Cocoa 🍫

The secret's out! We’re thrilled to finally introduce you to Get Paid—our brand-new accounts receivable product. 🎉 With Mimo, you can now handle both incoming and outgoing payments in one place, helping you optimise your entire payment cycle and get paid faster. Because everyone knows that AP and AR are better together, right? (And also because we realised that "Mo" without the "Mi" is just really not a good brand name...) Sign up through the link in the comments to be among the first to try it out!

Today, we are thrilled to announce our partnership with Natural Cycles°. With over 4 million registered users and more than 13 million cycles analyzed, Natural Cycles is the first and only FDA Cleared and CE-marked birth control app. 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 Backed by science, the Natural Cycles app uses an algorithm to track daily hormone-driven temperature changes to confirm the user's fertility status—allowing her to prevent or plan pregnancy naturally without hormones. Having closed a $55 million Series C round in May, Natural Cycles’s growth is accelerating and the team selected Atlar as their global partner for real-time cash positions, forecasting, treasury payments, and bank connectivity. 📈 To Adalia Najim, Tina Karlsson, Simon Afeworki, and the rest of your world-class team—thank you for your trust. 🤝

🔊 Calling out to everyone daydreaming about starting a VC fund or already in the process. Excited to opensource Cocoa's Emerging Manager Handbook on Sifted. 🤯 When you raise your first fund, especially if it’s small and you are solo, most LPs worry about how you will allocate your time, and scale investing and portfolio support. Yet the biggest, most unexpected bottleneck I encountered building Cocoa 🍫 was in operations — everything from setting up the fund structure to all the processes and providers required to run a fund. 👷♀️ In this (sexy) piece — and part two that will follow (even sexier) — I’ll share everything I’ve learned about setting up and running Cocoa 🍫. And I hope it will save future emerging managers time, money, and headaches. Because more emerging managers means more capital for pre-seed and seed-stage founders. #letsbuildtogether 🚀 My thank yous to: 🙏 Flora Gray, Barry Lawson from The Fund Incubator Limited, David Griffith-Jones and Iwona Biernat for kindly reading this post and making sure I didn’t get you/or myself in any trouble 🙏 Rodrigo Martinez, Sia Houchangnia and Declan Kelly who helped me navigate fund structuring before I even knew it was a thing :) 🙏 And Amy Lewin, Sifted and Charlotte McCrum for caring about emerging managers Any comments or add-ons are most welcome!

The day has come! 🇷🇴 Heading to Bucharest for How To Web to speak about 🥷 How to Hack the Venture Investment Process (my fav topic!) 🌟 with Andreas Munk Holm, Karol Lasota, Vojta Rocek See you there! Cocoa 🍫

We are thrilled to announce that Plumery has secured an additional $3.3M in funding from DN Capital and Fontes, managed by QED Investors! 🚀 This brings our total funding to $7.8M as we gear up for an exciting Series A in 2025. With this new capital, we’ll be expanding our sales and marketing efforts, strengthening global partnerships, and further enhancing our digital banking experience platform - focused on SME banking, consumer banking, and lending. Additionally, we're growing our talented team, bringing in top talent across product, engineering, and commercial roles. A big thank you to our investors for believing in our mission to empower banks, lenders, and fintechs to deliver exceptional customer-centric digital banking experiences. #Fintech #DigitalBanking #BankingTransformation #CustomerExperience

One of our favorite new features in Twirl is *self reference*. dbt has always supported self reference to enable incremental use cases-- you can write `select max(time) from {{ this }}`. Until recently we disallowed cycles in the Twirl job graph-- after all, what's a DAG if it's not acyclic? We have other (better) ways of handling incrementality. But it turns out there are really useful things you can do with self reference, especially with Python: you can get your own little state machine that can also use your data, opening up possibilities for elegant little scrapers, bots, and data fetchers. Here's one we use to keep a slack feed of all the data blogs we like:

Today we are delighted to announce a new partnership: Atlar 🤝 Zilch. With 4 million customers, profitability, and $130M in revenue all achieved within just 4 years, Zilch is one of those rare companies that has reached remarkable scale while pioneering something entirely new: the world's first ad-subsidized payments network (aka #ASPN). Having recently closed a $125M securitization deal with Deutsche Bank, the Zilch team is working towards a future IPO and selected Atlar as the platform of choice for cash management, forecasting, and treasury payments globally. We couldn't be more excited to work with such an impressive team at #Zilch!

Evangelistas Super Angel Program: Elevating Women in Tech Investing We’re excited to invite women founders, senior operators, and those passionate about shaping the tech ecosystem to join this transformative 3-month program, designed to amplify your impact as an angel investor. 📅 Program Overview: Duration: Three months, starting October 2024 Virtual Training: Fridays, 12:30 - 2 PM CET, plus exclusive events in Berlin, London, Paris, and Munich Focus: Deal flow, due diligence, and value creation, with a spotlight on women-led startups, climate tech, health, biotech, and B2B SaaS. 🌟 Special Guests: Julia Dous, alongside inspiring investors like Judith Dada, Gloria Baeuerlein, Carmen Alfonso Rico, Deepali Nangia, Daria Saharova, Dr. Gesa Miczaika, Lina Chong, Maike Hölty, Dr. Laura Seifert, Dinika Mahtani, Lin Gong-Deutschmann and Vera Elizabeth B., will guide you through the program and provide invaluable insights. 💼 What You’ll Gain: Exclusive Access: High-value content, co-investment opportunities, and events Collaborative Community: Network with 350+ experienced angel investors Perks: Additional benefits to support your journey Join us in this pioneering initiative, and help shape the future of tech by investing in what truly matters - entrepreneurs shaping the future. 💡 Ready to make a difference? Commit 10 hours and €850 (plus VAT) to elevate your angel investing journey. Join us: https://lnkd.in/eQydmg2X #WomenInTech #AngelInvesting #SuperAngelProgram #StartUp #Evangelistas #CapTableDiversity

We can't wait to see our very own Carmen Alfonso Rico setting the stage on fire at How To Web Let the countdown start!  🔥