If you are anything like us, you are wondering how we are already in Q4 - the year just started! Stores have even started putting up Christmas decorations!?!?!? How time flies when you are having fun. 😎
Speaking of fun, who said playing hard is a bad thing? Quite the contrary actually. After a much-needed summer break, marketplace operators and investors went into overdrive. 🏎
Below is our selection of the best content from September’s activity including:
Ishavasyam Dash, Director of Marketing at Antler Global, summarizes characteristics of network effects businesses as taught by Sameer Singh from breadcrumb.vc
Want to build a marketplace? Alex Macdonald shares his marketplace cheat sheet as well as an extensive resource list of 170+ books, blog, pods, videos and research papers
Partner Mary D'Onofrio releases the definitive benchmarking report on how cloud companies grow operationally efficient businesses and scale to $100m ARR (and beyond)
Coming in hot out of stealth with $1.4m in seed funding, Lapse pole vaults to No. 1 in the App Store, bringing back a bit of nostalgia while re-introducing the social graph and authenticity to photo sharing. Our Partner, Jeroen Arts, shares why we’re excited to be part of the movement here
After delivering more than 100,000 shipments in Germany, German startup Schüttflix announced it had raised $50m of additional capital led by Draper Esprit, to expand in Austria, Poland and the Czech Republic
Not only was Planetly recognised as one of top 10 early-stage Berlin startups to watch in 2021 and beyond, but it also won the TNW Tech competition for Germany
There were 35+ marketplace deals in September, a record for 2021 showing investors’ appetite for network effect businesses, including some of our own here at Speedinvest
Our portfolio companies are always hiring exceptional talent! If you or someone you know would love to work in a fast-paced marketplace startup, check out the open jobs at our startups here.
We hope you enjoyed this issue, brought to you by Toyosi and Mathias on behalf of the Speedinvest Marketplaces & Consumer team ✌🏾
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The Speedinvest Marketplaces & Consumer team invest in SaaS-enabled platforms and marketplaces and other Network Effects-driven businesses where the value of a product increases with every new user. Enabled by new technologies in areas we cannot even imagine today, the team believes these are the businesses that will continue to revolutionize the world.
