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Welcome to Monday!

This week I’ll be hosting an AWS female founders breakfast in NYC and heading to Phoenix after that to host another female founder event. Reach out if you want to connect in person or if you want invitations to other private events. You can also check out some other great virtual and irl startup and investor events below.

???AWS STARTUP ACADEMY: Thursday, July 14th, 1-2pm PT

Create your free AWS account and register to join this session with Mirabela Dan, Startup Sr. Solutions Architect, on Chaos Engineering: why breaking things should be practiced

?? ASK AN ANGEL: OPEN TO ALL!

REGISTER TO JOIN ME: Friday, July 22 at 11am PST with Christopher Deutsch

Christopher Deutsch is a first-check, Chicago-focused angel investor via Lofty Ventures. The #LoftyFamily consists of 124 founders that lead 70 startups, 86% are in Chicago, 69% are led by underrepresented founders and five exits. Chris is happy to answer your questions and share his best practices for investor outreach that should significantly increase your success rate. Register now & start brainstorming your questions. Register here to join us Friday, July 22 at 11am PST.

?? NOTEWORTHY NEWS

The Black Founders Demo Day?deadline has been extended to July 17th!

This event, designed to showcase, inspire, and invest in Black and Brown wealth creation will now take place on December 1st in Miami, in conjunction with Art Basel programing. All presenting companies will receive a $3k travel stipend, in addition to over $1M in investment opportunities from prominent venture capital and angel investors.?Learn more, spread the word, and get those applications in!

?? SPREAD THIS THREAD

Hustle Fund co-founder and General Partner Elizabeth Yin explains why she typically doesn’t spend more than an hour deciding which pre-seed investments she will make. Some great insights here!

?? MEET ANGEL CLUB MENTOR RACHEL BASSIGNANI

Help us welcome our newest Angel Club Mentor! Rachel Bassignani is the Founder, Principle Coach and Consultant of talent development firm, The CATALYST, Rachel fosters highly collaborative coaching environments where clarity, trust, and decisiveness lay the foundations for change. Combining expertise in organization development and business management, she takes a multi-disciplinary approach to coaching that is holistic and growth-oriented. The emphasis is on mitigating blindspots, identifying critical areas for growth, and empowering clients to leverage their strengths to achieve individual and organizational change objectives. Her notable clients include Affirm, Plaid, Ledger, Gong, Google, Pax Labs, Deloitte, ServiceNow, GitHub, Salesforce, Nasa, Nike, CrisperTx, Blockdaemon, LiveNation, and more. Angel Club Members Register Here for Rachel’s Office Hours, Monday, July 25, 12-1pm PT

ANGEL CLUB MEMBER EVENTS

?? Wednesday, July 13 at 12pm PT - Marketing & Branding with Jayme Johnson

?? Friday, July 15 at 12pm PT - An Angel Investor's View with Jagruti Bhikha

?? Wednesday, July 20 at 3pm PT - Testing Product-Market Fit with Kristine Mudd

?? Thursday, July 21 at 1pm PT - Financing & Taxes with Julia Van de Walle

?? Friday, July 22 at 8am PT - Fundraising & Alternative Capital Sources with Rodrick Miller

?? Monday, July 25 at 12pm PT - How to Structure Your Startup with Rachel Bassignani

?? CELEBRATIONS AND CONGRATS

NEW DEAL FLOW: Check it out to see who’s investing in your sector!

