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Exciting News: Schematic is publicly available and we’ve raised $4.8M in seed funding! 🚀 I’m pumped to share that Schematic is now publicly available! We've also raised $4.8M in seed funding, led by MHS Capital with participation from NextView Ventures, Active Capital, Atlanta Ventures, and Ritual Capital—along with support from incredible founders of companies like CrowdStrike, LaunchDarkly, and Salesloft. A big thank you to our investors for believing in us, to our customers for guiding us, and to Benjamin Papillon, Jasdeep Garcha, Giovanni Hobbins, Vladyslav Len, Youssef Salah, Christopher Brady, Joseph Chrzan, Mohammed Almusaddar, and Markiian Simkiv for the opportunity to build this together. ➡️ Solving the last mile of pricing & packaging At every startup, one thing is certain: pricing and packaging will always change. Product and engineering teams shouldn’t have to reinvent the wheel every time this happens. Most companies hard-code pricing and packaging into their applications, making it slow and painful to evolve as market demands shift. ➡️ What We’re Building We're building Schematic to transform pricing and packaging for B2B SaaS companies by getting product and engineering teams out of billing projects. With Schematic, B2B SaaS companies can change pricing & packaging without code changes or billing refactors. ➡️ How It Works With just a few lines of code, businesses can implement pricing and packaging into any application—end-to-end—from feature delivery through billing and customer experience. Quickly roll out new features and tie them to your pricing plans. Target specific plans to customers and adjust them without engineering support. Experiment, scale, and manage pricing & packaging operations: trials, plans, limits, entitlements, metering usage, handling exceptions, provisioning customers, & embedding front-end purchasing components —all without code changes. ➡️ Who we’re building for We’re building Schematic for B2B SaaS companies who want their pricing & packaging roadmaps to move in sync with their product roadmaps, without slowing down their engineering teams. Some key use cases our customers are already benefiting from: 🔹Outsourcing homegrown & hard-coded entitlement services. 🔹Programmatically managing feature access based on subscription plans. 🔹Metering usage and actually enforcing limits. 🔹Updating and managing plans, add-ons, bundling, and customer exceptions 🔹Delivering embeddable purchasing experiences (pricing tables, customer portals, upgrade/downgrade flows, etc). We’re still in the early innings, but the foundation is strong—we're already handling 500K entitlement flag evaluations every month. If you’re a founder or a product leader looking to avoid building what should be out-of-the-box (feature flags, entitlements, admin dashboards, customer portals), check out Schematic and let us know what you think.

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Amazing podcast episode on frameworks for evaluating startup ideas with Mike Maples, Jr (Founding Partner at Floodgate, ex-Product at Silicon Graphics) on Lenny's Podcast. 🎧 Here are some fun takeaways: 📈 Pivoting to Success: ● 85% of the successes in Mike's portfolio come from startups that had a fundamental pivot in their journey. This highlights that our initial validation is only a minor chapter in a venture's lifecycle. 🔍 Breakout Concepts: ● Startups need to be radically different from incumbents to succeed. ● Inflections are external changes that promote radical change. Incremental improvements, like Moore’s Law, are not inflections. AI itself isn't an inflection, but some models, like LLMs, are. 💡 Earned Insight: ● Startups need to be both non-consensus and right. ● Insights allow startups to escape comparison traps with incumbents. ● "Live in the future & build what’s missing." 👥 Founder/Future Fit: ● Founders need to be obsessed with the future of the problem. ● Sometimes, a team lacking experience is better suited for the future, seeing new possibilities. Other times, seasoned expertise and a proven track record are crucial for building customer trust. ● Greatness hinges on how authentically a team aligns with the future they aim to create.

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✨ Breaking: Halogen Ventures Announces New Fund.- Halogen Ventures Halogen Ventures focuses on early-stage consumer technology startups with at least one woman on the founding team. The fund announced a $10 million investment to support female founders in Alabama. https://halogenvc.com/ Please share to let other #Founders know For the ❤️ of Startups #Fusion42 #Startups #Venturecapital

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Unlocking startup success often hinges on effective fundraising.     In this article, Kristen Craft dives into how a well-organized data room can streamline the fundraising process and provide a competitive edge.    Hear from VC investors about some of the best practices for managing your data room and securing the capital you need to grow, including:    -Derek Bugley, Managing Director at Forum Ventures,   -Abigail Risse, Healthcare Investor at Touchdown Ventures  -Brittney Wade, Senior Associate at Alumni Ventures at the time.     🔗 Read the article here: https://hubs.ly/Q02-dYpW0      #Startups #Fundraising #DataRoom #VentureCapital #FidelityPrivateShares

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Recent review for Foundation Capital 🗣️ A short but sweet review that shows how a VC team’s good character can be a good value add for founders. At Landscape⛰️, founders support founders by leaving helpful and insightful reviews to help navigate through venture capital fundraising. 🤝 More reviews are in our review platform! Founders, leave a review at comment below 👇

