Daniel Gertrudes

Top 5 funding rounds of the week: 📌 1. Orb - Provides billing software that integrates with QuickBooks and Stripe, helping teams streamline revenue operations and adapt pricing strategies Founded by: Alvaro Morales and Kshitij Grover Raised: $25 million in Series B funding. Investors included Mayfield, Uncorrelated Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Greylock Partners, South Park Commons, Basecase, and Scribble Ventures. 📌 2. Supermaven - Provides an AI-powered coding assistant that offers real-time suggestions, code completions, and error fixes for developers. Founded by: Jacob Jackson Raised: $12 million in seed funding. Investors included Bessemer Venture Partners, John Schulman (OpenAI co-founder), and Denis Yarats (Perplexity co-founder). 📌 3. e6data - Provides a high-performance compute engine for data lakes, helping businesses run analytics and AI workloads faster and at a lower cost. Founded by: Vishnu Vasanth Raised: $10 million in Series A funding. Investors included Accel and Beenext. 📌 4. smalt - Installs solar systems for both residential and commercial properties. Founded by: Marius Westhoff Raised: $8.9 million in pre-seed funding. Investors included Noa, General Catalyst, Owl Ventures, and Heartfelt. 📌 5. HowAbout.Tech - Social calendar app that helps friends easily plan and share events in one place, primarily designed for young people Founded by: Neil Tanna, Jake Jenner, and Duncan Cowan Raised: $8 million in Series A funding. Investors included Goodwater Capital, FJ Labs, Sequel, Harry Maguire, Boost Capital, and Angel Invest. Congrats to all on their funding success! 👏

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Join us! Many thanks to Aptible (and as always to Primary Venture Partners and Engineer Access) for sponsoring our monthly Startup CTOs event series. Tomorrow night we have over 50 series A venture backed CTOs and VPEs connecting with and learning from their peers. ​​This month we have a fireside chat with Ariel Pérez, VP Engineering, Measurement and Learning at Split. We'll be discussing how he runs a single large team of 25 with a total of three managers where the team dynamically self organizes around the work to be done and the managers are not necessarily working with their reports on any given project. ​In addition we have a special lightening video interview with Heidi Helfand, author of Dynamic Reteaming who shares a little bit about her experiences and the patterns that can be used to make engineering orgs more resilient to change. We only have a couple of slots left, but if you'd like to attend tomorrow night, apply ASAP - link in the first comment! Or ping me (or comment below) if you'd like to be notified of future events!

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Meet the Techstars NYC Fall 2024 companies. This class features startups in a range of industries, including Cybersecurity, AI, Fintech, HealthTech, LegalTech, HRtech, Gaming, and Augmented Reality. The selected companies are led by founders who have a deep understanding of customer pain, an ability to execute quickly, and the potential to generate billions of revenue. They are targeting real problems in their respective industries and will leverage the city of New York's diversity of industries. Here are the companies: Basil Streamlined talent planning, management, and payments for creative and marketing teams in a single platform. Buildstash Automated archival and easy management of builds, simplifying the way app and game developers manage and share their builds. Conduit High-impact marketing videos for game developers using metadata, scalable designs, and AI. Dobbie Helps e-commerce brands reduce OPEX and achieve profitability quicker with an AI operating system, that automates marketing and operations. Hatchproof The Retention Solution for building aligned, engaged, and thriving teams. LendAPI A digital product builder and high-performance decision engine for banks to launch products in hours rather than months. NimblemindAI Enrich clinical datasets with risk scores and billing data, unlocking non-clinical revenue for healthcare organizations. OB2.AI Detect and respond to cyber threats in seconds.  Ozeki Technologies Software to automate negotiations for your business. Skyglass The software suite for filmmakers of the future. Our AI-powered app makes it easy for content creators to produce Hollywood-grade visual effects with just an iPhone. Triton Triton’s automated system synthesizes operating and financial data on private companies from fragmented online sources to help investors make better investment decisions. These companies were selected from thousands of applicants through a rigorous application, interview, and diligence process. We are excited about their accomplishments over the next few months and beyond. #techstars #givefirst #builtinnyc #nyctech #nyc

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Announcing our latest report: "The Founder’s CVC Playbook: Maximizing value from your corporate venture capital relationships." Corporate venture capital (CVC) can offer startups tremendous value beyond just financial capital. However, no two CVCs are structured alike or operate in the same way, and there are many pathways to success in startup-CVC engagements. Founders need a gameplan when engaging with CVCs. This playbook designed to help founders take an action-oriented stance in navigating their CVC relationships and get more value from those relationships. It is the third report in a series developed as a collaboration between TDK Ventures and 6Pages. Our previous reports set the stage around the state of venture and CVCs and explored the return of high-quality due diligence in venture investing. Also keep an eye out for our next report, which will share our perspective on how CVCs should organize and operate. Download the free report here: bit.ly/4cgLdd8 #CVC #VentureCapital #entrepreneur #startups

