Are you up on the Rundown? Check out the latest edition for our latest updates and news: 🤝 Why InsurTech is the focus of our next Field Study (plus, how to get involved) 🛠 Founder resources, including updates to our Master Agency List 🌴 Insight on fundraising in Miami's tech ecosystem 🎉 The big event you'll find us attending in September Details ⤵
Alpaca VC
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
New York, NY 7,254 followers
Thematic investors focused on leading investments reshaping the real world.
About us
Alpaca VC is a seed-stage venture capital firm based in New York. We believe that layering technology over daily life transforms how the real world works. So we invest in the people, products and processes that power commerce in the physical world. Together with founders, we kickstart real change with outsized impact. Led by a diverse team of company builders, operators, and analytical thinkers, Alpaca has developed a repeatable playbook to help its entrepreneurs most efficiently progress from Seed to Series A. If you are an entrepreneur creating an interesting company and would like to contact us, feel free to reach out at hey@alpaca.vc.
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http://www.alpaca.vc
External link for Alpaca VC
- Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- New York, NY
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- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2012
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505 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10017, US
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New York, US
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Updates
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Thank you Riley Kaminer for featuring this recent conversation with our team's David Goldberg in your latest for Refresh Miami. Recommended reading for anyone interested in Miami's growing tech ecosystem and where it's headed in the future.
What's the latest in #MiamiTech? We've got the low-down from an investor's perspective. Founders: take note! Many thanks to Alpaca VC's David Goldberg, and to Lorraine Sanders and Nancy Dahlberg Refresh Miami for making it happen. https://lnkd.in/daXmV6Zf #investing #VC #fundraising
Why Miami? Q&A with Alpaca VC’s David Goldberg on the city’s rise as a tech hub
https://refreshmiami.com
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Intramotev, a technology company that builds autonomous zero-emissions rail solutions, has announced a partnership with Carmeuse to deploy its TugVolt technology at the Carmeuse Cedarville Operation in Michigan. This partnership is a testament to the growing demand for clean freight transportation solutions and is expected to eliminate approximately 55,000 gallons (208,198 liters) of diesel consumption and reduce vehicle-level CO2 emissions by 617 tons. Learn More (https://ow.ly/roY350SpYR0) #Carmeuse #Intramotev #WeContributeToABetterWorld
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General Partner @AlpacaVC, Founder/CEO at Bow & Drape, Backing women via XFactor Ventures, Board Member
Discount continues to be THE commerce trend. Temu did $3m Sept 2022, $192m Jan 2023, and slated for $6b this year. SHEIN did $22.7b in 2022. TikTok Shop did $11b in 2023 and is set to surpass $17b this year. Amazon’s response? Copy, and fast. The playbook: - sell goods under $20 - leverage the same Section 321 exemption for low-cost Chinese imports - ship snail mail for cheaper rates: https://lnkd.in/eAMWBQPm
Amazon’s launching a Shein-like discount section
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Congratulations Matt Biringer and North team on your $2.3M Seed round. We're proud to be on the journey with you as you bring innovation to cloud finance through AI.
🎉 Huge day, really excited to officially announce the closing of North's Seed round. Big shoutout to our amazing investors that helped make this happen at Alpaca VC, Looking Glass Capital, Uncommon Denominator, Everywhere Ventures, Riverside Ventures, Tenzing Capital Ventures & DragonX Capital. We have seen incredible growth & adoption from the market in the last 6 months. Our mandate & mission is simple: Make cloud finance automated & dramatically easier with AI. With the help of our customers, in less then 1 year since launching our MVP we have automated: 💰 $20m in AWS savings. 🔋 99.9% savings utilization. 🏢 Over 100 companies have used North. 🌤 Flexible compute & database savings with 0 dependance on the RI marketplace. 📉 Average customer is seeing 32% net savings before > after. Looking ahead we are excited to release a new batch of amazing features in July, focused on engineering optimization & FinOps. More on that soon! We are also hiring for sales & engineering. If you want to help build the future of how companies manage cloud finance & have a desire to be the best in the world at what you do, drop us a note because you’re one of us. We have tons of folks to thank for this, but the biggest group we owe gratitude to is our amazing customers. (100% of them are still with us today). We wouldn't be anywhere without the trust, patience, help & investment of your business & partnership. Thank you. Also big thank you(in no particular order) to a ton of folks that have been helpful to Yassine & I through the process of building North: Adam Besvinick Jared Kasner Doug Perlson Alex Pattis Jenny Fielding Scott Hartley Ivan Nikkhoo David Goldberg Skiddy von Stade David Honig Brian Mac Mahon Josh Oeding Larsa Davidson Andrew Gostine, MD, MBA Rhea Ghosh Andy Bonomo Rj Lewis Sam Hallene Brian Bell Aghya Naresh Goel Michael Paintner Oğulcan Bozkurt David Goldberg Aaron Tamaddon Expert Dojo Finally, nothing happens at North without my ridiculously awesome cofounder Yassine Açoine. This is only the beginning. Let's go baby!