🎙️ On the latest episode of Embracing Erosion, Devon was joined by Alex Pattis, General Partner at Riverside Ventures and founding team member of Hampton. Alex is also the co-founder of Last Money In Media, a leading VC newsletter that explores Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) within the Venture Capital ecosystem. As a prominent advocate for the SPV investment format over the traditional VC fund model, Alex brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the table. This episode dives deep into: 🌟 How to scale a company from concept to a 9-figure exit 🔄 Breaking away from the traditional consulting model and applying product approaches ⏩ The importance of iterating quickly and often with messaging 💸📈 Key signals to watch when investing in startups Don't miss this insightful conversation. Listen now 👉 https://lnkd.in/gEKv5ghE #VentureCapital #SPVs #StartupInvesting #ProductMarketing

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Built For Founders By Founders The Funding Accelerator equips founders with proven strategies to secure capital, extend runway, and build investor confidence—all on your terms. Learn how to grow smarter: 👉 https://lnkd.in/eX6Va94A hashtag#Fundraising hashtag#StartupGrowth

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From $0 rev Easily monetize SaaS payments with Tilled Founder & CEO, Caleb Avery Are you leaving money on the table with your SaaS payments? Tilled Founder & CEO, Caleb Avery, shares how his company helps businesses monetize their payments in the latest episode of Fintech Confidential's 1:1 interview series. He, discusses with host Tedd Huff how his company helps businesses monetize their SaaS payments. Tilled offers a turnkey solution for embedded payments and also provides a more comprehensive offering, including integrated lending. Caleb Avery shares how Tilled has helped businesses who were previously making $0 in revenue on their payments generate more income, and explains how his company can assist in the sales and go-to-market aspects of the payment process. Don't miss this informative interview! #FintechConfidential #Tilled #SaaSpayments #embeddedpayments #integratedlending #monetization #revenue #paymentsprocessing #paymenttechnology #paymentprocessing #paymentsolutions #businessgrowth #gotomarket #interviewseries #entrepreneurship #FintechPodcast #startupadvice #innovation #techindustry #businessstrategies #financialtechnology #podcastinterview #saas

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From $0 rev Easily monetize SaaS payments with Tilled Founder & CEO, Caleb Avery Are you leaving money on the table with your SaaS payments? Tilled Founder & CEO, Caleb Avery, shares how his company helps businesses monetize their payments in the latest episode of Fintech Confidential's 1:1 interview series. He, discusses with host Tedd Huff how his company helps businesses monetize their SaaS payments. Tilled offers a turnkey solution for embedded payments and also provides a more comprehensive offering, including integrated lending. Caleb Avery shares how Tilled has helped businesses who were previously making $0 in revenue on their payments generate more income, and explains how his company can assist in the sales and go-to-market aspects of the payment process. Don't miss this informative interview! #FintechConfidential #Tilled #SaaSpayments #embeddedpayments #integratedlending #monetization #revenue #paymentsprocessing #paymenttechnology #paymentprocessing #paymentsolutions #businessgrowth #gotomarket #interviewseries #entrepreneurship #FintechPodcast #startupadvice #innovation #techindustry #businessstrategies #financialtechnology #podcastinterview #saas

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🚨 NEW! Fundraising Playbook: 10 Steps to Fundraising Success In partnership with our friends at Forecastr, we are excited to share a new FREE resource for founders who are looking to step up their fundraising game. The 10 steps outlined in this Fundraising Playbook will guide you through the entire process, from building an investor pipeline to crafting your pitch and closing the deal. These are the same steps Forecastr has successfully implemented to raise 4 consecutive oversubscribed funding rounds, even through some of the most challenging fundraising conditions ever. These tried and true fundraising tips and strategies have also been implemented by numerous clients that Forecastr works with to successfully raise capital from investors. To receive a FREE copy simply reply "FNF" in the comments.

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🚀 Check out this week's venture capital investment summary (15 featured companies!) spanning early & growth-stage US based Environmental Technology & Enterprise Software startups! 🎯 Every Monday, the team here at Bearhug Recruiting aggregates, researches, and publishes a recap of the prior week's fundraising activity within the early and growth-stage Environmental Technology & Enterprise Software startup ecosystem. 🌎 This research not only allows us to keep our finger on the pulse of the type of startups we serve, but also benefits others who, like us, enjoy analyzing the latest trends that signal investor confidence AND startup growth within what we believe are the most exciting and impactful market segments. ❤️ We also hope the people and companies we feature enjoy both a virtual fist bump from the team at Bearhug, plus benefit from some additional free market exposure to amplify their mission. Click the link below to get caught up, and make sure you reach out to any that are interesting/relevant that you might be able to help! 💥 Link: https://lnkd.in/ejHWSUVD 👈 #subeca #ketos #xgsenergy #280earth #witnessai #simr #coactive #infinitform #aerominetechnologies #aerodome #patronusai #verse #socradar #thinklabsai #tractionag #environmentaltechnology #enterprisesoftware #startupfunding #startup #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #startups #funding #startupnews #venturecapital #technology #vc #investing #entrepreneurs

