Here is your Forbes Daily Briefing for Friday, September 6th.

Today on Forbes, how Nicole Wishoff won the Internet to raise 50 million dollars for her

VC firm.

When shopping startup checkmate went viral in December 2022, its little team was caught by surprise.

Their app, which offers personalized deals to users, promised a cash back bonus for referring new users.

As it's soared to the top slot in Apple's App Store, bots swarm the program, and Check's back-end software couldn't keep up.

Human shoppers who didn't see their bonuses started filing thousands of customer support tickets

to complain. One of Checkmate's co-founder vomited from the stress, another CTO Rory

Garten Smith, started having panic attacks. Then he called Nicole Wishoff.

The founder and sole general partner at Wishoff Ventures. Wishoff was a late

addition to checkmates cap table, a so-called quote wild card who had shouldered her way into its

five million million seed round

through her hustle and promise of operational help.

Just three months later, she proved it.

Her fortitude in the face of crisis and her advice,

hire an operations expert and over-communicate with

users, helped checkmate weather the storm.

Garton Smith, who asked Wishoff to join his board as an observer following the crisis said, quote,

She's been handy for us in navigating so many situations like that. She's

everything. She's everywhere.

Checkmate's story is unusual for Wishoff only because it's a consumer startup in a portfolio of mostly business to business companies.

Otherwise, in the four years since she started investing,

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