1/ Some personal news: I’m launching The Family (AAA): London’s Programme to go from Seed to Series A. Beyond excited for taking on this new role with the amazing team that will help me make it reality: Oussama Ammar Balthazar de Lavergne Mathias Pastor Giulia Mazzolini salon.thefamily.co/launching-the-…

Congrats to the entire team Packhelp 🚀

Even for strong startups, fundraising is a marathon that requires near constant attention for 8-12 weeks. The process is punishing, and riskier than you might imagine. You need to prep for it as seriously as you would a race. /1

Congrats to the entire Fleksy team! Reall cool stuff! “Think of it a bit like the iMessage equivalent but on Android across any app. Or the WeChat mini program but inside the keyboard, available everywhere — not only in one app."

The relationship between how much data a VC asks for and the probability they'll actually invest:

Boom💥 We're hunting unicorns. In this post our very own Patrick Gilday reviews Collibra, Inc. NYC , the Data Governance giant and first Belgian unicorn, charting their journey and what venture investors and aspiring founders can learn from it…click! medium.com/speedinvest/hu…

Congrats to the whole @iyzico_com team! Very happy for all involved parties, Naspers is a great new home for this amazing company! Even more happy for my Speedinvest Partners that backed #iyzico early on! cc Stefan Klestil #Fintech #exit #Fund1 #VC bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Congrats to our #portfolio co Legal OS & welcome aboard HV Holtzbrinck Ventures. Onwards and upwards!

[Thread 1/14] Today is the day we announce Actiondesk is part of the summer 19 batch of Y Combinator Our mission is to give new superpowers to the 1 billion spreadsheet users, turning them into programmers. Here's why and how:

making sure i have this right. venture rounds by order are: pre-seed seed post seed seed + pre-A Series A Post A / Bridge Series B Post B / Bridge Early Growth Series C Growth Round Series D Softbank Round Pre-IPO I Pre-IPO II IPO / Exit

Congratulations to Impala (one of our preseed investments) - having just raised a follow-on investment of $11 million Series A! 💲✨🔥 techcrunch.com/2019/10/02/imp… #portfolioupdates #venturecapital

Digital health is exploding in Europe. The potential societal impact is enormous & they go a long way to solve the future funding crunch likely to take place in public healthcare. Congrats Johannes Schildt Proud of what you are doing sifted.eu/articles/europ… via Sifted

. @wefoxHQ secures $110m in additional Series B funding 🎉Si Partner Stefan Klestil has worked with the team since 2016: "It has been a privilege to support Julian & the team from the beginning. We're excited to share this extraordinary ride with wefox." techcrunch.com/2019/12/10/wef…

"We use Nextflow to run one of our largest #data creation pipelines for product #research: Genotype Imputation." Nextflow is an #opensource #software by our #startup Seqera. 23andMe shares how they're using it & explains why "the sky’s the limit." medium.com/23andme-engine…

Excited to finally share Kraken Ventures ‘ investment in Dakota , led by Ryan Bozarth , former Coinbase Custody CEO. Dakota is an Internet Native Banking Platform for Businesses to transform how they manage their global treasury and payments.

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We're excited to announce a $31 million strategic raise led by Faction to fuel the rise of SocialFi.

Hyperlane has landed on @Inkonchain. Connect to 100+ chains, spin up token bridges, build interchain apps, all permissionless with Hyperlane! Bridge NOW with Merkly, powered by Hyperlane: minter.merkly.com/hyperlane/token

The Valantis Core Protocol is now live on ink🦑 An L2 built by Kraken on the Superchain, Ink offers a vertically-integrated DeFi ecosystem to bridge the gap between onchain and offchain. Valantis on Ink gives the ecosystem building blocks for custom DEXs from day 1🧱

Today is a big day for our portfolio company Usual as they launch their token across global exchanges. In 2024, they became the fastest growing stablecoin across the globe. This is a proud moment for the team and everyone involved! Congrats Pierre PERSON, Adli.eth TAKKAL ₿ATAILLΞ 🦝🔮 and Hugo Sallé de Chou !