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Founders Fund backs Vest, a startup out to give Latin Americans a bridge to investing in the US stock market

TechCrunch

CEO and co-founder Aaron Polhamus said he, Miguel Arroyo and Jaime Rodas were driven to start Mexico City-based Vest in December 2020 because of their belief that while Latin Americans work hard for their savings, “historically their savings have not worked hard for them.”. Financial services for investing and cash management in the U.S.

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At Last – An Asset Class Achieving High Ownership at Low Cost

Angel Capital Association

Studios do this by using repeatable frameworks (imagine a factory) to test these ideas and back them with funding and resources in order to launch and grow powerful, scalable startups. With larger funds also come more rules and structures around the investment thesis and strategy.

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Zilliz, the startup behind the Milvus open source vector database for AI apps, raises $60M, relocates to SF

TechCrunch

The company said that downloads have now passed the 1 million mark, compared to 300,000 a year ago, with production users growing by 300% in the same period — however, it didn’t disclose its active user numbers. On the first of these, Zilliz’s breakout product, the open-source Milvus, has boomed.

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When, If Ever, Should Profitable Bootstrapped Startups Raise Capital?

Tomasz Tunguz

” One founder asked me this question recently. You can download this model or clone it in your Google docs to play around with it. Imagine two founders start a company. In the bootstrapped case, the founders keep all of their equity and invest $150k of their own money. Again it’s very basic.

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Daily Crunch: Sources say creator platform Fireside will cozy up to a $125M Series A

TechCrunch

Before we jump into our daily download of startup doings, a few call-outs from today’s coverage. 14 climate tech investors share their H1 2022 strategies. Joshua Posamentier, co-founder and managing partner, Congruent Ventures. Maryanna Saenko, co-founder and partner, Future Ventures. Startups/VC. Robert Downey Jr.,

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To boost early-stage growth, adopt a jobs-to-be-done approach to marketing

TechCrunch

Michael Popchuk is a serial entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Saldo Apps. The jobs-to-be-done (JTBD) approach provides a framework for defining, categorizing, capturing and organizing all your customers’ needs. Landing pages made with the JTBD framework converted more than 15% visitors to registration.

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Xayn is privacy-safe, personalized mobile web search powered by on-device AIs

TechCrunch

The team behind the app, which is comprised of 30% PhDs, has been working on the core privacy vs convenience problem for some six years (though the company was only founded in 2017); initially as an academic research project — going on to offer an open source framework for masked federated learning, called XayNet.