In this case study, you’ll discover how SHAKTI, a venture capital firm investing in early stage startups, used Stable to:
Disclosure: SHAKTI is an investor in Stable.
SHAKTI is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage technology startups. In fact, SHAKTI often provides the very first capital for its portfolio companies, some of whom are pre-revenue. “Our focus is on supporting founders,” said Elizabeth Harrow, Partner at SHAKTI. “And we’re ready to jump in on anything and everything that helps our founders start and grow their company.” So it’s easy to understand why the firm chose SHAKTI as its name: the word means “primordial energy” — the energy present at the beginning — in Sanskrit.
It was not too long ago that SHAKTI was at its own beginning. Founded in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, SHAKTI began as a fully distributed team without a physical headquarters. The team soon found itself confronted with a challenge that all distributed startups face: they needed an address for incorporation and at which they could receive mail from government agencies, tax authorities, insurance providers, and others. Without a central office, their best option appeared to be their founder’s home address. “But you don't want to use your home address as your headquarters. You get flooded with mail and it's not professional,” Harrow said.
Stable’s virtual mailbox solution saved SHAKTI this trouble by providing them with a real street address, one eligible for use in incorporation filings, that could serve as a virtual headquarters. Stable also receives SHAKTI’s mail at the address, digitizes it, and uploads it to a dashboard. The SHAKTI team manages that mail (check deposits, forwarding packages, shredding documents, etc) from anywhere. This simple, tech-forward solution freed the young firm to focus on standing up a streamlined operation rather than navigating bureaucracy and paperwork. “And when you have a tech fund, having that address on a prominent San Francisco street is helpful,” Harrow added.
As SHAKTI grew, so did the volume of its mail. “We get tons of mail now,” Harrow said “Before joining SHAKTI, I didn’t realize how much mail businesses get.” Managing high mail volumes manually is slow, tedious, and prone to error or delay. All of these issues are compounded when applied to a distributed team. Not only did SHAKTI have a lot of mail, but it was important mail: tax documents, financial statements, bills, and more. The consequences of not dealing with these documents in a timely fashion can be significant, including hefty fines.
By adopting Stable, SHAKTI managed the transition from low to high mail volumes effortlessly.
“Stable gives us a central place to view and manage all of our mail,” Harrow said. “One person gets email alerts about a new piece of mail, she logs into the dashboard, and routes it to the right person. And we use Stable’s automation to automatically route certain pieces to certain teams, like IRS documents to our tax folks.”
Even with a distributed team and numerous vendors, SHAKTI’s important mail never gets lost or delayed. The ability to tag and assign documents eliminates bottlenecks and streamlines decision-making. And the check deposit feature has made financial operations more efficient. “You don’t need to have a bunch of scattered conversations or emails back and forth about a piece of mail. It’s all there,” Harrow said.
There’s one more benefit that Harrow says she never takes for granted: peace of mind.
“You know what the best part about it is? You don't have that sinking feeling of, ‘am I missing something? Do I have a deadline coming up to pay some regulatory filing and I didn't do it?’ With Stable, it’s all just there. You can go into Stable and review the history of all the mail you’ve received,” she said. “It’s just very seamless.”
“Stable is core operational infrastructure for us,” Harrow said. “We have a lot of different tools in our tech stack, but Stable probably gets used as much as any of them on a day-to-day basis.”
SHAKTI recently expanded its partnership with Stable to include Stable’s registered agent service, which allowed them to further consolidate providers, reduce costs, and simplify operations. By keeping their back-office operations running efficiently, SHAKTI is free to focus on supporting founders and investing in new businesses. In doing so, they always recommend Stable.
“Whenever we invest in a startup, we tell them to check out Stable,” Harrow said. “Several of our portfolio companies are now Stable customers. We have a lot of investors who have their own businesses and many of them use Stable now, too.”
“Having worked with a lot of startups, one of the most important things is for the CEO to be able to extract themselves from a lot of the day-to-day,” Harrow continued. “And this is such a simple way for them to do that.”
Harrow says Stable has saved SHAKTI time, money, and countless operational headaches, and she looks forward to continuing to scale SHAKTI with Stable’s help. “There's many different reasons to have a virtual mailbox,” Harrow said. “Of course there's the operational hassle that it takes off your plate, the logistics, and all those things. But broader than that, it's creating this central hub where you can see all the vendors your business is using. That's really valuable.”
In the years since SHAKTI’s founding, Stable continues to prove its value in new ways. The firm was recently preparing for an office move. Harrow recalled her initial panic at the thought. “Oh no. We’ll have to update our address everywhere — on regulatory filings, banking records, payroll, insurance, accounting paperwork, and more,” she said.
“Then we realized: thanks to Stable, we don’t have to change a thing. Our mail remains uninterrupted, seamlessly managed, and securely routed to the right teams, no matter where we are.”
