Jim Andelman

💡 Founder Investment Priority: Early-Stage or Late-Stage? 🚀 Elevation Capital has launched a $400 million fund focused on investing in late-stage startups. This signals a strategic shift from early-stage investing to supporting companies in their final growth phase. 🔍 Target Startups of the Fund 1️⃣ Late-stage Growth: Startups in their final growth phases with strong traction. 2️⃣ Market-Ready: Companies prepared for scaling and expansion. 3️⃣ Sector Focus: Technology-driven and financial services startups with scalable business models. 💬Follow us for deeper analysis on India’s fintech and startup ecosystem! #IndiaStartups #VentureCapital #StartupFunding #Fintech #LateStageStartups #GrowthStage #Innovation #TechStartups

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Founders are often optimistic about growth. Sometimes, that confidence leads to funding ideas that don't fully pan out. Royalty-based growth capital is structured to limit downside risk compared to traditional venture-backed paths. Vik Thapar of Cypress Growth Capital explains that, even if outcomes fall short of early expectations, founders often still exit with meaningful results because they retain the majority of ownership. 🎙️ Tune into the Private Equity Value Creation Podcast: https://lnkd.in/gxkEsH3Z 👇🏽 Find Us Here https://lnkd.in/gTdPMk8P #privateequity #privateequitypodcast #privateequityvaluecreation

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💲 Emergent announced $23 million in Series A funding to empower more people to build and run businesses simply The round was led by Lightspeed, with participation from YC, Together, Prosus Ventures and angels including Jeff Dean, Devendra Chaplot, Balaji Srinivasan and brings Emergent’s total funding to $30 million, including a $7 million seed round. “My brother and I built Emergent to equip anyone with an idea and a phone with the tools to create software affordably,” said Mukund Jha, Co-Founder and CEO. 📖 Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/e-fPZh-w #StartupsMagazine #Startups #Entrepreneur #Funding

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Early-stage VC is about conviction. Late-stage VC is about visibility. Series C+ companies have real customers, real revenue, and real plans to go public or get acquired. #HighCircleVentures #SeriesC #LateStageVC #SmartInvesting #VentureCapital #PrivateMarkets

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Plaid is built to make it easier for businesses to build and scale financial products that people trust. That trust starts with knowing who you’re working with. As Plaid helps platforms onboard and support millions of businesses, verifying business identity accurately and efficiently is foundational. That’s why Plaid partners with Middesk to automate business verification during onboarding — confirming core business details, reducing manual review, and helping teams make confident risk decisions without slowing down the customer experience. Together, we help Plaid deliver faster onboarding, stronger compliance, and a more durable foundation for growth across the financial ecosystem they power. We’re proud to support Plaid as they help teams move fast while maintaining trust at scale. #KYB #KYC #AML #BEV #businessverification #financialservices #onboarding #compliance #smallbusiness #SMBs

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New blog just dropped 🧠 Most VC firms don't have a deal flow problem. They have a signal processing problem. Everyone sees the same launches, the same founder activity, the same market data. The difference isn't who sees more. It's who makes sense of it faster. We wrote about why signal to conviction speed is becoming the real edge in venture and what that means for how investment teams should operate. Link in the comments. Would love to hear how other investors and operators think about this.

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Layer is tackling one of the most overlooked pain points for SMBs: accounting. They’re gaining real traction doing so. Emergence is leading their seed round to bring embedded, AI-powered accounting to the SMB software stack. Kevin Spain highlights what makes this team and product so compelling. 

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A new wave of founders is changing how companies are built—and how growth equity will evolve with them. As Steve Achatz, Principal at Volition Capital highlights in Fast Company, today’s breakout startups share common DNA: discipline, velocity, and a mindset geared toward automating themselves out of a job. Solo founders and lean teams are reaching traditional Series A and B milestones with a fraction of the headcount and spend. With AI, no-code tools, and stronger founder communities, meaningful scale is now possible without the playbook of the past decade. This shift has major implications for investors and operators alike—and we believe it will accelerate exit timelines within #GrowthEquity. Smart, focused, #CapitalEfficient founders are the new norm. And we’re excited for what that means for the next generation of breakout companies. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/eRakGFXZ

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Big milestone for Firmable. We’ve raised $14m Series A led by Airtree. Sales has moved through a few big waves: intuition-led, CRM-led, data-led. We’re now entering the next one – intelligence-led sales. The opportunity isn’t just better data. It’s turning that data into clear direction and action, without adding more work for sales teams. That’s what we’re building at Firmable: a foundation of trusted external data, layered with intelligence that helps sellers know who to focus on and when. Led by Airtree, this round supports our expansion across Asia and into the US – and accelerates the build-out of AI agents that take the admin work off sales teams so they can focus on what they do best. Proud of the team, grateful to our customers and investors. We’re just getting started. Read the exclusive in the AFR. https://lnkd.in/gr66uknb Leigh Jasper | Tara Salmon | Karthik Venkatasubramanian| Chester Thompson| Chath Widanapathirana

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