🤭 Thanksgiving, guts, shopping, Janet Yellen, the tool, Lil Miquela, VCs, LPs, freebies and money
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I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving, ate some yummy food, and are now thinking of rewarding yourself for making it this far in the year. Jeez 2020. If you need some help in the gift department, browse our Holiday Gift Guide - it only features newsletter subscribers companies! Personally, I’ll be looking for a little something that helps me with digestion in Andrea Hernández's Not Just a Gut Feeling post and looking for a home security system to stay safe from stalkers.
Is AirBnB’s competitive advantage community? Yes. We agree. Will Janet Yellen create the ultimate Bitcoin tailwind, as Pomp predicts? HODL. Are you buying a snack box or chickpea bread too? They’re trending. And how’s your end-of-year checklist going?
Okay. So, do you remember that tool Josh and I launched in May, the Startup-Investor Matching Tool— the one that matches and intros underestimated founders to investors? Well, since May, we’ve made 577 intros between founders + investors. From those intros, we’ve since heard that 12 startups got checks that total over $1.8M. Yay, right?!
And, with the goal to help more underestimated founders, we continue to work on the tool in our free time. As part of that, over the last few weeks, Josh and I decided to reach out to all the investors (+400) and founders (+1K) on the Startup-Investor Matching Tool with the goal of clearing out inactive investors and providing founders with insight that can help them along their journey. This activity led to us…
clearing out inactive or non-friendly investors + startups no longer raising
startups updating their entries
getting a lot of questions from founders and some from investors (thankfully, we had a form)
To answer most (if not all) questions, Josh and I put together the following docs:
If you have any feedback, feel free to share it here. We’ll get to it when we can. Definitely holding off on the LP-GP Matching Tool idea, and on that note, I’m taking the rest of the day off to spend time with family!
✨ Lolita Taub
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ICYMI: It was a good week and here's why. Bonus: I was rated a 10/10 on VC Guide and Primetime VC + Technical.ly featured The Community Fund + me. Founders and investors, sign-up for the Startup-Investor Matching Tool. Congrats!
Masha Drokova for raising $52.5M for her fund, Day One Ventures. Cody Barbo for raising $15M for Trust & Will. Devrim Yassar for raising $8M for Superpeer. Nash Ahmed for raising $1.6M for Undock. Wilfrid Obeng and Christian Facey for raising $1.5M for Audio Mob. Mike Smith for launching his own fund. Kara Weber for raising $82K for Black Girls CODE by auctioning off Lil Miquela’s first digital art piece. Amy Sun for launching Daylight Labs. Ha Nguyen for becoming Chief Experience Officer at Swimply.
Funders
TCF | The Community Fund: How We Source, Select, and Support Startups
Marie Claire | The VC World Hasn’t Made Space for Black Women - So They Made Their Own
Samir Kaji | LP types emerging managers should target
Chris Harvey | Equity Crowdfunding vs VC
Startup-Investor Matching Tool | Investors join to receive customized deal flow
Female Founders Alliance | Apply for venture partner roles and more
All Raise | RSVP Fundraising in Uncertain Times: LP & MGP Insights panel on 12/2
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Founder Institute | +700 accelerators, investors and more for black founders
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Equity Crowdfunding | Raise up to $5 million on Republic
The Upswing Fund | Grants for founders focused on POC/LGBTQ+ teens
Non-dilutive capital | Create a profile to find non-dilutive capital on INTRO
Startup-Investor Matching Tool | Submit your co for investment consideration
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