Exclusive: Goodwater Capital snags $1B across two new funds, despite broader cooling interest in consumer tech
The bulk of the capital -- 60% -- will be invested in early- and seed-stage outfits, many of them outside the U.S.
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The bulk of the capital -- 60% -- will be invested in early- and seed-stage outfits, many of them outside the U.S.
Goodwater, one of comparatively few firms to focus exclusively on consumer tech investments, has closed on $1 billion in capital commitments across its fifth early-stage fund and its third opportunity-style fund, TechCrunch is first to report. It also backed the Croatian math app Photomath, which Google agreed to acquire last year for an unknown amount; it bet on the cash-back offers startup DOSH, which sold to the digital advertising platform Cardlytics for $275 million in cash and stock in 2021; and it invested in the personalized vitamin company Care/of, the majority of which Bayer snapped...
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