Startups & Tech

By Chris McCann

Startups & Tech - Issue #184: Devtools, Pivoting, Solana Predictions, Web3 Discord

#184・ Jan 3, 2022

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Startups & Tech

A curated list of the top stories in technology, startups, and venture capital.

Happy New Year!

Thanks for being a part of my newsletter community and I hope everyone had a wonderful celebration. 2021 was a pretty big year for my partners and I at Race Capital.

We invested in 12 new companies including: Databricks, FTX, Opaque, Saber, Zeta, Solend, Socialchat, and many more.
Two of our portfolio companies became decacorns: Databricks & FTX
Our portfolio companies raised more than $3.2B in 2021.
We doubled the size of our team from 4-8

Onwards and upwards!

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Written by Chris McCann, General Partner @ Race Capital, former Greylock Partners. More about me.

🗞️ Interesting Things Last Week

In 2022 - more and more dev tools themselves could be moving to the cloud.
Company building is not always a straight line, here are some successful companies that had to pivot.
A skeptical take on the play-to-earn model for gaming.
Some open-source communities don’t like Discord. If anyone reading this is working on a new web3 friendly version of Discord, I’d love to chat > chris@race.capital
Tools for evaluating the Solana NFT ecosystem.
Thread for developers wanting to learn Rust / Solana development.
Predictions for the Solana ecosystem for 2022.
Funny > A Bot created pitch meeting script.

🔥 Startup Jobs

Scarf: Head of Growth (Remote, US)
Zeet: Front End Engineer, Decentralized Engineer (SF, CA)
Zeta: Marketing Lead (Remote)
FTX: Full Stack Developer (Miami, FL)
Opaque: Technical Recruiter, Product Designer, Developer Evangelist (Berkeley, CA)
SocialChat: Operations Manager (San Francisco, CA)
GoodNotes: Back-End Team Lead (London, UK)

Browse more open roles across our portfolio at Race Capital’s Portfolio Job Board

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