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Our 2022 annual letter is out, including our views on the year past and how it shapes how we see the future...
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We’re excited to introduce IPO 2.0, an alternative path to traditional IPOs for disruptive and agile technology companies.
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Introducing Capital-as-a-Service: a new operating system for early stage investing. Now in private beta.
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Proud to help move the needle in breast cancer with
@PerimeterMed
💪💕
The beginning of a strong partnership with the
@socialcapital
team exchanging big
#ideas
and strategic plans for growth. With
@chamath
backing
@PerimeterMed
, our shared mission of improving lives through transformational
#technology
will accelerate.
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"People are described as visionaries," says
@chamath
. "But the best people I've seen...have just quietly iterated."
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.
@chamath
with
@camanpour
: “We need to go after cancer, diabetes, climate change — the substantive problems of the world that, if solved, will create immense wealth and opportunity, that will cascade across countries."
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Imagine a world where the cultivation & operation of critical resources were pointed towards creating an even starting line for everyone.
Many players have missed this opportunity. But what if tech & companies got this right? Capitalism as a force for good
@chamath
@theallinpod
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We have terminated the employment of two of our employees due to employee-specific circumstances. We have no further comments at this time.
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.
@chamath
on
@Marketplace
: "At the end of the day, the unit of value is the entrepreneur. And what's beautiful about these people as a class is they are increasingly open minded, increasingly diverse, increasingly open to change."
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“Our job is to get the most capable people to the starting line.”
@business
looks at the origins and ambitions of Capital-as-a-Service, our effort to democratize global access to capital through software-driven quant diligence:
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The US healthcare system is sick.
#HealthEquity
is about everyone being able to achieve their full health potential, regardless of race, gender, age, or income.
@CloverHealth
is rethinking how Medicare serves (or fails to serve) their most vulnerable members.👇
Today, we published a white paper outlining how we are working to make affordable, data-driven, and high-quality
#healthcare
accessible to all
#Medicare
beneficiaries, regardless of their race, gender, or income.
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We're thrilled to invest in
@eshares
as it brings efficiency, liquidity and transparency to the private market.
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Thanks to
@FastCompany
for capturing what we’re up to at Social Capital — from incubating startups solving hard problems to automating global investing to creating an alternative path to becoming public. Lots of hard work and exciting things ahead!
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.
@chamath
: "Our mission is to advance humanity by solving the world's hardest problems. This isn't altruism—we believe these companies can become enduring and wildly profitable businesses, but they're consistently overlooked by most investors."
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Ambitious sustainability, financial, and resourcing goals need a software solution.
Meet
@Copperleafgroup
— intelligent software managing resources and infrastructure the world relies on.
We’re excited to participate in their IPO on the TSX.
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Our newest partner,
@kbakes
, writes about how a (failed) battle with a duplicate medical bill added new fuel to her passion for working -- and now investing -- in healthcare.
Welcome to the team, Kristin!
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"You're only ever told to jump on a rocket ship," says
@chamath
. But "experience only comes through failure."
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This is a captivating profile of
@Saildrone
's quest to build and deploy a fleet of 1000 autonomous sailing drones to continuously collect high resolution planetary data.
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"Our goal is to deploy 1,000 Saildrones, and that would give us in real time...the pulse of the planet."
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Capital-as-a-Service is our low-touch fundraising process that allows entrepreneurs anywhere in the world to apply for funding through software-driven quant diligence. If you’re currently fundraising and want access to our private beta, let us know here!
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Congratulations
@SoFi
! It's only the beginning...
#GetYourMoneyRight
It’s official! $SOFI is now listed on
@Nasdaq
—it’s one of our biggest financial accomplishments to date, made possible by our 2+ million members. Thanks to all of you who save, spend, earn, borrow, and invest—all with SoFi.
#GetYourMoneyRight
#SoFiListed
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Huge news. Another step towards financial inclusion.
