- Happenstance. Launches $1 Million Integration Fund. We just announced our $1 million MailChimp Integration Fund. It’s sort of inspired by Ycombinator, except there’s no equity involved. We basically want to help small startups with small, paying projects. Projects that involve integrating their apps with the MailChimp API. If you’ve got an idea for integrating with MailChimp (along with all these other great apps), you can fill out this online application. Here’s the story behind the Integration Fund… There are two questions people ask me all the time, and I always surprise them with my answers. First, they bring up our recent growth spurt, and they ask what our "silver bullet" was. Second, people ask me how/where we got our funding. Start small, fund yourself with paying projects, and build up a strong API. In fact, we’ve been practicing this approach for a while now without even realizing it. Just recently we figured, "Why not turn this into an official fund, and make it a process?
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Author: Adam Arnold, Partner, BBH Today sees the launch of The Black Sheep Fund – which we believe is the first venture capital fund of its kind. It is a venture between Zag (BBH’s brand invention business) and Spark Ventures – the London based VCs that backed start up phenomena including lastminute.com, Kobalt Music, notonthehighstreet.com and Moshi Monsters. The background is increasingly obvious: There is a dearth of seed funds for start ups.
If things feel tighter than they used to be in the States – then it is ten times harder to raise money in Europe right now. The banks demand personal guarantees for business loans (!) , and institutions are incredibly risk averse. If you are proven entrepreneur with a string of successful exits under your belt, then you will get by. The premise is simple: We offer a unique cocktail of business building and brand building in one investment package. Get in touch: fund@bbh.co.uk For more on the Black Sheep Fund, BBH and Spark Ventures: Jobs.