July 2024

After a HUGE June, when we grew investment by ~55% M/M, we hit the summer of "quiet vacationing." I hope everyone is having fun. We're making the best out of babysitting crickets.

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MONTHLY METRICS

Accredited members: (+7%)
Unique investors: (+6%)
Total Investments: (+9%)
Dollars Invested: (+7%)

As a founder, nothing is worse than a month of slow. Replies, next steps, growth—ugh. ngl, it had me in a founder funk. 

And the summer slowdown wasn't just on the business side.  The upgrades we are making to our investing stack have taken longer than expected because of the heightened compliance environment in banking after the Evolve data breach. 

Instead of pity partying while watching non-stop French sporting events for the past 37 days, we went heads down (with sports on in the background natch):

• Hosted our first Angel meet-up as a template for what we want to do post-SPV.

• Automated our product-led growth conversion marketing.

• Launched a long overdue B2B-focused update to our dot com site. See it here.
  ....and that's where we could use your help.
  

Wanted: Angel Group Intros

Angel groups are leaning into the extra oomph our platform can provide their founders and members. And they love our twist on shared economics. Here's our overview if you're curious.

If you have a favorite group, hit reply, and I'll shoot you a blurb to make the intro easy. 

One more thing: we are working from NYC from Aug 15th-22nd. Know anyone we should meet or see (including you)? Drop me a note. 

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-- C2K + The Play Money Team

PS: It's free to Lurk & Learn on Play Money, so if you are angel-curious or backing some great founders, get on in here.