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7/26 - This Week in Venture Capital & Start-ups
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Here is a breakdown of today's newsletter:
🥳 Events & Community
💰 Founder Story
📈 Start-Up Investment Opportunities
🥳 Events & Community:
We are hosting more events for Founders and Investors in LA! The next one is on October 17th during LA Tech Week! RSVP HERE and we will try to accept some of you to our event!
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🎙️ Founder Story
Twenty-five years ago, Google was born in a garage, and today, it's worth $1.5 trillion 🚀
But did you know they almost sold very early on?
In 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google's co-founders, approached Excite CEO George Bell with an offer to sell their search engine for just $1 million.
Bell countered with $750,000, thinking he was getting a bargain. But Page and Brin stood firm at $1 million.
The deal fell through.
Fast forward to 2024, and that $1 million investment would have been worth hundreds of billions!
But it doesn't end there. Even after Google started gaining traction, they faced skepticism:
• In 2002, Yahoo declined to purchase Google for $3 billion
• In 2006, Yahoo tried again, offering $1 billion, but Google now wanted $5 billion
These pivotal moments in Google's history remind us that even the biggest players can overlook groundbreaking opportunities.
Remember this story when facing rejection or doubt. Today's "crazy idea" might be tomorrow's trillion-dollar company.
Innovation often looks like madness... until it doesn't.
📈 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.
Matternet: Drone Delivery with Impressive Traction & Only Company with FAA Type Certification
A16z, Sony, and Mercedes-backed Matternet is revolutionizing the instant delivery market by enabling ultra-fast, sustainable, and affordable delivery solutions for e-commerce, food, and medical items.
With an impressive 50k flights across 10 cities globally, Matternat is the first and only company to receive full FAA Type and Production Certification for its drone delivery system. Has also secured 135 strategic partnerships including UPS.
AltoCrypto: Revolutionizing Crypto Investing through IRAs
Alto Crypto is a subsidiary of AltoIRA, the leading provider of the Alternative IRA
Alto Crypto is revolutionizing the retirement investing landscape by providing a platform for individuals to invest in over 240 cryptocurrencies tax-free or tax-deferred through their Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs)
Investors can gain exposure to the crypto market's exponential growth potential while benefiting from the stability and long-term outlook of the retirement investing space.
Monoquant: Revolutionizing Quantitative Trading for Crypto
Monoquant is developing an AI-powered platform that democratizes quantitative trading in the $2.1T cryptocurrency market, allowing investors at all levels to create, backtest, and deploy automated trading strategies.
Impressive data moat covering 60% of DeFi and 70% of CeFi markets, with over 4 trillion data points.
Secured broker agreements with major exchanges (OKX, Binance, Crypto.com, Bybit, MEXC) spanning ~85% of CEX volume.
Backed by Cherry Street Digital Assets Fund and Alumni Ventures.
Raising a pre-seed round at an attractive $20M post-money valuation cap with SAFE + token warrant. $MONQ token with 15% unlock at TGE, 3-month cliff, 12-month linear vesting.
StackingDAO: Liquid Staking on Stacks (The largest L2 on BTC) | Building what Lido (1.83B FDV) is for Ethereum
Stacking DAO is building a liquid staking protocol for Stacks, the largest L2 on Bitcoin, solving issues like long unlock periods, high minimum requirements, and manual relocking.
$110M TVL since December 2023 launch, fastest-growing DeFi protocol in Stacks history, holding 17% of stacked STX.
Backed by Portal Ventures, Golden Chain Republic (Republic's Digital Asset Arm), Modular Capital, and Cherry Crypto.
Strong potential to become the Lido (current $1.83B FDV) of Stacks, offering auto-compounding tokenized representation of stacked STX (stSTX).
Antaris: The Red Hat for Satellite Missions | Revolutionizing Satellite Design, Simulation, and Operation
Lockheed Martin and Streamlined Ventures backed Antaris Space is the first advanced platform for Designing, Simulating, and Operating satellites, reducing lifecycle costs by 10x and cutting time to orbit in half.
Launched first demonstration satellite, Janus-1, in February 2023, built in just 10 months with 75% cost savings over comparable missions.
Projecting $15.8M TCV Bookings this year with customers including Almagest, Spectral, ST Engineering, and government contracts.
Strong financial projections: $9M in contracted ARR EO24 → $25M ARR EO25 → $50M ARR EO26, with recognized revenue of $5M EO24 → $10M EO25 → $20M EO26.
Led by an experienced team: Co-founders Tom Barton (CEO) and Karthik Govindhasamy (CTO and President) previously served as CTO and COO of Planet Labs ($600M raised).
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