Mar 14, 2022

Startups & Tech - Issue #193: SaaS Multitenancy, Designing APIs, Solana Data, Valuations

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Startups & Tech

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

Gm. Three personal updates for this week:

We’re hosting a Web3 happy hour on Tuesday, come by if you’re around SF.
One of our founders was profiled in Bloomberg for his heroic efforts in Ukraine fighting for his country & family all while running his company Allbridge at the same time.
Earlier this week we announced our latest investment in Kado, the best Web3 native fiat onramp/offramp gaining great traction within the Terra ecosystem.

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

🗞️ Interesting Reads

Fraud is a big problem in fintech, including but not limited to: account opening fraud, card testing, card present & not present fraud.
The secret in SaaS is in large part due to the infrastructure underneath including multitenancy.
Russian banks are already starting to move over to Chinese infrastructure including union pay credit card rails.
Tips for designing better APIs (applies to most developer tooling too).
Data about the Solana ecosystem: 8M users, 2M MAUs.
Important legal concepts for all founders to understand (incorporating, vesting, notes, etc.)
Multiples for late stage companies are contracting, and it’s only logical it will affect the early stage tech market as well.

🔥 Startup Jobs

Race Capital: Head of Content (Remote)
Opaque: Backend, Core Platform (Berkeley, CA)
SocialChat: Account Executive (San Francisco, CA)
GoodNotes: Data Platform, Growth (London, UK)
Databricks: Infra Eng, Product Manager
Lightning Labs: Head of Talent, Engineering Manager, Product Manager, Marketing (Remote)
Citcon: VP Engineering, Lead Architect (Remote)
Polysign: Software Engineer, Client Services (Remote)
Scarf: Head of Growth, Engineer, Data Analyst (Remote)
Zeet: Dev Experience, Customer Success, Marketing (SF, CA)
Zeta: Product Designer, Marketing Lead (Remote)
FTX: Full Stack Developer (Remote)

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

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Chris McCann - General Partner @ Race Capital, former Greylock Partners
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