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Andreessen Horowitz’s New Startup Accelerator: START
STARTUPS Andreessen Horowitz’s New Startup Accelerator: START Introducing A16Z START: Fully remote accelerator, funding founders at the idea stage $1M in investment from a $400M seed fund 6 categories including American Dynamism, consumer, enterprise, Fintech, games or other Why it Matters Venture is a brand business. Today there are more VCs than ever, all trying…
Read MoreRussia-Ukraine’s Effect on Crypto and Fintech M&A Heats Up
Hello everyone—welcome back to our weekly FTT newsletter. We’re gonna be switching things up a lot here—first up, more tunes! There’s a lot of Blondish on here, since she played at an event we sponsored with Vol. 1 Ventures for Miami Bitcoin Week. She was so good live—I was sober (this new thing I’m trying…its…
Read MoreFintech and Human Connections
HUMAN TOUCH Fintech and Human Connections In a recent interview, rockstar David Grohl said the most important way to promote yourself (or your product) is to “fucking play live.” “When a human being sees another human on stage – there is this connection and it’s inspiring because you’re like “Oh my god, people can do that!” When…
Read MoreIs the Stripe For Crypto Just Stripe? Maybe…But Probably Not
Stripe dropped a doozy announcement recently: a brand new suite of products dedicated to crypto. Product-wise, it’s an elegant refactoring of a lot of their existing capabilities: leveraging Connect to power fiat payouts, Treasury to power Wallet management, and creating a simpler onboarding for NFT marketplaces with Stripe Identity. (Something that went a bit underrated, as Charley Ma…
Read MoreSix Problems Facing Cultivators in 2022
Data keeps us informed. That’s why I (Kaitlin) love diving into any and all cannabis industry reports. Retail reports are my favorite, but any report with strong data (and great graphics, I can’t lie) is something I’m sure to sink my teeth into. Cannabis Business Times and agriculture tech brand, Prospiant, have partnered for the…
Read MoreJust Raised- 04/19/2022
3 BIG STORIES 1. PayPal’s (Almost) Bankruptcy? Pictured: Elon Musk (Left), David Sacks (Middle), Peter Thiel (Right) Fast, the one-click checkout company, closing their doors a couple weeks back sent shockwaves through the VC world. What many do not know is that in 2000, PayPal nearly shared the same fate. David Sacks, the former founding COO of…
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