In this case study, you’ll discover how SHAKTI, a venture capital firm investing in early stage startups, used Stable to:
Disclosure: SHAKTI is an investor in Stable.
SHAKTI is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage technology startups. In fact, SHAKTI often provides the very first capital for its portfolio companies, some of whom are pre-revenue. “Our focus is on supporting founders,” said Elizabeth Harrow, Partner at SHAKTI. “And we’re ready to jump in on anything and everything that helps our founders start and grow their company.” So it’s easy to understand why the firm chose SHAKTI as its name: the word means “primordial energy” — the energy present at the beginning — in Sanskrit.
It was not too long ago that SHAKTI was at its own beginning. Founded in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, SHAKTI began as a fully distributed team without a physical headquarters. The team soon found itself confronted with a challenge that all distributed startups face: they needed an address for incorporation and at which they could receive mail from government agencies, tax authorities, insurance providers, and others. Without a central office, their best option appeared to be their founder’s home address. “But you don't want to use your home address as your headquarters. You get flooded with mail and it's not professional,” Harrow said.
Stable’s virtual mailbox solution saved SHAKTI this trouble by providing them with a real street address, one eligible for use in incorporation filings, that could serve as a virtual headquarters. Stable also receives SHAKTI’s mail at the address, digitizes it, and uploads it to a dashboard. The SHAKTI team manages that mail (check deposits, forwarding packages, shredding documents, etc) from anywhere. This simple, tech-forward solution freed the young firm to focus on standing up a streamlined operation rather than navigating bureaucracy and paperwork. “And when you have a tech fund, having that address on a prominent San Francisco street is helpful,” Harrow added.
As SHAKTI grew, so did the volume of its mail. “We get tons of mail now,” Harrow said “Before joining SHAKTI, I didn’t realize how much mail businesses get.” Managing high mail volumes manually is slow, tedious, and prone to error or delay. All of these issues are compounded when applied to a distributed team. Not only did SHAKTI have a lot of mail, but it was important mail: tax documents, financial statements, bills, and more. The consequences of not dealing with these documents in a timely fashion can be significant, including hefty fines.
By adopting Stable, SHAKTI managed the transition from low to high mail volumes effortlessly.
“Stable gives us a central place to view and manage all of our mail,” Harrow said. “One person gets email alerts about a new piece of mail, she logs into the dashboard, and routes it to the right person. And we use Stable’s automation to automatically route certain pieces to certain teams, like IRS documents to our tax folks.”
Even with a distributed team and numerous vendors, SHAKTI’s important mail never gets lost or delayed. The ability to tag and assign documents eliminates bottlenecks and streamlines decision-making. And the check deposit feature has made financial operations more efficient. “You don’t need to have a bunch of scattered conversations or emails back and forth about a piece of mail. It’s all there,” Harrow said.
There’s one more benefit that Harrow says she never takes for granted: peace of mind.
“You know what the best part about it is? You don't have that sinking feeling of, ‘am I missing something? Do I have a deadline coming up to pay some regulatory filing and I didn't do it?’ With Stable, it’s all just there. You can go into Stable and review the history of all the mail you’ve received,” she said. “It’s just very seamless.”
“Stable is core operational infrastructure for us,” Harrow said. “We have a lot of different tools in our tech stack, but Stable probably gets used as much as any of them on a day-to-day basis.”
SHAKTI recently expanded its partnership with Stable to include Stable’s registered agent service, which allowed them to further consolidate providers, reduce costs, and simplify operations. By keeping their back-office operations running efficiently, SHAKTI is free to focus on supporting founders and investing in new businesses. In doing so, they always recommend Stable.
“Whenever we invest in a startup, we tell them to check out Stable,” Harrow said. “Several of our portfolio companies are now Stable customers. We have a lot of investors who have their own businesses and many of them use Stable now, too.”
“Having worked with a lot of startups, one of the most important things is for the CEO to be able to extract themselves from a lot of the day-to-day,” Harrow continued. “And this is such a simple way for them to do that.”
Harrow says Stable has saved SHAKTI time, money, and countless operational headaches, and she looks forward to continuing to scale SHAKTI with Stable’s help. “There's many different reasons to have a virtual mailbox,” Harrow said. “Of course there's the operational hassle that it takes off your plate, the logistics, and all those things. But broader than that, it's creating this central hub where you can see all the vendors your business is using. That's really valuable.”
In the years since SHAKTI’s founding, Stable continues to prove its value in new ways. The firm was recently preparing for an office move. Harrow recalled her initial panic at the thought. “Oh no. We’ll have to update our address everywhere — on regulatory filings, banking records, payroll, insurance, accounting paperwork, and more,” she said.
“Then we realized: thanks to Stable, we don’t have to change a thing. Our mail remains uninterrupted, seamlessly managed, and securely routed to the right teams, no matter where we are.”
