Fox Ventures - December 12th, 2023

Fox Ventures portfolio companies, Baraka and Meanwhile, in the news.

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Chad Fox
December 13, 2023

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This week’s roundup:

  • Portfolio company news

  • What I’ve been reading this week

  • Advisory Hours

Let’s dive in 👇

Portfolio Company News 🗞

Fox Ventures portfolio company, Baraka, is a MENA-based platform for low commission fee investing in US stocks and ETFs.

Fostering Financial Empowerment: Baraka Founder And CEO Feras Jalbout | Entrepreneur

Baraka founder and CEO Feras Jalbout is shaking up the world of investment in the UAE with his user-friendly investment platform based out of the Dubai International Financial Centre.

Fox Ventures investing $225k in Baraka’s Seed round in 2021.

“At Baraka, our mission to foster financial empowerment with trust and integrity drives the direction in which we grow and evolve the company, from the region and for the region.”

Feras Jalbout - CEO, Baraka

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Meanwhile seeks to raise $100 million for bitcoin private credit fund

Meanwhile Group, a Sam Altman-backed crypto startup, has launched a bitcoin private credit fund via its subsidiary Meanwhile Advisors.

Fox Ventures is excited about its portfolio company, Meanwhile, which we invested in early through our Rolling Fund.

We love companies that take a very long-term approach to financial services and believe in Bitcoin as a thesis.

Meanwhile, in its essence is an insurance company which deals in 50+ year time horizons. Their private credit offering is part of their asset management strategy and we think they have a bit of secret sauce which will make this a success. Other top investors like Sam Altman and Gradient Ventures seem to agree.

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What I’m reading 📖

The vintage year power law

It’s no secret that venture capital (VC) has historically delivered outsized returns. Once an “access-class” whereby only the most well-connected Ivy League endowments could secure a place in the top-performing funds of Silicon Valley, VC is now a category to which most sophisticated institutions realize they must be allocated.

The Big Reset in Seed to Series A Graduation Rates is Real and Permanent

We are in the middle of a big reset where the percentage of Seed stage companies that graduate to Series A rounds will drop dramatically, with implications for founders and VCs.

Next-gen billionaires are breaking away from the family legacy

Billionaires who have inherited wealth are more risk tolerant than their predecessors, the UBS Billionaire Ambitions Report shows

Advisory hours 🗓

Chad Fox is an advisor to entrepreneurs and family offices through his firm F Partners. Chad has a global network that spans from North America to the Middle East and can help you with formation, fundraising, business development, and all the challenges that come with building an early-stage company. He is a qualified lawyer, angel investor, and venture capitalist.

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