venturecapital

venturecapital

The home for Farcasters to discuss all things venture capital and early stage finance.

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If you represent a venture capital fund and want an efficient way to stay on top of who the most promising startups are across the Farcaster ecosystem, DC me.

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What's one question you have about venture capital?

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A Tier 1 VC fund you'd recognize the name of is targeting founders via paid search on LinkedIn. Expect to see a lot more of this as the asset class matures. We're nearing an inflection point for the industry - but not *quite* there yet.

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The future of venture capital is a barbell strategy: mega firms focusing on all phases and boutique firms that go earlier and further out the risk curve https://www.sethlevine.com/archives/2025/01/the-future-of-venture.html

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This week our IC (socialgraph.vc) reflected on transparency and urgency during a fundraising process. Transparency is the willingness of the founder to answer questions during the process, and share all the information transparently. Questions around burn, revenue, growth, data, and status of the product are answered straightforward. Urgency is inherent to how founders treat the process, if the round is “hot”/oversubscribed, it’s more likely to be treated urgent. Urgency means that founders are less responsive. Founders can easily fake it and FOMO/strongarm investors to wire money even before the round is committed. Here’s how they interplay, and how we read it:

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What's one question you have about venture capital?

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Cointelegraph reports that Andreessen Horowitz is closing its London office and shifting focus back to the US. The firm cited Donald Trump’s administration's favorable stance on crypto policies as a reason to return to the US. This is a NET POSITIVE for the European web3 ecosystem. While household names in VC / crypto VC like a16z have undoubtedly, dramatically and substantially helped the ecosystem to flourish (and will continue to do so, no question), I believe this move actually unlocks the launch of true pre/seed web3 funds based in & focused on Europe, lean, thesis-driven (👋 Olive Capital), moving quickly at the earliest stages. Bigger overseas franchises based in Europe distort the local reality and are the too-easy fundraising equation for founders to default back their ambitions.

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What's an investment area you're especially excited about? If you've written a thesis around it (even loosely), share the link in the comments!

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The CV VC Top 50 Report 2024 is available. Find out who's part of Crypto Valley's TOP 50 entities in this report http://cvvc.com/top50, plus a few expert articles, e.g. @khem from MINA Foundation (HQ'ed in Geneva), one of the most OGs /zk -native L1 In summary in this report: (thread 🧵) 1/5

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Crypto never sleeps - don’t sleep on this… ❤️🤬 Love it or hate it: Overnight, 🇺🇸 President-elect Trump officially announces on X the launch of a Solana memecoin. ❤️🤬 Love it or hate it: a price frenzy is drawing mainstream attention to these tokens. Market participants are rushing to take positions, list the token and of course, tweet about it. Seven hours after his 8:44PM NY time launch, his launch tweet has 25M views. This is just the beginning. The attention fuels the flywheel. Memecoins attach value to attention. ❤️🤬 Love it or hate it: entities tied to the President- Elect own 80% of the token supply. Understand the incentives. Make what you may of these incentives tied to this event.

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What's one question you have about venture capital?

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The original SAFT whitepaper (2017) https://www.cooley.com/-/media/cooley/pdf/reprints/saft-project-whitepaper.pdf It's likely going to find its stride this year onwards

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Dfns's Series A funding round is an interesting event in crypto bc it highlights some important trends: - Institutional investors are showing increasing interest in crypto - Wallet infrastructure is becoming more important - Security and compliance are key concerns for institutional investors Overall i believe this funding round is positive for crypto because it shows confidence in the industry's future and highlights the growing importance of secure and compliant wallet infrastructure 💪 Congrats! https://www.dfns.co/article/dfns-secures-series-a-funding

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Does an onchain version of https://www.signandwire.com/ exist? If not, why not?

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What's one question you have about venture capital?

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