VC Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2022

The latest appearance, a 3 hour conversation with Joe Rogan, comes in a troubling time for Meta/Facebook as I covered in my latest post on VC Cafe. Joe Rogan hosted Mark Zuckerberg on a 3-hour conversation on the metaverse and Facebook’s woes. Inworld AI, takes this type of technology to create game characters using text.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Patient Conversation Media, Inc., company, announced today it has successfully closed its initial strategic funding, securing capital and assets exceeding $1 million dollars. PCMi will utilize these assets to expand its content publishing capabilities, acquire assets and extend its Pay-Per-Conversation advertising network.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Corporate venture funds are often referred to as ‘strategic’ investors because of the unique benefits they bring to the table. Access to the corporate investor’s ecosystem can open up great opportunities from technology validation to customer and partner development. Some corporate VCs even have seed funds.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2009

The third scenario I’ve seen is with “strategic&# investors. Strategic is often a euphemism for investors that are from the industry you serve rather than from a purely financial investor. I’ll cover strategic investors in a different post. Anyone else have good/bad experiences?

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Advisory Board Strategic Investors Venture Capital Later Stage 215

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 28, 2017

Further, not only does substantial value accrue to the community but control and governance over the underlying technology and protocol accrues to the community and token holders as well. We typically advise our portfolio companies to avoid taking on strategic investors at an early stage for this very reason. Fuzzy Governance.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 28, 2017

Further, not only does substantial value accrue to the community but control and governance over the underlying technology and protocol accrues to the community and token holders as well. We typically advise our portfolio companies to avoid taking on strategic investors at an early stage for this very reason. Fuzzy Governance.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 15, 2024

One of our strategic investors is using HourOne.ai (disclosure: a Remagine Ventures portfolio compan y) to create synthetic video news around sports. Especially 1:1 conversations are interesting, changing the relationship between media and the consumer from 1:many to 1:1.

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