📢 RnD Ventures Newsletter 2025/47
📘 New Book Launch: The Networked Firm
The Networked Firm: Capital Allocation in the Age of Blockchain and AI, is now officially out! The launch event happened last week at Schelling Point Buenos Aires during Devconnect ARG.
Co-authored by Kevin Owocki, Daniel Stringer & Daniel Ospina, this book serves as a field guide to how blockchain and AI are dissolving traditional firms and creating new networked organizations.
You can now order your own digital or print copy here.
🤝 New Community Partner
We’re excited to welcome Ethereum Venezuela as our newest community partner. Their team has been actively strengthening the local community in Venezuela through workshops, hackathons, and educational events. Together, we aim to provide their members with opportunities for actionable startup experience.
This partnership is part of our expanding coalition of community partners working to align education with practical experience for the future of work, including: Dev3Pack, DeSci Africa, Ethereum Mexico, Borderless Devs, Fitech Community, Play4Change DAO, Web3 Unilag, DeSci NG, ETH Kipu, Blockchain Africa, and BorderleScience.
📝 B2B SaaS is Dead
The $317 billion B2B SaaS market is destroying itself. We're seeing structural pressures that make "B2B" and "SaaS" meaningless terms now.
In our article, we break down:
- Why the “B2B + SaaS” model is becoming outdated
- How the idea of “business-to-business” is losing relevance
- What defines the Swarm Tech era
- How builders and investors can adapt early
If you work in tech, collaboration, decentralized organizations, or next-gen tooling, this is worth your time.
📖 Learning Together
New week, new insights!
Here are some pieces shared recently in our Discord channels:
- How Our Brain Actually Learns: a practical guide to how learning really works, grounded in cognitive science.
- A deep-dive video analyzing why a creator with 39k+ LinkedIn followers still averages around 200 views on YouTube, and what’s blocking growth.
- An article on how SEO will change in an AI-driven search world.
💡 Updates from Our Ventures
Meetwith
Meetwith recently completed its Celo grant, which enabled the team to build scheduling and payment solutions that save coaches hours every week.
Here’s how Meetwith supports coaching businesses:
- Meeting Types: allows coaches to create simple booking packages that clients can select in seconds.
- Group Scheduling: automatically finds the best time for everyone during group sessions, even across time zones.
- Invoicing & Payments: send invoices and accept fiat or stablecoin payments directly on Meetwith.
Schedule a demo call to explore further.
👥 New Faces at RnD Ventures
This week, five new members joined, including:
- A senior engineer with experience delivering DEXs, DAOs, DeFi, marketplaces, and smart contracts
- A technical leader
- A UI/UX designer
- A developer working across blockchain, AI, and frontend engineering
- A contributor joining the cohort with a background in sales and growth
Want to join our growing startup ecosystem? RnD Ventures is looking for:
- Business Developers | Grant Writers | Researchers | Developers | Marketers
Even if you don’t fit these roles but are passionate about CollabTech, we’d love to have you!
Join our Discord and introduce yourself today.
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