I'm headed back to New York for an investor dinner this week. If you’re an investor and would like an invitation to future events in NYC or elsewhere, let me know.
I’m also working on an upcoming web3 event and will share the details when I have them. Message me if you’re interested in learning more.
You're all invited to the AMA I’m hosting this Friday with Angel Investor and Lofty Ventures Founder, Christopher Deutsch. It will be great chance to pick his brain and re-think your approach to investor outreach. RSVP here and feel free to pass along the invite.
Wishing you a great week ahead!
Create your free AWS account and register to join the 3rd session of this four-part webinar series with Aaron Walker, Technology Director, base2Services, on Taking your SaaS Product Global with a Multi-Region, Multi-Account Strategy with base2Services
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.
This event, designed to showcase, inspire, and invest in Black and Brown wealth creation will take place on December 1st in Miami, as a featured event during this year’s Art Basel. 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!
Kristine Mudd is a design consultant who works with startups and large corporations, helping them innovate like startups. She frequently works with the innovation teams at Co-created and Machine. Additionally, she works with non-profits and startups to build successful new ventures across healthcare, education and e-commerce. She is a designer, educator and entrepreneur who believes in creating services and products to improve the planet and lives of people. She has been adjunct faculty for Parsons, NYU Tandon and Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
?? 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
- Arise, a New York virtual eating disorder and mental health care startup raised more than $4 million in seed funding co-led by?Greycroft?and?BBG Ventures.
- Change, a San Francisco online donation platform that's helping charities fundraise in crypto, raised $5 million?in seed funding co-led by Freestyle?and?NEA.
- Intellect, a Singapore mental health startup that says its goal is to be available across the Asia-Pacific while ensuring localized, culturally-competent care in each of the markets it serves; raised $10 million to extended Series A funding led by?Tiger Global.
- Penny, a Bristol, England, startup that says it helps “thousands of British customers locate and consolidate” all their current and historical pension funds, has raised $4.8 million in seed funding led by?Gradient Ventures.
- Pique Action, a Los Angeles startup that produces short-form videos to drive consumer behavior towards climate action, raised a $1 million pre-seed round led by?Amasia.
- Quiltt, a Dallas startup?that sells its low-code fintech infrastructure to startups and other small businesses that want to create financial services for their customers, raised $4 million in seed funding, co-led by?Greycroft?and?Newark Venture Partners.
- Uprise, a Bay Area private wealth management startup focused on Gen Z, raised $1.4 million in pre-seed funding from institutional investors like?Contrary Capital,?Hustle Fund,?On Deck?and?Dash Fund.
- CleanO2 Carbon Capture Technologies, a Calgary startup that converts CO2 captured from natural gas heating system exhaust and uses the resulting stable carbonates to produce soaps, shampoos, detergents, and fertilizers, raised a $2.1 million seed round, led by?Regeneration.VC.
- Gemini Sports Analytics, a Miami startup that helps sports teams generate actionable insights from athlete data, raised a $1.5 million seed round led by?leAD Sports & Health Tech Partners.
- Hors Normes, a French startup that helps organic farmers and producers sell their products directly to consumers when their products are rejected by traditional retail channels, raised a €7 million seed round led by?Project A.
- ID-Pal, an Irish startup that helps customers comply with regulatory identity requirements through real-time document verification, facial matching, and address e-verification, raised a €7 million Series A round led by?Inspire Investments.
- Posterity Health, a Parker, CO, based startup that offers personalized advice, educational resources, and treatments to help address male fertility needs, raised a $6 million seed round, led by Distributed Ventures.
- Project Eaden, a Berlin startup founded this year that aims to develop "alt beef" products beginning with steak, raised an €8 million seed round led by?Creandum.
- Spearhead, a Cambridge, England-based startup that is developing spirits for the African market, raised a $3 million round from?Pendulum.
- CrushBank, a Syosset, NY-based SaaS company that says it has trained IBM Watson to be an "engineer" that provides IT support, raised $5.5 million in Series A funding led by?Arthur Ventures.
- DeltaStream, a San Mateo, CA-based, that is developing a streaming database platform geared toward enterprise customers, raised $10 million in seed funding, led by NEA.
- Fold Health, a San Francisco startup that unifies many different applications such as payments, CRM, and marketing automation for health care providers, raised a $6 million round led by a group of angels,?including former Athenahealth CEO?Jonathan Bush, SkyFlow CEO?Anshu Sharma and more.
- Kins, a New York startup that offers a hybrid model for physical therapy that includes in-person visits and virtual care, raised a $4 million seed round led by?W Health Ventures,.
- Micropep, a French startup developing crop protection products based on small peptides, raised an €8.75 million Series A-1 round led by?Fall Line Capital.
- Quadrata, a Marina Del Rey, CA-based startup whose digital passport grants users a unique decentralized identity and allows Dapps to comply with know-your-customer anti-money laundering requirements, raised a $7.5 million seed round led by?Dragonfly Capital.
- Tribute Brand, a Zagreb, Croatia-based startup that is developing "digital fashion" products for the metaverse, raised a $4.5 million seed round led by?Collab+Currency.
