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Meet trading.tv: Livestreamed Trading
[Originally posted Feb 15, 2022] We are excited to announce our investment in trading.tv, a next generation social media platform for retail investing. Trading.tv enables creators to distribute investment content through a livestream-enabled social media platform. By linking creator content to a trading brokerage, trading.tv allows users to instantly invest on ideas they hear about in…
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Meet Everyrealm: Building the Gateway to the Metaverse
[Orignally posted Feb 10, 2022] We’re thrilled to be partnering with Everyrealm as they announce their $60M Series A. Everyrealm is an investor and developer of NFT properties in the virtual world. They launched in April 2021 and built Fantasy Islands and the infamous $650k yacht in Sandbox. The team believes (as do we) that people need places to…
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FCF’s Series A — the web3 league where fans/community call the plays
[Originally posted Jan 12, 2022] Congratulations to FCF (Fan Controlled Football) on your $40M Series A raise led by Animoca Brands and Delphi Digital. We led the seed in mid 2020 and have been continuously floored by the ingenuity, inventiveness, hustle, and performance of the FCF team. We already know Americans love to watch football. The TV…
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The House of LR&C — a house of love, fashion, and sustainability
Congrats on your $7M round [Originally posted Jan 11, 2022] When we first met Ciara, Russell and Christine, we were floored by not just their passion and drive to build a large fashion brand, but their operational capabilities. As a two year old company, they were already doing eight-figures in revenue and had launched two…
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Creator coins & the future of income
It’s a well-worn cliche in the venture world that we don’t really invest in startups, we invest in people. We place bets on founders whom we believe have the drive and determination to realize their visions and create a successful company. But with the rapid growth of the creator economy, the idea of investing in…
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Congratulations Stori on your Series C
Congratulations to Stori on your $125M Series C equity raise led by GGV and GIC! We led the Series B earlier this year and I’ve been thrilled to see Stori perform incredibly well since we invested. The company has more than 10x’d active credit cards and seen over 2M people apply for a card. They also introduced…
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Announcing Lightspeed’s Investment in Hawku, an NFT Marketplace
By Amy Wu and Mercedes Bent NFTs were originally founded in the last crypto rally of 2017 as a cryptographic tool to tokenize digital items and impart ownership to a digital item. Four years later, the world saw the first major NFT rally in 2021, driven by a crypto surge and resulting cultural phenomenon as…
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Why this time around, the metaverse is different
Mark Zuckerberg’s recent public embrace of the metaverse in the summer of 2021 has gotten a lot of people talking about virtual 3D worlds. The buzzword was all the rage the last few months**. I’ve chuckled a few times at the resurgence of the term. Five years ago I worked in the VR industry and we…
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Meet Flink: México’s Leading Neobroker
By Mercedes Bent and Will Kohler We’re thrilled to announce that Lightspeed is leading the $57M Series B of Flink, the leading neobroker in México. Flink surpassed 1M brokerage accounts earlier this year after launching their brokerage product in the summer of 2020. We first met the Flink team the day before Mercedes’ birthday. It was a Friday…
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Omnichannel Social: How the Pandemic Transformed Social Products
Social startups understand that consumers desire products where the memory of an experience is the product itself. Companies like Soulcycle, The Nudge, Museum of Ice Cream, Rosé Mansion and Drybar focus on delivering not just a service, but a memory. 15 months ago, I outlined my focus on startups who had excelled at building physical-first…
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Mercedes Bent 