A big thank you to all of our LPs, portfolio founders, and supporters for coming out to our first ever Race Capital Summit. Very thankful for SBF of FTX, Anatoly of Solana, Roelof of Sequoia Capital and Ion Stoica of Databricks & Opaque, among many others, for being there for us. 

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Written by Chris McCann, General Partner @ Race Capital. More about me.

• Excited to announce we led the pre-seed investment in Ottr Finance, building the Venmo for Web3.
• A great podcast on the history and founding story of Benchmark Capital by the Acquired Podcast team. 
• Data on the return profile of VC funds with 2x being the average DPI (distributions). 
• While AI has made incredible progress and is having a moment, the question becomes is this the moment of true commercialization?
• Despite the bear market, developer activity in web3 is still strong.
• Aptos, a new move based layer-1 ecosystem, launched their mainnet last week. Here are some stats. 
• Report on the state of the US early stage venture & startup market for Q3 2022. 
• Very detailed analysis on the capacity within the starlink network.

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