BBVC EDITION 5

Author

Laurent Span
August 06, 2024

www.spanvc.com

Welcome to Breaking Barriers of VC, Edition 5.

Happy Tuesday! Edition 5 will be a shorter than usual post, but I have a really cool piece cooking up for Edition 6 next week.

The last few weeks have been incredibly busy!

We hosted a VC Mixology Event with Malpaso, (if you like agave, check out Raicilla Malpaso, it’s really good)… - shoutout Reitler and Carta

Shoutout Richie and Jess

Then we hosted a VC / GP / LP Dinner with FirstGenLaw and Sydecar…

Shoutout Rhea, Lauren, Lauren, and Varun

Lastly, we hosted our staple panel series, this time chatting about everything in AI - 

Shoutout (LR) Fabian, Ankit, Akriti & Kotryna

With that being said, our community is surely growing. Check out our next few events:

Upcoming Events for Breaking Barriers of VC:

2) Sept 17th, BBVC presents, “Let’s Talk Scale”- Panel on scaling early stage businesses

Unique Startups via SPANVentures.

like to see early-stage deal flow? Join the Syndicate

  1. At Flora, we have identified a significant gap: 60-80% of people still have no fertility coverage through their work or health plans, and generally use costly financing or expensive money-back guarantees to secure treatment. The biggest gaps are contract workers and SMB employees. We are changing the way fertility treatment is funded by creating the first individually-owned insurance solution for the next generation of parents. We make it easy and affordable for women and families to fund future treatment, providing the dollars and community to access the care they need. Our distribution partners include women's health apps, SMB employers, and embedded distribution partners reaching 10M+ future moms across the U.S. and Canada.

    1. Syndicating through SV, the deal closes Aug 16 - reply if interested 

  2. Rella: Rella simplifies collaboration and content management for creators and social media teams, allowing them to share and upload content with the people who need to see it.

    Instead of creators and social media teams wasting time keeping track of projects, organizing and sharing content, posting across all platforms, and tracking down approvals - you can use Rella instead.

    Rella is built by a creator, Natalie Barbu. She has been a creator for 13 years, was able to quit her job at Accenture after making double her salary on social media, and started an agency where she worked with brands and creators on their social strategy. In addition to herself, she has 2 cofounders who have been software engineers for the past 6 years.

    Rella users have shared over 100,000 pieces of content and they recently launched paid subscriptions in October generating $62K+ in ARR with $0 spent in marketing.

    1. As an emerging content creator, this tool is sick. If you want to invest, let me know.

  3. Orgo: Orgo is on a mission to power logistics of daily life, most ideal for the 60MM U.S. families with kids ages 6-17 involved in extracurriculars, who experience scheduling challenges at scale. Team management platforms focus exclusively on activity planning. The execution of activity logistics falls on overburdened parents, who must get the right people, to the right places, on time.

COMMUNITY ASK:

  • If you know of any partners available to sponsor events, let me know. I am paying a generous referral fee!

  • I want to bring BBVC to other cities across the country, if you have a suggestion, let me know.

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