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Jack Whitehall just did an equity deal with Seat Unique. Not an ambassador. Not a paid spokesperson. An actual shareholder. The comedian is taking equity in the premium ticketing platform that just ranked 5th in Deloitte's UK Technology Fast 50 with 7,921% growth. Think about the alignment. Whitehall spent his entire career in live entertainment. Comedy clubs. Theaters. Arenas. He knows what makes a great live experience. Seat Unique sells exactly that: VIP packages, hospitality suites, premium access to sports and entertainment events. Founded in 2018 by Robin Sherry and Phillipa Hicks, they've built something impressive: • £100M+ inventory from 120+ rights holders • Partnerships with Wembley, Welsh Rugby Union, Co-op Live • $28M raised with backing from sports stars like Harry Kane, Stuart Broad, Sam Warburton Now Whitehall joins that roster. He's committing to campaigns over the next two years while taking actual equity. Not just posting for a check. Building value he owns. This is what perfect celebrity-business alignment looks like. Whitehall investing in premium live entertainment makes sense. His audience trusts his taste in experiences. When he recommends a show or event, people listen. This isn't some random vodka brand or another men's grooming line. It's a comedian investing in the infrastructure of live entertainment, the industry that made him. As Seat Unique expands beyond the UK, having Whitehall's cultural backing opens doors that money alone can't. Smart celebrities are ditching endorsement deals for equity stakes. Because ownership beats a paycheck every time.

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I've been spending some time thinking about the second-order effects of what happens as large, multi-stage venture funds account for a greater share of VC AUM. One area of particular interest to me is the evolving conversation around how multi-stage firms will think about conflicts in a world where they need to be in the biggest, power law companies. https://lnkd.in/d2RZXcEw

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Team8 and Battery Ventures are excited to lead Koi's $38M A-Round, joining seed investors Picture Capital, NFX and Cerca Partners for a total of $48M in funding. Huge shoutout to founders Amit Assaraf 🎏, Itay Kruk 🎏 and Idan Dardikman 🎏 for pioneering the next wave of endpoint security, covering the blind spots that traditional EDRs and MDMs were never built to protect! [Coming full circle and partnering again with Itay and Idan from Sygnia, a Team8 portfolio company! Amit, you chose well!] From packages and containers to extensions, AI models, and MCPs, Koi delivers visibility, AI-driven risk analysis, and automated enforcement to secure the software perimeter of today’s enterprises. Already protecting over 500,000 endpoints worldwide, Koi’s platform is helping some of the world’s largest companies govern self-installed and unmanaged software. By giving security teams control without slowing innovation, Koi is defining a new category in cybersecurity. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/ewtqE4Pk Ori Barzilay, Sarit Firon, Amir Zilberstein, Assaf Mischari, Ori Yankelev, Asaf Azulay, Eyal Eliakim, Uri Shamay, Rakesh K. Loonkar, Dan Amiga, Mickey Boodaei, Barak Schoster Goihman, Dharmesh Thakker, Gigi Levy-Weiss

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Our family offices are leaning into innovation. 58% plan to be overweight in technology over the next 12 months, with only 5% expecting to be underweight. 86% are invested in AI, with the majority allocating via public market equities and ETFs. Learn more about how our family office clients are investing and thinking about asset allocation in our new report, Adapting to the Terrain. https://lnkd.in/ecAMEiSZ

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