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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 more events for Founders and Investors in LA! The one next is on March 19th RSVP HERE to attend.

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:

Steph Mui is the founder of PIN (Power in Numbers), a VC-backed company that enables communities of people (including people from Stanford, YC, Sequoia Arc, Coinbase, and more) to invest in startups together. She talks about how even not being an accredited investor, PIN lets you invest in start-ups!

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.

Carro: Enabling Brands to Sell Products without Capital Upfront

• B2B SaaS company that enables any e-commerce company to sell products from the world's best brands without spending capital upfront, making inventory commitments, or handling fulfillment.

• Carro is already working with over 20k top brands and companies in the commerce space including NBC, Netflix, Tiktok, Flip, Barstool, Univision and more! 

• They currently are working on Adding 1M products to TikTok Shop, expanding Cross-Platform, and launching in other countries

• Investing alongside Paypal Ventures, Alpha Edison, Paris Hilton’s 11:11 Media, and more

• $2.05M revenue to date, with est $5.4M in 2024

• Link to invest

Deep6 AI: Clinical Trials at Turbo Speed using AI

• The costliest and longest bottleneck of bringing new health treatments to market is being accelerated by their AI matching system

• By speeding this delay, Deep6 is able to save billions in revenue, massive drug cost increases, and potentially hundreds or even thousands of lives

• Backed by Point72, GSR Ventures, Samsung NEXT, 3M 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

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

• 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

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

• Token sale: SAFT

• Link to Invest

💰 Venture Capital News

Pitchbook: US Female Founders Summary

• U.S. venture capital funding for female-founded or co-founded companies has grown from less than 5% of deals in 2008 to over 15% in 2022.

• However, companies founded solely by women received just 2% of total U.S. venture capital in 2023, showing slower growth.

• Female-founded or co-founded companies garnered over $16 billion in VC funding in 2022, an all-time high.

• California dominates, with around 40% of deals for female-founded companies in major metros like San Francisco and Los Angeles.

• Software is the top industry for VC deals with female founders, receiving over 30% of deal value the past decade.

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