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👉An interesting overview #BusinessAngels #VentureCapital #LPs #GPs #Innovation #InnovationManagement #CorporateInnovation #CorporateStrategy #DigitalTransformation #StartUps #StartusInsights #InnovaticGroup InnovaticGroup. Create the Future Now

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"Embracing the Pivot: How Investors Support Startups in Transition" Exploring the crucial role of adaptability in startups As investors, our role extends beyond funding—we must provide strategic guidance during these pivotal moments. Read more about navigating pivots in today's dynamic startup ecosystem: lool ventures Yaniv Golan Maya Azoulay Dina Walker Lena Young Roy Katzenelson Yair Kfir Maria Osipov

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Balance is Key: The Art of Keeping Things in Harmony Whether it's work and play, ambition and contentment, or giving and receiving, finding equilibrium is essential for overall well-being. THE ABRAHAMIC BUSINESS CIRCLE ⭕️ Tactical Management Nagel & Partners #StartUps #Innovation #Technology #VentureCapital

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"Nonetheless, LP preference for this pattern has incentivized the landscape of emerging managers, pressuring managers to look more and more like miniature copies of these firms. They seem to follow a remarkably similar strategy - small fund focused on access investing alongside brand name firms with the plan to “plow” into winners and eventually scale into leading checks with a bigger fund. However, very few of these funds ever have the opportunity to lean in given the hierarchy of the larger firms coming in and they rarely will compete against those firms (dare not to bite the hand that feeds you) to lead rounds in those companies. The investor presentations, backgrounds and even portfolios of these new upstarts look remarkably similar. While we may see range and breadth in the quantity of funds being created, the homogeneity of these firms robs the ecosystem of the opportunity for new product innovation, independent conviction or original thought.  For an industry that prides itself on contrarianism, it’s hard to predict the consequences of such homogeneity - as IPO windows push out, reliance on downstream capital grows, leaving founders and early stage investors at the behest of what mega funds will capitalize. When a small subset of funds force the industry to uniform, consensus investing, then I think we’ve lost the essential nature of VC. At that point, smaller firms are just outsourced resources, not independent investors. To be clear, I don’t think anyone is at fault here. Everyone is acting in-line with their incentives and it is to be naturally expected that we would arrive at that state. Nonetheless, these incentives may yield a terminal state where venture capital ceases to exist in its current form - one where our industry becomes so uniform in feeding the mega fund machine (making those firms even bigger and these incentive structures stronger) that our industry ultimately looks more like Blackrock than Benchmark. If these incentives are destined to perpetuate our industry to the point of failure, we must evolve or go extinct."

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Memo: Meet the 50 Industrial Transformation & Supply Chain Technology Startups REFASHIOND Ventures: The Industrial Transformation Fund has backed since September 2021 (#50StartupsIn50Days #REFASHIOND50) Startup: OnMyWay™ Commerce (MAVI.io) Count: 29 / 50 Brief Description: MAVI is developing a marketplace that brings shopping directly into the dashboard of every human-operated over the road vehicle. Investment Rationale: Changes in retail that started taking root during the COVID19 pandemic have spurred retailers and auto companies to seek ways to bring shopping into cars and trucks. MAVI’s OnMyWay™ Commerce meets the needs of customers enroute from a point of origin to a destination, but who seek to make a purchase that minimizes diversions from their original travel route. To accomplish this MAVI is building a Mobile Retail Network™ that connects retailers' ecommerce platforms with in-car dashboard interfaces. MAVI's 2023 Year in Review https://lnkd.in/eP9u2GPE #ObsessivelyEnthusiasticInvestor #UnreasonablyEnthusiasticInvestor We look for the people we believe are doing the best work in Industrial Transformation & Supply Chain Technology; Attempting the impossible. Then we go all-in on them. With OBSESSIVE and UNREASONABLE ENTHUSIASM. Our Investment Thesis: REFASHIOND Ventures: The Industrial Transformation Fund invests in early stage startups refashioning legacy industries through Data & AI, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing, & Next Generation Supply Chains; Defensible through economic moats. Join us. #IndustrialTransformation #SupplyChain #Innovation #Technology #Startups #VentureCapital #DemandTheImpossible #DataAndAI #NextGenerationSupplyChains #NextGenerationLogistics #eCommerce #MarketPlaces Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA Cynthia Hollen Min Chen Matias Troccoli Hari Menon Daniel Stanton 🌎 Gillian Muessig Chandra Roxanne Andrew Bogle Sheri R. Hinish Anna Farberov Diana Orrego-Moore (she/her)

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Last Week Funding & M&A Updates [24 – 29 Jun] 🚀 Funding Highlights: - 25 startups raised around $211 million. - 9 growth-stage deals and 15 early-stage deals. - One growth-stage startup kept its transaction details undisclosed. 🌟 Growth-stage Deals: - 9 startups raised $150.84 million. - Edtech company upGrad topped with $35 million debt funding. - SaaS startups Rocketlane, Smartworks, Rare Rabbit, and Rupeek followed with $24M, $20.24M, $18M, and $15M. - Doceree, Bluestone, Matter, and NovaVente raised capital. 🌱 Early-stage Deals: - 15 startups secured $60.13 million. - B2B platform Zyod led the list. - Cloudphysician, Sid’s Farm, Two Brothers Organic Farms, and Morphing - Machines followed. - Other mentions: CheQ, Nitro Commerce, Neo San. 🏙️ City-wise Deals: - Bengaluru led with 10 deals. - Followed by Delhi-NCR, Jaipur, Mumbai, and Ahmedabad. 📈 Segment-wise Deals: - Fintech startups topped with 4 deals. - E-commerce, Manufacturing, Agritech, and Healthtech followed. 🔍 Series-wise Deals: - Seed funding led with 7 deals. - Series A (6 deals), pre-Series A (4 deals). - Debt and Series B (3 deals each), Series F, Series D. 📉 Funding Trend: - Weekly funding dropped 76.73% to $211 million from the previous $906 million. - 8-week average: $404 million with 28 deals per week. 💡 Fund Launches: - BizDateUp to allocate ₹40 crore for women entrepreneurs. - Applications open on July 1st. 💼 M&A: - Finnest acquired a 53.75% stake in Kitchens@. - Nodwin Gaming’s Singapore subsidiary to increase its stake in Freaks 4U to 100%. 🔮 Potential Deals: - Ecom Express to raise Rs 1,424 crore via a rights issue. - Zepto in talks to secure an additional $400 million. 🚀 New Launches: - Flipkart Group launches UPI app super.money. - CoinDCX introduces Web3 mode. - Acko launches Acko Drive Service Centre. - Park pilots on-demand driver hiring services. - Zomato launches restaurant services hub. 📰 News Flash: - Ather converts into a public entity. - Prosus writes off $500 million investment in Byju’s. - Zomato holds 56-57% of the food delivery market. - DGGI asks online gaming companies to disclose cashback offered. Avanse Financial files DRHP. - After a sudden spike last week, funding dropped nearly 77% to $211 million this week. Stay connected for more updates! #StartupFunding #IndianStartups #FundingNews #GrowthStage #EarlyStage #Investments

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