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All my #Chicago peeeps building and/or investing in B2B SaaS companies, this one’s for you! If your goals for attending #TechWeekChicago include meeting potential investors, other awesome founders to bounce ideas off of and/or just meet nodes in the ecosystem, definitely RSVP for our Founder & Funder Breakfast. We intentionally review all the RSVP’s and curate one awesome room full of people. Hope to see you there! 🥐☕️💫 #EarlyStage #Founder #VC

This is exciting news about our launch! If you're building hardware and want to improve your process, please contact me. Rollup is a comprehensive platform designed to simplify and accelerate hardware development. Our suite of tools covers systems engineering, modeling, requirements management, and more. By leveraging Rollup, you can create exceptional products while effortlessly balancing complexity and usability. Say goodbye to development headaches and hello to streamlined innovation!

WEBINAR ALERT! This Friday I will be hosting Rosanne Whalley, CEO at AHL Venture Partners and Daniel Keiper-Knorr, Partner at Speedinvest for a deep dive discussion on GP-led exit strategies, designing for exits, perspectives from getting exit deals done in both African and European markets and how today's VCs should be thinking and working towards tomorrow's exits. After all, DPI is king. Join us for a refreshing conversation based on hard-won experience and expertise. Maybe we will also throw in some brand new Strategy Tools VC canvases to help you get some exits done...... Time: Friday 27th 14:00 - 15:00 CET Register: https://lnkd.in/dGSJDVSa Why you should join: - Get the latest on VC exits across EU and African markets - Hear from experienced exit deal makers - Learn how Speedinvest and AHL builds teams, processes and 2-year projects to get exit deals done - Get your hands on some of the brand new work on GP-led exits See you there! Scott Newton Link Venture Capital Link Capital #OIW #Exit #GP

Here's a very quick update for our future potential investors! KreiosLabs just surpassed $8.5k in ARR this month! While April's growth was slower than anticipated, we saw a strong rebound in May and hopefully it continues from here. I recently attended the Raid the Fridge event hosted by Kickstarter Ventures that featured Expedock Cofounders Jig Y. and Jeff Tan. My two main takeaways from the talk are: 1. I'm simply not working hard enough 2. Go global And guess what? That's exactly what we will do for the next few months - work harder and go global. Stay tuned for our next update!

Behind the scenes at #Elevate2024 - speaking at the biggest tech conference in Canada re: #VentureCapital investing in deep-tech. Joined by Janet Bannister (Staircase Ventures), Eva Lau (Two Small Fish Ventures), Chris Neumann (Panache Ventures), we covered: - what types of companies are exciting to VCs (hint: moonshots), - specialist vs. generalist VC funds (founders: while it’s wonderful to meet a specialist VC that knows your domain really well, that is currently the exception, not the norm - so the art of telling your story to a broader investor base is crucial) - how VCs construct their portfolio to meet LP expectations (as a founder, you need to understand what motivates the investors you’re interacting with) Glad Creative Destruction Lab assembled this epic panel on the Moonshots stage ! Elevate Sonia Sennik #FutureTech #Innovation #IOV

💰 Avail raises $43M in a Series A funding round led by Dragonfly, Founders Fund and cyber•Fund Other investors in the round include HashKey Group, Mirana Ventures, Alliance DAO, KR1 plc, SevenX Ventures, Spark Capital, Figment Capital, Foresight Ventures, Chapter One, Superscrypt, Nomad Capital, LocalGlobe, Elixir Capital, RW3 Ventures and Altos Ventures. #Avail is a #Web3 infrastructure layer designed to allow modular execution layers to scale and interoperate in a trust-minimized way. It supports various execution environments and is pivotal in the #Layer2 scalability framework, addressing challenges in data availability and transaction integrity. 👉 https://lnkd.in/dnCMkcfA

Getting investors to travel is hard. When it comes to Demo Day, regional UK and European accelerators based outside the principal pools of venture capital (London, Berlin, Paris....) are at a disadvantage. So, accelerators: here's a radical solution: Take your cohort showcase to where the money is! Bring your cohort to London, and we do the rest with a fully managed Demo Day program. Pitchflix is the company that brings you rev, the VC reverse pitch series for pre-seed to series A founders; warp, the accelerator reverse pitch series for the earliest-stage founders; and now DDHQ so that at the end of the accelerator program, the cohort has an opportunity to engage with genuine investors.

Getting investors to travel is hard. When it comes to Demo Day, regional UK and European accelerators based outside the principal pools of venture capital (London, Berlin, Paris....) are at a disadvantage. So, accelerators: here's a radical solution: Take your cohort showcase to where the money is! Bring your cohort to London, and we do the rest with a fully managed Demo Day program. Pitchflix is the company that brings you rev, the VC reverse pitch series for pre-seed to series A founders; warp, the accelerator reverse pitch series for the earliest-stage founders; and now DDHQ so that at the end of the accelerator program, the cohort has an opportunity to engage with genuine investors.

🚀 If you haven’t seen it yet, Desia has come out of stealth, announcing their $3.3M in pre-seed funding! Despite technological advancements in the financial industry, investment professionals still spend significant time manually sorting through unstructured data. This process is both time-consuming and costly, leading to productivity losses. Desia is a system of intelligence that provides advanced AI applications for productivity, automation, and analytics in financial services. It addresses this challenge by automating data extraction and analysis, turning vast amounts of information into actionable insights. This not only saves professionals time and resources but also enhances decision-making efficiency. Above all, we're proud to back Raffaele, Alessandro and Mehmet on their journey. This team has probably the best combination of domain expertise and vision to tackle the challenge of improving with AI the investment decision-making process in financial services. We’re excited to be part of this journey alongside our friends at Dig Ventures , Vento by Exor Ventures, Foreword, Plug and Play Tech Center, Launchbay Capital and Octopus Ventures. Read more about why we are investing in Desia here: https://lnkd.in/eMHZGmGW Sifted coverage: https://lnkd.in/e-jB9_iD

Jed Tan is going global. I'm excited for more stories like this. Keep the fire alive, we need more young dreamers to rally around your story! Jed literally just proved the spectators wrong that "there's no tech talent and entrepreneurs in Manila" 🤣 🤣 🤣 I havent' been in the local scene for years because we were busy grinding but I'm shocked at this change in language from investors. "VC's" now love to call entrepreneurs, dreamers, and visionaries with the derogatory term of "operators". 🙄🙄🙄 "Operators" vs "Spectators" is harmful language and reflective of subconcious #crabmentality . To even debate this dichotomy is a farce. I will pick a fight with anyone who uses the word "operator" to puff themselves up because of their inability to execute & deliver results themselves. My younger brother, Jeremy Young, helped me realize that the real language should be: "Kings" and "Kingmakers" - allies who shape the future together. Both are capital & time allocators, both are operators that drive ROI, both are visionaries, both are dreamers. We have different roles and emphasis but a shared mission. Cheering your story on, Jed! I'm confident your SaaS first approach will surpass ours earlier and much faster! #carryingcrabs