Packy McCormick is the founder of Not Boring, a tech strategy and startup analysis newsletter, and the founder of Not Boring Capital, a solo-GP venture fund where he works as an investor. Packy McCormick's Twitter Score is 569 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, placing him at rank #234 (top 0.1%) out of 389,587 tracked accounts. He has 227,539 followers as of July 2026 and 47,204 posts on the platform.
Packy McCormick launched Not Boring in March 2020, rebranded from a prior newsletter called Per My Last Email, and has grown it to over 270,000 Substack subscribers. The newsletter publishes deep-dive essays on tech strategy and startup analysis. In January 2026, Packy McCormick launched Not Boring World, a paid collaborative essay section of the newsletter co-written with founders, researchers, and investors on frontier ideas.
Packy McCormick structured Not Boring Capital as a media-flywheel fund that deploys capital into companies with compelling narratives and amplifies them through sponsored deep-dive essays. Fund I raised $8 million in 2021. Fund III closed at $30 million, with a hard cap of $50 million, announced in January 2023, targeting what he calls "Hard Startups" across AI, biotech, energy, and web3 infrastructure, with capital split evenly between software and infrastructure and physical-world sectors.
Packy McCormick's portfolio at Not Boring Capital includes Syndicate, SEED CLUB, XMTP, Meow, Loopscale, Mad Realities, Oncyber and Vault.
Packy McCormick has covered crypto and web3 extensively, publishing sponsored deep dives on Solana, LayerZero, Flow, Celo, DAOs, NFTs, and the open metaverse, disclosing in each case that the relevant protocol was a sponsor. He has stated publicly that ETH is his largest personal crypto holding and that he also holds a small amount of SOL, and has described himself as "unapologetically bullish on web3 long-term."
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