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Spencer Kimball
CEO
Latest rounds
- BlacksmithSeries A · $10MSept 2025
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- 1
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- 0
- Disclosed
- $10M
- Active
- 2025
BlacksmithSeries A$10MUSJoined · +3 investors
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Authzed
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Earthly Technologies
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- ReadySet Technology
- deepset
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SaaStr 681: Scaling to $5B with Cockroach Labs' CEO Spencer Kimball's Formula for Sustained Growth and Resilience
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Whether you're going from nothing to something or already scaling and thriving beyond $10-100M, healthy, sustainable growth in SaaS is on every founder's mind. Cockroach Labs' CEO Spencer Kimball shares hard-won lessons from scaling from $0 to $5B and his time as an angel investor for more than… More on the show's page
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E1098 The Next Unicorns E14: Cockroach Labs CEO Spencer Kimball on the coming paradigm shifts in tech, competing against AWS & more
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Check out Cockroach Labs: https://cockroachlabs.com Follow Cockroach Labs: https://twitter.com/CockroachDB Follow Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis Thanks to our partners... Dell for Entrepreneurs - Save up to 50% off select products, and take an extra 5% off by going to https://launch.co/dell… More on the show's page
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20VC: How Investors Can Get Into The Best Deals & Why Founders First Point Of Contact Should Be With The Investment Decision-Maker with Spencer Kimball, Founder & CEO @ Cockroach Labs
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Spencer Kimball is the Founder & CEO @ Cockroach Labs , the open-source database for building global, scalable cloud services that survive disasters. They have backing from some of the greats of the world of VC having raised from the likes of Sequoia, Benchmark, Google Ventures and Index. As for… More on the show's page
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Next Unicorns evaluation + Ask Jason | E1590
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New format! Jason evaluates some prior Next Unicorns company's performances since the CEO appeared on the podcast (2:06), and contextualizes the fundraising market throughout the past three years. Then, Jason wraps the show by answering listener questions! (48:18) (0:00) Jason tees up today's new… More on the show's page
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Apple PodcastsThe show's pageBest of This Week in Startups: Week of August 17th, 2020
MentionsJason FriedSpencer Kimball
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E1097 featuring Skift's Rafat Ali: https://rb.gy/qn0zyz E1098 featuring Cockroach Labs' Spencer Kimball: https://rb.gy/ls6z3e E1099 featuring Basecamp's Jason Fried: https://rb.gy/b3kye1 Follow Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis More on the show's page
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