Good morning 👋
Yesterday we asked you guys what you thought about the SEC going after VCs for some of their crypto exposure.
It seems like we’re on the same page … it doesn’t seem right.
Until there is some leadership change (looking at you, Gary Gensler), don’t expect anything to change.
Switching gears - here’s what else you missed from yesterday.
TL;DR:
HEADLINES
The future unicorn list 🦄
The Next Billion-Dollar Startups (Fortune)
Insight tops $10b as it nears final close of Fund XIII (Venture Capital Journal)
The Case For The Uncapped SAFE (Crunchbase)
WeRide Debut Is A Test Drive For A Slow IPO Market (Crunchbase)
Tech Bros Are Betting They Can Help Win a War With China (WSJ)
Move over SEO, Profound is helping brands with AI search optimization (TechCrunch)
a16z-backed fintech Tally, which raised $172M in funding, is shutting down after running out of cash (TechCrunch)
LINKS
🔎 Roblox Investment Memo: How Greycroft underwrote Roblox in 2018
📈 Front Series B Deck: Inside the deck that won them $66m from Sequoia
🔦 Spotlight Stealth, Early & Growth Startups: Data-driving VC brings us their “Picks of the Week” spotlighting the hottest startups across regions and sectors
🧠 Improve Strategy, Influence, and Decision-Making By Understanding Your Brain: Evan LaPointe of Core Sciences helps you understand your brain for better work
🤨 The Eternal Quest for 25% Profit Margins: Mostly Metrics asserts +25% bottom line is kind of like the magic number investors are looking for you to print
🧑🦯 The Ultimate Guide to Developer Marketing: Insider tips from a 10+ year veteran on how to build and market to developers
📊 The Post Modern Data Stack: Tomasz Tunguz asks if the modern data stack is dead, does the postmodern data stack replace it?
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FUNDS
Name | Fund Size | Fund Number |
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$3.15b | I | |
$580m | I | |
$160m | III | |
$1b | IX | |
$3b | III | |
$3b | V |
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- Clay
RESULTS
Here are the results from our poll question in yesterday’s piece:
What do you think about the SEC going after VCs for backing crypto companies?
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 It's wrong - SEC leadership is biased against crypto (15)
🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️ It's the right thing to do - somebody needs to pay (8)
🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️ I don't care - show me results (11)
34 Votes
