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Big News from Benjamin HQ! 🎉 We're thrilled to announce that Benjamin has closed its seed funding round, securing a whopping $5.5 million to revolutionize the cash rewards industry! 📈 Celebrating Key Metrics: Reaching over 300,000 users who consistently earn through our platform underscores our commitment to transforming everyday activities into rewarding opportunities. I want to especially celebrate the founding team and leadership, it is truly a pleasure building along-side you everyday...and night: Erno, Benjamin’s visionary founder, has been the driving force behind our success. When we first met, we instantly hit it off and look where that got us! He says: "From day one, my dream was to create a platform where every action is rewarding, transforming the traditional advertising and gaming experience into something meaningful for our users," even though its in the article below he literally told me this years back. Lon Otremba, our CEO with a plethora of experience in the advertising industry and building billion dollar companies: “Our mission is simple yet profound - enabling users to earn a Benjamin a month, and this funding is a giant leap towards that goal.” Jaakko, the Cofounder the myth the absolute legend, he is the mastermind behind our unmatched user acquisition and marketing strategies, propelling our explosive growth. Kari, our security and compliance guardian, ensures that our operations are seamless and secure. 🙏 A Huge Thank You to Our Investors: Endless gratitude to Play Ventures, our lead investor, and the stellar lineup of backers including F4 Fund, Anton Gauffin, Shane Happach, and Ilkka Teppo. Your belief in our vision has been instrumental in our journey thus far. And a special thank you to our early investors Antler Jeff Becker and Roslyn Jin they are the reason why Erno and I ever crossed paths. 🚀 Looking Ahead: Now that we've built this launch pad, its t-minus liftoff. We're not here to just take part; we're here to take over. #Benjamin #MoMo #SeedFunding #Innovation #TechStartup #ThankYouTeam #ChangingTheGame Press release and article in the comments

Excited to lead the c/side $6M seed round in web security innovation! Simon Wijckmans is tackling a major blind spot: client-side attacks in users' browsers. Most companies don't see these threats, but that's about to change. In just 6 months since their pre-seed, they've made incredible progress. Their approach goes beyond traditional security, promising to reshape how we protect web experiences. We're proud to back these cybersecurity champions as they uncover hidden threats and build the next big thing in web protection.

Good nicknames stick. That’s how PSV became the unofficial name for PreSeed Ventures. So today, we make it official. Going forward, we’ll just be PSV and wave a last goodbye to PreSeed Ventures. Does that also mean we’re turning our back to the pre-seed stage, you might be wondering? Not at all. Our mission remains the same. It’s at the heart of everything we do to clear the path for founders building companies that matter. With our new hybrid venture house, comprising PSV Foundry, PSV Lab, and two independent venture funds, PSV Tech and PSV DeepTech, we’re doubling down on that. This setup sets us free from adhering to a singular method. Rather, we rethink existing ways and models to maximise our impact beyond any individual firm or investment. Together, we can punch above our weight. Read much more about it on our updated website www.psv.xyz

📢 Awesome Startup Event Alert!!! 📢 If you're thinking about funding for your Startup, then this is a not to be missed event! Joe Young and the team at Mayfly Ventures & Aussie Founders Club are putting on an event to help Founders understand the funding landscape better and make an informed decision as to what's the right solution for you! Join the likes of Aprill Enright-Allen & Matt Vitale as a star studded panel runs you through the funding choices and answers your questions. Register in the link below! #founders #startups #scaleups #gtmstrategy

