At Cymbal, we see enormous potential for NFTs on blockchains to provide transformative value across diverse industries such as gaming, finance, and digital media. One industry that is already realizing some of that potential is the art market. From Beeple netting a record $69 million from the Christie’s auction of…

This week, Pitchbook published their latest Emerging Tech Indicator (ETI) report which tracks early stage investment activity amongst the world’s most successful venture capital firms to “gauge which areas of tech are grabbing VCs’ attention”. In Q3, the sector that received the largest amount of VC dollars according to the…

On March 10th, 2000, the NASDAQ Composite Index hit an all time high of 5,048, signaling the peak of the dotcom bubble after growing 6x over the past 5 years. That milestone would unfortunately begin a three year downturn across the entire Internet sector. …

It’s that time of year again, when a new cohort of talented, aspiring minds apply for entry to a highly selective institution of learning. College application season? Nope. Y Combinator application season. …

Last week, Meta announced a new “Feed” tab in the Facebook app, which will display chronologically ordered posts from only Friends, Groups, and Pages that a user follows. In other words, a feed of content each user assembles manually, one person or organization at a time, that they have complete…

Yesterday, Gold House — the leading Asian & Pacific Islander (API) change-maker community fighting together for socioeconomic equity — launched a new $30 million startup investment fund called Gold House Ventures. …

I was recently talking to a friend of mine who manages a popular Discord server for sneaker collectors that’s so engaging that there are thousands of members paying for access. As great as Discord is, it was never designed for sneakerheads so my friend regularly runs up against pain points…

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic (or perhaps because of the pandemic), the venture capital backed startup sector in the US has been on an absolute tear. Last year, over 1,100 US startups that were venture backed delivered a record $287 billion in exit value (i.e. the company’s valuation at the time…

Last week, I said goodbye to my colleagues at Facebook, the end of a nearly two year adventure after they brought me and my startup Packagd on board. During my time, I had the privilege of creating a new commerce incubation group responsible for building and launching features like Live…