🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

07 February 2023 11:43

FTX Pitch Deck that raised 💲900 mln + 2 more

3 new fundraising pitch deck examples in InnMind knowledge base 👇

Revolut Startup Pitch deck helped them to raise £1.5 mln (approx. $1.9 mln) in its early Seed investment round back in 2015.

N26 Pitch Deck helped them raise $40 mln in its Series B funding round back in 2016.

And FTX Pitch Deck was used by the crypto exchange to raise their $900 mln Series B funding round in 2021.

and it's FREE to download!

🚨This is NOT MEANT to copy-paste in your slides! Please use it for inspiration and self-education, trying to understand how these companies elaborated on their value, vision and traction, what slides attracted investors' attention, and what is missing in your investor decks.

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

03 February 2023 14:06

5️⃣ Time of «idea stage fundraising» is gone. Venture capitalists want to have solid reasons to invest in web3 startups

Be prepared to prove to VCs that your team knows what market NEEDS, can EXECUTE and already has put huge efforts into your project development.
👉 Product Traction (even if you don’t have a working product yet, demonstrate low-cost MVP, mockup with user-friendly UX/UI, etc)
👉 Product-Market Fit & Go-to-Market Traction (start executing your go-to-market at early stage!)
No product yet? - Build a community around the idea, generate landing pages and a waiting list for leadgen. No money for promotion? - Use organic sources, SMM strategies, SEO and growth hacking.
👉 Team Traction (don’t show just titles in the team description. Demonstrate what your core team members have achieved so far and what they’re capable of doing!)
👉 Solid Tokenomics (user-centric, well-thought, clear and transparent)
👉 Clarity on «How you will earn money»? or «How you will ensure solid token performance despite market conditions»

6️⃣ Keep the conversation going, no immediate decisions

All crypto VCs share this approach nowadays: no more SAFT signed within a few days after the meeting. Even if investors like the project, made due diligence, and potentially think it to be a good investment opportunity, they prefer to stay in touch for a couple of months, continue the conversation, and see how the startup will progress within some time. Be prepared to follow up with potential investors regularly, share updates and celebrate achievements, and demonstrate that you continue delivering results.
That is the strategy that will bring you closer to the final deal! 🏆


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30 January 2023 16:14

While working on some value-add content for you, here is the pic you can share with everyone who starts the calls with «where is the bottom» or «when the bull market is back?»

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

24 January 2023 10:55

🧩Creating a Successful Tokenomics: Key Metrics to Consider🃏 Part 1

As promised, here you have 👉 the Tokenomics Guide: Key Metrics to Consider

▶️ Learn about the key metrics to consider when creating successful tokenomics for your web3 startup.

▶️ Discover how to design a token distribution, token velocity, vesting and token burn mechanics, and network usage strategy that aligns with the long-term success of your project.

▶️ Get expert advice on how to avoid the common mistakes made by failed web3 startups.

▶️ Optimize your tokenomics for fundraising and adoption.

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21 January 2023 09:58

We’re so proud today:

Our small Telegram channel got featured in the 🔝 recommended list of channels by Hackernoon, together with such crypto monsters as Cointelegraph, Decrypt, and others 🤗❤️

📖 Read: Crypto Telegram Detox: The Only 7 Telegram Channels You Need in 2023

🙏Thank You for reading, supporting and spreading the word! 😘🤝

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

17 January 2023 00:22

❓Tell me:

Are you waiting to see another scene, where GenCoin team pitches to tech genious, multimillionaire Alex Bell, their potential lead investor? They need to convince him, answering the question about «The Big WHY»: Why GenCoin?

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

16 January 2023 23:47

🚀📺StartUp: The Crypto Series. Can we Learn from GenCoin's Fundraising Journey?

Have you checked out the TV series "StartUp" by Crackle yet? It premiered in 2016, in the early days of cryptocurrency industry, and streamed on Netflix in 2021 bullish year.

