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Punching Above Your Weight as a Founder: Why I invested in Bizly

This is going to be BIG.

Sure, I'm an investor, too, but I started Brooklyn Bridge Ventures , the firm I invest out of. That means that in addition to thinking about what kinds of investments I'm going to make, I need to think about where I'm going to work, payroll, business cards, all that stuff. I'm a founder. It was exactly the kind of vibe I wanted.

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Why We Invested in CLEAR

Revolution

This market growth is one of the many reasons why Revolution was excited to announce our investment in CLEAR last week. They also partnered with several Major League Baseball (MLB) stadiums and Tickets.com to enable fans to use their biometrics instead of a paper or mobile ticket to enter the ballpark.

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How To End Your Pitch with Your Vision

Dream It

We have made the decision to invest in entrepreneurs without slides, whose ambition, passion, depth of understanding of an opportunity and compelling vision come through crystal-clear in conversation,” states Sarah Guo from Greylock Partners. It’s not about the slide deck. Don’t confuse "exit strategy" with your company’s vision.

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GM Ventures invests in startup building fast charge-capable battery tech

TechCrunch

It plans to use the fresh capital to scale its fast charge-capable anode technologies that might enable the next generation of batteries for electric vehicles. Alongside lead investor Lotte Chemical and investment company KTB Network, General Motors’ corporate venture capital arm, GM Ventures, signed on as a strategic investor.

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Colombian e-commerce enablement startup Melonn raises $20M to help SMBs scale in LatAm

TechCrunch

NFX and existing backers Pear and Mexico-based Wollef (formely known as Jaguar Ventures) doubled down on their investment, which values Melonn “in the neighborhood” of $100 million post-money and brings the Bogota-based startup’s total raised to $24 million since its November 2020 inception.

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Investing in Gate Bio

Andreessen Horowitz

Small molecules: the OGs of the therapeutic arsenal Amidst all this rapid progress, small molecules—the original heroes of the therapeutic arsenal, the original enablers of the “pill” form of drugs we all have in our medicine cabinets—continue to represent ~60% of all new FDA approvals.

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Nigerian mobility-tech startup MAX bags $31 million in Series B round, set to expand across Africa, build EV infrastructure

TechCrunch

MAX ) is planning to enter more markets across Africa as it races towards formalizing the continent’s transportation sector after securing $31 million in Series B funding. The latest funding round that was led by global private equity platform, Lightrock, which is making its first investment in the African mobility space.