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Stephanie Zhan walks through the Rec Room pitch deck that won Sequoia’s investment

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In a recent episode of TechCrunch Live (formerly Extra Crunch Live) , Sequoia partner Stephanie Zhan and Nick Fajt, founder and CEO of social gaming platform Rec Room , explained what the venture capital firm looks for in consumer-facing startups. You can check out the whole episode as well as the Rec Room pitch deck below.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: VCs rate pitch decks, IPO analysis, Techstars’ expansion plans

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“Especially for first-time founders, assessing product-market fit at a stage where it’s mostly anticipation can be as much art as science,” writes News Editor Darrell Etherington, who interviewed three VCs about the topic for TechCrunch Disrupt: Heather Hartnett, Human Ventures. Getting the details right in your pitch deck.

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Metaverse Magna raises $3.2M at a $30M valuation to build Africa’s largest gaming DAO

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This February, Africa and emerging market-focused Nestcoin raised a pre-seed round to build, operate and invest in its web3 applications, including crypto content platform Breach Club and gaming guild Metaverse Magna (MVM). Meanwhile, MVM said it is building a soon-to-launch social gaming app, Hyper.

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Kodland, which teaches kids digital skills, grabs $9M to scale its online coding school

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The round is led by Redseed Ventures, with participation from Baring Vostok, Kismet, Flyer One Ventures and Alexander Nevinsky, a partner at New York-based I2BF. Kodland’s remote courses for children aged 6-17 are currently available in the U.K., Ireland, the U.S.,

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Equal access to capital and entrepreneurship is the final civil rights movement

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But despite my privilege, I’m also confident that my Black heritage made it more difficult for me to raise venture capital. Today — and the data proves this — if you are a white male, you have an unfair advantage when looking to raise venture capital. At the time, I didn’t even know that raising venture capital was a possibility.

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Skate Where the Puck is Going

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Anyone who works in the venture business or frankly just lives in Silicon Valley will be used to hearing a buzz word rise up out of nowhere to capture the technology zeitgeist and find its way into every entrepreneur’s product development plan or every aspiring entrepreneur’s pitch deck.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

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There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact. Because you have multiple forces at work.

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