Venture Guides · Nishkam

Email Triage

Monday July 20 2026
Last 7 days (Jul 13 – Jul 20)
156 inbox emails + Sent Items + calendar reviewed
Current — Jul 20
Prior — Jul 17
Urgent + Important
Do now
7
Performance self-eval — OVERDUE, send Jenny
Manual · from your note (due Mon)
Jul 20
Overdue
Assail — Q3-26 board tomorrow (Brooklyn)
Assail · Alissa / Ian
Jul 21
Portfolio
Compyl — confirm Jul 30 board time
Compyl · Stas / Matt / Anton
Jul 30
Portfolio
Redactable — decide w/ Newt, reply Pablo
Pablo · PlusUltra Capital
Jul 20
Reply
TiE/Alok — CDOIQ panel Jul 22
TiE · Alok Prasad / CDOIQ
Jul 22
Deal
Xor — send the turndown
Xor · Tobias / Marc
Jul 8
Carried
Opsin — confirm turndown sent
Opsin · James Pham / Dave
Jul 16
Deal
Important · Not Urgent
Schedule time
6
SpartanX — fundraise + data room
SpartanX · Anton / Diego / Erik
Jul 17
Portfolio
Genesis — ARR waterfall + board dates
Genesis · Holzman / Glickman
Jul 20
Portfolio
Clarity — Marty decision + PR paused
Clarity · Holzman / Will / Jenny
Jul 24
Portfolio
Ray — AE hire + weekly Jul 21
Ray Security · Ariel Zamir
Jul 21
Portfolio
Black Hat — trip booked, lock meetings
Manual · with Dave / Holzman
Aug 3
Carried
Memcyco — deal-team weekly Jul 21
Memcyco · Israel Mazin
Jul 21
Portfolio
Urgent · Not Important
Delegate or handle fast
4
Flecks — confirm Thu 3:30pm office visit
Flecks · Brian / via Bear
Jul 23
Confirm
Send portfolio check-in agendas
Manual · weekly cadence
Jul 20
Manual
Gryphon — rebook John Wu next week
Gryphon · John Wu
Jul 20
Rebook
Julia — teach-in / pitch practice
Manual · Julia / Zach
Jul 14
Carried
Neither
Ignore / delete
0
No items
New names & inbounds — first calls / evaluations · kept until you act (per your note)
24
Redactable / PlusUltra — you're leading
Pablo · PlusUltra / via Ben
Jul 20
Decide
SafeHill — inbound via Chingona
Fernando · via Daniel
Jul 16
New
Spotlight — call Jul 22
Katie / Alex · via Anton
Jul 22
Advancing
Gryphon — Series A call (rebooking)
John Wu · via Ben Nye
Jul 20
Advancing
Karambit.AI — follow-up Jul 23
Andrew Hendela
Jul 23
Advancing
Seaionl / CertPing — follow-up Jul 30
Chenna · seaionl.com
Jul 30
Advancing
DrDroid — reconnected, overview in
Siddarth Jain · YC W23
Jul 20
Re-engaged
Flecks.ai — office visit Thu Jul 23
Flecks · Brian / via Bear
Jul 23
Advancing
Semperis — Marty visited Jul 16
Marty Momdjian · via Holzman
Jul 16
Carried
Verapath — priced round ~Jul 20
Joe McMann · with Bear
~Jul 20
Carried
Arthrix — first call done
Oleg Lerner · via Bear
Jul 16
Carried
Vigilent — first call done
Rohit Unnikrishnan · vigilent.ai
Jul 16
Carried
Pandorian — first call done
Daniel Avital
Jul 16
Carried
Zero Quarry — call tomorrow Jul 21
Shane Connelly · with Will
Jul 21
Advancing
Rein — re-engaged on agent security
Matan Efrat · reinsec.io
Jul 17
Re-engaged
NuDay AI — follow-up sent
Bill / Alex · with Bear
Jul 15
Carried
Mission Decisions — founder call requested
Plutus FO · Amer / via Bear
Jul 20
Advancing
QuantumGenie — call done
QuantumGenie · via Bear
Jul 15
Carried
Supertide — call done
Damian · via Bear
Jul 15
Carried
Control+ — leaning pass
Greg / Mehdi · via Anton / Dave