The story is about a crypto startup from Miami: GenCoin, a new cryptocurrency with a mission to help the unbanked population in their community and take on the traditional banking system.

Btw: we featured it in our top list of 20 recommended films for crypto entrepreneurs.

A colorful group of co-founders that has nothing in common:
👤 Izzy, a Hispanic hacker (CTO);
👤 Nick, a white banker (Fundraiser),
👤 and Ronald, a black gangster (hmm.. troubleshooter & bizdev?)…
All got united by a big vision, have put everything they had to kick their startup off the ground.

It’s not only a fun watch with an intriguing story!

“StartUp” shows the hard path of being a crypto startup entrepreneur… Pitfalls, ups and downs, challenges… Fundraising journey, VC pitch, rejection by investors, bootstrapping, dealing with criminals and corrupted FBI agent, protecting their technology from being stolen, conflicts between the co-founders and maintaining relationships within the team.

That’s something! Agree? 😉

What I love about this show is that it doesn't sugarcoat🍭 the harsh reality of the startup world. But the show doesn't just highlight the struggles - it also shines a light on the potential of blockchain technology to change the world! 🌎

The scenes where they pitch to VCs and work to raise funds are spot-on. And I want to share with you a couple of shots of these 👀

(btw, I bet you won’t find these cuts in the web! We’ve spent a couple of days to prepare this content exclusively for our channel subscribers. So share your ❤️ and spread it around)

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🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

10 January 2023 20:27

… and here is a short recap of the VC fundraising in crypto in 2022 🥶

However, there is still more than enough venture capital money to be deployed in 2023 before the next bull run. The fact is: you need to perform better to receive it!

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

03 January 2023 12:04

BTW: interesting fact 👉 In the genesis block hash, Satoshi Nakamoto included the headline from this screenshoted article in The Times newspaper «Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks».

This refers to how governments deal with crises: they print large amounts of money, devaluing people's savings.

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

21 December 2022 21:04

⚔️Who wins Web3 Battle: Polygon VS Solana?

Last week’s data by Token Terminal revealed that the number of daily active users on Polygon (MATIC) network grew rapidly over the past few days, outperforming Solana (experiencing reputational problems after the story with FTX) and other popular protocols.

2022 was a hard year from all perspectives, and tough for crypto businesses facing the bear market challenges. But Polygon made a smart decision hiring YouTube’s head of gaming, Ryan Wyatt, as the CEO of Polygon Studios earlier this year, and here us why 👇👇👇

Do you remember 2021, when Polygon was just one of many L2 Ethereum scaling networks, together with Metis (pitched its seed round on InnMind), Arbitrum, Optimism, Immutable-X, etc.? With an ambitious, but a bit clumsy team that was struggling to grow the ecosystem of developers, startups and apps.

Seems they learned the lessons from previous crypto winter seasons and focused in 2022 on user acquisition and adoption, building relationships with huge brands and companies that could push the mass adoption of web3 (and Polygon ecosystem).

✔️This summer Reddit rolled out “Collectible Avatar” NFTs on Polygon, resulting in the creation of more than 4 million new wallets to claim the NFTs.
✔️Meta tapped into Polygon to explore the NFT space via Instagram, enabling its billion-plus users to mint their photos and images on Polygon.
✔️Starbucks partnered with Polygon to launch Odyssey Web3 (a Web3-powered extension of the Starbucks Rewards loyalty program)
✔️Nike announced it will unveil in 2023 its new Web3 platform .Swoosh, offering Polygon-based NFT products.
✔️+ Disney, Mastercard, and many more web2 giants are entering the web3 world through Polygon network.

✔️Even 45th 🇺🇸 president Donald Trump, known for his skepticism regarding crypto, launched recently his NFT collection on Polygon, pushing up the NFT transactions volume and bringing new active userts.

And as a result, MATIC has climbed to the 10th-largest cryptocurrency in terms of market cap, weathering the crypto market decline better than many other top coins.

