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May 18, 2023 · Pioneer Square Labs is a startup studio (PSL Studio) and early-stage venture capital (PSL Ventures) fund in Seattle, WA. Follow. More from Pioneer Square Labs + PSL ...
What we do. We are your dream swiss-army-knife co-founder. We design and build a fantastic product, solve the toughest data science problems, and navigate the way to finding strong customer pull through rigorous validation and digital marketing. We bring experience raising billions of dollars of capital.
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- A New Approach to Startup Investing
- Betting on Diversity, and Seattle
One of the first things that stands out is PSL’s high “kill rate.” To get to the 25 startups in the PSL portfolio, the firm eliminated about 215 ideas that didn’t make the cut. PSL has a maniacal focus on getting customer signal as quickly as possible for a potential idea. It uses phone calls and structured interviews with customers; landing pages ...
In Seattle’s tight-knit entrepreneurial circles, one of the biggest criticisms of PSL — and other studio models, for that matter — is that they take too large of an equity stake upfront. That scares some entrepreneurs. Alexander Day, co-founder of real estate startup Modus, worked with another Seattle-area startup studio — not PSL — when his compan...
PSL startups accounted for nearly a quarter of venture rounds raised at $10 million or less during the pandemic by Washington state startups, according to data from PitchBook. A majority of PSL spinouts have gone on to raise additional investment, including two — NextStep and Yesler— in the past week. Any organization that helps entrepreneurs creat...
Looking ahead, a main focus for PSL is helping build companies with diverse teams. One-third of the studio spinouts are woman-founded — such as Remarkably and Gemma. And one of eight have at least one founder who identifies as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, people of color), such as Glow and Cash. Julie Sandler, a PSL managing director who previously wo...
Pioneer Square Labs exists to build the next generation of world-changing companies, bringing together exceptional founders, big ideas, and investment capital. ...
May 18, 2023 · Pioneer Square Labs is a startup studio (PSL Studio) and early-stage venture capital (PSL Ventures) fund in Seattle, WA.
Mar 6, 2019 · Pioneer Square Labs, or PSL, cropped up in 2015 to create, launch and fund technology companies headquartered in the Pacific Northwest. Operating under the startup studio model, PSL’s team of ...
