Amy Griffin

Worth checking out for any companies at the right stage.

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How do you find Limited Partners and get them over the line? Find out in this webinar next week!

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🚀 How do you get a pre-seed or seed round done *quickly* in NYC? ✅ Assemble a list of over 80 of the earliest-stage fund and angel investors in town ✅ Curate a dozen or so of them based on relevancy ✅ Break bread together. That's what nextNYC is doing with Checkwriters--and applications are OPEN. We're looking for pre-seed and seed NYC founders to pitch at our dinner next Wednesday night. The only criteria is that you have to have at least one *professional* investor committed to a currently open round--be it a fund, angel, scout, etc. 🗓 Applications are due *this Thursday*: https://lnkd.in/epJjny4P 🤝 Shoutout to the folks at Orrick Tech and Rho for helping to make this happen: Orrick is a tech-focused law firm passionate about helping entrepreneurs, innovators and investors push boundaries. Through our extensive client portfolio, deal volume, and relationships in the ecosystem, we provide commercial insight to each client’s strategy. From financing to protecting IP to retaining talent to advocating for innovation-friendly public policy, we offer a holistic solution across the tech & venture lifecycle. Rho is the business banking platform with everything founders need to manage their company cash and grow their business. See how they are supporting founders in NYC (https://lnkd.in/ef7uzDQv) – and earn rewards for switching your operating account to Rho.

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🎙️ Last week, one of our West coast investors Chris Walters was featured on the new financial podcast “What's Up With Money?", and it’s a must-listen for those looking to dive into the world of private investing for the very first time, or learn more about why so many drinkers and investors are joining forces with our spirits company. 💡Check out the podcast here: https://lnkd.in/eFhsVZmV **** #PrivateInvesting #CrowdFunding #WealthManagement #Entrepreneurship #DisruptiveInnovation #Investing #WhatsUpWithMoney

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It has been a week of climate at The Drop and another incredible one coming up with NY climate week! Another topic that's close to my heart: Spotlight on #femalefounders: There's been a recent decline in the aggregate number of female startup founders (down almost 2% in 2023), one of the lowest % in recent years. While this decline affects many traditionally active sectors (education, consumer, biotech, and SaaS), FemTech is a notable exception - with a 1000% increase in startups over the past decade. Still, in 2023 - only 1.4% of capital invested went to #FemTech, many citing the "ick" factor. To add salt, male-led FemTech startups have historically secured more funding than female-led ones. Many have written on this, including Cindy Gallop 👏🏻. This is a largely untapped and underfunded market - some argue the "Femtech Revolution" will exceed $103 bil. by 2030. I'm excited to see more funds with female partners executing deals - which will naturally #growthepie and increase the capital flowing to female founders. The #formula is simple: Female investors female founder expertise puts us in solid position to solve the many issues that disproportionately affect women - from #healthcare, #FinTech and #sustainability. ⭐️I'm proud to work with the fantastic team at Emmeline Ventures - and if you haven’t heard: they are doubling down on this focused thesis. 👀 #WomenInTech #VentureCapital #Investing

