#Robyn Afterparty at the E train station after the Robyn show at MSG

#BREAKIGN At least two rockets were fired from #Gaza to Tel Aviv area: #Israel media

Successful business trip to the Bay Area. #WeTheNorth

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With legislative, corporate, & consumer-driven initiatives propelling forward efforts to measure, understand, and mitigate climate change, we have officially entered *The Environmental Era* 🌎 Here's why we at Redpoint are geeking out on going green 👇🏾 consciousconsumer.substack.com/p/the-environm…

The goalposts for raising a Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A round have changed since the Spring. Here are benchmarks that I would aim for as a founder of a SaaS or b2b fintech company in this current market 𝑛𝑜𝑡𝑒: 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒

This afternoon, FTX asked for our help. There is a significant liquidity crunch. To protect users, we signed a non-binding LOI, intending to fully acquire FTX.com and help cover the liquidity crunch. We will be conducting a full DD in the coming days.

Proud to Announce our $16M Series A Round Led by Emergence Capital , with contributions from Salesforce Ventures & ServiceNow Ventures. We are also excited to welcome Santi Subrovsky (Santi Subotovsky) to the Logik.io Board of Directors! Full Announcement: logik.io/news/series-a

MEET CLASS 28! We're thrilled to welcome 60 investors who we believe will change the face & course of the VC industry. With $55B in AUM, KF28 is a diverse cohort across sector, stage, geo (16 countries), gender & ethnicity (42% women; 55% POC). Congrats! bit.ly/3NgVKv5

The BMW should never leave Chicago.

The Next Great SaaS IPO is officially coming: Klaviyo ▶️$585m ARR ▶️57% Growth (boom!) ▶️ 119% NRR ▶️ Profitable last 6 mos, almost last year (Efficient!)

Cisco buying cybersecurity company Splunk for $28B axios.com/2023/09/21/cis…

The first 10 hires across 20 top B2B startups

🦄🔫 It's rough out there for growth stage startups $4B health automation / revenue cycle management company Olive AI is shutting down This tops the death of Convoy 2 weeks ago, another unicorn valued at $3.6B prior to its demise Olive has been shrinking over time but still

🔬💡 Today in 2016, CEO Dr. Garry Cooper had an idea for reuse in a lab. On Rheaply's birthday, we invite you to watch a micro-documentary from Pique Action and see how his idea turned into a vision for circularity for every business. #circulareconomy buff.ly/46Wt4im

Most startups will spend more on 4 great offsites a year than 1 office would cost But you gotta do it Distributed isn't about saving money

A year ago today:

Breaking news: Sam Altman has been removed as CEO of OpenAI after a internal review "concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board." openai.com/blog/openai-an…

We know you’ve been waiting for this one… “Maps” is here and it’s beautiful. #B1GWelcome

When you wake up too early and need to write down that thought. I'm convinced that VCs make all their alpha on the buy. Sourcing, Selection, and Selling into the right investments are all that matters.