Big congrats to
@anthonynoto
and the team at
@SoFi
🎉
It’s official—the
@FederalReserve
and the
@USOCC
have approved our
#bankcharter
! 🏦🎉
You read that right, we’re becoming a bank! In the coming weeks, we have a lot of exciting updates to continue helping more people get their money right.
Read more:
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We're thrilled to support
@solana
in their upcoming hackathon IGNITION! Partner Justin Saslaw is up as a judge -- now it's time to build 💪
1/We have IGNITION. Welcome to the global Solana hackathon.🚀
🏆$5 million in prizes+funding across 4 tracks: DeFi, Web3, Gaming & Art/Collectibles
🛤️Tracks presented by
@Microsoft
,
@jumptrading
,
@StanChart
,
@FortePlatform
,
@metaplex
Register+build now👇
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It’s an honor to be on the
#FCMostInnovative
list alongside so many of our portfolio companies:
@SlackHQ
,
@GlookoInc
,
@mPharmaHealth
,
@CommonBond
,
@Wealthfront
&
@theflutterwave
.
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Positive momentum out of
@CloverHealth
today with their upgraded Stars rating 🤩 Good execution on behalf of real people and their health outcomes.
1/ $CLOV - upgraded MA PPO rating of 3.5 Stars (vs prior 3.0 Stars) - Proud of the
@CloverHealth
team and excited to see what the future holds 💪
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We're thrilled to be an investor in WeeCare as the team tackles a truly important problem: helping parents find safe and affordable childcare.
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We're thrilled to invest in
@SFOX
as the team builds the premier institutional crypto asset management platform. More than $9 billion in transaction volume to date!
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Today we’re announcing our collaboration with 100 Resilient Cities (
@100ResCities
) to address one of the world’s most important issues: the sustainability of our cities.
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We're thrilled that
@SVenkatachalam
has joined Social Capital to help build our Growth investing practice!
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We’re thrilled to be an investor in
@CryptoMove
. One of the hardest global problems for individuals & businesses alike is security. This team is helping companies protect data through moving target defense in decentralized infrastructure. Post by
@adamn
:
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Congrats
@Intercom
! 17K paying business customers, 100K monthly active users, 400M customer conversations/month! 👏 👏
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🎙️
@chamath
talks to
@karaswisher
about venture capital, why it's broken & how Amazon or Google could enter the fray
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These autonomous sailing drones just started an 8000 mile round trip to the equator to monitor El Niño. 👏
@Saildrone
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Very cool to be named to
@FastCompany
's "Most Innovative Companies" list.
#FCMostInnovative
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Work on optimizing click-through, or help solve climate change? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
We're hiring! Apply to our open positions in data science, engineering, and more.
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We're thrilled to be an investor in Flutterwave, which just announced the availability of its payments platform:
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We're excited to share a framework by
@Alex_Danco
for thinking about changes in tech & beyond. Intro and chapter 1:
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"We want to become stage agnostic...helping entrepreneurs across the lifecycle." Welcome to the team, Tony Bates!
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Software brought production up and prices down in industries like retail, but might have the exact opposite effect in industries with a “volume problem,” like healthcare. Latest essay from
@Alex_Danco
in our series on Cost Disease.
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"Facebook and Snap Inc. today are moving toward a vision of the future around creating real, shared experiences"
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We're excited to partner with
@DylanMacalinao
and the team at
@Saber_HQ
doing important work in DeFi.
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.
@chamath
, when asked how Social Capital will address big goals like peace & prosperity: “Honest answer? We don’t have a clue. We can get navel-gazing for days and weeks and years and decades. Or we can take a first step, as embarrassing as that may seem.”
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"I would like Social Capital to be open for business 24 hours a day, 365 days a year" -
@chamath
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1/ People misunderstand space and its implications. Since the Apollo project, focusing on space has allowed engineers and scientists to push the boundaries of the possible.
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"Utilities aren’t permanent, but they take a long time to grow obsolete. As the world moves faster, being a utility buys you time between now and the next big shift. That’s time you can reinvest forward."