And here we are, the seed round! Between January and now, we've learned a ton of new things about the attack vector at hand and how the ecosystem needs disruption. The fact of the matter is: we only know the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the client-side attacks happening around us every day. The way we attempt to detect these attacks today is easy to circumvent and error prone, in fact most companies do not know what is happening in their users browsers at all. There is a lot we have to uncover. And to that, we have a few new stories to tell you soon! I'm excited share that we have partnered up with some of the most thoughtful innovators and funders of innovators in the valley. Welcoming our lead, Andy McLoughlin from Uncork Capital and joining the round are also Saveena Mandadi from Mantis Venture Capital, founded by Alex Pall and Drew from the Chainsmokers. We’ve also gotten the support from some incredible industry experts like Edith Harbaugh John Britton Feross Aboukhadijeh Evan J Johnson Dan Scheinman David Mytton Babak Hamadani Jason Chan Nick Gianos Tim Sadler Edward Bishop Kathy K. Jamie Cuffe Ian Livingstone Ben Shanken Edward Thomson Ting Ting Liu Vishal Kumar Kevin Van Gundy and more! Also shoutout to our angels that joined in the very early days, you made it possible for us to get here, and Scribble Ventures and Roar Ventures for their continued support. Jonathan Ehrlich Kevin Weil Elizabeth Weil John Smothers Christen O'Brien The past few months have been life changing for the entire team. Bringing together a team of great ex-colleagues, friends and new friends to build a new refreshing wave of solutions for web security. Much more to come! 💕 Much love for the team: Maitane Zotes Carlo D'Agnolo Himanshu Anand Cody Miller Craig B Conrad Crawford Ewan Crowle and more to join soon :)

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How companies purchase software is rapidly evolving, with cloud marketplaces expected to reach $100B in 2026, up from $15B in 2023. Simply put, if you are building and selling cloud software today, it's imperative that you can sell through a cloud marketplace. The journey, however, can be a little confusing, and management can be even harder. With 3x growth last year and 3/4th of our business now flowing through a cloud marketplace, CloudZero switched to Clazar earlier this year to handle our rapid growth, and I couldn't be more thrilled. Trunal B. and Aayush Bahuguna have a big vision for how cloud marketplaces will evolve and how software will be bought and sold in the future. No matter where you are on your journey, learning from them what's coming next is worth your time.

Say a warm welcome to PSV Venture house: Our hybrid setup, which sets us free from adhering to singular model and allows us to rethink existing ways. Now introducing our independent fund #PSVTech PSV Tech is a venture fund dedicated to backing founders pre-product/market fit. Yes, that sounds like just another VC, because it is. All venture funds are venture funds.   At PSV Tech it’s the stage that is our craft. After living and breathing the very early stages of the journey for two decades, we know by heart how to navigate the twist and turns of getting a software-powered company from first proof to a repeatable model.  It’s safe to say that we understand the startup journey way beyond metrics and facts. We don’t think founders need our model to be rocket science, but they need our team to be rock solid.    Meet the PSVTech team, partners Richard Breiter, Alexander Viterbo-Horten, Helle Uth, Christel Piron, alongside with investment team Sebastian von Wildenrath Wegmann & myself.

We're excited to support Chris Yin, Teddy Pornprinya and the team at Plume Network on their $10m seed round alongside investors Haun Ventures, Galaxy Reciprocal Ventures Portal Ventures Selini SV Angel A.Capital Ventures and others. There is a huge opportunity in digitizing real world assets (RWAs) and bringing them onchain to allow investors to invest in a greater variety of asset classes (collectibles, alternative assets & traditional financial assets like bonds / treasuries / real estate). We believe that there is a lot of onchain capital waiting to invest in and generate yields not correlated to crypto assets and this is what Plume solving for. To date, attempts at launching RWAs they've been somewhat hamstrung by the inability of these platforms to build a strong community, following and onboard users, who get discouraged at the complexity of transacting onchain. We're excited by the team's community-first approach, building a network that attracts users, liquidity & RWA issuers to build a vibrant ecosystem. This helps solve most issuers' need to build their own community as they can plug right into Plume & utilize their tech stack. Looking forward to what they build!

Good nicknames tend to stick. That’s how PSV became the unofficial name for PreSeed Ventures.   So yesterday, we made it official. Going forward, we’ll just be PSV and wave a last goodbye to PreSeed Ventures 👋🏼 Does that also mean we’re turning our back to the pre-seed stage, you might be wondering? Not at all. Our mission remains the same. It’s at the heart of everything we do to clear the path for founders building companies that matter ✅ 🦄 With our new hybrid venture house, comprising PSV Foundry, PSV Lab, and two independent venture funds, PSV Tech and PSV DeepTech, we’re doubling down on just that 🏠 This setup sets us free from adhering to a singular method. Rather, we rethink existing ways and models to maximise our impact beyond any individual firm or investment 🚀 Read much more about it on our updated website www.psv.xyz