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Fitz Gate Newsletter September 2018

By September 10, 2018April 8th, 2024No Comments

Dear Investors and Friends:

We hope you all had a good summer. It’s been especially busy for Fitz Gate Ventures as we made 2 more investments (descriptions of Thrive and Paravel below) bringing our portfolio total to 11 companies. In addition, there has been a lot of positive PR for our existing portfolio companies (links below), including the announcement of Newsguard’s partnership with Microsoft, Overtime’s partnership with Snapchat, Smartasset’s new fundraising round (good bump in valuation for Fitz Gate) and Pledgeling’s partnerships with Tinder and Discovery Channel (the video link below is amazing!).

Finally, because of the success of Fund I, we are ahead of plan and are now beginning to raise Fund II. Fund II will be larger than Fund I ($20mm range) and will continue to invest a majority of its capital in Princeton founders but will also invest a portion of its capital in startups referred in to Fitz Gate through the Princeton network. If you are interested in reviewing the Fitz Gate II investor deck, please contact either of us — we’re excited to discuss our strategy and plans with all our investors and friends! And thank you to our investors and friends who have decided to invest in Fund II and have helped get our fundraising off to a very strong start.

As always, please feel free to contact us directly if you have any questions or have come across an interesting company with a Princetonian on board.

Jim Cohen and Mark Poag

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