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3/30 - This Week in Web3, Venture Capital, & Start-ups

March 30, 2023

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GM, Welcome to the latest edition of The Girls Table newsletter! We have some exciting updates to share with you regarding investment opportunities, crypto news, and upcoming events. Get ready to take a seat at the girls table!

Here is a breakdown of today's newsletter: 

  • 🥳 Events & Community

  • 🎙️ New Podcast Episode

  • 🚨 TLDR - This Week in Crypto

  • 📈 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:

  • NFT NYC 

  • Consensus 

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, Elana Dickman also known as TradingFemale is joined by Jacob Jaber who is currently the Co-founder & Chairman of Philz Coffee. Jacob shares insights into:

  • ☕️ Growing Philz into a Caffeine Empire

  • 🏬 Getting into the top Tech Companies

  • 💸 Raising VC Money

  • 💰 Starting to Angel Invest

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:

  • Binance sued by CFTC

  • SBF faces new charge: $40M bribe to China

  • EU gives mandate for smart contract “kill switch”

🌗 Crypto News:

  • The Commodity Futures Trading Commission charged Binance and Founder CZ on Monday

  • Charges are regarding options trading, lax KYC policies, and US customer policies

  • Internal logs show that Binance directed employees to use a VPN to enable options and leverage trading

  • Internal logs also revealed a system of 300 accounts Binance used to trade on their public order books

  • This is the 13th charge in the indictment from November

  • It regards a situation where Chinese authorities froze over $1B of Alameda accounts

  • The accounts were frozen by the Chinese banking official that received the $40M transfer in November 2021

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

Toka: Cybersecurity tools for modern international protection

  • Second year of revenue doubled with multiple government PoCs

  • Gross margins are more than 90%

  • $22M forecast in 2023

  • Backed by Andreesen Horowitz

  • Link to invest

Meratas: Expedia for student loans - last check, oversubscribed round

  • This round is led by Jason Calacanis, legendary investor from The All In podcast

  • Multi-lender marketplace allows users to compare loan terms and loan officers/lenders to compete among themselves

  • 110 schools are paying customers, at $1300/mo

  • Projected revenue of $6M in 2023

  • Link to invest

GET protocol: The Premium NFT Ticketing Solution

  • GET has been building NFT ticketing since 2016

  • They have a full range of ticketing products for event holders, from self-service to full concierge, and also whitelabel solutions

  • Issued nearly 3.4 Million tickets (1.7M in 2022 alone), over 17k events

  • Investment includes a token grant AND discounted token purchase rights

  • Link to invest

💰 Venture Capital News

  • Two weeks ago, companies with deposits in Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) faced difficulty getting cash.

  • A bridge bank has taken control of SVB's former assets and liabilities, guaranteeing all deposits, honoring lines of credit, and offering new loans.

  • The venture capital industry was already in a precarious position before SVB's failure, which made the asset class even more vulnerable.

  • An LP at a university endowment predicts that the failure of SVB will force a correction more quickly in the industry.

👋 That’s all for now friends! See you next week.

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Disclaimer: The Girls Table DOES NOT provide financial advice. All content is for informational purposes only. The Girls Table is not a registered investment, legal, or tax advisor or a broker/dealer. Trading any crypto-related asset is extremely risky and could result in significant capital losses. 

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