Our Supershort Takeaways:

👉 Polygon has potential to overcome competing chains in 2023
👉 If you build a web3 startup, don’t underestimate the classics: sales and bizdev with web2 brands for more adoption
👉 In competition games, the winner is the one who understands the prioritization of marketing and user acquisition. Startups are not exception.


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🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

21 December 2022 09:15

☠️Broken Web3 Marketing☠️

This is another good read for startup founders and all those who are involved in marketing of web3 and crypto projects 👉 Why Web3 Projects Fail With Growth Marketing: 3 Fundamental Mistakes, published yesterday in Hackernoon.

Save it in your bookmarks and … If you’re following your favorite web3 project or building your own, how many of these fundamental marketing mistakes did you count while analyzing its marketing strategy? 🤔

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

15 December 2022 08:45

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🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

07 December 2022 17:05

‼️Crypto VC pitch session: 2022 year’s final 👈 LIVE NOW

Join our live stream and see WHAT questions venture capitalists are asking the founders before investing and WHAT web3 startup attract the most interest by crypto VCs. You can also ask questions in the live chat 😉

Venture Funds:

- Stratifed Capital
- 369 Capital
- Everyrealm VC
- Infinity Ventures Crypto (IVC)
- Asva Ventures
- Alphabit Fund
- Blockrocket
- Kyber Ventures

Web3 Startups:

1. Polity Network (Liechtenstein)
Bastion offers the first easy to use decentralized platform from user and governance perspective to support asset managers and advisors on asset management.

2. UnoFarm (Singapore)
UnoFarm is a unique cross-chain autofarming solution with transparent automated strategies and beautiful analytics.

3. Aurus - Tokenised Gold (Netherlands)
Aurus aims to revolutionise the gold industry, using blockchain technology to make gold easier to trade and use, opening it to the masses.

4. Promptsea (Japan)
A Web3 marketplace for AI-artwork to be traded as NFTs and using Merkle tree semantics.

5. Shell Shocked (Kazakhstan)
GameFi's revolutionary P2E shooter for Web3 and Web2 gamers.

6. Metasport Arena (Spain)
A sports and entertainment metaverse dedicated to fans to follow their favorite teams, brands and idols.

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

06 December 2022 10:37

​​🤯 The European Central Bank (ECB) dumps on Bitcoin⁉️

Last week Ulrich Bindseil and Jürgen Schaaf, the director general and adviser of the ECB published a blog article on the Central Bank's official website entitled «Bitcoin’s Last Stand». Surprisingly, this article has nothing to do with in-depth research and analysis, and represents a pretty one-sided view on Bitcoin's current state and future.

Among the negative aspects of Bitcoin, the ECB staff points out that it:
- does not generate cash flow (like real estate) or dividends (like equities),
- cannot be used productively (like commodities) or provide social benefits (like gold),
- has never been used to any significant extent for legal real-world transactions,
- the Bitcoin system is an unprecedented polluter.

Authors come to conclusion: «since bitcoin appears to be neither suitable as a payment system nor as a form of investment, it should be treated as neither in regulatory terms, and thus should not be legitimized».

This created a huge wave of critics towards the ECB expertise itself and the authors’ conflict of interests. For instance, Ulrich Bindseil is known for his various articles on central bank digital currencies (CBDC) and their use cases, which creates an obvious conflict of interests since Bitcoin is a decentralized competitor of these.

Is it an attempt of ECB stuff to use the recent FTX collapse and liquidity scandal to dump Bitcoin even further and use this situation as a push towards CBDC, as many people in crypto community concluded? 🧐

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

01 December 2022 18:13

👥👥 Web3 Community Building: do you do it right?

I bet you’ll recognize a few typical mistakes, that every web3 startup team is doing in community building. But good news: after watching this video interview with community strategist Katya Kozyreva, you’ll have a better idea on how to build and manage community in web3 in a right way.

