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12/14 - This Week in Venture Capital & Start-ups

December 14, 2023

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Here is a breakdown of today's newsletter:

  • šŸ„³ Events & Community

  • šŸŽ™ļø New Podcast Episode

  • šŸ“ˆ Start-Up Investment Opportunities

  • šŸ’° Venture Capital News

šŸ„³ Events & Community: 

We are hosting another event for Founders and Investors on January 24th in LA! The list is almost filled but if you are interested RSVP HERE. 

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!

šŸŽ™ļø Podcast:

If you're already investing in start-ups or interested in investing in start-ups then you need to do this. This is how Peter Thiel turned a $2,000 Roth IRA into $5B and didn't have to pay taxes.

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.

šŸ“ˆ 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 Hiltonā€™s 11:11 Media, and more

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

  • Link to invest

Moviepass: the relaunched cinema subscription platform with nearly 1M waitlist

  • This series A is after the original founders repurchased the company post-acquisition

  • Investing alongside Animoca, Kelly Ventures, Caritas, and Sand Hill Angels

  • Est. $100M+ ARR sitting on the waitlist for a full relaunch 

  • Link to invest

Discord: 175M MAU communication platform with IPO looming

  • We are acquiring shares at an implied valuation of $6.5B, a 56% discount to the previous round

  • Discord previously rejected an acquisition offer for $12B

  • Expected to cross $640M revenue this year

  • Exclusive deal with gen AI company Midjourney, only available as a Discord app

  • Link to invest

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

Kraken: Secondary Shares for one of the Largest, Oldest Crypto Exchanges

  • Trusted by over 9M traders worldwide, they are #2 in total spot volume in the US

  • Shares are trading at implied valuation of $2.1B, a 15x upside against Coinbase

  • Kraken holds 47% of the top 10 altcoin pair market depth

  • They are also launching their own bank, announced in March

  • 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 ā€˜feelā€™ 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 ā€œThis is the most powerful real-world AI applicationā€ heā€™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

Minima: the future of the ā€œInternet of Thingsā€

  • 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 thatā€™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

šŸ’° Venture Capital News

Crunchbase: Global Venture Funding In November Slows At Early StageVCs Gaining Larger Stakes 

  1. Global venture funding in November 2023 reached $19.2 billion, slightly lower than the previous month and down 16% from November 2022.

  2. Early-stage funding saw the most significant decline, dropping by 34% year over year, while seed funding slowed by over 15%.

  3. In contrast, late-stage funding increased by approximately 7% compared to November 2022.

  4. Health care and financial services companies raised over $3 billion each, making them the sectors with the highest investment last month.

  5. Artificial intelligence companies secured a total of $2.4 billion in funding, with notable investments in AI infrastructure companies.

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