This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

It's a story that just hit a milestone--a $4mm round of venture funding that I'm ecstatic to say Brooklyn Bridge Ventures just led. But just because you could see them everywhere doesn't make them an obvious venture bet--nor does it tell the story of how the round even came to be.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble. They also have a separate $300 million fund focused on bricks-n-mortar consumer retail. In 2002 after exiting his second company he was attracted to the variety of being a VC.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

It seems today that any venture-backed company that can claim some sort of tech mantle is being treated to a strong IPO pricing run and a huge first-day result. Namely, certain elements of the venture capital community who would prefer to keep all outsized gains in their own pockets. ai, Doordash and Airbnb.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

There are many companies bringing one-click checkout to the direct-to-consumer marketplace, but few are developing similar tools for the business-to-business marketplace. B2B payment volume is five times the size of business-to-consumer retail payments, yet much of those payments are not being done online.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

E-commerce roll-up startup Flora emerged from stealth mode with $9 million in seed funding from an investor group that included Lux Capital, Correlation Ventures, Climate Capital and Gokul Rajaram. Kaya was also in investment banking at Goldman Sachs, focused on consumer retail M&A.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Other themes include So Glamorous, which includes companies selling apparel, luxury goods and other consumer retail products such as handbags, shoes and jewelry and The Open Road, which includes – you guessed it – companies involved in the development of self-driving cars, electric vehicles and their components and materials. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2021

The startup has raised a little over $15 million to date, per Crunchbase data , but came back into our minds thanks to the launch of a deal with the Dollar Tree company , a consumer retailer that has around one zillion stores in America. UiPath, SPACs, and a neat venture capital round. More when we have it. Probably too much.

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