Did someone say Overlooked? Bridge Venture Fund

Let’s kick off the year with huge Food & Bev M&A Deal! This morning, Flower Foods (NYSE: FO), the $4B publicly traded owner of Wonder Bread & Butternut, announced it will acquire Simple Mills for $795M, or 3.31x sales, in ALL CASH Let's break down the deal👇👇

🍾Celebrate Your Exits!🥳 From a personal quest for better health to a $795MM acquisition! It's been a pleasure watching Simple Mills and Katlin Smith Katlin Smith build a category leader! Excited for what’s next! prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

The Simple Mills deal might technically be Q1... but we had to!!! 🍾 2024 Q4 Bridge Venture Fund Newsletter here 👇

ORD 🛫 ATL ☘️

Only 2 of us were excited about the snow

Snowy days like today make me miss the good old days when we still had the rat hole

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Love thee ☘️

Happy 5th birthday BoBo ❤️

We share a very similar view on the opportunity in vertical applications of AI at Bridge Venture Fund! Thanks Trace Cohen for writing it out so I didn’t have to 😉 startupstechvc.beehiiv.com/p/vertical-ai-…

Thank you to Gopi Rangan of Sure Ventures for having me on! Appreciate the thoughtful questions and for allowing me to talk about our approach at Bridge Venture Fund! Thank you also for providing a platform for emerging managers to share their stories! Venture is a team sport!

Vision is evidence of venture outcome potential. Metrics are evidence of progress towards that goal. Both are necessary!

Busy Q1 at Bridge Venture Fund... 📊 New investment in Lebesgue: AI CMO 🏛️ Abstract raises $4.8M Seed round led by Bonfire Ventures 🎙️ Bridge Partner Connor Ryan joins TheSureShotEntrepreneur and more! mailchi.mp/bridgeinvestme…

Q1 Newsletter just dropped! It was a busy one! mailchi.mp/bridgeinvestme…

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