Partner, Square Peg Capital
Stories naming Dan Krasnostein. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Recap of a Growth Summit panel where Rampersand's Paul Naphtali explains what VCs mean by 'too early', why the phrase signals a fit or product concern, and how rejections can turn into investments.
Square Peg's half-year investor letter reviews its accelerating AI investing, portfolio companies' progress including several completed raises, listed fund returns, a new data hire, and ongoing fundraising for its 2025 vintage funds.
In its half-year letter, Square Peg explains how it picks AI founders, reports several portfolio companies' recent raises, flags a data engineering hire, and says fundraising for its next funds is well advanced.
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Cleaning products maker Zero Co, backed by Square Peg and crowdfunded via Birchal, is closing down solvent and will hand leftover funds to shareholders after failing to find a workable path forward.
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Seven Australian startups together banked over $90 million in the past seven days across venue software, hydrogen aviation, social media, craft brewing, plastics alternatives, aged-care robotics and accountant training.
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Square Peg's retrospective of 2019: five new portfolio companies, several large rounds it led or co-led, two acquisitions, two IPOs, new team members, and its capital deployed across new and follow-on deals.
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Square Peg marks small-business lender Prospa's stockmarket debut, recalling its 2017 investment and praising founders Greg and Beau for clarity, culture and resilience after a shelved float the year before.
Square Peg Capital's year-in-review recaps its 2021 portfolio: raises it led or joined, SPAC listing decisions, Vend's acquisition, new investment-team hires, and its newsletter and podcast output.
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