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Sep 28, 2022

Announcing Designer Fund — Fund III

$40M to Invest in Founders Who Value Design Nearly a decade ago, Enrique and I set out to invest in early-stage companies that solve design gaps in industries like financial services, healthcare, and business software. Today, across our two funds, we’ve invested in over 60 companies. Designer Fund companies have a combined value of over $80B and include: …

Design

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Announcing Designer Fund — Fund III
Announcing Designer Fund — Fund III
Design

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Jan 26, 2022

Design at Gusto: Keeping Collaboration and Customers at the Core

This article is part of our Design Impact Series, where we explore inside stories from our portfolio companies. From internal team structure to design philosophy to UX, this series looks at the ways design can lead to greater impact. …

Design

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Design at Gusto: Keeping Collaboration and Customers at the Core
Design at Gusto: Keeping Collaboration and Customers at the Core
Design

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Design Insights from Designer Fund

·Sep 15, 2021

Embedding Design into the Fiber of Fintech

Welcome to the first article in our Design Impact Series, where we explore inside stories from our portfolio companies. From internal team structure to design philosophy to UX, this series looks at the ways design can lead to greater impact. How Stripe changed the game Stripe exists because Patrick and John Collison decided to fix…

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Embedding Design into the Fiber of Fintech
Embedding Design into the Fiber of Fintech

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Oct 29, 2020

Design for Business Impact featuring Gusto & Zendesk

We’re excited to announce that our next Design for Business Impact virtual speaker series will be a special brand edition. The Zendesk and Gusto brands are both known and loved globally; we’ll hear from their teams about the business impact of developing distinct visual identities, creating cohesive brand systems, and crafting powerful stories. We hope you join us on Wednesday, November 11th at 12PM PST. We’ll be featuring three creative leaders who will present case studies followed by Q&A:

Case Study

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Design for Business Impact featuring Gusto & Zendesk
Design for Business Impact featuring Gusto & Zendesk
Case Study

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Sep 23, 2020

20 Levers for Communicating the Business Impact of Design

After investing in multi-billion dollar companies across industries and advising hundreds of design leaders at Designer Fund, one of the biggest opportunities I’ve seen for designers to increase their influence is to demonstrate how their work aligns with the success of the business. Often as designers, our natural tendency is…

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20 Levers for Communicating the Business Impact of Design
20 Levers for Communicating the Business Impact of Design

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The Startup

·Sep 21, 2020

A Founders’ Guide to Hiring Your First Designer

As a founder, you need to hire the right people for the right roles to accomplish your business goals. Recruiting is expensive. It comes at the cost of your most valuable resource: time. And when it comes to hiring your first designer, the stakes can feel even higher. This person…

Startup

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A Founders’ Guide to Hiring Your First Designer
A Founders’ Guide to Hiring Your First Designer
Startup

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The Startup

·Sep 21, 2020

A Guide for Working With Design Freelancers and Creative Studios

Nearly every startup needs creative help at some point in their lifecycle — often during key inflection points, such as raising funds, up-leveling into a new market, or communicating who they are to the world for the very first time. …

Design

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A Guide for Working With Design Freelancers and Creative Studios
A Guide for Working With Design Freelancers and Creative Studios
Design

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Design Insights from Designer Fund

·Aug 11, 2017

Design Critiques: How to Maintain Trust at Scale

Design critiques are an essential part of the design process. If run effectively, critiques can elevate a team’s work and contribute to a team culture of trust and collaboration. Continuing to make effective use of this time can be challenging as organizations grow and responsibilities shift. We spoke with design…

Design

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Design Critiques: How to Maintain Trust at Scale
Design Critiques: How to Maintain Trust at Scale
Design

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Aug 11, 2017

How to Communicate the ROI of Design

The impact of design is notoriously difficult to measure. We know intuitively that great design leads to great products, and understand that it can influence business success in a multitude of ways, from strategy to market expansion to brand expression. …

Customer Experience

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How to Communicate the ROI of Design
How to Communicate the ROI of Design
Customer Experience

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Design Insights from Designer Fund

·Aug 8, 2017

3 Ways to be a Better Design Leader

There are countless books, seminars, conferences, and programs to teach you about business leadership, but design leadership requires an entirely different skill set and is not nearly as well documented. It can take years to master the management complexities at the intersection of business and creativity, but many design leaders…

Design

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3 Ways to be a Better Design Leader
3 Ways to be a Better Design Leader
Design

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