Terrain – Call Your Shot
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Terrain is an early-stage investment firm focused on software and technology.
Letter | Terrain The collapse of two banks — Bear Stearns in March 2008 and Silicon Valley Bank in March 2023 — marks the ceremonial beginning and end of the most recent cycle in startup history. If that 15-year era was defined by increasingly standardized and tracked methods of building startups, this one is being defined by the opposite: founders who are intentional in their pursuit of specific goals with high stakes. Today we are announcing Terrain, an early-stage investment firm purpose-built to back these founders. Our first investment is in Base Power which this week announced $68m in fu
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