- Wonder Robotics, an Israeli startup that is developing software to allow drones to stay safe while operating beyond the visual line of sight of their operator, raised a $4 million seed round led by?Elron Ventures.
- Zazuu, a London startup that helps African consumers understand and navigate the fee structures of different money transfer options, raised a $2 million round from?Launch Africa, Founders Factory Africa, Hoaq Club, ODBA VC, and?Jonomi Ventures.
- Arkive, a crypto startup that admits people from around the world as members, enables them to vote on what art the company should acquire, and then loans these works to museums, raised a $9.7 million round led by?Offline?and?TCG Crypto.
- Helios, a Tel Aviv-based startup that aims to use space technology to reduce the cost of producing the cost of making green steel, raised a $6 million seed round co-led by At One Ventures?and?Doral Energy-Tech Ventures.
- Here, a Miami startup whose platform lets people become fractional investors in vacation rentals starting with stakes as low as $100, raised a $5 million seed round led by?Fiat Ventures.
- Paladin Cloud, a New Jersey startup founded this year that helps developers safeguard their applications and data by monitoring the security of their cloud services and enterprise systems, raised a $3.3 million seed round co-led by?Okapi VC?and?Bowery Capital.
- Trend, a Miami startup that connects top brands with original photos and videos made by content creators, raised a $3 million pre-seed round led by?Flybridge.
- Walla, a San Diego startup that creates studio management software for boutique fitness businesses, raised an $8 million Series A round led by?Industry Ventures.
- ZKX, a crypto startup that has built a derivatives protocol built on StarkNet that aims to provide an improved trading experience through gamification and its unique governance structure, raised $4.5 million seed round from?StarkWare, Alameda Research, Amber Group, Huobi, and?Crypto.com.
- Kirill Tashilov has been promoted to General Partner at Talis Capital.
- Laura Connell?has joined the global?venture firm Atomico as a partner in London focused on growth-stage deals; she was previously an investor with Marcho Partners and?Balderton.
- Morgan Stanley?has appointed?**Eli Gross**?and?Simon Smith?as global co-heads of investment banking, with current co-heads Mark Eichorn and Susie Huang becoming executive chairs of the unit.
- Global venture SOSV?announced three new promotions:?Mohan Iyer?and?Stephen Chambers, both of SOSV’s IndieBio, and?Oscar Ramos, who works on SOSV’s Orbit Startups, have been appointed as new general partners at the firm.
- Oak HC/FT?announced the promotion of?Matt Streisfeld?to General Partner and?Charlotte Smith?to Vice President.
- Conscience VC, a firm?focused on startups at the intersection of consumer and deep tech, has raised $10 million for its debut fund.
- Lightspeed Venture Partners?announced it has collected a whopping $7 billion in capital commitments across a range of new funds designed to support entrepreneurs, in any geography in the world, at any point in their journey.
- Qiming Venture Partners has?raised $3.2 billion across two new funds. It closed a?$2.5 billion fund and also garnered roughly $700 million for a?first closing of a yuan-denominated fund, both aimed at the technology, consumer and health-care sectors in China.
- Valar Ventures, co-founded by?Peter Thiel, has garnered?$665 million in capital commitments for its eighth fund to invest in high-margin, fast-growing technology companies that are pursuing huge market opportunities.
- C2 Ventures, a venture firm that focuses on startups that are disrupting?"dull, dirty, and dangerous" legacy industries, has?captured $20 million in capital commitments for its second fund.
- Cathay Innovation has launched a 1 billion euro fund to invest in start-ups with an eye on sustainability, to focus on sectors such as artificial intelligence, digital health, new mobility and financial technology.
- Multicoin Capital, a venture firm that invests in cryptocurrencies, tokens, and blockchain companies, says it has closed its third and newest fund with $430 million in capital commitments. Some of its bets include the layer-1 blockchains Ethereum and Solana and the second-largest crypto exchange globally, FTX.
- Atlas Venture?has reeled in $450 million in capital commitments for its 13th fund for biotech creation.
- Booz Allen Hamilton announced the launch of a corporate venture capital arm,?Booz Allen Ventures, that will initially put $100 million toward “strategic” defensive and offensive technologies to shape startups in areas it considers aligned with its core business, mainly AI and machine learning, defense, and cybersecurity.
- Faction, formed as an offshoot of?Lightspeed Venture Partners, has raised $325 million in capital commitments for a debut fund, to back?early-stage blockchain infrastructure projects.
- Oak HC/FT has closed its fifth and newest?fund with $1.94 billion in capital commitments, to focus on healthcare and fintech outfits.
- Battery Ventures announced a whopping $3.8 billion in fresh capital across two funds: $3.3 billion in capital commitments to its fourteenth early-stage fund and another $530 million for a side vehicle to write bigger checks into existing portfolio companies, and look for opportunities to buy out venture-backed companies.
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3 个月Angel, thanks for sharing! This is very insightful! Lets connect sometime! Shoot me a message and lets make it happen!
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1 年Angel, gracias! por compartir!!!
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