🧃 “DAO-in-a-box,” alternate model for growth, real estate report, moving money & new Web3 community...
Hi there 👋,
The subject of buying an unusual or exotic hangout has come up in our community several times over the past year.
Why not invest in a place to gather together?
We’d talk about investing. We’d discuss (or make) plans. We’d play poker (probably).
The idea isn’t new, but a couple of friends added a twist by crowdsourcing the purchase of a tiny 1.2-acre Caribbean island. Would you share that space with 100+ other investors, along with the risk from hurricanes and rising sea levels?
Nah, didn’t think so.
In this issue:
📈 Market Moves
📰 News & Views
🤝🏿 Deal Summary
🧰 Cool tools
Don’t miss: An alternate model for growth, “DAO-in-a-box,” the most active real estate markets (report), and Bessemer’s new Web3 community for entrepreneurs, investors and operators.
As always, thanks for being here.
Juliet Lyall
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📈 Market Moves
👍 Bitcoin | $38,953.10 | +2.99%
👍 Ethereum | $2,581.83 | +2.48%
👎 Shopify | $542.00 | -0.28%
👍 Coinbase | $160.74 | +0.27%
👍 Meta | $191.27 | +2.04%
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📰 News & Views
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🔹 The elephant in the room: We all dream of exponential growth for our startups, but Jason Cohen, a successful startup founder and investor, thinks it’s a myth. He states that “exponential” is an incorrect characterization. Cohen uses uses real-world data from hypergrowth, “viral” companies like Facebook and Slack to demonstrate his point. The article suggests an alternate model for how fast-growing companies actually grow. It’s a lengthy piece, but don’t miss it if charts and graphs are your thing. A Smart Bear.
🔹 Real Estate Report: America’s real estate landscape is constantly evolving, with every major city across the US having seen its fair share of real estate development in the last 10 years. But which sectors are booming, and which markets are the most active in terms of new construction? Storage Cafe tells you all you need to know (with useful interactive graphs) in their report: The Most Active Real Estate Markets In The Last Decade.
🔹 The money never stops: A number of prominent crypto VCs have backed a new upstart NFT fund led by Andrew Jiang and Todd Goldberg. The $30 million fund called Curated is devoted to buying and holding NFT artwork. The fund is backed by a who’s who of crypto investors.
🔹 Start a DAO: We wrote about about Upstream Collectives in November last year. Upstream is a no-code platform that lets anyone start and run their own DAO. They’ve been operating in closed beta since November 2021, but have officially opened up to the public with the announcement of $12.5MM in Series A funding. It’s “DAO-in-a-box.”
🔹 Well financed: New York-based Capchase has closed an $80 million Series B for their platform that gives founders nondilutive financing tools to fund their startup. Its main product—Capchase Grow—enables recurring-revenue companies to access future capital upfront. They must be doing something right — Crunchbase reports that Capchase’s ARR increased 2,300% last year!
🔹 Get on the waitlist: San Francisco–based Bessemer Venture Partners has created BessemerDAO, a group to discuss trends and pool resources to invest in crypto. Bessemer has also earmarked $250 million of its new $2.5 billion fund for deals with a focus on consumer applications, DeFi, web3 infrastructure, and enabling technology. Waitlist here.
🔹 Diversifying their offers: Social investing platform Public acquired Otis, a fractional investing company that focuses on NFTs, art, and other collectibles. If Otis and Public manage to list lots of alternative assets and generate a liquid market around them, they will have managed to create a stream of price data on what are normally illiquid assets. That will be valuable — if they can monetize it within normal privacy bounds.
🔹 Interest still exists: Society Brands is the latest Amazon aggregator to secure a large capital raise. The Canton, Ohio-based company announced it raised $204 million in a mix of debt and equity led by i80 Group. Society Brands’ capital raise seems to indicate investors’ interest still exists in this space—for now at least.
🔹 Moving money: In our regular weekly scroll through Product Hunt, we discovered Atlantic Money. The company aims to take on Wise. TransferWise, now known as Wise, is a public company that has done well for itself. Naturally, it’s attracting competition. Atlantic Money offers a zero FX mark-up and a low flat-rate transfer price (£3 per transfer). Let’s see if the startup can tackle the public incumbent, itself a former startup.
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🤝🏿 Deal Summary
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➽ Coup de vent by Claude Monet (1881): Since 2013, Monet has consistently ranked as one of the ten best selling artists. MasterWorks.
Price Per Share: $23.10
Historical Appreciation: 9.27%
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USDC/UST - Uniswap (Ethereum) - 57.04% APY
DOLA/USDC - Uniswap (Ethereum) - 45.40% APY
USDC - Autofarm (Poligon) - 29.78% APY
💲 DeFi Yields
Hundred.Finance (Fantom Chain) *note: We list the fully-boosted yields here
MIM: 13.37%, DAI: 21.22%, FRAX: 2.23%, USDC: 7.97 %
Hundred.Finance (Arbitrum Chain) *note: We list the fully-boosted yields here MIM: 3.66%, DAI: 7.79%, FRAX: 10.62%, USDT: 17.91 %
Pangolin via YieldYak (Avax Chain) UST-USDC: 15.00 %
Moremoney via YieldYak (Avax Chain) MONEYCRV: 10.5 %
Axial YieldYak ( Avax Chain) AM3D: 8.8 %
🧰 Cool Tools
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