2022 Year in Review | Day One Ventures

Last year was a very active year for us at Day One Ventures .

Here's a recap of what we did in 2022:

In 2022, we wrote 58 checks and invested in 37 new companies across enterprise, consumer, and climate.

38% of our investments were made in Women + BIPOC founders.

Our investments were spread across #Fintech, #Data + #AI, #web3, #CreatorEconomy, #FutureOfWork, #Biotech, #Culture and others

Which one are you excited about the most? ??

Here's a breakdown of our investments within #enterprise, #consumer, and #climate:

Last year was a big year for some of our portfolio companies:

Arcadia raised $325M in new funding and is valued over $1.5B+

Terran Orbital Corporation 's IPO added another #unicorn to our portfolio

Remote raised $300M in new funding

And others were acquired/exited, including:

??? Terran Orbital Corporation (IPO)

?? Reby

?? Nebia Inc. (acquired by Brondell)

?? Robyn

? Fanfix

?? Hellosaurus

In 2022, we secured press coverage for our portfolio companies in over 200 articles across 纽约时报 , The Wall Street Journal , 彭博资讯 , NPR , WIRED , Fast Company , Forbes , TechCrunch , The Information , Axios , Business Insider and more.

Here's what our founders have to say about working with us ↓

In some fun news, we hosted two major events in 2022:

1. Artificial Imagination - the first-ever physical #DALLE art show in partnership with OpenAI and bitforms gallery ??

Ina Fried wrote about our Artificial Imagination event on Axios here.

2. Converge on Climate - empowering leaders to work in #climate hosted by our venture partner Sanjiv Sanghavi ??

Sanjiv Sanghavi was also featured on Business Insider ' list of rising-star VCs for his work in climate-tech.

Funded Not Fired

Last year we saw many people impacted by tech #layoffs; so we had to do something about it.

We announced the 'Funded Not Fired' program to back promising startups founded by people who have been laid off.

Natasha Mascarenhas wrote about it on TechCrunch here.

Conclusion

Overall, 2022 was a very eventful year for us at Day One Ventures . We got to back some of the best founders and get them the press they deserve. We are super excited for 2023 and have a lot of amazing things in store for our portfolio

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