Capital: May the Best Marketer Win
FINTECH Capital: May the Best Marketer Win This week Party Round re-launched Capital Party Round became famous in tech circles for semi-satirical product drops like an NFT collection of ‘Helpful’ VCs and a ‘90s-style game about blowing VC dollars With Capital they’re expanding to become a full stack fintech platform for founders: checking accounts, credit…
Read MoreAI Arrives
AI AND VENTURE AI has Arrived Earlier this week Sequoia released a new essay, Generative AI: A Creative New World. It lays out 4 areas where generative AI could unlock breakthrough products: Text, Code, Images, and Video. Sequoia seems to believe that generative AI will be the next great tech wave and that now —…
Read MoreRoblox and Forever Games
THIS WEEK IN VC Roblox: The Next Great Social Network? Roblox, released in 2006, has 43M daily active users, making it one of just a few ‘forever games’ Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki is looking to expand into a full-fledged social network with a new advertising play and more complex user generated content. The game has hosted…
Read MoreVirtual Influencers?
Good morning! Today we’re wondering why VCs keep bankrolling virtual entertainers. Plus, OpenStore raises another $32M from Lux and do you know the highest-grossing IP franchise of all time? Virtual Influencers? Digital influencers — virtual avatars made by startups — have racked up tens on millions of followers on social media, signed record deals, and landed ad…
Read MoreS2 Ep 17: Space Tourism with Space Perspective CEO Jane Poynter
Space Perspective just raised $40M to build the Disney World of space. To do it they’re using Space Balloons. NASA has been toying with space balloons since the 1970s but you may remember them from Red Bull’s halo jump — a skydive from the edge of the stratosphere. Space Perspective is betting that instead of…
Read MoreS2 Ep16: How Shortwave is Rethinking Email And Improving Customer Experience, With Andrew Lee
When was the last time you enjoyed your Gmail inbox? Shortwave is picking up where Gmail dropped the ball and redesigning your inbox. Find out how. Joe gets straight into conversation with Andrew about why email should be as much fun as WhatsApp, why Slack is email’s greatest threat, and the $9 million Series A…
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