Show Notes
In this episode of the Superconnector podcast, Matt Joseph covers 8 large venture capital deals announced in the last week, focusing on startups in AI, cybersecurity, electric vehicles, real estate, media, and fintech.
AI: Augment, a coding assistant startup backed by Eric Schmidt and rival to GitHub Copilot
CYBERSECURITY: Rubrik, a newly publicly-traded platform focused on disaster recovery and ThreatLocker, a zero trust security platform for MSPs
ELECTRIC VEHICLES: Chemix, an AI-powered EV battery maker
REAL ESTATE: Inhabitr, a commercial real estate furnishing platform, and Backflip, a service to help real estate investors flip houses
MEDIA: Beehiiv, a newsletter publishing platform
FINTECH: QI Tech, a banking as a service platform for midsized companies in Brazil
Chapters
00:00 Welcome
00:22 Augment: $252m for AI Coding
04:17 Beehiiv: $33m for Newsletter Publishing
06:45 Inhabitr: $27m for CRE Furnishing
09:10 Backflip: $15m for House Flipping
11:05 Chemix: $20m for EV Batteries
14:21 ThreatLocker: $115m for MSP Cybersecurity
16:11 Rubrik: $752m for Data Recovery
18:27 QI Tech: $50m for Banking in Brazil
E11: Inside VC Deals - Rubrik $752m, Augment $252m, ThreatLocker $115m, QI Tech $50m, Beehiiv $33m, Inhabitr $27m, Backflip $15m