🎟️ Issue #30: A New Era Of Ticketing
The future of blockchain ticketing, carbon credits for sale, and more Claremonster findings & financings
💬 Welcome to issue #30 of Between the Lines
First things first, a sincere THANK YOU to those of you who helped spread the word last week that Claremont is one of the most entrepreneurial colleges in the US. It was exciting to see the community rally around these amazing stats and stories about our alma maters; and with 60+ shares, it easily went more viral than anything Miles’ has shared in his life.
In other news this morning, alumnus Asher Weiss chimes in to talk about the future of blockchain ticketing, Maddie Hall and Living Carbon are looking for companies interested in carbon credit purchases, and much more. Go ahead and plug into one of the most impressive university ecosystems out there. 🔌
~ Josh & Miles
📢 👥 Community Voices: The Future of Ticketing is Here
Author: Asher Weiss
Sure, there’s been a lot of buzz around NFTs and a digital collectibles market that has already seen a series of high highs and low lows. Yet, regardless of a constantly changing and hard to predict market, the underlying blockchain technology is here to stay.
Ticketing is an industry ripe for disruption, but until now, the technology wasn’t there to allow for significant change. Blockchain technology can revolutionize ticketing and we plan to be at the forefront of this change.
After spending my entire post-graduate career in sports and learning a lot about the ticketing industry, here are five reasons and trends for why I think that NFTs and blockchain technology are going to completely change the ticketing game.
After spending time with the Orlando Magic and the Golden State Warriors, alumnus Asher Weiss has joined the startup world as the founder and CEO of Tixologi, a blockchain-based ticketing software company putting venues, teams, and event producers in control of their ticketing. Find out more about the blockchain ticketing industry and Asher’s story below 👇
🤝 🌳 Pardon the Introduction: Maddie Hall & Living Carbon
Maddie Hall (CMC) and Living Carbon are on a mission to responsibly rebalance the planet’s carbon cycle using the inherent power of plants. The team is 25-strong, backed by some of the top investors in the world, and scaling their swiftly-growing partnership base of sustainability leaders. Living Carbon is primarily partnering with companies interested in carbon offsets in the following industries: Automotive, Mining, Textiles, Apparel, Air/Ground Transportation, Pharma, Software, Construction. Here are shareable blurbs explaining their carbon projects. Have an introduction in mind that could help scale their important work? Email Maddie.
💼 Who’s Hiring?:
Paysail, backed by top investors (Uncork Capital, Tribe Capital, Pear VC, Merus Capital, Mischief Capital) is leveraging stablecoins to enable instant, global B2B payments — and they’re making some hires! Paysail is founded by alumni Liam Brennan-Burke and Nicole Alonso, who met in the Energy Group of CMC's Student Investment Fund. Candidates or BTL community members can also reach out to Liam directly if they're interested in learning more about Paysail, have specific questions about B2B payments, or want to chat hiking/camping!
Taloflow helps you find the best dev and cloud tools for whatever your use case is. Founded by serial founder Louis-Victor Jadavji in 2018, Taloflow provides expert buying advice and tailored analysis to match your requirements with the best solution every time, for free. As they look to scale, Louis-Victor is looking to hire some Claremont talent:
Pomona graduate, Dan Taber, is in his first year at Spotify as a Research Scientist and is looking to hire Data Scientists on his team. The team empowers others to assess the algorithmic impact of their products on audio culture for Spotify, and the position is a particularly good fit if you have experience in data visualization, enjoy tackling loose problems, and are looking to grow in this area. Wow — this is a cool job.
Claremont graduate Alex Berman is the VP of Product at Happy Money, and he’s looking for a Director of Product Management to lead their API & Platform teams. Happy Money is a fully remote, Series D Fintech startup shaking up the financial services and credit card industry to help usher in a new world of more mindful capitalism.
Alumnus Peteris Liepins is continuing to build out and hire for the Fraud Team at Stripe, which he leads. Hiring for the Fraud Strategy Team is one of the top priority areas within Stripe’s Risk Strategy group for 2022, and they have open roles on the team in APAC, EMEA, and the Americas:
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🗣️ Conversations on the Interwebz:
This week’s top read 🔥
Maddie Hall (CMC) and Living Carbon continue to turn heads and grab attention with their mission to fight climate change by enhancing CO2 capture and storage in trees.
Everything else you need to know….📖
Founded by Keck alumnus Brian Feth, Xcell Biosciences just finished raising a Series B round to support the company’s continued growth as a pioneer in built-to-purpose technology platforms for the development and manufacturing of cell and gene-based therapies.
Nancy Marzouk, PI alumnus and founder of MediaWallah, shares her thoughts on central topics in the Identity Resolution industry which has an expected market size of $3.5B+ by 2028.
Starting or running a small business? CGU graduate and USA Today columnist, Steve Strauss, shares some unorthodox ideas. “Falling down the web3 rabbit hole” surprisingly didn’t make the cut.
Here is some “Imagery that might help stomach a downturn” courtesy of Ho Nam, HMC investor, and Managing Partner at Altos Ventures.
A few Claremonster awards to share from Techpoint Africa. Most Outstanding Healthtech Company 2021: Founder Abasi Ene-Obong (Keck) and 54gene. VC of the Year: Founder Maya Horgan Famodu and Ingressive Capital.
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🍽️ BTL Snacks:
🇪🇨 Ecuador’s Venture Boom….. Nearly $15B was invested in the Latin America startup scene during 2021, and Fernando Rivera (PO) is hoping to raise that number in 2022 with his new fund - Buen Trip Ventures
🏢 Four Billion Buildings….. Matterport, co-founded by HMC Michael Beebe, acquires Enview, a geospatial analytics company, to help build a world-class analytics platform for customers and increase the value of the world’s 4 billion buildings
🐘 Mammoth Collaborations….. Bayer AG, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, is set to partner with PO founder Jennifer Doudna and Mammoth Biosciences
🤠 Old Cowboys Never Die….. they just raise more capital. The western-apparel company Tecovas, which was co-founded by Branden Windle (CMC) back in 2015, just topped the $100M revenue mark and finished raising a $56M Series C round
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