Josh Constine

Venture Partner - Consumer

2022 - Current

Investing with our pre-seed/seed team at the intersection of sociology and technology, including social, the creator economy, collaboration, and AI-powered services. I also run SignalFire's contentefforts, as well as our PR and fundraising advisory programs for our portfolio companies, guiding founders on how to tell their story. The firm leads rounds from pre-seed to Series B, focuses on sectors including healthcare, security, dev tools, and vertical SAAS. We love helping portfolio companies with recruiting and growth thanks to our in-house experts and homebrewed Beacon AI data platform.

Principal investor & head of content

2020

Board Member

2023

Stern Grove is SF’s 87-year-old free summer Sundays music festival in a historic redwood grove. I’m helping the non-profit with programming, marketing, and the festival experience. My family moved to SF in the 1850s, so joining the board is my way to keep the city of lucid dreams both artful and accessible.

Guest On-Air Contributor

2022

I'm a recurring talking head on CNN and CNN International where I provide analysis of news surrounding startups, social media, venture capital, and Silicon Valley

Editor-At-Large

2015 - 2020

I wrote over 3000 blog posts about early stage startups and tech giants with focuses on product design, social networks, visual communication, work-from-home software, streaming music, blockchain infrastructure, accelerators, and venture capital. You can read my articles here: https://techcrunch.com/author/josh-constine/

Senior Writer

2011 - 2015

I began at TechCrunch writing about Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and other social networks

Lead Writer

2010 - 2011

I'm the Lead Writer for Inside Facebook. I specialize in coverage of product changes, Facebook's mobile apps, tools for musicians, and Ads API service providers. Prior to Inside Network he graduated from Stanford University with a Master's degree in Cybersociology, examining the influence of technology on social interaction. There I researched how privacy settings could allow social network users to share more and preserve boundaries between children, adults, and professional contacts. I've also worked extensively in the music industry, booking and producing concerts, and project managing artist website design.