A few key takeways from the video:

🔑- Don’t mess up your community KPIs with marketing KPIs. They are not equal!

🔑- If you need community for marketing reasons, better even not to start: SMM will be cheaper, faster and more efficient!

🔑- Community manager is NOT a chat admin, but an engine that drives the engagement, grows value and provokes horizontal connections. Don’t underestimate this role and needed qualification!

🔑- Twitter is NOT a community building channel. But it is a great channel to reach and warm up your audience.

🔑- Startups with limited resources should stick on just one channel for community building. Don’t split your efforts between telegram-discord-reddit-etc., it will create less effect and more friction.

Interesting? Then watch the full video 📹

PS: If you still have questions about community building, ask them in the comments in youtube and we’ll answer them soon. Promise!🤝

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

06 February 2023 11:30

VCs treat Web3 Startups like kids treat their toys?

In the new Techstars Web3 Digest, curated by InnMind, our co-author Aakash raised a very actual topic: how do VC investors feel about web3 and crypto startups?

Someone will say «it’s not true!», others will find it too sarcastic.

But let’s be honest: the majority of crypto VCs nowadays, those guys that earned crazy returns on a bull market, simply stay away from deploying capital into startups.
Saving capital from bear market risks.
Saving liquidity for trading and buydeep strategies.
And waiting for the next UPPER trend…

And nobody questions why many venture capital professionals are waiting and ignore their main function: selecting promising early stage startups and actually investing.

Sometimes it feels really annoying! Agree?

Read the Techstars Web3 Digest and Subscribe

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

03 February 2023 14:05

What happens with Fundraising in Web3? VC Investors’ Sentiments in January 2023

Since the year started, InnMind team made a lot of calls with crypto VCs, aiming to understand: What are investors’ sentiments? What’s up with fundraising for web3 startups?🤔

We continue to research and will release a beautiful public report.. one day😉 But you need the 🥩meat, right? Exclusively for our telegram community, here is a short snapshot of web3 and crypto investors’ sentiments in January 2023 👇

💬 What Crypto Vcs Say + What It Means For Startup Founders:

1️⃣ Don’t get fooled by the market: we didn’t see the bottom yet.

There is more downtrend expected in 2023 before we will see sustainable recovery and growth. From investors’ perspective, it means they still are very careful with capital allocation. The majority expect the real market recovery starting not earlier than Autunm 2023.

2️⃣ Invest in early-stage startup VS «buy deep»?

From the risk perspective, many crypto investors find it reasonable to invest in liquid tokens with big volumes that are available nowadays with a huge discount, instead of deploying capital into early-stage web3 projects with unclear exit timeframe. But at the same time, they continue scouting for early-stage opportunities, hoping to find exceptionally good teams.

3️⃣ Hot Verticals to follow

Here is what VCs mentioned among the «most interesting web3 verticals» that they think will have the highest potential:
▶️ new DEXes
▶️ DeFi for masses (bringing DeFi solutions to non-crypto-savvy investors)
▶️ SocialFi
▶️ DataFi
▶️ Web3 infrastructure and enabling technologies in general

4️⃣ Follow the Tribe

Annoying but true fact: the majority of VCs we talked with still prefer not to be the first investor on the round. They pay more attention to startups that already have a lead investor or at least a VC with a good reputation that backs the project.

(…continue below… 👇)

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

25 January 2023 17:43

The Crypto VC Pitching session is live now 👉 https://youtu.be/ugah3boyizk

🚀🚀🚀 Web3 Startups that present their rounds to investors today:

1. Alium Finance (Estonia)

a Multichain DEX with Hybrid Liquidity and Cross-chain features, 10 blockchains connected and fully-functional native mobile app launched.