Latest post from
@arjunsethi
:
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We're thrilled to partner with
@HubHaus
, the marketplace for shared, long-term housing. This team has built a really special community of 400 members across 70 properties in the Bay Area and Los Angeles, with more cities coming soon.
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If you would like to apply for funding via CaaS, you can let us know here:
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We're thrilled to partner with the
@useCover
team as they build a truly consumer-centric insurance company.
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E aí, Brasil? Temos o prazer de anunciar que nosso produto de Capital-as-a-Service já está aberto para todas as startups brasileiras!
(Capital-as-a-Service is publicly available in our first market: Brazil!)
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ICYMI: Capital-as-a-Service (CaaS) is out of private beta and we are LIVE in Brazil! 🇧🇷
We can't wait to make our software-driven fundraising process publicly available in more countries. In the meantime, entrepreneurs everywhere can join the waitlist:
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.
@chamath
weighs in on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' annual shareholder letter:
"His letters are a strict reminder to stick to the basics and that you need to keep things simple, but long-term."
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Congrats to
@GlookoInc
on the new funding. Diabetes is a massive global challenge, affecting 422M adults last year.
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"There was never a shortage of compelling ideas & driven entrepreneurs. There was just an uneven distribution of resources & capital. Now that the barriers to resources have fallen, it’s time for capital to follow suit."
@StanfordAsh
on CaaS, one year in:
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The “grand bargain” of Facebook is unravelling & new scarce resources are emerging. Pull and push ➡ here and now.
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We’re thrilled to be an investor in UrbanFootprint (
@UFPlatform
) as they help build the sustainable cities of tomorrow. In the words of co-founder Peter Calthorpe, “Getting cities right is really at the crux of the well-being of mankind.”
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When you do it, it’s a differentiator. When everyone does it, it’s a cost. When AMZN does it, it’s a revenue stream.
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“The market has been tilting in favor of entrepreneurs for many years & rightfully so."
@Chamath
on
@BloombergTechTV
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We’re thrilled to welcome Marc Mezvinksy to the Social Capital team!
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“We had never seen anything like it."
@mamoonha
on the early metrics that led
@socialcapital
to invest in
@SlackHQ
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Fresno is merging Silicon Valley's data science with Hollywood's creativity to build a next-gen content studio.
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We're thrilled we can finally share the vision and progress of
@SwarmInternet
, a company that has created the world's smallest two-way communication satellites with the goal of reshaping global connectivity.
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.
@thenewstack
wrote a great summary of our efforts to democratize access to capital through Capital-as-a-Service:
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Through our partnership with 100 Resilient Cities, we're excited to invest in and incubate startups solving hard problems for cities, and then work with innovative mayors to thoughtfully bring these services to market. …
@100ResCities
@RockefellerFdn
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Electrification is fundamental to a sustainable energy future – and impossible without a durable, resilient, and scalable battery supply chain 🔋
Excited to back Mitra Chem as they rethink battery production and build this important asset here in the U.S.
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"Insurance companies are giving those less able to afford car insurance a raw deal by bracketing poverty with irresponsibility."
Great post by the
@cover
team on why using credit scores to determine car insurance is discriminatory:
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"It’s no longer enough to connect the world.”
@arjunsethi
&
@artzandy
on the existential crisis of social networks:
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We love companies that have iterative and learning mindsets -
@sara_spangelo
and the team
@SwarmInternet
set the standard. Their new product release, Eval Kits, help turn anything into an IoT device as the world becomes more connected.
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Ownership is a key component of the creator economy.
@holaplex
which makes this possible in Web3. We are excited to back this all-in-one, no-code NFT platform that empowers artists, musicians, and creators to develop, sell, and share their work.
Today we announced our fundraise which will further enhance the support we can provide to you, the creator, & this awesome community. We wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for you. As a token of our appreciation we are air dropping an NFT to all of our early adopters.
Read more ⬇️⬇️
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@arjunsethi
on our investment in
@theniyo
: "We believe that India is on the brink of unprecedented consumer consumption, and that movement begins with infrastructure that manages people’s earnings in a reliable and modern way.”
