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How Much Should You Raise at Seed Stage?
Over the recent months, we have seen early stage start-ups raising rounds that were significantly higher than the “average” seed round, e.g. Dija €20m, Cajoo €6m, Kili €6m, etc.
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How to Create & Measure Network Effects (Part 2)
So hopefully we can all agree now that network effects (nfx) are precious, as a powerful source of defensibility and value creation. The real question then becomes: how to trigger them? And how to measure them?
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What Are Network Effects and Increasing Returns? (Part 1)
This article (Part 1) is an attempt to explain how we understand increasing returns and network effects at Samaipata. Part 2 is deep-diving into how to create network effects, how to measure them and what the future holds.
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Cheet Sheet #1: Key Metrics to Track for Marketplaces
It’s no secret that at Samaipata, we love data and we love to use it to make decisions and track how we’re doing. Okay, so maybe you’re thinking “Great, so you guys are a little nerdy and you love numbers. What’s that got to do with me?”
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Understanding Non-Dilutive Financing Sources in France: "Quick-Win" Guide for Founders
Les phases de forte croissance de la plupart des “Scales-up” françaises sont très médiatisées. La presse relate de près les progrès de nos “success stories”:
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Tech to Unlock the Power of Creativity: Why We Invested in Motley
When we think about the future of jewellery, we see Motley: a brand powered by a tech-enabled community of designers — bringing the world’s leading designers and their brilliant designs to consumers at affordable prices and enabling them to, for the first time ever, capture real economic value out of their creations.
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Enabling Industry 4.0 - Why We Invested in Geomiq
In a world where companies are as efficient as their supply chain and every day is key not to fall off the innovation curve, a broken quote-to-order process means that a significant part of the efficiencies of Industry 4.0 are lost on the way. Now, more than ever, is the time for intelligent manufacturing.
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The Rise of Platforms
At Samaipata, we believe in the Rise of Platforms. Conveniently, it’s hard to be held accountable by such statement as the world “platform” can refer to basically anything. Yet — unfortunately — we’ll come back to a more specific definition further down.
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Streaming Becoming Live & Bidirectional: Welcome Streamloots
Two months ago we took a stand on live streaming welcoming Streamloots as Samaipata’s 15th investment.
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9 Tips to Turn Your Startup Board into a Secret Weapon
Samaipata is an early stage founders’ fund investing in digital platforms displaying increasing returns at scale, across Europe.
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Making Justice Accessible for Everyone - Why We Invested into Legl
It’s tough for a lawyer (like myself) to not get carried away when the topic of access to justice comes up. Having access to legal advice to defend your claims or defend yourself from the claims of others should be a basic right.
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50 Is the New 30 - Why We Invested in Passions
Along with gaming and hardware, online dating is a frown upon topic in the venture capital industry. VC investors just do not invest in dating. Full stop. As Andrew Chen explained here, some reasons typically put forward include:
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Somos un fondo early stage, creado por y para fundadores, que invierte en negocios digitales con efectos de red.
IA y experiencia de usuario: un romance potencialmente infinito
A rebufo de modelos fundacionales como ChatGPT o Midjourney, las startups tienen la oportunidad de diseñar sus propias capas de software sin necesidad de recurrir a grandes cantidades de capital.
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VIVLA: la proptech que revoluciona el concepto de residencias vacacionales
La startup madrileña (28 millones levantados) oferta casas exclusivas a una fracción del precio original bajo la fórmula de la copropiedad y con un potente bastidor tecnológico orientado a la flexibilidad.
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Fuentes de Financiación de Startups
¿Quieres saber cuáles son las principales formas de financiar una startup? El equipo de inversión de Samaipata explica brevemente las principales fuentes de financiación de negocios tecnológicos.
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Carrera en Venture Capital
¿Alguna vez te has preguntado qué es Venture Capital (VC)? ¿Cómo funciona un fondo de Venture Capital? El equipo de inversión de Samaipata te lo cuenta de primera mano.
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¿Qué es Venture Capital?
¿Alguna vez te has preguntado qué es Venture Capital (VC)? ¿Cómo funciona un fondo de Venture Capital? El equipo de inversión de Samaipata te lo cuenta de primera mano.
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