Josh Richards, Griffin Johnson and Noah Beck founded a $15 million venture fund called Animal Capital to focus on consumer, fintech, wellness, and media startups.
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Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, have taken the world by storm.
While most of the attention has been on digital art, NFTs may go way beyond the art world.
From NFT passports to virtual fashion, eight Gen Z VCs predict the future of NFTs.
A closet of virtual dresses, a gallery of crypto art, a wallet of digitized documents the future may be filled with non-fungible tokens.
However, the potential for NFTs go far beyond just art. To learn more about the future of NFTs, we talked to eight Gen Z VCs. They told us the industries they believe will be revolutionized by NFTs next:
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Leda Health cofounders Madison Campbell and Liesel Vaidya published 80s-inspired portraits.
The photos were taken at JCPenney for only $14.95.
The portrait was noticed by prominent VCs like Alexis Ohanian, who said it was spectacular.
Most professional photos of startup founders look exactly the same: button-down, boring background, blank smile.
But maybe it doesn t have to be that way. What if founders were free to don neon pink sweaters? To physically embrace their cofounders? To dress like the 80s never ended?
Madison Campbell and Liesel Vaidya are proving that they can. When Campbell, cofounder of Leda Health, found a Groupon for cheap JCPenney portraits, she was immediately reminded of my youth at school picture day and knew she had to do it.
Funding for diverse female founders tripled, and the number of Black and Latinx women getting over a million in seed funding doubled. They still only account for 0.64% of all venture funding.
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Gen Z VCs are always testing out new apps to find the next big thing.
We asked ten Gen Z VCs to share their home screens to see what apps to look out for.
By Silicon Valley standards, Gen Z VCs are certifiably cool. They were networking on Clubhouse months before it went mainstream, the first to get invites to David Dobrik s new app Dispo, and now they re finding love on apps you haven t even heard of yet.
So, to find the next big app, look no futher than the home screens of Gen Z VCs.