Startups & Tech - Issue #197: Unbundling Zapier, Metrics for Series A, Use Cases of USDC

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Gm. Two personal updates to share:

One of our portfolio companies Polysign, just announced their Series C led by Soros Fund Management and acquisition of MG Stover, the biggest fund admin for crypto funds with $40B under administration.
We’ll be hosting a happy hour during the FTX Crypto Bahamas event later this month. The event sold out quickly, but if you’ll be around send me a note and I’ll see what I can do.

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

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🗞️ Interesting Reads

Continuing the Elon/Twitter drama, he offered to take the entire company private (in his own words) and the board responded by putting out a plan to dilute shareholders in favor of existing management/board (the “poison pill” approach).
Startup ideas: Unbundling Zapier
A primer on how to build simple recommendation systems.
What metrics enterprise companies need to have to hit Series A (TLDR answer is less clear in today’s market).
Primer and use cases of USDC and other stablecoins (TLDR: digitized dollar accounts).
Marketmap of b2b payments infrastructure
Different layers of decentralization for Web3 startups.

🔥 Startup Jobs

Race Capital: Investment Associate, Head of Content (Remote)
OtterTune: Product Manager, Software Engineer, Designer (Remote)
Opaque: Business Development, Backend, Core Platform (Berkeley, CA)
SocialChat: Marketing Manager (San Francisco, CA)
GoodNotes: Data Platform, Growth (London, UK)
Databricks: Infra Eng, Product Manager
Lightning Labs: Head of Talent, Engineering Manager, Product Manager, Marketing (Remote)
Citcon: VP Engineering, Lead Architect (Remote)
Polysign: Software Engineer, Client Services (Remote)
Scarf: Social Media, Head of Growth, Engineer, Data Analyst (Remote)
Zeet: Head of Growth, Dev Experience, Customer Success, Marketing (SF, CA)
Zeta: Product Designer, Marketing Lead (Remote)
FTX: Full Stack Developer (Remote)

Browse more open roles across our portfolio at Race Capital’s Portfolio Job Board

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