Startup Profile - https://app.innmind.com/viewStartup/yGhknddzNyAHGyHGH


2. Arakis (UAE)

a web3 community-based travel platform

Startup Profile - https://app.innmind.com/viewStartup/xhvoifS3FbJ7NSuzK


3. ZIZY (BVI)

The Super Versatile Web3 Hub! Win Crypto & NFT prizes, discover projects and earn airdrops, collect NFTs & boost earnings.

Startup Profile - https://app.innmind.com/viewStartup/KXkX5gQXsfGLX4JXH


4. Binaryx (Ukraine)

a Real Estate tokenization marketplace to open the RE investing market for retail and unlock liquidity.

Startup Profile - https://app.innmind.com/viewProfile/a73RNDJsH6D7NQRpy


5. Palmswap (BVI)

a decentralized perpetual exchange for trading perpetual contract on the Binance Smart Chain.

Startup Profile - https://app.innmind.com/viewStartup/CtrAexKHTQHkm3Cxv


6. Matrix Technology (Canada)

a decentralized web 2 and web 3 application credentialing system that preserves user data privacy and ownership.

Startup Profile - https://app.innmind.com/viewStartup/hqm4MbK9b2cqS7EB4


7. Polity Network (Liechtenstein)

a next-generation federated crypto wealth technology network, which combines human touch and cutting-edge technologies.

Startup Profile - https://app.innmind.com/viewStartup/KyxHZJzPXoyb7diD6


8. Block Games (UK)

a web3 games publisher platform that partners with game studios over revenue-share agreements to publish NFT-enabled casual mobile games.

Startup Profile - https://app.innmind.com/viewStartup/AK9JZdqWRMD4Px9hw

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

22 January 2023 20:59

Sunday evening, folks…

- What startup founders are doing?

- Right! Getting IN-SPI-RA-TI-ON 💡

Remember an old TV series by HBO «Silicon Valley»?

The story of a fictional character Richard Hendricks and his startup Pied Piper, reinventing the Internet into a decentralized network, what we’d call a real web3 internet.

We’ve made a shortcut for you from the first episode of 4th season. The founder pitches to the potential lead investor his vision: to create a peer-to-peer Internet that is free from firewalls, government regulation, and spying, free for all people in the world.

And don’t tell me it is not inspiring and more than actual in 2023, even if this TV show was produced back in 2014-2019…

What I find the most fascinating, is: on InnMind you’ll find REAL web3 startups that are building it these days!

For example, The Power DCloud, a nextgen web3 all-in-one decentralized infrastructure (DeInfra), which enables deployment of all parts of the full-fledged web3 app in a single decentralized environment with no need for centralized hosting. Feel free to check their website and telegram.

📍My point is: we’re here not only to inspire you, but also to bring you tools, skills, network and funding to help you bring amazing ideas and disruptive technologies to life!
So…
If you want to support us here, share this channel with your network and help other amazing entrepreneurs to learn about InnMind!

👥 COMMUNITY is THE POWER! 🤝

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

19 January 2023 12:51

Web3 Fundraising in 2023: the 6 mistakes 💩 that can prevent you from deal closure

Forget about the bull market’s fast & smooth fundraising stories! On a bear 📉 market you have to get prepared for a long, exhausting and challenging process of running for VCs, approaching them, pitching and convincing investors, and finally negotiating for a deal. And you’d better get well-prepared to hear NO more often than YES.

This video summarises the major mistakes and pitfalls VC investors pay attention to while analyzing web3 projects for funding 👉 https://youtu.be/sm0eQNjLxUk

📍If you’re fundraising for your startup, be sure you avoid them and don’t give VCs the reason to say NO!

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

16 January 2023 23:59

💵Angel Investor Pitch and $1,5 mln Raise

In this scene GenCoin co-founder Nick pitches to Benny Blush, a successful businessman and venture capitalist.

Keep in mind: earlier they already made a team pitch to Ben, elaborating on the huge potential value of GenCoin to the people and society. And it failed completely to attract investor’s interest and got a “NO”.

But Nick didn’t give up, he spent time to rethink the pitch focus and gave it one more try, this time elaborating on pure business bottom line.

