Hope you all had a GREAT and SPOOKY weekend! 🧙♀️🦇
Welcome back to the 24th edition of The Marketplace Snippet curated by Paola and Mathias on behalf of the Speedinvest Marketplaces & Consumer team 🚀
The Marketplace Snippet is a monthly newsletter featuring the most interesting content on Marketplaces that caught our eyes 👀
Over the past month, in particular, we have seen a lot on content published around the Creator crypto economy: as Web 3.0, the metaverse, NFTs, and social tokens are getting hotter and hotter 🔥 investors’ enthusiasm keeps growing - and so does the number of creators who are leaning into their communities globally. What a time to be a creator!
If you’ve missed past newsletters or simply can’t get enough, catch up here.
Our annual Marketplace Conference is less than three weeks away!
For a deep dive into different marketplace models, trending topics, and how to scale a network effects company from zero to infinity, you do not want to miss our 2021 Marketplace Conference (online) on the 16th and 17th of November.
Rally.io CEO, Bremner Morris, discusses the creator crypto economy, the new creator-community dynamics, and the thousands of new opportunities being opened up by crypto globally! 🌍
Jack Conte, CEO of Patreon, announces Patreon’s Series F with a short video going through the evolution and future of the Creator economy, where creators are finally going to be in charge and ‘the stigma of the starving artist disappears!’ 👨🎨🎨
Morgan Beller of NfX examines with Cuy Sheffield (head of crypto at Visa) and Micah Johnson (Bored Apes, CryptoPunks, and Aku and former professional baseball player) why Web 3.0 founders can’t skip the community building part anymore 🤗
Serial entrepreneur and early-stage investor James Currier joins Azeem Azhar to discuss the power and future of networks and why network-effects companies dominate global markets
Chris Dixon (GP at Andreessen Horowitz) and Naval Ravikant (Co-founder & chairman of AngelList, angel investor) talk about Web 3.0 and the revolutionary concept whereby ‘we flip applications from being closed-code, ‘corporations own the platform and users are the data’, to open-code ‘contributors are the platform and users own the data.’
TIER Mobility continues to lead the way in the global micro-mobility market with its recently announced $200m Series D first close 🛴 With a stronger infrastructure, higher capital-efficiency, higher environmental consciousness, and a high degree of innovation, we are convinced TIER will be the global leading player “made in Europe!” 🌍
Over 300 global games and thousands of advertisers already use Admix’s best-in-class solution. Next up? 👀 International expansion in the Americas and APAC and the metaverse!
The maritime industry is ripe for disruption and Seafair will play a big role in creating more trust and better conditions for all parties involved in the recruiting of seafarers! ⚓️
We are excited to be part of this round and are looking forward to the voyage with Agapitosand his “crew.” 🚢
With Warner Brothers 🐰 and Netflix 📺 already using Heritage Type, how could we not take notice? Heritage Type’s graphic design tool makes it easy for businesses and freelancers to create their own retro-flavored logos, packaging, websites, you name it! Give it a try 👀
There were 53 marketplace deals in October, a record for 2021 showing continued 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.
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The Speedinvest Marketplaces & Consumer team backs startups who are shaping the future across B2B and B2C at the intersection of marketplaces, eCommerce 2.0, and consumer subscriptions. You really want our attention? Throw in some network effects - the driver behind the digital platforms that are redefining our everyday lives.