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🚀Big news! The official calendar of events for NY Tech Week is now LIVE, and we are so excited to announce that this is officially our largest TECH WEEK by a16z EVER! - 500 events hosted by VCs & startups 🤯 - June 3-9 2024 - register at tech-week.com We ran our first NY Tech Week last October, and tens of thousands of founders, investors and operators participated. We heard so many stories of cofounders meeting at Tech Week, GPs meeting LPs, startups meeting their lead Seed investors, and leveraging Tech Week as part of their GTM motion. We're pumped to run it back even bigger this year! We are also so excited to have some incredible sponsors on board this year to make Tech Week happen. Big thank you to Andreessen Horowitz, Fenwick & West, HSBC Innovation Banking, Stripe, PwC, Atlassian, Dialpad & Nasdaq! Here's a sneak peek of some of the exciting highlights you can expect: 💎AI Perspectives with a16z and HSBC with Zane Lackey (a16z, GP), Monique Shivanandan (Chief Data & Analytics Officer, HSBC) & David Sabow (Head of Innovation Banking, HSBC) 💎State of AI: What’s Next? Conversation about the Future of AI with a16z GP Andrew Chen, and Ian Goldstein, Partner at Fenwick  💎Building your GTM motion with Stripe with Jennifer Li (GP, a16z) & Robert Clarkson, (CRO, Americas, Stripe), Colin Kennedy (CBO, Ramp) & Sasha Orloff, (Co-founder & CEO, Puzzle) 💎GenAI Talks with Nasdaq x AWS feat. Kate Jensen (Head of Partnerships, Anthropic), Jon Jones (AWS Vice President), Amit Jain (Cofounder, Luma AI) 💎American Dynamism in NYC with a16z feat. David Ulevitch & Michelle V. 💎 Founder Fireside with the CEO of Notion, Ivan Zhao and Darian Shirazi, GP at Gradient Ventures Variety is at the core of this NY Tech Week. Over 20% of events are focused on AI, and we’re excited to see content on the evolution of finance, health, gaming and more as part of the AI revolution. We are also seeing everything from demo days and pitch competitions to morning yoga, scavenger hunts and golf tournaments… And of course, NY Tech wouldn't be possible without our community of hosts including Google, YouTube, Amazon, Dropbox, Airbnb, LinkedIn, Tableau, Salesforce, Microsoft, MongoDB, Accenture, Dell, Hugging Face, WeWork, Bloomberg, Visa, Union Square Ventures, BoxGroup, 500 Global, Techstars, Lux Capital, Soma Capital, M13, Left Lane, Susa Ventures, Tusk Venture Partners, Alumni Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Hearst Ventures, Decisive Point, Mucker Capital, NEA, Hearst Ventures, Flybridge, Struck Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Gradient Ventures, Gold House Ventures, Baseten, B Capital, HOF Capital, Hustle Fund, ElevenLabs, Codi, Arc, Navan, Current, Tech:NYC, NYCEDC, South Park Commons, Lenny's Newsletter & Match Group and 100s more! 🗽 Want the complete list of events? Register here for access: tech-week.com

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I love this! Thank you to Rachel Brown from Beauty Independent to kick-off this exchange with Andrew Ross' provocative thesis and have us all react to it. I truly enjoyed reading everyone's thoughts on the topic of the shortening lifecycle of beauty brands. Here is a snippet of mine: "Because beauty brand lifespans are shortening, it is important that we are able to differentiate brands with staying power from brands that will end up being a flash in the pan. There are much more of the latter than the former in the market right now, and if a brand is not well-positioned, it will be challenging for that brand to survive over the long-term. That’s why we focus on understanding each brand’s differentiators and long-term relevance." See more here: https://lnkd.in/esVbwnu2 and you will discover what Kevin Murphy, Odile Roujol, Rich Gersten, Tina Henry Bou-Saba, Oliver Nordlinger, Claire Chang, Manica Blain, Sonya Brown, George Birman had to say. #beautyindustry #beautyinvesting Stride Consumer Partners

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What's your vision for #EarthDay2024 ?

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On the latest iCapital x Alt Goes Mainstream Monthly Alts Pulse, iCapital Chairman & CEO Lawrence Calcano and I welcome a special guest - Hightower Advisors Managing Director, Head of Alternative Investments Robert Picard - to discuss the operational challenges and solutions in private markets. In this episode, Lawrence, Robert, and I discuss: * How wealth platforms like Hightower and infrastructure operating systems like iCapital are creating straight-through-processing solutions across the lifecycle of a private markets investment for the wealth channel. * The importance of bringing alts directly to the advisor’s desktop. * Why improving the experience for advisors in private markets is critical to increasing adoption. * Why it’s important to build across the continuum of needs for different types of high-net-worth investors. * The importance of customization and differentiation with private markets solutions for advisors. * What is the biggest unlock to enabling greater flows of capital into private markets? * What are the implications of opening up the alts superhighway? Thanks Robert for joining us on the show for a fantastic discussion!

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