Haatch Monthly - March 2022 - Issue #3

Portfolio News & Updates

Bodyswaps has been selected to the Top 20, the acclaimed list of finalists in The GSV Cup, the world’s largest pitch competition for EdTech startups at the 13th Annual ASU+GSV Summit. Companies selected to The Top 20 represent the top pre-seed and seed-stage startups in digital learning across the “Pre-K to Gray” space.

Haatch has co-led an investment round into Primis, alongside Frontline and angel investors. Primis provides an innovative SaaS solution focused on improving the customer experience provided to consumers post-checkout. 

After years of work, the Codices team will be giving a first look at their brand new interactive live streaming platform Moar!

Market News & Insight

The surge of economic activity as we emerge from the pandemic has never been more visible than in today's entrepreneurial market.

From the Haatch Blog

The UK is embedded in the history of eCommerce. In 1979, Michael Aldrich, an English inventor, took a modified television and a telephone line connected to a computer and pioneered secure transactional data exchange.

Haatch Events

Looking for EIS deployment by tax year-end? Want to know more about all things EIS? Hear from Haatch and 5 leading managers who are targeting full deployment by tax year-end, the new Director General at EISA and EIS case studies from a chartered financial planner.

Fun & Interesting

Web2 is still very hot!

Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings

I finally feel like a contrarian in VC. I am not focused on Web3. Give me enterprise, give me payroll, compliance, HR. 😉

Encore

Stolen from Odin (Haatch portfolio co!), click the tweet below for an amazing thread of super stats, including this great Jeff Bezos one from 1994!

Steph Smith @stephsmithio

In 1994, Jeff Bezos famously spotted a stat that made him leave his high-paying PE job to start Amazon: 💡 The Internet was growing 2300% per year. What are the generation-defining stats of today? I'll post a few to kick things off...