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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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The Web3/Crypto/Metaverse Ecosystem Guide — From the Minds of Lightspeed
Here’s how to get up to speed in web3/crypto/metaverse You’ve been hearing a lot about crypto and are wondering where to get started. Or maybe if you’re like us, you’ve spent your days, evenings, weekends and holidays getting up to speed. The crypto community is one where the only constant is the pace at which…
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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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FMB: Running board meetings (Part 9)
This is a continuation of my Founders are Made, not Born series. Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, and Part VII. Extensions: Parts 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Three times in the past week I found myself sharing best practices with founders about how to run optimal board meetings. One was a seed stage founder who is preparing for their first board…
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Web3, Crypto & Learning
The original post can be found on Mirror. This post is an extension of the tweetstorm I did in early October 2021 Web3, crypto & blockchain are making waves in art, music, and fintech today. How will web3, crypto, and blockchain affect edtech & learning? In this post I outline what I’m seeing so far. Today I’m seeing…
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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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