Silicon Valley Funding News - Week of November 20, 2023. CytoVale Raised $84M Series C

Last Friday, I helped ring the bell at the NYSE for the very first time supporting the DayDayCook IPO! 

I am very proud to be an investor and a supporter of Founder and CEO Norma Chu and her DayDayCook team since 2015. Norma is the first and only Asian woman founder to go IPO on the New York Stock Exchange in 2023! An accomplishment of a lifetime!

Here are a few great reads, watch, etc for this week:

• 🔔 DayDayCook Rang the NYSE Bell -  Can you spot me here?
• 🔥 Sam Altman was fired - by the board of OpenAI followed by Greg Brockman also called it quit. Then a day later, the board tried to bring him.  A bit crazy especially I just saw Sam at the APEC Summit with Laurene Powell Jobs. Did Satya pressure the board? Is Silicon Valley now the new Hollywood? Or will he be reinstated as CEO by the time you read this? 
• 🇨🇳 San Francisco did not disappoint APEC - San Francisco was really cleaned up in preparation for APEC 2023 this past week. I appreciated  the remarks by both President Biden and President Xi. The China-U.S. relationship is the most important bilateral relationship in the world. I believe Planet Earth is big enough for the two countries to succeed, and one country’s success is an opportunity for the other.
• 🔥 Apple, Disney, Warner Bros. Paramount and Comcast suspend ads on X after Elon Musk's endorsement of an anti-semitic post. Read more
• 💰 The Monetary Authority of Singapore awards Paxos and StraitsX with in-principle license approvals to issue stablecoins pegged to local dollars. Read more.

This week a total of 19 startups raised $278.7M in funding, 1 M&As:

• $36.9M goes to 4 Enterprise startups
• $14M goes to 2 FinTech startups
• $18.1M goes to 2 Blockchain startups
• $14M goes to 2 Marketplace startups
• $90.4M goes to 3 Healthcare startups
• $11.5M goes to 1 Wellness startup
• $3M goes to 1 Janitorial Service startup
• $5M goes to 1 Gaming startup
• $85.8M goes to 3 Renewable Energy startups