Yoram Wijngaarde
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Founder and CEO @dealroomco, the intelligence layer for startup ecosystems
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Joined May 2010
One of the greatest virtues is to enjoy being wrong. It’s an extreme form of curiosity
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It’s funny, but actually meme image generation is now indirectly paying for cancer research, which is a giant win
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Fanduel (NYC) now worth $31 billion!! 📉📈 The insane part: in 2018, the company struggled and the founders were wiped out in an acquisition due to a liq pref stack 😢
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🇦🇷 With its $125B market cap, Mercado Libre is about 75% (!) of the Argentine stock market. The top 18 Argentine public companies combined are just ~$165B. ✨ Fun fact: Mercado Libre now processes more digital payments than PayPal in Latin America through its fintech arm,
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NVIDIA backed almost every major quantum round this year: PsiQuantum $1B, Quantinuum $600M, IQM $320M, QuEra $230M, SandboxAQ $150M, and more. Why: making sure every quantum system plugs into its GPUs through tools like CUDA-Quantum and cuQuantum. The heavy lifting around
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Trump should issue an Executive Order where the meaning of "begging the question" is changed into what everyone thinks it means anyway
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💥 New Report: Pension Power - How 2% Pension Fund allocation could transform Europe’s startup and innovation funding gap. Europe's tech ecosystem has undergone a dramatic evolution. VC-backed startups in Europe are now worth a combined $3.5T. After a 30 year late start,
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One of the all-time greatest pivots? @Framer just raised $100M at a $2B valuation. Started as prototyping tool. In 2022, @koenbok and @jornvandijk pivoted to production-ready websites. 40% of the last YC batch launched on Framer. $50M ARR this year, $100M next, break-even 🫡🙌
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🚀 Today we release Dealroom’s 7th-annual Power Law Investor Ranking 2025 — the most data-driven league table of global VCs. What’s new this year? A sharper focus on fundamentals: 🐴 Colts: startups with $25–100M revenue 🐎 Thoroughbreds: $100M+ revenue 🦄 Unicorns: still
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Excellent work from @dealroomco & @yoramdw - the definitive ranking of the best investors in EMEA👇
🚨🔥 UNVEILED: The definitive list of the top VC investors The 2025 edition of the Power Law Investor ranking is out. Dealroom has analysed the activity of more than 22,000 investors, looking deal-by-deal at each investor's ability to pick startups and support them to become
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