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Dispatches from the Road: Q3 2023

Revolution

What we did: Revolution Ventures VP, Alex Shtarkman , joined fellow proptech investors onstage at Blueprint 2023 to discuss the current landscape for real estate tech founders and funders. Hear his takes on building a strong investor syndicate. Where to go: Get lost in four floors of stacks at John K. Where we went: Burlington, VT ?

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TravelPerkā€™s breakout Business Platform gains $104M led by Softbank Vision Fund 2

American Entrepreneurship

With booking volumes approaching $2 billion and employees now over 1200, the latest lead funder Softbank has come on board with participation from existing investors, Kinnevik and Felix Capital. Last year TravelPerk grew revenue by over 70% year-over-year with gross profit rising by more than 90% year-over-year.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

Today you have funders focused exclusively on ā€œDay 0ā€ startups or ones that arenā€™t even created yet. He also wrote this excellent book on the Venture Capital industry that I highly recommend ? Ten years on much has changed. The market today would barely be recognizable by a time traveler from 2011. Secrets of Sand Hill Road.

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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why ā€œIn Personā€ is Everything)

Both Sides of the Table

Itā€™s predictable, there is no reason to get mad about it and with a well-designed play book you can overcome this much of the time. Because you have a unitary focus on financing your company or you die you seem not to miss a beat in thinking about the last meeting and the funder has been whipsawed in 20 directions.

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Great Question gets $2.5M seed round to make customer research easier

TechCrunch

The platform has been used to interview customers about product ideas and strategy, find product-market fit, conduct usability studies on UX designs and see how well marketing landing pages perform. Great Questionā€™s seed round came from investors including Funders Club, January Capital, Nomo VC and Twenty-Two Ventures.

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Inside the secretive Silicon Valley startup trying to save the oceans with tech

TechCrunch

Theyā€™ve been absolutely a dream funder.ā€. That makes Oceankind one of the biggest non-governmental funders of ocean science in the world. Moreover, Oceankind itself is not a nonprofit, which are required to open their books every year in public filings to the IRS. 14 climate tech investors share their H1 2022 strategies.

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2021 Marketing Trends to Grow Your Business

StartupNation

From maintaining the back-of-the-house books to providing stellar customer service to continually providing excellent products and services, there are a lot of different hats that you need to wear. Create and leverage a review strategy. Expand your reach. Being a small business owner is no small feat. Customer reviews. Thatā€™s right.

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