Meka Asonye
@BigMekaStyle
Partner @Firstround. Ex-@Stripe, @mixpanel, Bain, and @CleGuardians. Bears Fan 🏈, amateur golfer 🏌🏾♂️, pilot 🛩.
1/ PUMPED to finally announce that I've officially joined @firstround as a Partner. I couldn't have imagined this when I joined their Angel Track program a few years ago, but now I'm on the team that's laser focused on helping Day 1 founders. firstround.medium.com/meet-meka-ason…
Pumped to join the @AllRaise board. I've always admired their community-driven approach, so glad to be a part of it more formally. I'm a big believer that it takes a village. Too many people to name here have helped me navigate my own weird, winding path from growing up in the…
We’re proud to welcome our expanded Board of Directors, leaders shaping a future where women and nonbinary people drive the venture ecosystem. Their fresh perspectives and varied experiences fuel our mission. medium.com/@allraiseedito…
AI Agent startups launch daily. But the incumbent cloud providers (AWS, Azure, etc) that startups are building on top of were meant for humans, not billions of autonomous agents. Thats why Im beyond proud to partner w/ @blaxelAI, the “AWS for AI companies”.
The highs and lows of company building were all I knew in the first few chapters of my career. I sold my first company to Microsoft at age 23. But my second company shut down after 6 months. I built my third company in the aftermath of the dot-com bust, struggling at first…
We're continuing to burn down technical risk as we bring the K2 platform online. - First successful in-space demo in the books - Hit max power (20kW) with on-the-ground tests of the hall thruster The full platform is now coming together on the factory floor, tracking…
We've completed our first in-space demo of key components and first ground hotfire of our in-house 20kW Hall-effect thruster. These milestone achievements significantly de-risk our 2026 Gravitas mission to Medium Earth Orbit (MEO). payloadspace.com/k2-hotfire-pav…
Think you need a 20-person team to break into enterprise? @reductoai cracked the Fortune 10 with just 4. Founder @aditabrm shares how staying lean became their biggest advantage. Listen on In Depth: review.firstround.com/podcast/how-a-…
