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2/09 - This Week in Web3, Venture Capital, & Start-ups
Welcome back to The Girls Table's Newsletter! This weekly newsletter will share key insights into web3, venture capital, crypto, & the community. Join our Telegram to hear about upcoming events, job opportunities, and connect with like-minded individuals!Also, don't forget to respond to this newsletter with a quick "Hi" so it doesn't get buried in your promotions folder!
GM, Welcome back to The Girl's Table! Hopefully, you guys got outside yesterday because there wasn't much happening on Twitter if you were like us and couldn't tweet or message friends. Maybe the glitches continued until this morning, which is why you are reading this right now 😉
As always thank you for reading and taking a seat at The Girls Table.
Here is a breakdown of today's newsletter:
🥳 Events & Community
🎙️ New Podcast Episode
🚨 TLDR - This Week in Crypto
💸 NFT Alpha
📈 Start-Up Investment Opportunities
💰 Venture Capital News
🥳 Events & Community:
Below we have provided our tentative list for 2023 but if you want to see a larger list of crypto events check out a larger list one of our community members made here:
ETHDenver
NFT LA
NFT NYC
Miami NFT Week
Consensus
We also might be hosting a girls (& boys) table in LA for Venture Capitalists at the end of February. Let us know if you will be around and currently work in VC!
Also, if you don't want to miss out on future events we will be hosting during 2023, join our Telegram group to stay up-to-date. The chat has been growing and it is so amazing to have such an awesome inspiration group!
🎙️ New Podcast Episode:
In this episode of The Girls Table, TradingFemale is joined by Alex Friedman who is currently an Entrepreneur in Residence at Techstars Music.
Alex shares key insights into:
💡 How to go from Idea to Product
🛍️ Getting Vendor Agreements from Forever21, Urban Outfitters, and More
💸 Obtaining your First Customers
Do you know any entrepreneurs, creators, or investors who you think have an amazing story? Please reply and share them with us so we can continue to have the most inspirational individuals on the podcast.
🚨 TLDR - This Week in Crypto:
Fed chair Powell “Disinflationary process has started”
Super Bowl will not have crypto ads this year
Bitcoin hovers around 24k
🌗 Crypto News:
Binance has announced that it will temporarily stop accepting US dollar bank transfers for cryptocurrency trading starting on February 8th
The decision affects only a small fraction of its monthly active users, who use US dollar bank transfers
Binance.US has not been effected
Grayscale, a subsidiary of DCG, operates the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC), which has more than $10 billion in assets under management
The recent share sales have focused on the Ethereum fund, selling at roughly a 50% discount
The move is part of DCG's "ongoing portfolio rebalancing"
💸 NFT Alpha:
The single-edition NFT card of the Bucks star was sold for 113.9 ETH through Sorare
The NFT market saw a 38% increase in January 2023 in month-over-month organic trading volume, as per data from DappRadar
This triples the previous record sale of an Anthony Davis NFT that sold for over $62,000
The token is slated for public sale in Q2
LMWR is at the heart of the Limewire ecosystem, being used for voting, rewards, fees, and other community participation
It can also be used to stake, in order to receive Limewire Pro
The waitlist for the token presale is HERE
📈 Start-Up Investment Opportunities
Please keep this confidential.The author of this newsletter, TradingFemale, works at Red Beard Ventures. Red Beard Ventures is a Web3 Venture Capital Firm that has invested in over 150+ companies including Sandbox, Dapper Labs, SuperRare, Unstoppable Domains, LayerZero, and more! If you are an accredited investor and interested in expanding your start-up portfolio, we have provided some investment opportunities that are currently active through the Red Beard Ventures Syndicate.
Quicknode: The AWS of Blockchain
Quicknode has become the leading provider of corporate blockchain infrastructure
Grew 3x in 2021 bull market and 4.1x in 2022 bear market
Coinvestors include Soma Capital, Protocol Labs, Y Combinator, QED, and other strategic partners
Phantom: Solana’s Best Wallet Moves to Ethereum/Polygon
We have the opportunity to purchase secondary stock at a 40% discount from their last round
The cap table for this last round included a16z, Paradigm, and other top names, at a $1.2B valuation
Growth exploded with now 2.1M active users, and onboarding 100k per week
Simply Eggless: The Future of Egg Alternatives
Simply Eggless is the second-largest producer and supplier of plant-based eggs globally, with a revenue of $2M in 2022
Their products are sold in over 2.8k stores in North America and the company is looking to expand to 1k more stores, serving their massive popularity among Gen Z and Millennials
The main ingredient used by Eggless is lupin bean, which offers high protein, excellent baking functionality, and is environmentally friendly
The competitors in vegan egg alternatives all fall behind Simply Eggless, which has a much more versatile and shelf-stable product
💰 Venture Capital News
Big industry names waking up to ZK proofs
Ethereum infrastructure continues to raise with large valuations
Centralized Finance (CeFi) lags behind with only 201 deals in 2022
👋 That’s all for now friends! See you next week.
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