McArthur Capital

05/12/2023

"Despite the huge amount of funding pouring into embedded finance, few companies are building out payment endpoints for the tens of thousands of utilities and recurring billers that consumers have to pay each month."

https://www.bliplabs.com/

The company connects to tens of thousands of recurring billers

03/15/2023

“We have built a unique way to manipulate chemical systems and the most expensive chemical systems on Earth are drugs. We knew making them in space was the killer app of microgravity.”

Varda reveals $60M Air Force contract & first flight in June.

Varda Space Industries has built a lab to make novel pharmaceuticals in a space capsule, then drop them into the Utah desert.

02/01/2023

Las Vegas Based Start-Up Roots Homes Raises $2.2 million To Make Homeownership Easy for Millennials and Gen Z 🏡

We are excited to be a small part of Roots Homes latest round.

Roots' fractional homeownership service upends the all-or-nothing nature of homeownership by allowing renters to purchase shares in their home each month. Roots will provide customers with a shopping budget to find a home. When they find one they like, Roots will buy it for them so they can move in. If the customer eventually wants to buy the home from Roots, they can, but they never have to. The equity a renter builds can be held long-term, go towards a downpayment, or be cashed out if they choose to move out.

Having rich parents is the #1 easiest way to own a home. Roots is #2.

01/23/2023

Congratulations to Bounce on the $2.5M funding round!

Bounce is your one-stop shop to connect with friends, build communities, and make memories. We are excited to be a small part of the latest round.

https://www.bouncelife.com

11/29/2022

Deel has completed its $AU 121M acquisition of APAC-based payroll and HCM company PayGroup Limited. PayGroup is now part of Deel, a private San Francisco-based payroll company, and has been delisted from the Australian Stock Exchange.

Deel has completed its $AU 121M acquisition of APAC-based payroll and HCM company PayGroup Limited. PayGroup is now part of Deel, a private San Franci

11/07/2022

Congratulations Meez on the $11.5M Series A! We are excited to be investing alongside Craft Ventures in their latest round. 🍽

Restaurant kitchens across the country are trying to manage customers while also managing labor shortages. This means it’s important to get new employees up and running faster.

Josh Sharkey, chef, founder and CEO of meez, a recipe management app for chefs, started the company in 2020 so that food and beverage professionals could digitally manage and execute recipe workflow, from creation and cost to organization and training. That training pain point is one that Sharkey has continued to hear from kitchens.

“Right away we can see the impact of how they can train much faster than before to make sure that when someone new comes on board, it doesn’t take them a month, but for some, only a couple of days,” Sharkey told TechCrunch. “Anecdotally, we have several case studies where there’s almost like an 80% decrease in the time it takes to train a new employee because they embedded meez in their organization and can now just hand off things that they need to execute on.”

Meez digitally manages and executes recipe management and workflow, from creation and cost to organization and training.

10/19/2022

Meow, a crypto corporate treasury startup, has raised $22 million in a round led by Tiger Global

New York-based Meow makes high-yield crypto loans available to corporate treasurers. It has partnered with two banks to accept deposits.

10/11/2022

Varda Space Industries successfully completed the descent and landing capability drop test of it's re-entry capsule. This test was in preparation of it's full launch on Transporter-8 estimated to be early 2023.

At Varda Space Industries, we are embarking on a mission to manufacture revolutionary products in space to benefit life on Earth.——Learn more about Varda Spa...

10/06/2022

Congratulations EcoCart on the $14.5M Series A! We are excited to be a small part of the latest round. 🌳

With all the plastic and paper covering the things we buy, more and more consumers are seeking out companies that operate more sustainably.

EcoCart has built the infrastructure for e-commerce companies and works with them to make that shopping experience more transparent and sustainable. EcoCart's software performs product life cycle audits for its customers to help them calculate, analyze and offset their carbon emissions.

Customers can then see how that company is doing in terms of protecting trees and using clean energy sources while companies can offer offsetting initiatives within its shopping experience — for example, providing a way for them to make carbon-neutral purchases or showing the number of trees saved from an online order.

The software company performs product lifecycle audits for its customers to help them calculate, analyze and offset their carbon emissions.

09/26/2022

We are excited to invest in Blank Street alongside Tiger Global in their $25M Series A! ☕️

Currently operating 15 locations throughout New York City with a goal of expanding to 100 by the end of 2022, Blank Street offers a variety of products, including those from Gertie bagels, King Street Baking Co., and King David Tacos, in addition to Parlor Coffee.

All these locations are technology-enabled, allowing Blank Street to streamline its operations through mobile payments for customers while offering premium food items at an affordable price. “[Our coffee] is 20-30% cheaper than Starbucks, and roughly the same as Dunkin’s,” Menda explained. “The main technology we use in stores, such as espresso equipment, is fully automatic, so baristas can focus most of their time engaging with customers, enhancing their in-store experience.”

Their latest partnership with Emma Chamberlain's coffee company brings limited edition recipes to three of Blank Streets locations in NYC.

The company now operates 14 locations in a mix of 700-square-foot brick-and-mortar spaces and mobile street carts. Each location hit profitability within two months after opening.

09/19/2022

Congratulations on the $2M Pre-Seed Studyverse! 📖

Studyverse estimates that each month, over 100M students around the world are trying to hack together ways to study with each other online.

The problem is they’re trying to do this in a casino-like online media environment that was built to distract them. To make it worse, the tools they’re hacking together weren’t even built for studying. In most cases, they’re actually using the very same platforms causing the problems in the first place.

The answer is the Virtual Study Hall.

Studyverse lets students create distraction-free spaces where they can collaborate, focus, and get stuff done — with their friends and online study buddies. Studyverse is building the 10x-better platform for online group study that will scale into the world’s largest vertical social network for students.

Let's get stuff done together!