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Hello, and Happy Thursday. Just one more day to go for the workweek. Haje<\/a> is in Boston taking fabulous photos of the activities going on at TechCrunch Early Stage<\/a> today, so I\u2019m holding down the fort. And I\u2019m also mourning my blue Twitter check mark<\/a>, which left me today. Enough about that. Let\u2019s get on with the news! \u2014 Christine<\/a><\/p>\n

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Startups and VC<\/h2>\n

Three former managing directors at Amex Ventures went out on their own to start Vesey Ventures, and now they have closed on their debut fund<\/a> with $78 million in capital commitments to back early-stage fintech startups. Mary Ann<\/a> has more on their journey.<\/p>\n

Now over to CoreWeave, which landed a mega-round of $221 million in Series B investment<\/a>, of which half came from lead investor Magnetar Capital. Kyle<\/a> writes that this values the general-purpose cloud computing company at $2 billion pre-money.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s SIX more for you:<\/p>\n

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• Game on<\/strong>: Rita<\/a> peels back the layers of Bitkraft Ventures\u2019 vision to invest in Asian gaming startups<\/a>.<\/li>\n
• A Robust view of robotics<\/strong>: Robust.AI raised $20 million<\/a> to scale robot deliveries for pilot customers, reports Brian<\/a>.<\/li>\n
• From hospitality to fleet management<\/strong>: Two brothers in Senegal are putting their hospitality management skills to work helping trucking companies with their logistics. Their company, Chargel, has now raised $2.5 million in seed funding<\/a>, Annie<\/a> writes.<\/li>\n
• Focus on mental health<\/strong>: Tage<\/a> spoke with investors who say that if founder mental wellness is tied to innovation and success, then there needs to be a light shown on it<\/a>, especially during this difficult capital crunch environment.<\/li>\n
• It\u2019s like Barbie\u2019s Jeep, but in human size<\/strong>: French microcar startup Kate raised another $7.6 million<\/a> in its quest to produce more tiny electric vehicles, like its K1, reports Romain<\/a>.<\/li>\n
• We assure you, they\u2019re real<\/strong>: Singapore-based document verifier Accredify is now flush with $7 million<\/a> to continue to tell you if your documents are real. Catherine<\/a> has more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

  4 problems venture capital can\u2019t solve<\/h2>\n

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  Fundraising is a key aspect of every founder\u2019s journey, but Techstars managing director Collin Wallace says it can also hasten a company\u2019s demise.<\/p>\n

  For example, raising funds to scale up sales and marketing efforts might sound great, but what if the business itself has negative unit economics?<\/p>\n

  \u201cMost of the time, what stands between a company and its ability to achieve scale is not a lack of money,\u201d says Wallace.<\/p>\n

  \u201cIt\u2019s better to ask: Do we have hustle problems? Product problems? Process problems? People problems? Is my business model fundamentally flawed?\u201d<\/p>\n

  Two more from the TC+ team:<\/p>\n

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  • Ooey gooey pitch deck goodness<\/strong>: In the latest installment of Pitch Deck Teardown<\/a>, Haje<\/a> looks at the pitch deck that got Honeycomb a $50 million Series D.<\/li>\n
  • Threading the needle<\/strong>: Dominic-Madori<\/a> spoke with Lisa Lambert, the head of National Grid\u2019s CVC National Grid Partners, who discussed that \u201cenvironmental and social concerns<\/a> should be top of mind right now for any smart investor.\u201d\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    TechCrunch+<\/em><\/a> is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack.<\/em> You can sign up here<\/em><\/a>. Use code \u201cDC\u201d for a 15% discount on an annual subscription!<\/em><\/p>\n

    Big Tech Inc.<\/h2>\n

    SpaceX finally had liftoff of its Starship rocket, which went to orbit for the first time<\/a>. Darrell<\/a> writes that \u201call told, this should definitely be considered a success: SpaceX founder Elon Musk had said previously that there was essentially a significant chance Starship wouldn\u2019t even make it off the pad on this first try.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Tricks are for kids, but in Discord\u2019s case, tricks are for its new chatbot. Lorenzo<\/a> reports that some users performed a trick called \u201cjailbreaking\u201d on Discord\u2019s Clyde chatbot, getting it to share napalm and meth instructions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    And now here\u2019s five more for you:<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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