The Girls Table Newsletter

1/04 - This Week in Web3, Venture Capital, & Start-ups

January 04, 2023

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GM, We wanted to take a moment to thank all of you, wonderful readers, for your support over the past few months. Your engagement and feedback have been invaluable to us and we are so grateful to have such a dedicated community. As we ring in the new year, we are excited to set new goals and continue bringing you top-quality content. We are committed to making this year even better than the last and we hope you will continue to join us on this journey. Here's to a bright and successful new year for us all!

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: 

New Year's Resolutions

If you are struggling with your New Year's Resolutions or just want to reflect on 2022, one of our community members recently shared with us a free goal-setting booklet: YearCompass.

YearCompass helps you reflect on the past year and plan the next one. By answering specific questions about 2022, and working on exercises for 2023, YearCompass helps you uncover your own patterns and design the ideal year for yourself.

Learn from your mistakes, celebrate your victories, and set out a path you want to walk on.

Future Girl's Table Events:

We are always looking for sponsors to be able to plan more events for Women in Web3. If you or your company might be interested, please reach out!

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 group of inspiration Women!

🎙️ New Podcast Episode:

In this week's episode of The Girls Table, TradingFemale is joined by Julia Landauer who is an American professional Nascar race car driver and motivational keynote speaker. During college, Julia was also a contestant on season 26 of CBS’ reality TV show Survivor.

Julia shares her story about building a brand around herself at a young age to get sponsors for racecar driving and how she got to where she is today.

🚨 TLDR - This Week in Crypto:

  • Last week, SBF posted bail on $250M, requiring co-signers to submit $25M in collateral

  • Bankman-Fried’s parents’ house in California made up 4M of the collateral

  • Two additional co-signers secured the remaining $21M

  • “Avi” was charged with fraud and market manipulation in relation to the $110M exploit

  • FBI and local law enforcement in Puerto Rico detained Avi, now awaiting trial in New York

  • In the wake of the exploit, Eisenberg and Mango Markets agreed to a restitution of $67M back to the protocol, in exchange for legal impunity

  • When the remaining $47M was frozen by an exchange, Ari exposed himself to law enforcement by traveling from Israel to the US in an ensuing lawsuit against the exchange, where he was apprehended

  • Cameron Winklevoss posted an open letter to Barry Silbert, alleging the latter’s refusal to meet

  • Genesis, a subsidiary of DCG, is holding $900M of Gemini client funds, locked shortly after the FTX crisis

  • This comes as Gemini is under threat of a class action suit from users whose funds were held in Gemini Earn

💸 NFT Alpha: 

  • DNP3 founded the Goobers NFT project, metaverse platform Gridcraft, and charity-focused CluCoin

  • In a statement posted to Twitter, the founder claimed the loss was a result of a crippling gambling addiction

  • In addition to losing the invested funds, his own savings were lost to online casino Stake

  • In a “New Year’s Letter from the President”, Yosuke Matsuda reiterated the company’s excitement for NFT projects

  • Specifically, he pointed to the Japanese government’s “Priority Policy Program for Realizing a Digital Society”, which supports normalizing and regulating blockchain technology

  • He also hinted at multiple blockchain games under development by Square Enix

  • This teaser trailer is the first glimpse at a completed WilderWorld gameplay

  • Items from WilderWorld NFT collections (clothing, art, assets) are featured

  • Built on Unreal 5, the graphics are comparable to a AAA game

  • Bugs submitted to Immunefi are subject to rewards based on the severity

  • Bounties are paid in the Sandbox native token SAND

  • Critical bugs can be eligible for up to $200k in SAND

📈 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.

SuperWorld: Building the Virtual World in AR Mapped onto the Real World

  • SuperWorld has created a virtual map over the real world that allows users to buy, sell and customize their real estate

  • They are the hub for innovation, transparency, and secure ownership rights

  • Unique platform offers users powerful tools that drive innovation in this rapidly growing space

  • Over 18,000 100m x 100m plots of augmented reality land have been sold so far

  • They are organizing SuperWorld Summit, the “Davos” of the metaverse

  • Link to invest

Azarus: Turning Streams into Games + Follow-On Round - 4.5M watch hours YTD

  • Since the last round of funding, they launched the new Azarus Platform, which enables anyone to build and distribute games that can be played on Streams

  • Partnered with leading talent agency, AFK to get them to a target of 10M MAU by March 2023.

  • Deployed a series of brand-sponsored games for marquee clients such as Ubisoft / Logitech / Razer / Intel, and Coca Cola

  • $7M in the pipeline for this year and $15M for 2023, and the team is hustling to close as many deals as possible, as fast as possible

  • Launched a partnership with Meta (Facebook Gaming); currently in Open Beta

  • Chosen 5Crypto to help with external communication and public relations - they’ve done a phenomenal job with the SandboxTheir traction is insane with 500K concurrent viewers - the largest audience so far, 4.5 million watch hours year-to-date 2022, and average weekly Engagement Retention of 65.6%

  • Seed +, $50M Post-Money Cap

  • Link to Invest

Blocklords: GoT Meets Axie - Revolutionizing Play-To-Earn Gaming

  • Blocklords already has 120k pre-registered for their play-to-earn game

  • The medieval-based game allows players to craft their narrative while simultaneously earning cryptocurrency for tasks they complete within the game (Play-to-earn model).

  • Blocklords is focusing on delivering value to the user first to build up the user base and ecosystem first - This approach seems to be working by their massive sign-up and connection numbers

  • Money earned can be used to progress in the game or traded on crypto exchanges.

  • Bitscraft, Delphi Digital, and Animoca Brands are all investing

  • SAFT, $100M FMV

  • Link to Invest

💰 Venture Capital News

  • At 163 pages, this massive report is the sixth annual release

  • The report is split into two books, reporting on trends in DeFi, L1s, DAOs, legal policy, and more

  • Previous reports have been extremely prescient, making their Crypto Theses a trend-setting document in the VC world

👋 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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