Happy holidays and welcome to the December installment of Fin Capital's newsletter. It’s been a busy month for the team and our portfolio companies!

Congratulations, poolside and AWS

Portfolio company, poolside, and AWS have announced a strategic agreement to enable secure, customized generative AI for software engineering on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2).

poolside is building the world's most capable AI for software development. Its foundation model – built from the ground up – gives companies a private and secure alternative that can be tailored to their environment and that continuously learns from their usage and interactions.

This combined offering will make it easier for customers to run poolside in their existing AWS environment. To learn more, check out the press release below.

Cart.com acquires OceanX

Congratulations to portfolio company Cart.com, a leading unified commerce solutions provider, and OceanX, the wholly-owned fulfillment operations arm of Guthy-Renker, on their recent combination. The acquisition further strengthens Cart.com's position as a leader in mid-market to enterprise logistics and expands its tech-enabled capabilities to support high-volume beauty, wellness, and lifestyle brands.

As Rick Odum, CEO of Guthy-Renker shared in the announcement, “Cart.com has built a comprehensive, enterprise-grade logistics network with modern, digital capabilities that offer unparalleled visibility, control and efficiency for our brands. This partnership will marry our own channel and marketing expertise with their track record of driving growth and savings for high-volume, high-SKU brands, supercharging performance across our portfolio.”  

The Latest GTM Navigator

In our latest episode, Stephanie Perez, Managing Director at Fin Capital, speaks with Kathleen Waid, Fractional CRO, about sales training and coaching.

In this episode, you will gain insights into how to build best-in-class sales training and coaching, from onboarding, to playbooks and promotions.

Portfolio Spotlight

It’s been a busy month, sharing some of the latest moments from across portfolio…

• Circle, Stripe and Remote have partnered to enable Remote clients to pay contract workers in 69 countries using Circle’s stablecoin, USDC.

• DailyPay ranked number 185 the Deloitte Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, fintech, and energy tech companies in North America, now in its 30th year.

• Moneykit was selected for the Audience Choice Award at the 2024 FIS Fintech Accelerator Innovation Day and will be a part of the latest FIS cohort of nine fintech startups.

• Stere is teaming up with MSIG Singapore and Silversky to offer a new digital pet insurance product for customers in Singapore.

• Talos won Best Financial Services Startup at The Finance Magnates London Summit Awards 2024, which celebrates the top performers in the institutional space in fintech and online trading.

• Congratulations to Truewind on its Series A, co-led by Rho Capital and Thomson Reuters Ventures. We are proud to continue to support the company as they transform the accounting landscape.

What We’re Reading

INDUSTRY RESEARCH 

• Lightspeed: 2024 Sales Benchmark Report (Read More). 

BLOGS, PODCASTS AND VIDEOS 

• Future of Prospecting: MEDDPICC Sales Qualification Using AI – Signal-Led Discovery (Read More).

• MRR Unlocked: How to Create a High-Converting Sales Deck for your SaaS Startup (Read More).

• MRR Unlocked: The Best Outbound Tech Stack for Early-Stage SaaS Startups (Read More).

• MRR Unlocked: How to Create a High-Converting SaaS Homepage that Instantly Resonates with your Ideal Customer Profile (Read More).

• OnlyCFO’s Newsletter: Metrics Needed to IPO | Time to IPO! (Read More).

• PFM Guides: Why You Should Write a Newsletter for Investors (and How to Nail It) (Read More). 

Thanks for reading!

We are grateful for your partnership and support, and welcome any feedback you have. We’ll see you next month with more!

-The Fin Capital team

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