Helen Min / Articulate

Helen Min is the Founder and GP of Articulate, a $10M pre-seed fund focused on enterprise software and FinTech.

Helen’s background is as an operator. Facebook. Dropbox. Quora. Plaid. AngelList. For a long time, she didn’t realize what she had. “It took me a while to figure out.” The network wasn’t something she extracted value from or optimized for dealflow. It was just there. Built authentically through years of operating, advising on branding and communication, helping founders tell their stories.

Our conversation gets into how AngelList served as her “venture capital education.” Not the sanitized MBA version, but the version where you learn how money flows, how incentives align and misalign, how the mechanics of venture actually work. She was there when rolling funds launched, she saw how syndicates formed, how angel checks compounded into real portfolios.

In 2017, she co-founded Phenomenal Ventures with Meena Harris, and later joined True Ventures as a Venture Partner. Each step was stress testing whether this thing she’d been doing informally could become a firm.

As a solo GP now, Helen invests in founders whose journeys she understands from years as an operator. Her thesis is simple: invest early in exceptional technical founders she meets before consensus forms, then support them through storytelling, marketing strategy, and team-building. All things she’s done her entire career.

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