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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: 

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 group!

🎙️ Podcast:

If you're an entrepreneur looking to raise venture capital funding, then this short video is for you. We make this quick 6-minute video about how to get organized if you're looking to meet VCs, a CRM everybody should use, and the easiest ways to get an intro.

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.

Lightship: the Tesla of EV recreation and camping vehicles

• Raising a $35M Series B round of funding

• The groundbreaking company is raising a Series B round after selling out of 700 towable RV pre-orders at SXSW

• Thor Industries, the current leader in conventional RVs, has an order backlog of $18B and a valuation of $5.3B

• Like Tesla, everything about a traditional RV has been reimagined to be as efficient, modern, and comfortable as possible

• Link to invest

Liquid Death: Pre-IPO secondary shares in fast-growing consumer brand

• The iconic sparkling water brand raised its last round in July 2023 at a $1B valuation

• Recent developments include the hire of Chief Commercial Officer Stephen Ballard, previously at White Claw

• Other personnel recently added come from major CPG companies like La Croix, Nestle, InBev, and more

• Link to invest

Emerge: Follow-on with Cutting-Edge Virtual Reality Touch Technology - Using Ultrasound to create 3D Forms

• Raising a $15M Series B round of funding

• Emerge has developed a mid-air haptics for users to ‘feel’ objects in the virtual world

• Since their last round of funding, they hit $7.8M in revenue, launched the product Wave-2 device with proprietary MEMS Technology, and finalized agreements with Bose and LGE for Licensing Agreements

• Emerge is raising this round of funding to build out their team and prepare for launches with Disney Pixar (Q2 2024), Disney Star Wars (EOY 2024), Sony and LG.

• Past and current investors include Steel Perlot, Soma Capital, M13, Vulcan Ventures, and more

• Link to invest

Versus Game: Gamified Ads using Gen-AI

• Raising a $25M Series A+ round of funding

• This B2B tech helps media, publishers, and brands use generative AI to make interactive content

• Eric Schmidt, investor and board member, said “This is the most powerful real-world AI application” he’s seen

• Almost 1000 digital media partners including Forbes, USA Today, ESPN, ABC, Microsoft, and more

• Link to invest

Canva: deeply discounted shares in a quadruple-deca-unicorn

• We are bringing this amazing allocation to our LPs at a significant discount

• Last round valuation was $40B; these shares are at a 36% discount

• Canva has significantly higher revenue than its main competitors 

• Millions of users and growing, adding AI tools, and more

• Link to invest

Oort: Decentralized AI-powered AWS

• Raising a $5M Seed+ SAFE

• Also investing out of Red Beard Ventures Fund I, where we have committed $500k

• Oort offers 80% savings, AI-powered smart search, and blockchain integrations

• Their no-code LLM can act like an expert on any dataset available, with simple conversational commands

• We are receiving a 1:1 Token warrant for our investment

• Link to invest 

Minima: the future of the “Internet of Things”

• Raising a $2M Seed Round of Funding

• Minima is purpose-built for device-to-device or device-to-blockchain communication

• This is the first solution that’s economical, scales well, and is technologically advanced enough to handle mass data through extremely small hardware

• The IoT landscape is projected to hit $5,000,000,000,000 (five trillion) by 2030

• IoT infrastructure has been lacking innovation, hindering this growth

• We are receiving a 3:1 Token warrant for our investment

• Link to invest

💰 Venture Capital News

Pitchbook: VCs chow down more equity in recent financing roundsVC Industry Downturn:

1. VCs Gaining Larger Stakes: Venture capitalists (VCs) are acquiring larger equity stakes in companies, a positive aspect amidst the venture downturn.

2. Change in Valuations: During the pandemic boom, VCs accepted smaller ownership percentages due to high valuations. However, these valuations have now decreased, allowing VCs to buy larger portions with the same investment.

3. Equity Stake Trends: In mature companies, median equity stakes have increased to 14.9% in 2023, up from 11.3% in 2021, according to PitchBook's Q3 2023 US VC Valuations Report.

4. Ownership and Influence: Larger ownership stakes provide VCs with more significant returns upon successful exits, greater influence over business direction, and potential board seats.

5. Expected Increase in Ownership Percentages: Ownership percentages across all stages aren't yet at historical levels, but are expected to continue increasing as more companies seek capital at lower valuations.

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