🌊 Ripple Retreat 2022 🌊 Our team disconnected and reconnected with each other this weekend for our annual offsite. It’s so important for us to spend quality time together with the people we work with. @mattybcohen @_dominiclau @naz_thakkar @tchowd_ Whose coming next year?

🎉 We are excited to announce the promotion of @_dominiclau to Partner at Ripple Ventures! 🎉 Dom joined Ripple as we held the first close on Fund I and from day one, he worked endlessly to help build Ripple into a well-respected VC Fund! Congrats Dom!

Amazing initiative by the team @VoiceflowHQ 🙏

Our Managing Partner @mattybcohen shares the hard truth with @TechCrunch on why founders should ask investors for a flat round in these markets!

5/ If you are a founder or investor building in any relevant categories and want to share notes and discuss, please reach out to our team here: . You can follow us here: https://t.co/PAgfUqURsa.

2/ Market map @VisualStudio @Replit @pycharm @HardhatHQ @trufflesuite @BrownieEth @radicle @OpenZeppelin @EthereumRemix

1/ Check out our newest edition of the @ripple_ventures thematic research series: Opportunities in Web3 Development Environments Read more here:

I just uploaded “Maeve Summer One Year” to #Vimeo:

Welcoming @naz_thakkar to the @ripple_ventures team as a full-time Associate! We first met Naz through the @ripplexfellow program in January 2021 and have been working together since. Yesterday, we welcomed her to the Toronto VC community!

6/ If you are a founder or investor building in any relevant categories and want to share notes and discuss, please reach out to our team here: . You can follow us here: https://t.co/PAgfUqURsa

1/ We're excited to share the first post of our thematic research blog series on categories that we’re actively investing in. This week, we're covering Data Versioning tools. https://t.co/aq0doqwPHT

Customer onboarding: @onboardio

Project management: @ZenHubHQ

Analytics: @googleanalytics @mixpanel

Marketing: @Mailchimp @HubSpot

Design: @figma @tailwindcss

Web/mobile frameworks: @vuejs @reactjs

Microservices/backend: @BuildableHQ

Auth: @auth0

Hosting: @Firebase and @supabase

Just published our new blog post on the top tech tools that startups should know and build with: We cover: 1) hosting 2) auth 3) microservices/backend 4) web/mobile 5) design 6) marketing/crm 7) analytics 8) project mgmt 9) customer onboarding https://t.co/jjBlsMjqWS

The power of our fellowship network is just getting started. Already seeing founders raise over $50m+ combined. Next up $500mm!!!

1/ We're excited to share the last part of our web2 vs web3 blog series, comparing @Spotify with the @AudiusProject! Read more here:

Thanks for sharing! What she said 👇

Congrats to the @Wisedocsai team on bringing Doug Markham on as COO. Doug is a Seasoned Insurance Industry Expert and will add tremendous value to the entire team.

Check out this article written by our own @mattybcohen Sharing 3 Things VCs Should Do To Protect Founders’ Mental Health! #Mentalhealth #MentalHealthMatters #founders #startup

Why the need for @viamirror in web 3 when we have the @Medium in web 2? Our “Web 2 vs Web 3” breaks down the similarities, differences, and impact of similar technologies across Web 2 and Web 3.

The @ripplexfellow program is now recruiting for the spring 2022 cohort! See below for more details:

With $4.1 million in new capital and a much bigger vision, the team at @Wisedocsai is already expanding into the US insurance industry with recently announced partnerships with @massmutual & @PlugandPlayTC Insurtech. We are happy to lead this new round of funding! #insurtech

Today we’ll explore naming systems across Web 2 and Web 3, more specifically ENS and DNS. This is blog post #1 in our new “Web 2 vs Web 3” series where the team breaks down the similarities, differences, and impact of technologies across Web 2 and Web 3

1/ Just released our newest post explaining need for @ensdomains in web 3 when we have the Domain Name System in web 2? Read more here: https://t.co/ZuNG53zl5Y

🧑‍💻Calling all #Web3 builders!👩‍💻 @BuildableHQ is the best place to start building using over thousands of their templates. Check it out or msg @_moekatib and @spataroinc to get setup!

Incredible initiative 🙏

Amazing time hosting our SF Social w/ @mathurahravi & @naz_thakkar and our @ripplexfellow crew! Looking forward to hosting more events this year!

We're excited to share our last blog post in the Web 3 series, sharing a dictionary that you can reference when looking up all of the terms and jargon in the ecosystem. We break out terms into: 1/ The Basics 2/ Twitter Dictionary 3/ Not So Basics https://t.co/OBEezNsKmW

Ever heard of Humans of New York? Our very own @andrwhong in the @ripplexfellow program will be running a videos series called Humans of RippleX. Watch the first video introducing Andrew below:

5/ Breadth and depth of user adoption

4/ Apps and Infrastructure Development

3/ Developer Movement

1/ Just published our next part in the Web3 blog series on some leading indicators that we're tracking in the market. Lots of great data and frameworks here we've aggregated from thought leaders in the space. Read it here: https://t.co/uxKRRwC87V

Check out our public launch of the @ripplexfellow course! Access it now: Read about it here: https://t.co/nzN31Y1i4t https://t.co/jDdEVLZCBd

3/ Growth in transactions and wallets

2/ Defi and exchange activity

1/ Total market capitalization

Wonder what the current state of the crypto market and ecosystem look like? Check out our newest drop in the web 3 blog series: https://t.co/irw4e2glUq

4/ Ready Player One, when everyone puts on a VR headset to go into a 3D digital reality

3/ For those who played Runescape, that could be considered a metaverse

2/ When Travis Scott hosted a concert in Fortnite where over 12M people showed up to watch, digitally, in their avatar form in the ~metaverse~

Some examples: 1/ When Dwight from The Office built his Second Life character when Andy and Angela were together to make his “perfect life”

Curious about what the metaverse is? We just dropped our blog debunking the metaverse, sharing some examples, and opportunities we see. Link here: https://t.co/lmcbkmotNy

Check out our Managing Partners, @mattybcohen, newest piece in @crunchbasenews on why start the ballooning of seed rounds has led to seed companies acting like Series A companies all the way down the line to Series C companies acting like publicly traded ones. Read more 👇

🎉 New Year / New @ApteoAI Website is Live! Love the new look and scalable pricing options. Anyone who is still trying to manually segment and re-target your existing #ecommerce customers needs to give it a try!

We're looking for some curious, analytical, and driven people to join our growing team. Ideally, candidates have either worked for a startup, founded one, or are a junior investor at another venture fund looking to scale their career. Learn more here:

Friendly reminder that applications for our Associate roles close on January 14th! If you or anyone in your network might be a good fit, feel free to reach out to @mattybcohen or @_dominiclau

Check out our first and second blog posts here: 1/ What is web 1, 2, 3? 2/ The benefits and drawbacks of web 2 https://t.co/SnJnOeTwV0

Part 3 of 7 in our Web3 blog series just dropped: https://t.co/3lNkDBiNbB

Exciting times for MarTech companies in 2022! With Apple’s new privacy updates, companies will look to creators and new technologies to reach their audience. 👉 @Marpipe_HQ @danpantelo

Listen to our Founder & Managing Partner @mattybcohen as he takes the hot seat on @ilanjacobson podcast and goes deep on investing, networks and family!