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Amy Errett on Masters of Scale
Guest bio for Madison Reed founder Amy Errett, covering her earlier roles at Maveron, E*TRADE and True Ventures, her board seats, and links to her Masters of Scale episodes.
Company
Starbucks
Funding history
Investors
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Starbucks raised.
What Starbucks bought
Companies Starbucks acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
People
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Howard Schultz | CEO (former) | mastersofscale.com |
| Sharon Rothstein | Global Chief Marketing Officer and Global Chief Product Officer (former) | Australian FinTech |
Coverage
Stories naming Starbucks. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
12 deals
The Week in Agrifoodtech: new investments in alternative fat, Kroger buying Albertsons, Beyond Meat cuts 200 jobs
Weekly agrifoodtech roundup reporting funding rounds for alternative fat and agtech startups, acquisitions including Kroger's purchase of Albertsons, and other sector news such as Beyond Meat's job cuts.
Seed
Investment Notes: OfferFit
AfterWork Ventures' investment note explains why it backed OfferFit, whose AI replaces A/B testing for marketers, in a May 2021 pre-Series A round, and notes Canvas Ventures led a $14m USD Series A.
Seed
Our investment in Arcade
OIF Ventures' investment note setting out why it put AUD$1.3 million into Arcade, a gamified employee-engagement software startup co-founded by David Cherrie and James McLaren, aimed at deskless frontline staff.
Exit / M&A
5 things you should know about tech today
News roundup covering Uber's all-stock purchase of delivery rival Postmates, Luckin Coffee's delisting after fraud, a VC training program, NASA's toilet prize, VCs feuding with journalists, and Murdoch's Theranos stake sale.