📝 VC Memos (Week of Aug 28 - Sep 3)

"Tailored for short-term sublets (minimum of 1 to 3 months with an average of 6 weeks), Kiki connects people to sublet their rental home while they take extended trips away.The product is designed to leverage social ties and affinity-based matches, similar to a dating app, to help users build trust in the counterparties who cook in their kitchen, use their bathroom, and sleep in their bed.

This approach - putting people over property - helped overcome a behavioural inertia in Sydney that saw 2/3rds of their 1,500 matches sublet their home for the first time."

"Carepatron is building delightful workflow and payments software for independent health practitioners - like therapists, chiropractors, and health coaches - to manage their businesses end-to-end.

The practitioner-client journey is made frictionless with centralised appointment scheduling and automated client reminders, note generation via voice-enabled transcription, and collated medical histories, so no record is lost."

"The global construction industry is responsible for a staggering 39% of carbon emissions, 4-8% of which is from reinforced concrete. As construction projects proliferate, excess concrete production compounds environmental concerns…Addressing this growing challenge in the cost-driven construction industry necessitates more than advocating for more sustainable alternatives."

"Apollo prides itself on building new features faster and more efficiently than its rivals, passing the savings on to users. Customers get a robust set of sales enablement tools, plus a prospecting database with over 270 million records, for less than it would cost to buy each part of the platform separately from other vendors… Apollo’s flexible pricing model means that even startups can get access to high-quality sales data that was previously only accessible to large enterprises."