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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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Pitch Deck Teardown: Gable’s $12M Series A deck

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Here’s what it included: Cover slide Team slide Market context slide (“The revolution of remote work”) Problem slide No. 1 (“Going remote-first is hard”) How people solve it now (“How it’s done today”) Problem slide No. 1 (“Employee view”) Product slide No. 1 Case study slide No.

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

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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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TechCrunch+ roundup: Ocean tech investor survey, AI and PR, L-1 visa options

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To learn more about the opportunities they’re chasing and discover how climate change is shaping their investment thesis, he surveyed: Daniela V. “Making the business of shared workspaces easier for startups certainly has its challenges, but it’s also a large and growing market,” writes Haje Jan Kamps.

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

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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 One of the areas Taussig was looking into was ways to solve the demand for delivery.

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Coworking Megatrend Predictions for 2020

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We also predicted the rise of high-end luxury brands ( see this recent Soho Investment ) with brands finding new and inventive ways to set themselves apart. We talked about consolidation and the continued growth due to a strong economy and investments. The WeWork effect could hold back investment in our industry.

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Brazilian workspace-on-demand marketplace BeerOrCoffee snags $10M

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BeerOrCoffee describes itself as a B2B marketplace of workspaces on demand that aims to provide hybrid work solutions for companies. It offers over 1,100 shared workspaces in 160 Brazilian cities on its marketplace, including WeWork, Selina and Impact Hub. Image Credits: BeerOrCoffee. BeerOrCoffee practices what it preaches.