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2024 Wrap: A Year of Focus, Resilience & Strategic Growth at Bread & Butter Ventures Excited to share our Mary Grove's reflections on our year in venture. From pivots to exits, 2024 was defined by one word: FOCUS. Key highlights from our portfolio: • Welcomed 4 incredible new companies to the B&B family: mesur.io, Champion, GUDEA and Chiyo • Supported 28 portfolio companies in successfully closing new funding rounds • Made 13 follow-on investments, doubling down on our commitment to founder success Our biggest learning from the year? Communication is truly a superpower, especially in challenging markets. Monthly updates aren't just paperwork – they're your ticket to unlocking your investor network's full potential. Want to dive deeper into our 2024 observations and what we're taking into 2025? Read Mary's full reflection here: https://lnkd.in/ezcbekVf

With Dr. Brandon Guthrie, General Partner at Shatranj Capital, we explore the strategic world of Private Equity. This episode is packed with expert advice on market commercialization, brand essence marketing, and the key differences between Private Equity and Venture Capital. Don't miss out on this masterclass in scaling businesses globally! 🎧Link in Bio #dubaibusiness #dubaistartups #dubaibusinesssetup #uaebusiness #privateequity

📋☃️ Write your Series A to-do list, and be sure to check it twice! In their Seed to Series A Playbook, Next47 Global Managing Partner Lak Ananth and Venture Partner William Smith give founders a step-by-step guide to building out a funding plan. Click here to make sure you’re on the right track for your Series A: https://bit.ly/49I1C8S

🤝 What happens after you’ve put together your board? Next47 Global Managing Partner Lak Ananth and Venture Partner William Smith break down your next steps in their Seed to Series A Playbook article here: bit.ly/3KLOSDK

August 1st at 6pm SGT - get registering 💪 https://lu.ma/2q0hfhea What makes my man Chris Birrell so compelling as a VC? ✅ Multiple exits in the private sector ✅ Global GTM experience ✅ Founder and managing partner of Func Ventures We'll explore a topic I know most of you are interested in: What Are ASEAN VCs Really Looking For? In this webinar, you'll get inside Chris's mind as we explore: ✅ Why he started a fund focused on APIs ✅ How he selects companies to invest in ✅ Advice for founders seeking capital Brought to you by Mediashock and SCALERR

And, for 15 years we’ve held true to that course through excellent deal flow, fine-tuned due diligence, openness to syndicated deals, support for portfolio companies, and member engagement. Learn more about one of the Midwest’s most active angel investing groups here: https://lnkd.in/gzueadG VisionTech Partners | VisionTech Angels Indiana Economic Development Corporation TechPoint Angel Capital Association Venture Club of Indiana, Inc. #IndianaAngelInvesting #MidwestAngelInvesting Purdue Innovates

Between our founding team we’ve started 7 companies with wins of 140m to losses of 18m. We’ve also worked for licensees, platforms, VC’s, corporate advisory firms, investment banks, syndicates and have a combined 60 investments together. We know what it’s like to build a company and we certainly know how important people are to both your success and capital. We built Community Vc to help our own journey because it’s what we we needed and believe founders need. Our entire ecosystem is centric around giving founders access to people, information, data and capital to enable them the smoothest path to success. We can’t wait to support more visionary technical solutions that will push our world forward. Fucken get around it 🚀

Our team just convened a group of 70+ full time #venturecapital investors + a panel of long time VCs and LPs. 3 Takeaways: 🤗 If you're a junior investor looking to change firms in this market ... you're not alone. A lot of folks are loose in the saddle. Be proactive, including in how you represent your brand to the market. 🔁 We've seen this story before during the 08/09 VC dip... fortunately, this time it's not nearly as bad. 3️⃣ kinds of VCs ... which one do you want to be? 1) Spend most of their time with VCs 2) Spend most of their time with LPs 3) Spend most of their time with founders. (Guess which ones perform the best?) Thanks to our amazing panelists 👇🏻 Philip Kim (Capital One Ventures) Danielle Lay (NEA) Nihal Mehta (Eniac Ventures) Charlie O'Donnell (Brooklyn Bridge Ventures) To our incredible host (Cooley LLP) and sponsors ( Fidelity Private Shares and Intercom) ... and to Conner Roach of Clik for the snaps that you see below! 📆 Want to learn about our multi-day VC event that's right around the corner? There's a pointer to it in the comments!

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿'𝘀 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗩𝗖 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 A must-read resource for navigating venture capital deals, designed to empower founders with actionable insights. Key Takeaways: 1️⃣ Understand Convertible Notes & Equity: Master the tools of early-stage financing and how they impact your startup’s growth. 2️⃣ Option Pools & Valuation: Learn how option pools work and their effect on ownership and company valuation. 3️⃣ Antidilution Strategies: Explore advanced strategies to protect your stake during future funding rounds. PS. check out 🔔 for a winning pitch deck the template created by Silicon Valley legend, Peter Thiel https://lnkd.in/ejp-Bhnu

Great opportunity to hear from experienced Angel Investors, Startups who have received Angel Investing and many others, make sure to sign up today! Full details below