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Are you up on the Rundown? Check out the latest edition for our recent perspectives, updates and events coming your way, including: 🔮 Where we see opportunity amid Real Estate dislocation 🛠 Founder resources, including new trends our team is spotting + a S.FLa. tech ecosystem dashboard to bookmark 🎉 The big event you'll find us attending in September Details ⤵
Real Estate dislocation and the opportunity we see ahead
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Congratulations to the team Chicory on being an Inc. Magazine Best Workplace 2024 honoree. We're proud to be on the journey with you!
We are excited and honored to announce that Chicory has been named one of Inc. Magazine's Best Workplaces for 2024!🎉 At Chicory, we know we're strongest when we operate with empathy, embrace individuality, and do serious work without taking ourselves too seriously. Thank you to our incredible team that makes Chicory the best workplace.💜 For the full list, visit: https://hubs.ly/Q02Cf0Rw0 #IncBestWorkplaces
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Know someone talented looking for their next role driving innovation in the built world? Check out the latest opportunity from the fast-growing team at Acelab ⤵
Exciting new Acelab opportunity at the intersection of #sales, #buildingmaterials, #technology and #specifications! 🔥 Join our fast-growing team on the ground as we continue rapid expansion across North America! As the Director of Manufacturer Partnerships, you will focus on new customer acquisition and building relationships with targeted building product manufacturers and suppliers in the AEC industry. Become a part of our entrepreneurial team redefining the material selection and collaboration workflow – trusted by tens of thousands of architects and hundreds of manufacturers! DM me to learn more or apply here 🙏 https://lnkd.in/e4b8NkAG #buildingmaterials #buildingproducts #architecture #specifications #aec
Director of Manufacturer Partnerships - Acelab
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What do Trad Wives, Uncrustables and fashion have to do with each other? They're all things catching Aubrie Pagano's attention this week ⤵ #venturecapital #trending
General Partner @AlpacaVC, Founder/CEO at Bow & Drape, Backing women via XFactor Ventures, Board Member
This week in my newsletter, I talk: - The Fashion Act - Trad Wives - Uncrustable's $1B business - How Marc Jacobs is crushing Gen Z marketing (hint: when I was googling examples, I input 'psychotic toy drama marc jacobs') https://lnkd.in/e_3DkwSs
Caught My Attention Ed. 09: The Fashion Act, trad wives, Uncrustables, and what Marc Jacobs is doing right
aubriepagano.substack.com
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Who should be paying the most attention to AI in real estate right now? It might not be who you think. The conclusion our team's Andrew Peng came to after spending the better part of the last year unpacking what's happening at the intersection of AI and real estate is ⤵
Last week I had the distinct honor of being the guest speaker at Madison International Realty's annual meeting. My topic was "The Intersection of AI and Real Estate"—which, if you know me, is a soapbox I've been standing on for the past year. Founders and VCs are already all over this topic. BUT in my opinion, real estate owners and investors are the # 1 stakeholder that needs to be paying attention—and most of them aren't yet. Lots of tools are coming to market that will improve how their assets are operated and actually impact NOI. So, I concluded my speech with the following: "Right now, there is a tech arbitrage opportunity available to real estate investors willing to bite the bullet and be early adopters of these tools BEFORE they become market norms. But this window will narrow quicker than you think." Thanks to Ronald Dickerman, Mo Saraiya, and Michael Chen for the opportunity to speak to a room representing hundreds of billions of $AUM. (And note to self: hem those pants before your next speaking gig!)