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On May 2, 2024 REFASHIOND Ventures: The Industrial Transformation Fund convened people from around the world for Supply Chain & Industrial Transformation: The Next Generation 2024 at the JP Morgan Chase Palo Alto Technology Center in Palo Alto, CA. Lisa Morales-Hellebo and I want to extend our deep gratitude and appreciation to everyone who joined us for the event, and especially to; Melanie Hilton, Michelle Covey, Jess Urriola, Amy Reiter, and Vivian Tai from GS1 US for sponsoring that event, and our other event on May 3 in San Francisco. Kristopher Duarte, Executive Director, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and his colleagues for hosting us, and working with us to create a top notch experience that we have been told far exceeded the expectations of the people who attended. Kris moderated a dynamic panel discussion that was followed by a very robust Q&A session with the audience. Our Panelists; Daniela Caserotto-Leibert, US Head of Ecosystem, Cathay Innovation, Mario Veraldo, Founder & CEO, MTM Logix - Former Head of Maersk for Mexico and LatAm, and Claudia Pellerano, President of the Free Trade Zone Association of the Americas (AFZA) & Chairwoman of the Board, Las Americas Industrial Free Zone, DR. The panel discussion centered on: Lessons Learned in Corporate Venture Capital and Corporate Innovation, and; Emerging Trends in Supply Chain Logistics between LatAm and North America. Our Startup Showcase Presenters - * indicates a startup in the REFASHIOND Ventures portfolio; Moin I., Shipday (Local Commerce)* Will Drewery, Diagon (Sourcing & Procurement for Manufacturing)* Constanza Gomez, Sortile (Trustless Fibers)* Jens Tellefsen, GeoFlow (Industrial Knowledge Graphs)* Hari Menon, Firstsfift.ai (Autonomous Supply Chain Planning)* Karyl Fowler, Transmute (Supply Chain Interoperability)* Matias Troccoli, GYBE (Tech for Frontline Workers)* Willson Deng, Arcstone (Manufacturing Execution & Supply Chain Visibility)* Michael Young, Photon Commerce (AI for Payments Data) Michelle Peters, Supplino (Expert Marketplaces) Karthik Balakrishnan, Actual (Capital Planning for Sustainability) Gentry Lane, Nemesis Global (RADAR for the Cyber Domain)* Pilar V. Ceron, CEO of Xtrategy US who organized the delegation of corporate executives and government officials from across Latin America and Spain in collaboration with the Free Trade Zone Association of the Americas for giving us the opportunity to explore the role technology and innovation in Supply Chain & Industrial Transformation can play as an engine for economic development across the Americas over the 2 days we spent together. Jessica Straus Fuchs, Christa Mekki, and the rest of the team at the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center in San Francisco where we held our Executive Salon on the State of Textiles and Apparel Supply Chains in the United States on Friday, May 3. And last but not least; Thanks to Sam Graydon for the video and photography. Here’s a brief snippet from the May 2 event. #SCITSV2024

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As per a Carta report, investors prioritized quality over quantity in Q1FY24. The focused approach of investors to pick ventures with strong fundamentals presents a great opportunity for entrepreneurs to position themselves strategically. A refined pitch, reasonable terms, and a sustainable financial model are the keys to securing funding. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dPSS7MMp #StartupFunding #Entrepreneurship #AngelInvestor #CartaReport

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Wing Venture Capital's Founder Docs project is a unique collection of startup wisdom, by founders, for founders. The authors of the docs are talented founders themselves, sharing their experience on the topics they are most passionate about. I'd like to highlight the contributions of Edo Liberty, founder / CEO of Pinecone. Edo writes about the special opportunities for the scientist / founder (and he is one of the best of this breed!), as well as some of the risks and challenges they face. I got a lot out of reading Edo's stuff and I suspect you will too! https://lnkd.in/g_wyRMiE

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Venture capital provides substantial financial resources that empower startups to scale operations, invest in cutting-edge technology, and expand their workforce. Unlike traditional financing, VC funding allows startups to grow rapidly without the immediate pressure of generating cash flow. This financial backing not only fuels business growth but also offers access to valuable mentorship and a vast network of industry connections. By securing venture capital, startups can focus on innovation and long-term success, positioning themselves competitively in the market. #VentureCapital #StartupGrowth #Innovation #TechInvestment #BusinessExpansion #VCFunding #StartupSuccess #Entrepreneurship #FinancialResources #Mentorship #IndustryConnections #Ansdam

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On May 2, 2024 REFASHIOND Ventures: The Industrial Transformation Fund convened people from around the world for Supply Chain & Industrial Transformation: The Next Generation 2024 at the JP Morgan Chase Palo Alto Technology Center in Palo Alto, CA. In this showcase presentation, Moin I. of Shipday describes how "Shipday has built a simple to deploy and easy to use software platform that enables organizations of all sizes to manage every activity that is related to local deliveries. It is especially ideal for small restaurants, grocery stores, and other retail merchants since they do not need any technology or software expertise to get set up on the platform - they can be up and running in minutes." Shipday is a startup in our portfolio at REFASHIOND Ventures: The Industrial Transformation Fund. Our 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. More in the video below, and even more in Why We Invested: Shipday (Link: https://lnkd.in/eHKQgGnn.) #SCITSV2024 #SCITSV2024Showcase

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