Spotted in the wild 👀 marty.com Will Hubbard so good!! Agree.com

Early on at @themint_vc we have a one-liner workshop where every company rehearses what they’ll say when people ask “what are you building?” It happens thousands of times and so many companies fumble their first interaction. Worth spending a little time to get it right.

“The free market will regulate itself.” Free market:

We’re excited to share our first in what we expect to be many upcoming conversations about the Agree platform. We had a great Fireside Chat with the CEO of PYMNTS, Karen Webster, where we talk about everything from integrated payments to “signature velocity”!

We're excited to finally announce our $3M pre-seed round led by Sheel Mohnot of Better Tomorrow Ventures with participation from 8-Bit Capital Trust Fund Hustle Fund 🦛🌽💛 Everywhere (The Fund) Expedite Ventures: The CTO Angel Network Firsthand Ventures Singh Capital Partners NEA Angel Fund. agree.com/press/preseed/

We built the prototype for Agree.com in January, started the company in February, and closed the pre-seed round in March ... my favorite part was that every investor signed our SAFE using our own prototype! A special shout out to Sophia Amoruso 3.0 who was first to

The experience of going from an agreement to a signature to payment fulfillment is painful. Agree.com makes it easy. Agreement revisions > E-sign > Payment invoicing are each painful steps that collapse into one seamless & collaborative flow with Agree. Marty and Will are

I don't think I've ever seen a product come out of stealth as polished as Agree.com . I've never met marty.com but this is proof his legend status is deserved! F' docusign. Never using that again.

Stoked to see Agree.com announce their funding round + more importantly launch their product! Agree is a payments platform built around contract execution. Imagine docusign & bill had a baby Signatures🤝payments We're happy customers - we signed the SAFE using the prototype!

Wow Mercury acquired Teal.dev 👀 Teal had raised $8M in seed funding to build its accounting infrastructure for vertical software-as-a-service businesses. Their tech allowed the vsaas companies to build their own accounting tools to offer to their SMB customers

👀💸 SMB bookkeeping startup finally raised $50M in Series B funding along w/ a $150M credit line Some stats on the biz: - Annual rev. growth 300% - 1,500 SMB customers Total raised since its 2018 inception --> $305M - Debt: $235M in credit facilities - Equity: $74M

👀💸 Parisian embedded insurance startup Neat raised ~$33M in equity & ~$22M in debt in a Series A led by Hedosophia Neat helps other companies sell insurance products to their own customers Some stats on the biz: - 1,500 "distribution partners" - Sold 1M+ insurance products

👀💸 Brico, which automates financial license applications + management (e.g., MTLs), raised $8.1M in a seed round led by Pear VC (Flourish Ventures, Cambrian, Restive Ventures) According to brico.ai, they work w/ Marqeta, Funding Circle US, Bilt Rewards, Conduit, and

Embedded lender Parafin seems to be crushing it from a partnerships perspective 👀 just announced they'll provide Walmart sellers with capital through the Walmart Marketplace Capital program Previously announced partnerships include: - DoorDash (Feb 2022, launched DoorDash

👀💸 Banking + HR startup Every Inc. raised $22.5M in a Series A funding round led by Redpoint (TC says ~$112.5M valuation) Every is an all-in-one HR startup, offering an integrated suite of banking, payroll, HR onboarding, HR benefits, bookkeeping, taxes, and state

Listening to the founder of Marqeta, Jason Gardner, talk about zero-to-one-to-IPO with Sheel Mohnot Better Tomorrow Ventures