Jul 10
Carried
Rubicon / Bitfab — warm intros (JPM)
via Vickrum / Kevin (JPM)
Jul 14
Carried
DeFake — first call ran (done)
Kimber Labs · via Julia
Jul 14
Carried
Clearwood — pre-read, schedule
Matt · via Josh / Ian
Jul 8
Carried
Screened / parked — see detail
Misc inbounds · no action
Parked
Outside the office & worth attending — this week + upcoming (Boston-focused)
5
CDOIQ Symposium — Wed (panelist)
Jul 22 · Hyatt Regency Cambridge
Jul 22
Speaking
Black Hat USA — Las Vegas (booked)
Aug 3–6 · Las Vegas
Aug 3
Going
MIT delta v Demo Day — Cambridge
Sep 11 · via Zach tracker
Sep 11
Upcoming
Startup Boston Week — speaking
Sep 18 · Boston (panelist)
Sep 18
Speaking
Agentic AI Summit — Boston Seaport
Oct 29 · via Zach tracker
Oct 29
Upcoming
Waiting on
1
Vinit — identity security / Clarity view
Reference · Vinit Khandelwal
18d
Personal
0
Patterns this session
0
Feedback processed: "I was supposed to do my performance self-eval by Monday!! How did we miss that?" Root cause — last week it sat as a generic "PR feedback inputs" item and wasn't flagged as a hard personal deadline. Fixed two ways: (1) added it to Q1 as OVERDUE (due today, Jul 20) with the Jenny thread context, and (2) added a new signal to the rulebook to scan for HR/review/self-eval deadlines and surface them with a due date.
signal added
State reset: the latest Supabase row (2026-07-17, updated 07-20) had an empty done map, so nothing carries a prior tick this run — Opsin, Genesis-HBS, DeFake, Clearwood all render active again rather than dimmed. Feedback has been cleared on today's row after this write.
note
Q1 reshaped for the NYC trip: Assail board is tomorrow (Tue Jul 21, Dock 72; dinner tonight at Cecconi's). Compyl board decision is live — Stas booked Thu Jul 30 8am NYC but Matt can't do 8am (after 10am) and Anton wants noon+ or 8–10; you need to confirm the time with Roslyn. Redactable now needs a decision, not just a reply — Pablo wants a soft-circle before data-room access; you looped Newt in Jul 20.
exception
Black Hat flipped from "book trip" to "going": Southwest flights, NYNY hotel and registration are all confirmed (Aug 3). Both the Q2 item and the Events card now track the confirmed side-events (Founders&Friends confirmed; several pending/waitlisted) rather than travel booking.
exception
New Deals moved: Mission Decisions advanced (Bear asked Amer for the founder call, Jul 20); DrDroid re-engaged (Sid re-sent overview Jul 20); Flecks advanced to an in-person office visit Thu Jul 23; Spotlight call locked Wed Jul 22; Rein added (you re-engaged Matan Jul 17 on agent security). Gryphon call is being rebooked (you asked John Wu to move to next week).
exception
Suppressed as noise this run: Roslyn / Compyl board scheduling churn (kept only the decision), Erica-welcome all-VG thread, Content Discussion / AIM planning / VG Standup / Team Lunch internal invites, Assail Zoom + Dock 72 tour logistics, Luma/Gatsby/Whova RSVP + sign-in-code emails, Southwest/hotel confirmations, Google Alerts, Affinity/Outlook reaction digests. SBUR roundtable dropped (its Jul 17 date has passed).
exception
Notes for next run