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Hair On A Deal

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

In a perfect world, everything about a potential investment will be confidence inducing. There will always be things about a potential investment that create heartburn. They have popularized a new form of work space, a new business model for it, and have they have built a global brand around shared workspaces.

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Mage aims to be the ‘Stripe for AI;’ raises $6.3M for developer tools to build AI into apps

TechCrunch

Mage’s technology is a low-code, cloud-based tool and user interface with a shared workspace similar to Figma. Darian Shirazi, general partner at Gradient Ventures, said via email that he found Mage while looking for an investment in the machine learning infrastructure space that didn’t require data engineering experience.

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All Day Kitchens wants to expand every independent restaurant’s delivery network

TechCrunch

The pandemic ushered in the popularity of shared workspaces, known as cloud kitchens or ghost kitchens, for restaurants to cook meals exclusively for delivery. The new investment brings All Day Kitchens’ total funding to date to $102.5 Instead, we built a platform for micro-fulfillment so they could expand their reach.”.