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Here is a breakdown of today's newsletter:

• 🥳 Events & Community

• 🎙️ New Podcast Episode

• 📈 Start-Up Investment Opportunities

• 💰 Venture Capital News

🥳 Events & Community: 

We are hosting a small pickleball event for investors and founders in LA TONIGHT! If you are interested let us know as we have a few spots available! If you want to see a larger list of events, check out a larger list one of our community members made here.

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🎙️ Podcast:

If you have started your own newsletter or subscribe to different newsletters, then you have probably heard of Beehiiv! They have taken the newsletter platform industry by storm in the last 2 years and are releasing features faster than any startup I have seen.

The founder of Beehiiv, Tyler Denk, shared key insights into:

• 👉 Being a self-taught coder & building an MVP

• 👉 Hitting $4M in ARR in 2 years

• 👉 Their GTM Strategy and acquiring customers

• 👉 Successfully raising & closing their Series A

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.

📈 Start-Up Investment Opportunities

Please keep this confidential. 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. The minimum amount to invest per deal is $1k! Please reach out if you have any questions.

The National Thoroughbred League (NTL): Pioneer of team-based horse racing A groundbreaking investment opportunity that is reshaping the landscape of America's oldest spectator sport – horse racing.

• Investment from Red Beard Ventures and 100% ownership of the New Jersey Horse Racing team.

• Team Transformation: Shifts horse racing to a dynamic team-based forma

• Key figures include rappers Nelly and Rick Ross, NFL star Kayvan Thibodeux, the NBA's Danny Green and retired basketball player Baron Davis.

• Tom Ludt, former chairman of the Breeders' Cup, hired as President of Horse Operations. Greg Economou, former CMO of the NBA, hired to oversee Business Operations.

• Revenue streams from league-wide, mixed, and local sources.

• Upcoming launch in Nashville with a $500,000 race and a concert by Anderson Paak.

• Link to invest

Terran Biosciences: Pioneers in Psychedelic Therapeutics

• Focused on mental and neurological health: Depression, anxiety, PTSD, schizophrenia, and Parkinson’s.

• Backed by notable investors: Valhalla Ventures, Peter Thiel, Christian Angermayer, Presign Ventures.

• Pharma Powerhouse Partnership: Collaboration with a top-10 big pharma company; 120+ patents filed.

• Game-Changing Treatment for Alzheimer's: Isazoxan with once-daily dosing - a breakthrough advancement.

• Growth: Terran has acquired the exclusive license to develop and commercialize late-stage clinical neuro assets. They have filed 120 patents for their psychedelic compounds and developed the largest manufacturing plant in the space.

• Strong Early Partners: They are partnering with Sanofi, which is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world and represents the first big pharma partnership around psychedelic research.

• Link to invest

FlickPlay: Digital Toy Infrastructure & Gamified Social Experiences

• It is the first platform to digitalize the experience of playing with toys in the real world.

• Went through the Disney Accelerator and has partnerships lined up with Disney, Bandai and SEGA

• The only platform in the market to connect the commerce experience of digital toys to real-world locations with the goal of activating cities all over the world.

• The Majority of digital assets marketplaces provide a pretty centralized experience for digital assets— meaning that owners can only interact with the digital assets they purchased in the respective platform. Flickplay has built a robust technical pipeline that enables 2-way interoperability.

• Link to invest

Innerwell (Greycroft):Behavioral health care through data & psychedelics

• Product launched 9 months ago,went from 0 to $2.4m annualized run rate, path to profitability by

• October.first company focused on commercially scaling true ketamine-assisted psychotherapy.

• Patients who are diagnosed by licensed medical professionals have the option to receive therapy during their psychedelic experience.

• Link to invest

Thrive Fantasy: Sports-betting made simple and more accessible

• ThriveFantasy has exceeded $50M in entry fees, showing a 250% YoY growth, and anticipates reaching over $90M in 2023.

• They're finalizing their white-label tech and aiming to launch by Q3, targeting $450K MRR in the first 6 months.

• A revamped 2.0 UX is launching for the NFL season with the team planning for a whopping $10M/month in bets – the new UX is also expected to support multiple languages, opening the platform to an even larger audience.

• Link to invest

Venus Aerospace: LA to Tokyo in ONE HOUR at hypersonic speed

• A promise of the space age finally fulfilled, the craft designed by Venus Aerospace will be the fastest reusable hypersonic system in the world.

• Their patented rotating detonation rocket engine (RDTE) will propel passengers at speeds up to Mach 9

• The craft is designed to fly just outside of our atmosphere, where air friction poses no risk to the craft

• Link to invest

Tafi: The Global Leader in 3D Assets and Text-to-3D genAI

• Largest commercial library of 3D assets in the world; customers include Coca-Cola, HBO, Warner/DC, Coinbase, and others

• Their product DAZ 3D (link to demo here) creates ultra-HD fully compatible and customizable characters

• Exclusive partnership with NVIDIA to train even greater AI capabilities

• Link to invest

Siegelman Stable: Streetwear with a Conscience - Gary Vaynerchuk Lead

• Rapidly gaining mass appeal and A-list celebrity endorsements

• Nearly one million dollars in gross revenue in 2022

• Founded by the son from a top horse racing family, Max Siegelman, past collaborator with Kanye West, NBA teams, Puma, Hypebeast, Lexus, and more

• Link to invest

💰 Venture Capital News

PitchBook: Series A price correction halts seed-valuation ascent

• Median pre-money valuation of seed-stage deals dropped 17% after consistent climb since Q2 2020.

• Struggle to raise Series A rounds prompts seed-stage pricing pullback.

• Median valuation step-up for early-stage rounds fell to 1.6x in Q2, lowest since Q3 2013.

• Series A investors demand larger revenue and positive unit economics, elevating Series A entry bar.

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