The Deal Room | 08/15

Emerging Manager Series Dropping Soon 🔥

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Partner Track & Jonathan Henry
August 15, 2024

Welcome back to The Deal Room 📰

Each week we have plenty of exciting announcements, the latest VC job postings, deals of the week, upcoming events, interesting articles to learn from, and more. Read below for the weekly insights from our team👇

Announcing the Launch of our Emerging Manager Spotlight Series 🔥

At Partner Track, we're passionate about supporting Emerging Managers. To showcase the incredible funds they’re developing, we’ve decided to spotlight their work by asking them about their investment strategies, the funds they’re building, and more.

Below is an excerpt of our latest interview with Tahira Dosani from ResilienceVC where she is building a fund focused on enhancing financial resilience among Americans:

“A Decade of Experience Investing in Fintech - Tahira Dosani brings over a decade of experience from her tenure at Accion Venture Lab, where she focused on seed-stage fintech investments. Additionally, her background as an operator in the mobile payment space equips her with a comprehensive understanding of the fintech landscape. Now, leading the ResilienceVC platform, Tahira aims to write checks of approximately $1mm into US-based startups that align with the firm’s mission…”

Updates for this Week: 08.15.24 🗓️

We’re on track to reach 500 members soon! Our mission is to elevate the next generation of outstanding investors by fostering a dynamic community, facilitating top-notch deals and introductions, hosting exceptional events, and providing valuable resources. And we're just getting started! If you have any questions or would like to connect with either of the Co-Founders, Savannah or Jonathan are always available. Thank you for being a vital part of Partner Track, and as always, enjoy The Deal Room.

Here are the best deals we have seen this week, 🫢 reply to this email for an intro.

Cloakify.ai: is at the forefront of safeguarding digital content from unauthorized AI access and scraping. Basically Microsoft said the internet is fair game for scraping and data. Which means you don’t own it in their eyes.

  • Targeting a $138.76B Service Addressable Market in digital publishing

  • Proprietary AI-resistant encoding technology

  • Seamless user experience for legitimate readers

  • Initial focus on news outlets and digital publishers

  • Currently seeking PoC’s to accelerate our growth and capitalize on this timely market opportunity.

  • Raising $2.5m at $10m pre-money.

  • Pitch Deck

MedDefend is on a mission to end misdiagnosis through partnering with healthcare systems, implementing innovative technology and provider education to bridge the gap on chronic and autoimmune conditions.     

  • Raising $750K

  • 100% conversion of Beta (non friends and family)

  • Minerva Fund signed and willing to be lead investor on Pre-Seed Round

  • Testing with 200 patients and growing consumer user base weekly

  • Hired engineering team internally to continue build out of B2B product

Silveray: Commercialising next generation  X-ray sensors that will allow a transition away from rigid, flat, black-and-white detectors, to cost-effective flexible sensors with colour X-ray imagery.

  • Now raising a £3m round with existing investors likely to follow.

  • Led by an X-ray company exited founder (vivaMOS to Nordson Corp.),  SilverRay's core innovation derives from years of pioneering research on X-Ray nanomaterials at the University of Surrey.

  • The company is focused on unlocking routine inspection of complex geometries, sub $1k greyscale detectors, and enhanced colour X-ray data for AI and image guided surgery, creating opportunity across multiple, diverse markets.

Startups that applied directly via Founder Track →

Truhealer: Elevate Equity & Equality in Healthcare Training - A mixed-reality, customizable AI-powered training system that runs on consumer headsets

  • Core team includes: Seasoned professionals from other Mixed-Reality medical training companies - Seasoned startup founders - Confirmed GTM strategy - Product and Research veterans.

  • Customer pipeline: Kent State University MaineHealth Ohio State University Yale Nursing

  • https://www.truhealer.ai/

    		TruHealer Investor Pitch Deck.pdf6.32 MB • PDF File

Brass Synergy: is a pre-interview ecosystem designed to meet the changing needs of the future of work. With them, you can Source, Match, & Validate Companies, Management & Talent with Confidence.

  • Backed by game-changing technology including AI vetting and validation, automated job matching, crypto payments, low fees, education/upskilling through Brass Academy and much more, Brass offers companies and freelancers the best-in-class opportunities and returns.

  • Currently Raising $500k for 5% Equity

  • 1M+ Users on Bot → 5 Successful Job Placements

  • Platform Developed & in Beta International Council Formed

  • https://brasssynergy.com/

BrassSynergyPitchDeck.pdf24.66 MB • PDF File

Forbes just announced the top 25 start-ups that they expect to reach Unicorn status… Read more

NEA led a $100M round into Fei-Fei Li’s new AI startup, now valued at over $1B… Read more

Amazon’s $4 billion investment in AI firm Anthropic faces UK merger investigation… Read more

Digest of the State of Private Markets Report from Carta… Read more

Events you need to attend soon 👀

  • Savannah and Jon will be attending the gener8tor Agriculture Conference - Aug 14-15 at Union Station in Indy! We will have around 100 early-stage founders at each event, plus 40-50 VCs, CVCs, and corporate innovation teams.

    • Shoot Jake a Slack or email at [email protected] if you want to join us, the more the merrier!

    • Ag software & hardware, food, life science and climate

  • Let us know if you will be in NYC for Climate Week by replying to this email, we’d love to see you! 🙂 We are planning a great Happy Hour and Dinner and would love to invite you as well. More event information coming soon 🙂 RSVP here! (location TBA)

  • Raise Global Summit - 300+ LPs gather to meet the next generation of venture capital firms - Oct 24, 2024 | San Francisco, CA | In-Person.

  • Main St. Summit - This track features startup-focused content, as well as invitations to exclusive meals, private happy hours, and activities. Find yourself shoulder to shoulder with industry experts and forge potential connections that could shape the future of your ventures - October 8-10, 2024 | Columbia, Missouri

    ***Shoutout to our Partner Track members from the host funds Maria Heyen & Ben Lopez

Job Opportunities to check out 👇

A Big Thank You from Your Founders

Thank you for the great deals you share and the support you give to the investors in the Partner Track Community. Till next week’s edition of The Deal Room 🥂

Co-Founders | Partner Track

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