This week we discuss pro-rata rights of venture capital investors and deals.

This week we explore several funding rounds that have been announced since the COVID-19 pandemic has been a significant factor. We call this our good news during the Pandemic episode. Those companies are Run The World, a virtual conferencing platform, Chicago based Tock, a restaurant technology company and Chicago based Quillbot which helps content generators refresh and paraphrase the content in new and interesting ways.

This week we explore several funding rounds that have been announced since the COVID-19 pandemic. This is another in our series of good news during the Pandemic episodes. Those companies are Immigrant Founded, Chicago based Cashdrop, a small retail POS, Trove, a Y-combinator S20 class graduate in the option pool management business, Barn2Door, a Shopify of Farm to Table and Undock a new way to manage your schedule.

This week we discuss venture scouting programs and routes to get a job in the venture capital industry.

On this week's episode, we discuss local Chicago Company Basecamp’s new Email App, Hey, and the upcoming end of production of Segways.

This week Jason and Graham discuss the Crunchbase Q2 Global Venture Capital Report.

On this special episode of Fully Vested Jason and Graham discuss and stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.

After an update about 3,000 newly announced layoffs at Uber we discuss Facebook’s acquisition of GIPHY for $400M and Andreesen Horowitz’s investment in the hotly sought after Clubhouse round.

We discuss the ongoing situation related to COVID-19 especially as it relates to layoffs at Lyft, Uber and Airbnb including Uber’s contemplated acquisition of Lime and Grubhub and Airbnb hosts exploring options to book guests through other means.

In this episode, we discuss the growing number of companies and funds that are offering venture debt as another funding strategy for high growth companies and startups.