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European deep tech founders, meet your new go-to resource: the Deep Tech Hardware Napkin from First Momentum Ventures! 💡 The napkin offers crucial benchmarks on funding stages, team size, and development timelines specific to deep tech hardware startups. 📊 Unlike SaaS, which is quicker to market, deep tech often involves complex physical products and longer cycles. Inspired by Point Nine 's original SaaS napkin, this tool provides crucial insights for navigating the unique challenges of deep tech innovation. Check out the details on TechCrunch! 👇 https://lnkd.in/g5cDbnpT

The hot take on Techstars pausing #Austin and a lot of good perspective on what might be contributing to that. As a HUGE proponent of Austin and Texas, this is a VERY good read from Mary Ann Azevedo because the input from many of Austin's changemakers aren't criticizing so much as they're (we're) highlighting what needs to change and what can be better. A bit of my perspective beyond what TechCrunch covers herein? That policy, regulation, and resources, fail(ed) to be put to the best use and very often fail to recognize what's staring us in the face. This is what causes my point that expectations exceed reality - that Austin HAS great appeal, but often falls short of delivering. We struggle with digital divides, lack of marketing, too few working together, silos, and inequity; to a great extent, money moves in odd directions. When cities throughout the world say, "We want to be like Silicon Valley," or "We want to be like Austin," I'm among the first to reply, "no you don't, let me explain why and let us help you develop what's distinctly meaningful about your region of the world." Austin remains weird, entrepreneurial, progressive, creative, supportive, and musical; and much more than that to be found (though, finding it requires considering Austin more than downtown, or what it was). Being honest about what doesn't work well is more important than praising what's great because entrepreneurial people rise to the occasion to improve things (at least, we try, as Joah Spearman did) - Austin is hot in the summer, miserable during cedar season, politically frustrating, a little socially inaccessible, a commuter nightmare, and expensive downtown. Yet, at the epicenter of 3 of the largest cities in the country - let's fix things because everyone can thrive here. Featuring Amalia Lytle, Mitch Goulding, Don Ward, Eric Engineer, and Joah, seems to me like getting us all together for a discussion might help tackle economic/civic/social issues wherever we might find them 🙏 (and, are Mitch and Don right about Houston and Tulsa? ABSOLUTELY)

Last week we announced dSa's partnership with #FDDAY (France Digital Day), to announce LETS (Leading European Tech Scaleups) along with 19 other startup associations! Today is the day you can read all about the European tech champions who have made the list. The article including the list of 135 companies can be found here 👉 https://lnkd.in/e7cmbkdY France Digitale

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On June 6th, 2024, Fume and the other 9 finalists will pitch in front of the Crypto Valley Conference stage and its panel of expert judges, conference attendees and investors. The 3 highest-scoring finalist will be announced and awarded on the main conference stage. Why not joining us (https://lnkd.in/dxrWDNz) and supporting your favorite finalist? Our favorite is Fume in case you may be undecided. Here are two reasons why ⏭ https://lnkd.in/ev2jn8a6 ⏭ https://lnkd.in/eGGpNxFa

It feels like it's been ages since we were last here! In 2011, Union Square Ventures’ Albert Wenger led Wattpad’s Series A, our first institutional round. throughout the subsequent decade, Ivan and I made frequent visits to the @USV office, be it for board meetings, the CEO Summit, or just casual get-togethers whenever we were in NYC. Yet, my last visit was just before the pandemic hit. And after Wattpad's acquisition in 2021, circumstances didn't permit me to return. Until now. USV has backed many iconic companies that have become household names — Twitter, Tumblr, Zynga, Cloudflare, Twilio, MongoDB, Etsy, Duolingo, to name a few. Becoming an investor in these companies at a mature stage, or post-IPO, is straightforward. But what sets USV apart is that this team has spotted these future giants before anybody else, time and again. Often, these companies were budding startups with just a few team members and pre-revenue. To illustrate, when USV placed their bet on Wattpad, we had fewer than 10 on the team. While we weren't exactly pre-revenue, it would still be years before many of our current revenue streams took off. Throughout this journey, our learnings haven't just come from the USV team. We've peer-learned so much from the network of USV portfolio CEOs and founders. The speed, intensity, skills and tenacity needed to navigate these rocket ships are on another level. A single misstep can derail years of hard work. What is at stake is unbelievably high. Interacting with these founders was tremendously helpful to me. I can testify that being part of the USV network played a part in Wattpad’s eventual success. Post-Wattpad, the Laus has re-entered the USV fold as an LP. We're also thrilled to be collaborating with USV’s Andy Weissman on an exciting new investment. Stay tuned for more updates on this front!

Exciting times ahead at Heliad as we step into 2024!✨ We've marked major achievements in 2023, including the strategic merger of FinLab AG and Heliad Equity Partners into Heliad AG, which elevated us to the forefront of Germany's VC ecosystem with a competitive cost structure without management or performance fees, a governance-friendly AG and a united portfolio of next-generation tech #winners. The combined portfolio contains some of the most promising German start-ups, including Enpal and Raisin, as both companies closing remarkable late-stage financing rounds and setting new industry benchmarks in the fields of GreenTech and Savings Solutions. This also holds for our stake in flatexDEGIRO, with its share price rising by ~71% in 2023 due to strong top- and bottom-line performance growth. We're also thrilled about the newly launched Heliad Crypto Partners, led by Christopher Garlich, showing promising first results and outperforming Bitcoin and Ethereum in the closing months of 2023. Our confidence in our portfolio led to doubling down on promising ventures like D2C BBQ brand BURNHARD, global payments provider MODIFI, and AI-driven research powerhouse NewtonX. More excitement stems from our new investment in anti-hallucination GenAI player AI21 Labs, attracting top-tier investors like Intel, Google, and NVIDIA, and closing an oversubscribed $208m Series C funding round. As we craft strategies for further growth and innovation in the VC landscape, we're excited for what 2024 holds and look forward to sharing more #achievements with you. Here's to a successful and insightful year of 2024 ahead! The Heliad Team Falk Schäfers, Julian Kappus, Margarita Zittel, Christopher Garlich, Marta Kessler, Roland Klösel, Alexander Wagner, Leonard Buchsbaum

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So excited to join the Fieldhouse team combining my passions of Technology and Sport! Fieldhouse are at the forefront of maximizing athletic performance leveraging the latest data and Ai solutions to provide athletes with the information they need to reach maximum performance. Fieldhouse will leverage the best of the Alphabet ecosystem to accelerate Fieldhouses' growth and have recently been accepted into Googles Ai start up program! Please contact me if interested in learning more about Fieldhouse Holdings. #Googlestartupprogram #rocketship #google #sportstechstartup