Coming Soon: Our Paris Marketplace Meetup!

Hot off the presses, this is the 42nd edition of The Marketplace Snippet curated by Irene, Mathias and Jeroen on behalf of the Speedinvest Marketplaces & Consumer team 🔥

It's a busy time for Marketplaces and we have plenty of exciting news to share!

In this edition:

• Final details for our upcoming Marketplace Meetup in Paris
• The complete guide to selling your startup
• How to kickstart your B2B marketplace
• How to venture into generative AI

If you’ve missed past newsletters or simply can’t get enough, catch up on recent editions here.

It's almost time for our Paris Meetup!

Following the great success of our first Marketplace Meetup in London last March, we are looking forward to hosting our second meetup soon, this time in Paris! 🇫🇷

The event will be hosted in partnership with Eurazeo and will be focused around the topic of Scaling Across the Marketplace Stack, exploring the latest trends in online marketplaces and how they are expanding their value proposition: from providing payment and logistics to offering new financial services and becoming solution providers. For more information, check out our announcement here.

If you’re keen on gaining insights on how to scale your marketplace stack and stay ahead of the curve, come join us on May 31st - sign ups are still open!

🔥Berlin Marketplace Conference

If you can’t make it in Paris or already want to plan ahead - don’t forget that our annual Marketplace Conference in Berlin is fast approaching! Tickets are on sale so make sure you save your spot to the leading event for marketplace businesses 🔥

Insights From Marketplace Operators

Teaching coding to kids: a future-proof business opportunity

Listen to Amanda Maiwald, co-founder of Codary, sharing her insights on building a coding teaching platform for the next generation in this episode of Three Point Zero.

The unbundling fallacy and its exceptions

Dan Hockenmaier, Head of Strategy at Faire, deep dives into unbundling strategies, why they rarely work and what exceptions are out there.

How to sell your startup - a complete guide

Daniel Debow, VP at Shopify, shares his insights on how to approach selling your company, drawing on experience from selling his two businesses Helpful (to Shopify) and Rypple (to Salesforce).

FOMO Fundraising, growth strategies and more pieces of advice

• Brett Martin, co-founder of Kumospace, summarizes his FOMO Fundraising Strategy to tackle growth funding in the current market environment.
• Niklas Oestberg, co-founder and CEO of Delivery Hero, collects the best pieces of advice he received on the path from €0 to €45 billion yearly sales.

Insights From Marketplace Investors

How To Build a B2B Marketplace: 10 Tips To Kickstart Your Startup

Our very own Mathias Ockenfels and Maximilian Wilhelm share their insights on how to kickstart your B2B marketplace and navigate the most common challenges these businesses encounter. They also share insights from the founders of our portfolio companies Schüttflix, Timberhub and Yolda.

Valuations, multiples and funding volumes - what's happening in the market?

• Sammy Abdullah, Co-Founder of Blossom Street Ventures, gathers an overview of current trends in revenue multiples in the consumer space.
• Peter Walker, Head of Insights at Carta, discusses the current decrease in funding volume in early-stage investments in the US.
  

Some insights on a hot topic: Generative AI

• Sonya Huang, Partner at Sequoia, shares their Gen AI Market Map, to help better understand this emerging frontier, what’s out there and where the market is going.
• Tomasz Tunguz, General Partner at Theory Ventures, shares the 4 questions prospective Generative AI founders should ask themselves before venturing into the space.

New Additions to the Speedinvest Family

Asap.work is redefining the "future of work" for the construction industry!

We are proud to lead the €5M Seed round and partner up with Mathias Mouats, Steve Belkaçemi and their talented team. Asap.work is on a mission to make short term hiring for the construction industry faster and more efficient, enabling better connections between companies and temporary workers.

News From Our Portfolio

Congratulations to Katch for their launch on ProductHunt!

Go give a try to their AI Call Assistant, helping you to do better work with less scheduling hassle.

Well done to Lollipop on hitting a new milestone!

Lollipop has hit 100K users and to celebrate, it is launching a new partnership with food charity One Feeds Two. Lollipop will donate one school meal to a child in poverty for every meal they sell.

Lastly, we're excited to see Schüttflix featured in Handelsblatt 🚀

Have a read of their amazing story and learn how the startup went from incubation to becoming the leading building materials dealer in Germany and beyond.

Marketplace Deal Activity

With 17 deals announced, including one of our own here at Speedinvest, April 2023 marketplace deal activity slows down slightly with respect to the previous month.

Join Us!

We are always on the lookout for top-tier talent! Have a look at our open positions at Speedinvest and across our portfolio.

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