Social Leverage Letter | Issue #40

Seed Funding, Back to the Future, Business Metrics, and It's Not All Unicorns

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READING 

Crunchbase took a look at nearly 1,000 US seed and pre-seed rounds of up to $500k announced in 2022. Five areas stood out: Metaverse, NFTs, brain and neurotech, alternative protein, and fitness. Looked at in aggregate, we should have a sense of where future minded investors think we’re heading.  

WHAT ELSE WE'RE READING

Here's a few other stories that caught our eye over the past week.

From our blog

LISTENING

In a world of dueling podcasts, investor, advisor, the funny man of fintech, world-renowned Twitter provocateur, and host of Panic with Friends – Howard Lindzon sparred with Rally’s own Rob Petrozzo on Rally’s podcast, The Best Money I Ever Spent. (Rally is a Social Leverage Fund III portfolio company.)

WHAT ELSE WE'RE LISTENING TO

A few more podcasts you might like: 

  • Incredible Market Technician Helene Meisler of RealMoney.com on Price, Sentiment, and Probing for a Bear Market Bottom (Panic with Friends)

  • Ben Hunt — Preserving the Physical Metaverse (Infinite Loops)

DEAL FLOW

The latest venture funding from around the globe:

CRYPTO CORNER

News on Crypto/web3:

JOB BOARD

Explore openings at our portfolio companies: 

Featured Jobs:

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