offbeat (fka zfoundr)

weekly newsletter run by @elian_haddock and @aaron_farr

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We’ve been writing ZFoundr for 9 months and 45 editions – it’s been a blast – but it’s also time for a brand & content refresh

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🚨Exciting announcement today🚨

ZFoundr is now 𝙤𝙛𝙛𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙩

We’ve been writing ZFoundr for 9 months and 45 editions – it’s been a blast – but it’s also time for a brand & content refresh

Let’s dive into the details 👇

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4/ Starting next week, each edition will focus on one industry (no more general industry news and funding announcements), and place Gen Z builders in the context of the spaces they are disrupting

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Feature of the day 👇

🦄 Company: @tryvest_
📝 TLDR: stock-based loyalty rewards for emerging businesses
💸 Stage: Pre-seed
📍 Location: SF
👥 Founders: @BrettSeaton0 & Kaushik Akula

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Feature of the day 👇

🦄 Company: @Arpari_
📝 TLDR: Financial platform for commercial real estate
💸 Stage: Pre-seed
📍 Location: NYC
👥 Founders: Alexandra Zwiener

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Feature of the day 👇

🦄 Company: https://t.co/aCCaqasRtQ
📝 TLDR: providing underbanked borrowers with a credit card by collateralizing assets
💸 Stage: Series A
📍 Location: SF
👥 Founders: James Savoldelli

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Feature of the day 👇

🦄 Company: @bluehillpay
📝 TLDR: marketplace to lower payment processing fees for merchants
💸 Stage: pre-seed
📍 Location: SF
👥 Founders: @HimanshuMinocha & Rohan Minocha

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Feature of the day 👇

🦄 Company: @endexapp
📝 TLDR: social investment platform to create and invest in peer-managed indexes
💸 Stage: pre-seed
📍 Location: NYC
👥 Founders: @Brit10knee_11 & @kevin_loo

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Theme of the week: FinTech 💸

💰 FinTech was the number one sector for VC funding in 2021
📈 $134 billion was invested, marking a whopping 177 percent YoY growth
🦄 New unicorns in the space include @gauntletnetwork, @getflex_hq, @sezzleinc

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Feature of the day 👇

🦄 Company: @knowtexai
📝 TLDR: Automating manual tasks for healthcare professionals
💸 Stage: Pre-seed (YC S22)
📍 Location: San Francisco, CA
👥 Founders: @CarolineCZhang, Jocelyn Kang

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Feature of the day 👇

🦄 Company: @montereyai
📝 TLDR: Co-pilot for product development
💸 Stage: Pre-seed (YC S22)
📍 Location: San Francisco, CA
👥 Founders: @chunonline, @benmkramer

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Feature of the day 👇

🦄 Company: @toolcharm
📝 TLDR: Making backend services available to all employees
💸 Stage: Pre-first round
📍 Location: Orlando, FL
👥 Founders: @Mark_Bruckert, Owen Burns

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Feature of the day 👇

🦄 Company: https://t.co/dIcdoDN3cK
📝 TLDR: Enabling document requests at scale
💸 Stage: Pre-Seed (YC S22)
📍 Location: Washington, DC
👥 Founders: Alexander Grant, Alexander Maher, Brady Ochse, Nicholas Yarmesch

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Feature of the day 👇

🦄 Company: @PlusIdentityHQ
📝 TLDR: Password manager for startups on Slack
💸 Stage: Pre-Seed
📍 Location: San Francisco, CA
👥 Founders: Channy Hong, Ike Jin Park

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Theme of the week: Productivity Tech 👩‍💻

🏬 Companies large and small embrace tools that help their employees get more done
🦠 Since COVID, there has been an emphasis on how to make remote / hybrid workers more productive
📈 Unicorns include @MiroHQ @Calendly @clickup

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Feature of the day 👇

🦄 Company: @mapis_is
📝 TLDR: Career platform for international students
💸 Stage: Pre-first round
📍 Location: Claremont, CA
👥 Founders: @dianavic_

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Feature of the day 👇

🦄 Company: @JobProtocol
📝 TLDR: Accelerating web3 recruiting through on-chain referral bounties
💸 Stage: Pre-first round
📍 Location: Distributed
👥 Founders: @BGordts, @jacobclr

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