Fully Vested

That's Just Hashtag Capitalism

Episode Summary

We discuss several new large funds which have recently filed Form Ds and SoftBank’s desire for several of their portfolio companies to stop competing directly and maybe head towards profitability.

Episode Notes

General

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Big Funds

• Section starts at 10m0s
• Here's the Form D rss feed Jason follows: Raw feed from the SEC
• Ribbit Capital Targets $420M For Its Sixth Flagship Venture Fund
  • Ribbit Capital VI, L.P. (SEC filing)
  • Bullfrog Capital, L.P (SEC filing)
• 8VC Aims To Raise $640M For Third Flagship Fund, Filings Show
  • 8VC Fund III, L.P.
• For Startups, VC Funding Is Always In Season

SoftBank

• Section starts at 39m0s
• SoftBank wants its on-demand portfolio to stop losing so much money (Alex Wilhelm for TechCrunch)
• Update since recording: Doordash has filed to go public
• SoftBank is Funding Every Side of Latin America's Bruising Startup Battle (By Robbie Whelan and Eliot Brown for Wall Street Journal)

About The Co-Hosts

• Jason D. Rowley is a data journalist for Crunchbase News, volunteers with the Python Software Foundation as an organizer of Startup Row at PyCon US, and sends occasional newsletters from Rowley.Report.
• Graham C. Peck is a Venture Partner with Cultivation Capital and additionally helps companies build technology development teams in partnership with Brightgrove and other technology development organizations.