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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.
Disappearing Term Sheets and Down Rounds: Inside Venture Capital’s New Normal
US and foreign investors drive Q1 2022 Canadian VC investments to $3.37B
Sandberg Built Meta’s Ad Machine, but Someone Else Will Have to Fix It
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:
Fintech startup Wizest raises $1.7M in seed round
Talently Raises US $3M in a Seed Round To Increase its Presence in Latam
Poparazzi hits 5M+ downloads a year after launch, confirms its $15M Series A
FarmWise Raises $45M Series B To Expand AI-Powered Farm Equipment in U.S. Farms
Danish CleanTech ZeroNorth Raises Over $50M Series B Round to Help Decarbonise Shipping
CRYPTO CORNER
News on Crypto/web3:
Web3 Is About More Than Tech, Thanks to Its Inclusivity
Are People Leaving Their Tech Jobs for Web3?
The Pivot to Web3 Is Going to Get People Hurt
Solana's Future Uncertain After High-Throughput Blockchain Suffers Latest Crash
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