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💡 Fundraising: More Than Just Money 💡 Too many founders focus only on the funds—but what about the people? The advice? The network you’re building along the way? Here’s the truth: Fundraising isn’t just about the check size; it’s about creating a network of advisors and allies who can guide your business to new heights. When you connect with the right people you unlock opportunities for growth beyond funding. Not to mention you create a foundation for long-term success. At Storm X Capital, we’re redefining fundraising to focus on connections, not just capital. Are you focusing on the money—or the people? Let’s rethink fundraising. #Fundraising #StartupTips #Networking #ThoughtLeader

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Namit Chugh of W Health Ventures breaks down the distinctions between accelerators and venture capital model. If you are a founder starting your journey, learn how the two models shape up startup growth strategies and investment avenues. Catch the full episode on our Youtube channel, if you haven’t already https://lnkd.in/gB2q_iWp #venturestudio #vc #healthcare #accelerators #founder #YouTube #episode #podcast

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How Are YC Startups Navigating 2024's Funding Challenges? YC startups are adopting lean fundraising strategies in a challenging market. Based on insights from a TechCrunch article. Read Here: https://lnkd.in/g5aSS9gX #techbuzz #startups #ycstartups #fundraising #venturecapital #seedfunding #techcrunch #2024trends #startupfunding #leanstartups #entrepreneurship #startupstrategy #vcfunding #earlystagefunding #markettrends

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🚨 𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐎𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐎𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬💰 If you're a startup founder looking to secure investor funding, or an executive on the hunt for your next big opportunity, your story needs to be told strategically and compellingly. Investors don’t just invest in ideas—they invest in people and stories that resonate. 🔑 I help startups get funded faster by crafting pitch decks that grab attention and influence decisions. Whether you're pre-seed or Series A, now is the time to perfect your pitch and stand out from the crowd. 🚀 ✨Here’s how I can help: ✔️ Investor Pitch Deck Creator ✔️ Startup Storyteller ✔️ Pitch Coach ✔️ Executive Resume & Interview Coach ✔️ From Pre-Seed to Series A Funding Don’t let another opportunity slip away. The right pitch deck can be the difference between funding and the dreaded "No.” #StartupSuccess #InvestorReady #PitchDeck #GetFundedFaster #EntrepreneurLife #SmartBusiness #StartupGrowth #PitchLikeAPro #FundingGoals #CareerSuccess

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In our newest blog post, Nine Four Ventures General Partner Kurt Ramirez shares some of his thoughts on the current environment of startup shutdowns and valuation resets, and if these are natural consequences of an earlier period of frothy investment and easy money. Some key points are around how:  ·        Startup failures are common and expected, especially after a period of high funding.  ·        The recent increase in shutdowns should be viewed relative to the outsized number of startups funded in the boom years of 2020 and 2021 and reaching their make-or-break moment now.  ·        Some of these startups may have been funded based on unrealistic expectations of future growth, leading to valuation drops. Read the full post on our site, Substack, or by clicking below to learn more. Please reach out with any questions or comments on trends, companies, or anything else. https://lnkd.in/dZm6vfis Cc Jeffrey Elowe, Kurt Ramirez, Paul La Londe, Sophia Ghadamian Kier, Avi Pradhan #VentureCapital #Startup #Valuation #Tech

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"Our local angel/pre-seed investors don't use SAFEs, so founders shouldn't ask for them" Well, maybe—but the data tells a different story. Carta dropped State of Pre-Seed Q3 2024 Report, packed with the latest market insights: valuation caps, discounts, fundraising tools, dilution trends, angel check sizes—you name it. A top question I hear when we share pre-seed data: Is all this SAFE talk just a Silicon Valley thing? Or are investors nationwide embracing them? Here’s what the data says: From analysed 55,000+ SAFEs and Convertible Notes signed between January 2022 and August 2024, all from pre-seed startups using Carta (most through our free Carta Launch tier). 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝘀𝗮𝘆? It’s true that SAFEs are most popular in mature ecosystems like Silicon Valley and NYC, but they’ve become the default pre-seed funding tool across nearly every major U.S. metro area. And in 2024, their usage has grown even further. 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗦𝗔𝗙𝗘𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗮 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗮? Not always. There are valid concerns: - Limited investor protections if the company never raises a priced round. - Minimal rights upfront (though side letters can address this). - Overuse by founders raising multiple rounds via SAFEs instead of transitioning to priced equity. - That said, SAFEs are overall a net positive for early-stage ecosystems. Quick 2024 SAFE stats: -58% valuation cap only, 34% cap + discount, 8% discount only. -88% post-money SAFEs, 12% pre-money. -Median post-money valuation cap: $10M for a $1M raise. -Median discount: 20% (when applicable). -AI startups? Higher caps and larger rounds. -Convertible notes? Still not making a comeback. If you're a pre-seed founder—or know one—this data is for you. Share it! #startups #preseed #SAFEs #founders #fundraising

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Crunchbase has released its startup funding outlook for the first quarter of 2024, and while funding is still down overall, there are important bright spots. Early-stage funding grew 6% YoY, reflecting positive momentum with a strong group of companies ripe for later-stage investment in the coming years. Here at ECP, we continue to be bullish about consumer investments— great companies are getting funded. What do you think about the latest data? https://lnkd.in/daBr_kyC #VC #venturecapital #startups #investing

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