t operate in ambiguity, speed, or pressure. Résumés don’t reveal that. References rarely do. But the right questions do.

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Ditch Your Plan B

Conventional wisdom says smart founders always have a backup plan. Plan B feels responsible. It sounds prudent. It signals maturity. In venture-backed startups, it often does the opposite. The most effective founders don’t win by hedging. They win by committing.

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Choosing The Right VC Partner

The moment you take venture capital, you’re entering one of the most consequential relationships of your professional life. This isn’t a transaction — it’s a long-term partnership that will shape your pace, your decisions, and your experience of building.

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Why Founders Choose Mudita.

Where proven experience meets constructive coaching.

"Immediately grasped our transformative potential."

It’s rare to find investors who combine deep expertise with genuine visionary thinking. While other investors focused solely on our current metrics, Mudita immediately grasped the vision and inspired us to think bigger.

Mudita doesn’t just invest in where we are today—they’re actively partnering with us to build where we’re going.

Katy
Katy Aucoin
Co-Founder & CEO,
Curated for You

"An exponent to our growth."

The team offers x-factor and ingenuity that fuels innovation in a measurable way.

What stands out most to me is their deep understanding of what our business needs to accelerate success and ability to quickly bring those accelerants to life.

Carly Bigi
Carly Bigi
CEO & Founder,
Laws of Motion

"Not just an investment, it is a partnership."

Mudita goes beyond typical venture support–creating an inclusive environment that encourages founders to interact, share experiences, and learn from one another.

It’s not just an investment; it’s a partnership that exemplifies excellence in every aspect.

Fahim Sheikh
Fahim Sheikh
CEO & Co-Founder,
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The Escape Velocity Podcast.

Strategies, mindsets, and tactics from hyper-growth founders.
Learn what it takes to launch, scale, and win.

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Never Trust a Lead You Didn’t Earn | Dan Simon (Founder & CEO of Qwoted)
How Dan Simon refused shortcuts—earning product-market fit manually before scaling Qwoted to a two-sided marketplace with 50% ARR growth
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Plan Z: Build for Upside, Not Survival | Trevor Summer (CEO of i-Genie)
How proven CEO Trevor Sumner and i-Genie’s domain legends turned early chaos into conviction and scaled to $5M+ ARR with 180% NRR
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Cockroach > Thoroughbred | Matthew Black (Founder & CEO of Mav)
How failure, persistence, and vertical obsession powered AI-agent Mav to 2x ARR and 300% YoY growth.