And finally: his second, just 1 minute long pitch ended in receiving $1,5 million 💵 of angel investments!

📍Takeaway: never give up, and a «NO» from an investor doesn’t always mean «NO». If you continue attempts, it can turn out to be a «YES, take my money»! And we saw it on InnMind too many times …

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12 January 2023 16:04

2️⃣5️⃣ Most Important Metrics VC Investors Look at While Funding Series A

You wanted to know VC investors’ mindset? Here you go!

Leta Capital VC disclosed certain patterns and metrics that they use as a barometer to measure the attractiveness of the A-series startups from an investment perspective.

Source

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

10 January 2023 20:18

Crypto data analytics company Messari released its annual report 👉 Crypto Theses 2023.

It is a very long, but still amazing and insightful read, both for newbies and web3-savvy entrepreneurs and industry veterans.

Don’t get scared by 168 pages 😮 of text. Use table of contents to navigate to the sections you need the most.

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

03 January 2023 11:55

Happy New Year ☃️🎄 and Bitcoin’s Birthday 🎂

Today many of you come back to business after a short winter break. And we remind you that the same day 14 years ago (Jan. 3rd 2009) the first genesis block was generated in Bitcoin blockchain. We combined these 2 special dates together to send you double greetings from InnMind team😘

To crypto entrepreneurs and investors we wish this year to be positive, supportive and GREEN in all charts! Stay away from scam and FUD, and don’t slow down 👉 this will be YOUR YEAR to skyrocket 🚀

To all the startup founders out there pushing their businesses to new heights: your path may not always be easy (hah, it’s f*ng hard, let’s be honest!), but we wish you to remember the reason WHY you're on this journey instead of being in the safe and predictable corporate environment 👉 freedom, flexibility, the ability for rapid vertical and horizontal growth within the company, the absence of bureaucracy, and the pleasure of working with amazing people who inspire, uplift, empower and give us strength!

Don't let the challenges and difficulties overshadow the joy of being able to truly make an impact. Let’s build financial freedom together and have a successful and fulfilling 2023!

(c) image by DALL-E AI

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

21 December 2022 13:38

Funny and painful at the same time.
* Founders will understand!

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

20 December 2022 16:02

How NOT to invest: Lessons Learned

Crypto sector democratized investments: it’s not a joke anymore that even if you’re just 18 yo (or younger), you can gain the first investment experience with crypto.

And we have quite an interesting read for you today from the guy, who started investing in crypto startups and IDOs at his 17th, earned a lot and lost everything. But as a result he received a priceless knowledge that you can get from him for free.

Ready to spend your 3 minutes to gain this priceless advice and understand the thinking of a common newbie investor? Read Investing in Crypto Startups When You Are 18 y.o. Lessons Learned

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

09 December 2022 15:03

📉Huobi sais Crypto Market to Reach the Bottom in Q1 2023

Huobi Research released the Global Crypto Industry Overview and Trends: 2022–2023 Annual Report.

In this document, the authors make forecasts for the crypto industry in 2023.

Their predictions:
1️⃣ The market will reach the bottom in early 2023;
2️⃣ Social tycoons in Web2, such as Twitter, will continue to pursue Web3, introducing new paradigm of SocialFi;
3️⃣ Ecological prosperity for Layer2 will happen in 2023;
4️⃣ Accelerated ZK network will start to launch;
5️⃣ Dapp chain will usher in a period of rapid growth;
6️⃣ Bona fide demand for on-chain storage is growing rapidly, and the storage segment will embrace substantial and organic development;
7️⃣ On-chain regulation will be strengthened and some protocols may be endangered;
8️⃣ Cryptocurrencies will be adopted as payment or authorized as fiat currency by more countries 🚀

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

06 December 2022 19:21

💲 Blockchain VC Funding Insights 💲

$21.7 billion of venture capital was raised by blockchain companies in 2022 (Year-To-Date) across 1380 deals. It’s the data from the recent German Blockchain Report by CVVC. 80% of these deals are related to early-stage ventures.

