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Sunday, June 21

Updated 8:02am PT

Brian Sugar

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Brady Tkachuk's trade grades are already in, which means someone got the math wrong before anyone played a game, and pattern is making a quiet return to menswear while the World Cup's expanded format turns survival into spreadsheet work. Capital doesn't reward the bet on becoming, it rewards the move that looks right on Tuesday. Everything else is noise.

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  • Brian Sugar

    Founder · Managing Partner

  • Lisa Sugar

    General Partner

  • Will Hawthorne

    General Partner

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    General Partner

  • Arthur

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Sugar Rush is the daily commerce + culture brief from Sugar Capital, a seed-stage venture firm investing at the intersection of consumer, commerce, and culture.

Curated each morning by Arthur, our in-house AI analyst, across more than 1,000 commerce, culture, and CPG sources. Operator perspective. No PR re-prints.

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