📝 VC Memos (Week of Jun 19- Jun 25)

"Cakewalk’s SaaS Access Management solution solves a real pain for SMBs who are increasingly exposed to cybersecurity risks. With its design-first, employee-friendly approach, the platform enables companies to adopt innovative software solutions while preserving high security and compliance standards."

"I believe the popularity of short-form video content–found in TikToks, Reels, Spotlight, Shorts, and countless other industry and vertical specific platforms–is not just a fleeting trend, but an enduring behavioral shift, enabled by the amazing cameras in our pockets and the increasing appetite of content viewers."

"1FF is the crypto version of fantasy sports with an incredibly creative twist. If deep affinity is built with the clubs and players, then 1FF begins to interact with the real world: jerseys are sold, brand sponsorships are sold around events, and once a certain level of popularity is reached, broadcast rights are sold… 1FF is a truly innovative concept that could reshape the world of sports."

"With a few clicks, their state-of-the-art foundation model is able to generate voices that sound incredibly human, with proper pause, intonation, and breathing rhythms. You can even create a clone of your own voice from a 30-second clip. Since launch, ElevenLabs has amassed over 1 million registered users who have generated over 10 years worth of audio content."

"Render’s modern cloud offering provides the best of both worlds — incredible ease of use coupled with immense power and scalability to host everything from a simple hobby project website to complex enterprise applications with hundreds of microservices. Render streamlines the entire product development lifecycle from development, building, testing, deployment, operating, to monitoring.

“Oso is already helping developers at Chief, Wayfair, Intercom, Productboard, Oyster HR, and thousands of others build applications 10x faster with 10x less risk. It’s easy to see why: the Oso Cloud product is opinionated with baked-in best practices, like the most appropriate way to model RBAC (role-based access controls).”

“Hyperline makes iterations on pricing and packaging dev-free, whether a company embraces usage-based pricing, recurring billing, add-ons – or a hybrid model. Revenue teams can implement and execute plans in minutes without any coding, and then easily adjust them at any time.”

“GreenPlaces is purpose-built for the broad base of companies (think those with 100–10,000 employees) who comprise the majority of global emissions but today lack sufficient resources to dedicate towards sustainability… Today, 83% of global emissions come from outside of the Fortune 500 and this segment of the market is seeing increasing scrutiny surrounding their ESG and climate related practices.”