In this case study, you’ll discover how SHAKTI, a venture capital firm investing in early stage startups, used Stable to:
Disclosure: SHAKTI is an investor in Stable.
SHAKTI is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage technology startups. In fact, SHAKTI often provides the very first capital for its portfolio companies, some of whom are pre-revenue. “Our focus is on supporting founders,” said Elizabeth Harrow, Partner at SHAKTI. “And we’re ready to jump in on anything and everything that helps our founders start and grow their company.” So it’s easy to understand why the firm chose SHAKTI as its name: the word means “primordial energy” — the energy present at the beginning — in Sanskrit.
It was not too long ago that SHAKTI was at its own beginning. Founded in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, SHAKTI began as a fully distributed team without a physical headquarters. The team soon found itself confronted with a challenge that all distributed startups face: they needed an address for incorporation and at which they could receive mail from government agencies, tax authorities, insurance providers, and others. Without a central office, their best option appeared to be their founder’s home address. “But you don't want to use your home address as your headquarters. You get flooded with mail and it's not professional,” Harrow said.
Stable’s virtual mailbox solution saved SHAKTI this trouble by providing them with a real street address, one eligible for use in incorporation filings, that could serve as a virtual headquarters. Stable also receives SHAKTI’s mail at the address, digitizes it, and uploads it to a dashboard. The SHAKTI team manages that mail (check deposits, forwarding packages, shredding documents, etc) from anywhere. This simple, tech-forward solution freed the young firm to focus on standing up a streamlined operation rather than navigating bureaucracy and paperwork. “And when you have a tech fund, having that address on a prominent San Francisco street is helpful,” Harrow added.
As SHAKTI grew, so did the volume of its mail. “We get tons of mail now,” Harrow said “Before joining SHAKTI, I didn’t realize how much mail businesses get.” Managing high mail volumes manually is slow, tedious, and prone to error or delay. All of these issues are compounded when applied to a distributed team. Not only did SHAKTI have a lot of mail, but it was important mail: tax documents, financial statements, bills, and more. The consequences of not dealing with these documents in a timely fashion can be significant, including hefty fines.
By adopting Stable, SHAKTI managed the transition from low to high mail volumes effortlessly.
“Stable gives us a central place to view and manage all of our mail,” Harrow said. “One person gets email alerts about a new piece of mail, she logs into the dashboard, and routes it to the right person. And we use Stable’s automation to automatically route certain pieces to certain teams, like IRS documents to our tax folks.”
Even with a distributed team and numerous vendors, SHAKTI’s important mail never gets lost or delayed. The ability to tag and assign documents eliminates bottlenecks and streamlines decision-making. And the check deposit feature has made financial operations more efficient. “You don’t need to have a bunch of scattered conversations or emails back and forth about a piece of mail. It’s all there,” Harrow said.
There’s one more benefit that Harrow says she never takes for granted: peace of mind.
“You know what the best part about it is? You don't have that sinking feeling of, ‘am I missing something? Do I have a deadline coming up to pay some regulatory filing and I didn't do it?’ With Stable, it’s all just there. You can go into Stable and review the history of all the mail you’ve received,” she said. “It’s just very seamless.”
“Stable is core operational infrastructure for us,” Harrow said. “We have a lot of different tools in our tech stack, but Stable probably gets used as much as any of them on a day-to-day basis.”
SHAKTI recently expanded its partnership with Stable to include Stable’s registered agent service, which allowed them to further consolidate providers, reduce costs, and simplify operations. By keeping their back-office operations running efficiently, SHAKTI is free to focus on supporting founders and investing in new businesses. In doing so, they always recommend Stable.
“Whenever we invest in a startup, we tell them to check out Stable,” Harrow said. “Several of our portfolio companies are now Stable customers. We have a lot of investors who have their own businesses and many of them use Stable now, too.”
“Having worked with a lot of startups, one of the most important things is for the CEO to be able to extract themselves from a lot of the day-to-day,” Harrow continued. “And this is such a simple way for them to do that.”
Harrow says Stable has saved SHAKTI time, money, and countless operational headaches, and she looks forward to continuing to scale SHAKTI with Stable’s help. “There's many different reasons to have a virtual mailbox,” Harrow said. “Of course there's the operational hassle that it takes off your plate, the logistics, and all those things. But broader than that, it's creating this central hub where you can see all the vendors your business is using. That's really valuable.”
In the years since SHAKTI’s founding, Stable continues to prove its value in new ways. The firm was recently preparing for an office move. Harrow recalled her initial panic at the thought. “Oh no. We’ll have to update our address everywhere — on regulatory filings, banking records, payroll, insurance, accounting paperwork, and more,” she said.
“Then we realized: thanks to Stable, we don’t have to change a thing. Our mail remains uninterrupted, seamlessly managed, and securely routed to the right teams, no matter where we are.”