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Without human intervention to reforest, we will continue to lose millions of acres of forests and experience worsening effects of climate change every year.
@DroneSeed
is thinking and betting big on a scaled solution.
Me,
@alexisohanian
,
@Benioff
and
@tobi
just led a $36M Series A in
@DroneSeed
to transform how we reforest after wildfires.
In 2021 alone, more land has burned in the US than the entire state of New Jersey. 😟
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19th century railroads had a lot in common with tech platforms: "just like starting an internet business became much easier with AWS and open-source software, founding a town on the western frontier became much easier with Union Pacific." Latest Snippets:
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"The hope is that the half-million drone-planted seedlings will help the scorched forest rebound more quickly than it could on its own."
@DroneSeed
doing work in British Columbia🌱
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The future of decentralized social media applications is here. Get ready.
After over two years of all-consuming research and development, I'm excited to finally publicly reveal what I've been working on.
It's called DeSo, short for "decentralized social," and I believe it can fundamentally change social media for the better.
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The fourth & final post in
@Alex_Danco
's "Understanding Abundance" series drops on Sunday! Catch up on 1-3 here:
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🔗 Seamless and secure cross-chain liquidity is key to the future of Web3.
That's why we’re excited to back
@SwimProtocol
to offer a reliable option for anyone who holds assets across multiple ecosystems.
1/🔥🔥 Our Alpha Mainnet is LIVE 🔥🔥
🔁 Swim offers a unique native to native asset swap experience to AND from
#Solana
👉 Try us out here:
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We're thrilled with
@mPharmaHealth
's progress and impact: operations in Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, and Zimbabwe; more than 20,000 patients served each month; drug costs lowered up to 30%. Onward!
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@chamath
talks about why liquidity is an important mechanism for companies to recruit & retain exceptional people.
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"By focusing on real vs fake news, rather than facts vs feelings, we’re targeting the wrong facet of the problem."
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Digital machines generally beat cells for information processing jobs that demand precision and efficiency. But for jobs that require redundancy, adaptability and resilience in the face of the unknown? Living systems ftw.
Latest Snippets by
@Alex_Danco
:
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Congrats to
@punitsoni
and the Suki team on the Series A! Their AI-enabled voice assistant will enable doctors to spend less time on medical notes and more time with patients.
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Study: immigrants founded 51% of U.S. billion-dollar startups (and make up 70% of key management and product roles).
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And then we thought, maybe it would be easier to have all of our essays and our Snippets newsletter in one place...🤔💡
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"The good news is, the best founders get their start in [tough] times like this" -
@chamath
#launchfestival
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Congrats to portfolio cos
@SlackHQ
,
@Premisedata
&
@Greenhouse
for making Forbes' 50 Hottest Startups of 2015! 🎉
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📢Applications now open for our Emerging Managers class of 2022. Come manage your own book and work with the Social Capital team. More details 👇
1/ Last year, we launched
@SocialCapital
Emerging Managers, a program designed for investment professionals looking to accelerate their careers without the typical years of waiting it takes to be allocated your own portfolio at traditional funds.
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Why Social Capital led the Series A in
@FrontApp
: "Front won't kill email at work; it will save it for all of us."
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Our own
@arjunsethi
talks about his highs and lows as a CEO, learning about ecosystems through seed investing, and the importance of giving candid feedback to founders by “sharing your work" (even when you don’t invest).
@TWistartups
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700 volunteers managed everything from rescue to food coordination across a dozen
@SlackHQ
during Hurricane Irma:
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We love that
@goshippo
uses the Magic 8-ball to track company health! Our framework and tool are available to all:
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"we as an industry need to find more ways of celebrating things that are hard rather things that are easy and fast"
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The
@Intercom
founders may be silly but these stats are serious: 600 customers & $1M in revenue added every 10 days:
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Congrats to the
@CommonBond
team on the new financing! The student loan crisis is one of this country's most important problems: more than 44 million Americans have $1.48 trillion in student loan debt.
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