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Image Credits:<\/strong> Bryce Durbin\/TechCrunch<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Dear Sophie,<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our startup employs about 30 people globally through a combination of direct and co-employment based on their country.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Over the last year and a half or so, we helped several team members relocate from Ukraine and Russia to various non-Schengen countries such as Georgia, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, and Uzbekistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We realize it\u2019s more expensive if we bring these employees to the U.S., but our startup will be more successful. How do we bring them here?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Meaningful Moneymaking<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fund of funds are starting to play a different role for venture LPs<\/h2>\n

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While traditional fund of funds have fallen out of favor, there is still LP appetite for innovative approaches. Image Credits:\u00a0<\/strong>Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

After reviewing the last few years of declining fund of funds activity, Rebecca Szkutak found that several factors are leading limited partners to look elsewhere.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere has been way more opportunity to invest in a VC than there has ever been in the past,\u201d said Kyle Stanford, a senior venture analyst at PitchBook.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor new LPs coming into the market, they didn\u2019t need to go to a fund of funds to get access.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pitch Deck Teardown: Super.com\u2019s $60M Series C deck<\/h2>\n

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Image Credits:<\/strong> Super.com (opens in a new window)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Once known as Snapcommerce, travel\/fintech\/e-commerce startup Super.com has acquired almost $200 million in funding, including an $85 million Series C in April 2023.<\/p>\n

The company, which offers a credit-building cashback card, shared with TC+ the 17-slide pitch deck it used to close its latest round:<\/p>\n

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• Cover slide<\/li>\n
• Mission slide<\/li>\n
• Traction slide 1<\/li>\n
• Traction slide 2<\/li>\n
• Team slide<\/li>\n
• Customers (interstitial slide)<\/li>\n
• Customer profile<\/li>\n
• Target customers \/ market size<\/li>\n
• A Savings Super App (interstitial slide)<\/li>\n
• Why Now slide<\/li>\n
• \u201cWhy a super app\u201d slide<\/li>\n
• Product slide<\/li>\n
• Product road map slide<\/li>\n
• User behavior slide<\/li>\n
• Solution slide (\u201cSuperCash is core to the experience\u201d)<\/li>\n
• Value Proposition slide (\u201cPersonalized Experiences\u201d)<\/li>\n
• The Ask slide<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

  11 VCs reveal how hard it was for their startups to fundraise in H1 2023<\/h2>\n

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  Image Credits:<\/strong> tommy (opens in a new window)<\/span><\/a> \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

  Alex Wilhelm surveyed 11 investors to learn about the headwinds their portfolio companies leaned into in the first half of 2023.<\/p>\n

  \u201cFrom their answers, it appears a startup\u2019s ability to fundraise in today\u2019s climate is based on several key factors, including capital efficiency, the market and its needs,\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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  Science, Tech, Technology<\/br>
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