• Konselio, a London startup that helps insurance brokers check compliance and manage policy administration, raised a ￡4.7 million Series A?from Committed Capital?and?ACF Investors, among others.
• Last Crumb, a Los Angeles "luxury" cookie brand, raised $3 million in seed funding led by?Electric Feel Ventures.
• Maolac, an Israeli food tech startup focused on creating a superfood by extracting proteins from bovine colostrum or plant-based analogs, raised $3.2 million in seed funding led by?OurCrowd.
• MarketWolf, a Singapore startup whose app aims to make trading accessible to first-timers with low minimum investment amounts, a risk-management system, and modules for practicing and learning about investing, raised a $10 million Series A round co-led by?Jungle Ventures?and?Dream Capital.
• Pina Earth, a Munich-based startup that's building an online platform for European forest owners to get certified to sell carbon credits, raised $2.5 million in seed funding led by Franco-German VC?XAnge.
• Profasee, a Miami-based dynamic pricing platform for digitally-driven brands on Amazon, raised $2.3 million in seed funding led by?defy.vc.
• Promoted,?a San Francisco startup that says it unifies search, feed, ads, and promotions for online marketplaces, raised $6 million?in seed funding, led by Y Combinator.
• Seatti, a Munich startup building a platform to maximize the benefits and minimize the complexity of hybrid work for both companies and their employees, raised a $3.1 million seed round co-led by?Acton Capital?and?Partech.
• WatchTowr, a Singapore startup that helps companies prevent cyberattacks, raised an $8 million pre-Series A round co-led by?Prosus Ventures?and?Vulcan Capital.
• APFusion, a Champaign, IL, startup that provides a B2B marketplace connecting new aftermarket parts providers with salvage yards, giving salvage yards that primarily sold used inventory access to new inventory, raised a $6.5 million seed round co-led by?Left Lane Capital?and?Bedrock Capital.
• Cauldron, a London-based web3 gaming startup, raised a $6.6 million seed round led by?Cherry Ventures.
• Orus, a Paris startup that provides insurance for small businesses such as restaurants, raised a $5.1 million round from?Frst, Partech and?Portage Ventures.
• SymTerra, a London startup that aims to develop a Slack-like product for the construction industry in order to reduce miscommunication and reduce delays, raised a $1.7 million seed round led by?Samaipata.
• TakeProfit, a San Francisco startup that is building a trading platform designed to be used by communities, raised a $3 million seed round led by?Admitad founder?Alexander Bachmann.
• Xelix, a London startup that uses AI and machine learning to help accounts payable departments to prevent over-payments and reduce fraud while improving overall productivity, raised a $5 million Series A led by?Fintop Capital.
• Adaptive, a New York startup that has set out to give construction teams better tools to manage their back offices, raised $6.5 million in a seed round led by?Andreessen Horowitz.
• Finli, a San Marino, CA, mobile payments?management system that aims to help?small business owners get paid faster and more easily, raised $6 million in seed funding led by Urban Innovation Fund.
• Octopus, a Jakarta startup focused on waste reduction and recycling, raised $5 million in funding?co-led by?Openspace?and?SOSV.
• Qiibee, a Zug, Switzerland,?blockchain-based B2B rewards marketplace, raised $4.8 million in seed funding led by?Z5 Capital.
• Ranger, an insurance startup cofounded by Casper cofounder and former?CEO?Philip Krim, raised $5.25 million in seed funding led by Lerer Hippeau Ventures.
• Supy, a UAE restaurant payments startup, raised $8 million in seed funding led by?BECO Capital.
• WagerWire, a Los Angeles-based?online?marketplace where bettors can buy and sell previously placed sports bets,?raised $3 million in seed funding led by VC?Roger Ehrenberg.

NEW FUNDS: Check out these new funds just waiting to invest in you!

• Bloomberg Beta, that uses Bloomberg LP's money to invest in startups, secured?$150 million from its parent company?across two new funds:?$75 million for a fourth early-stage fund and $75 million for an?opportunity fund.
• Climentum Capital, a Copenhagen,?Denmark venture outfit whose mission is to fund startups that?curb CO2 emissions and “accelerate Europe’s green transition,” held a?first close of what it expects will be a €150 million ($157 million) fund.
• Endeavor, a U.S.-based investment firm focused on supporting high-growth companies in emerging and under-served markets, closed its fourth and?newest fund with $292 million in capital commitments.
• Sequoia Capital’s Chinese affiliate is about to close $9 billion in fresh capital for four new funds to bet on Chinese technology startups.
• F2 Venture Capital, a Tel Aviv venture firm focused on fintech, big data, cloud ops and cyber, closed its?third seed fund with $150 million in capital commitments to invest in?Israeli founders, and a separate $100 million fund to continue backing its existing portfolio companies.
• Fabian?and?Ferry Heilemann, cofounders of Berlin-based digital freight forwarder and shipping management platform Forto, are expanding their family office into an impact venture firm called?Aenu?and announcing they've already pulled together €100 million in capital commitments.
• Headline, the early-stage venture firm previously known as e.ventures, has just announced three new funds that total more than $950 million in capital commitments. One is focused in North America, a second will focus on Latin America and the last will be invested in European startups.
• Konvoy Ventures, a Denver, CO, gaming focused venture firm, raised $150 million in capital commitments for a new fund,?20% to 30% of which will be invested in blockchain and crypto-related games.
• Silverton Partners, the Austin, TX, venture firm, closed two new funds with $248 million in total capital commitments to back predominantly seed and Series A-stage (mostly Texas-based) startups.
• Tenacity, a San Francisco-based venture firm founded by seasoned investor Ben Narasin, closed its debut fund with $50 million in capital commitments, planning to write checks between?$1 million and $3 million to pre-Series A rounds of companies both in the U.S. and in the U.K. You can pitch Narasin?here!
• Mario Gabriele announced the formation of his (over-subscribed) $12.25 million fund for Generalist Capital.

AFTER HOURS

?? Listen: Praying for July by Delaney Bailey

??? Watch: Klopka (one of my son's fave indie Serbian films)

?? Drink: The Earl Spritz at the NED Nomad

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Make it a great week!

With grit, grace, and gratitude,

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