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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Quantstamp

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 20, 2020 Quantstamp is a Y Combinator-backed company building the standard in blockchain cybersecurity. One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , see the Quantstamp pitch in the category of Blockchain Technology (12:30 pm to 1:30 pm Sunday, March 15) before a live audience and a panel of expert judges.

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“Growth and scaling are the hardest things to get right” - Chainalysis’ Michael Gronager

Cracking the Code

Since its Series C in November 2020, Chainalysis has increased ARR by more than 100% year-over-year, doubled its client base and now supports more than 100 digital assets across 10 native blockchains (around 90% of cryptocurrency economic activity). I met [Kraken co-founder] Jesse Powell here. ? How did Kraken come about? ?

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Strategy Roundtable: Investors Don't Fund Broad Ideas

ReadWriteStart

He is looking to raise money now, but I must say, his financing strategy made me cringe. Then Lokesh Parakh discussed a consulting service that he and his five colleagues are trying to pull together in the pre-paid card business, helping non-banking financial institutions launch card services in South Asia. We have to work on that!

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

Of the 30 Asia-based founders, all were natives of the country in which they built their businesses: 23 Chinese, three Japanese, two Korean and two Indian. Kauffman Fellows Report (2020): “Diverse Founding Teams generate higher median realized multiples (RMs) on Acquisitions and IPOs]. Of course, this dataset is incomplete.

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Does Your VC have an Investment Thesis, or a Hypothesis?

David Teten

Foundry Group, investing primarily in “ Software and Internet ”, follows six major themes, e.g., Human Computer Interaction (HCI) or Distribution. Revenue-Based Finance and Flexible VC investors invest using “alternative VC” structures, as opposed to conventional preferred equity and convertible notes. 5) Structure-defined funds.

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

That is a common experience we hear from outsiders that there's only two cultures of Silicon Valley, and when we get into the funding and financing of companies, that that's really where the bias can come in. ER : So take me back in time to right before the pandemic, the start of 2020, where was Carbon Health at that point?

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

free, distributed source code control management system. easy business finance software. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Y Combinator : They provide a series of AA equity financing documents that are written with simpler words so start-up companies will have an easier starting point. Startup Threads.