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Raising a $20m VC Fund as a Solo GP with Rex Salisbury
Rex Salisbury is the Founder of Cambrian and GP of Cambrian Ventures. Rex is a key figure in the Fintech ecosystem, having started Cambrian as a product meetup in 2015 and ultimately growing it into a community of 15,000 newsletter subscribers, 5,000 meetup members, 1,300 founde...
Competing to Win as an Emerging L1 Blockchain with NEAR
Recently, we wrote a deep dive analysis of NEAR Protocol, an emerging L1 blockchain, available to Premium subscribers. Today, we're releasing a conver...
Financializing NFTs & Why It Matters
I’m not a financialization maxi.
Without a doubt, financial innovation and responsible and appropriately supervised financial engineering unlock ...
Fintech Valuations in a Macro Hurricane
Fintech valuations have gotten crushed over the past few months, with growth capital availability and public market comps plummeting due to macro cond...
Deep Dive: NEAR Protocol
Setting the Scene
Before digging into NEAR specifically, let's start with the higher level question of how L1s should be evaluated. NEAR isn't a comp...
Seed Investing in a Bear Market with 186 Ventures
Giuseppe Stuto is Managing Partner of 186 Ventures, a $37m seed fund launched in late-2021. 186 has made 10 investments since inception, following on ...
Checking in after a year of building
We paused our regular programming a year ago while I worked on BELLA. It was right after Gamestop. Bitcoin was spiking to $60k, Dogecoin was minting m...
Purpose Driven Investing for Financial Return with Flourish Ventures
It’s great to be back after taking nearly a year off from regular content to build and launch BELLA.
The break wasn’t really planned, but betwe...
Lessons Learned from the Founding, Sale and Closure of Simple
In 2009, Shamir Karkal and Josh Reich founded Simple, the original digital bank.
The concept was straightforward and clearly articulated in an emai...
The Origins of Digital Banking with Shamir Karkal
Today, we’re joined by Shamir Karkal, co-founder of Simple, the first digital bank in the US, and now co-founder of Sila.
Founded in 2009, Simple...