Whereas Creator Economy companies have mostly built infrastructure for the top 1% of creators, new AI tools will fuel businesses that democratize creativity (Michael Mignano / Lightspeed Venture Partners)

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We are thrilled to be working with IKEA Supply Chain Operations to build the future of transportation by focusing on road safety, emissions reduction, and improving the quality of life of drivers. Look forward to continued collaboration!
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Superb essay from Michael Mignano explaining the 'creativity supply chain' and why it's so much bigger and more important than the 'creator economy' Lightspeed

Global supply chains are being re-designed b/c of geo-politics and covid; Lightspeed India believes b2b marketplaces connecting global demand + supply will be an important part of the future. Excited to support Shaily | The Global Entrepreneur and the GlobalFair team!

.Fast Company's Adam Bluestein's story on Ultima Genomics highlights many of the reasons why we are proud to be backing this company in its sequencing of a human genome at a cost of $100.

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Big thanks to Fast Company and Harry McCracken 🇺🇦 for allowing me to publish a long form piece about the massive potential for the Creativity Supply Chain on their site 🙏

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1/ Is the Creator Economy dead?

The tools which promised to help creators achieve economic independence haven't lived up to the hype.

I wrote about this, & what I believe to be a *much* bigger + more optimistic opportunity:

The Creativity Supply Chain.

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Excited to announce our investment in Enable, which powers incentives across the B2B supply chain.

Anoushka Vaswani, Shaurya Aggarwal and I wrote more here.

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1/ Excited to join Lightspeed as an investment partner on the enterprise team where I’ll focus on working with early stage B2B companies
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Over the past 20 yrs, Lightspeed has built a team of partners who practice the art & science of helping founders build outlier companies. 

Today, we’re excited to welcome Mike Carpenter, Yonit Wiseman, and Lisa Han to the enterprise team.

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Congrats to Emad and the rest of the Stability AI team on raising $101M in funding! We at Lightspeed are proud to co-lead this funding round with Coatue Management LLC and believe in the mission to democratize generative AI. Our thesis here: medium.com/lightspeed-ven…

Our recent expansion into new markets like India, the EU, and the UK will increase access to equity ownership for more people.

Watch as Henry Ward talks with Emily Chang on Bloomberg Technology about how we’re building the global platform for equity management.
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'When Nicole Quinn meets with founders and startups, she brings a similar lens to what she looks for in a creator turned founder—specifically, focus, a drive to succeed, and the ability to develop and cater to an audience.'

.@alchemyplatform just published their 1st web3 developer report and the findings are fascinating. In 2022:

- Active decentralized applications tripled.
- More than 117k smart contract have been deployed.
- Ethers.js & Web3.js have been downloaded 1.7M times.

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31 years after Will Kohler played in the 1991 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Italy, daughter and #U17WYNT midfielder Charlotte Kohler is forging her own career playing in the 2022 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in India 🇺🇸

Covid tested @tripactions resilience and courage, but they pushed forward with modernizing business travel and expense.

Today, they’re announcing $300M in new funding at a $9.2B valuation. We are excited to continue our journey with the team. Let’s go!

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Lightspeed is delighted to support Ella Zhang and the Trendsi team, continuing our investment push into marketplaces solving the back end of retail and e-commerce. 🛒🛍

Read more in our post below! 👇👇

We're thrilled to lead Trendsi's Series A and partner with Ella Zhang as she reimagines the ecommerce supply chain. Alex Taussig, Lightspeed and I wrote about our investment here. medium.com/lightspeed-ven…