Comparing to 2021, in 2022 we see significant increase in the number of deals (+39%) and funding (+55%) in blockchain infrastrcuture vertical. While Custody and Exchanges are the categories where YTD funding had not topped 2021 funding.

30 new blockchain unicorns🦄 were born in 2022, which is 10 less than compared to 2021 though.

The US leads with almost 50% of blockchain deal share. Hovever, the European blockchain venture funding also looking very strong, with over $1 billion invested in 79 deals in Q3 2022 only, particularly in early stage companies.

Btw: «Europe’s blockchain venture funding has hit the $1b mark for the third time in as many quarters. This is the first time that this has ever occurred, with Q2
breaking the records for funding raised as well as deal count at $1.4b and 112 deals».

According to the report, Blockchain funding as a percentage of total venture funding is at record high on a year-to-date basis both globally (6.59%), as well as for Europe (5.44%).

When looking for differences from previous bear markets, the amount of capital still being deployed right now is one of the most obvious evidence of this sector to be on the rise🚀 and long-term investors being here. Agree?

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

02 December 2022 14:30

The world’s largest institutional investor is bullish on web3? 🤯

BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager with over $10 trillion of assets under management, believes that tokenization is the future of markets! Recently their CEO Larry Fink shared his vision of decentralization & web3, and his belief in the tokenization of assets as the future of markets and securities 👇

https://youtube.com/shorts/riTE_j-wN5E

Is it a hint that we will see way more institutional players joining the web3 and crypto sector on the next bull run?

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

30 November 2022 22:31

🔥🔥 10 pitch decks that raised $15 Billion 🦄

Serial techpreneur Brett Adcock (Founder/CEO @ Figure, Archer ($2.7B IPO), Vettery ($100M exit) created an epic twitter thread with the pitch decks of 10 companies that raised HUGE funding rounds recently.

Many of these companies are not startups anymore, but IPO stage unicorns. But it can be still quite useful for startup founders’ inspiration (maybe you can find here some ideas for your ongoing fundraising).

And at the end of the day: what founder doesn't dream to build a unicorn?!

1️⃣ Archer Aviation: raised $1.1B at $2.7B valuation
https://s27.q4cdn.com/936913558/files/doc_presentations/2021/2_21_Investor-Presentation.pdf

2️⃣ SoFi: raised $2.4B at a $8.6B valuation.
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1818874/000110465921001952/tm211973d1_ex99-2.htm

3️⃣ Clover Health: raised $1.2B at a $3.7B valuation
https://investors.cloverhealth.com/static-files/8947bb5e-eb8d-4aa5-9c11-186c518d7676

4️⃣ Hims and Hers Health: raised $233M at a $1.6B valuation
https://s27.q4cdn.com/787306631/files/doc_presentation/HH-Investor_Presentation.pdf

5️⃣ Arrival: raised $629M at a $13B valuation
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1789760/000119312520296650/d91730dex992.htm

6️⃣ QuantumScape: raised $1.2B at a $3.3B valuation
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1811414/000156459020042442/kcac-ex993_61.htm

7️⃣ Lucid Motors: raised $6.8B at a $24B valuation
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1811210/000110465921026357/tm217491d2_ex99-2.htm

8️⃣ Polestar: raised $2.4B at a $21B valuation
https://www.datocms-assets.com/11286/1632735805-210927-polestar-investor-presentation-final.pdf

9️⃣ Heliogen: raised $385M at $2B valuation
https://1lfzd51welg49wnal3h3ei2m-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Heliogen_Investor_Presentation-FINAL.pdf

1️⃣0️⃣ Billtrust: raised $450M at $1.4B valuation
https://www.billtrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Billtrust-Investor-Presentation-Materials-October-19-2020.pdf

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