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2014 Vintage

30/10/2017

 
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FKA was formed in 2014. Our wine of that year is already great drinking. Our portfolio companies will take a little longer until exit but they are maturing well. We started with a dirty dozen of angels and now we have over 50. 

​13 is a lucky number, is the current count of our portfolio companies.  Unlike other angel groups in NZ, we don't charge investment fees. We want 100% of the investment funds to go to startups.
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Our FREE advice sessions aka ADI.Clinic for founders started in Auckland. Now we run sessions also in Whangarei,  Hamilton,  Wellington, and Wanaka. FKA's no-nonsense style resonates with our now four sponsors. KPMG Enterprise,  Potentia, Lowndes Jordan and Delta Insurance share our passion for Kiwi startups and help defray our OPEX.

3x for Kiwi Angel Investors

20/10/2017

 
These are three great pre-Summit events that are well worth attending for NZ angels investors whether or not they will be attending the actual AANZ Angel Summit 2017.

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Innovation Awards 2017

19/10/2017

 
FKA are proud to have three portfolio companies in this year's strong line up of finalists.
  • Kami FPC#02
  • Moxion FPC#10
  • Wherewolf FPC#12.
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Peter Beck's Rocket Lab wins 1st prize
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Cybercrime in 2018

15/10/2017

 
Back in 2012 a Forbes article opened with what sounds like an urban myth "Eugene Kaspersky insisted that Apple needed to open up the iOS architecture [...] so that anti-virus programs could be developed. His argument, and I think and thought it a good one, is that the OS hasn't been attacked very much simply because it is new as a mass market phenomenon. There are better pickings to be had by going after the much larger Windows user base."

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Sample FKA Pitch Video

2/10/2017

 
First a  VUCA   word, and now the  VOOZA  company.
​FKAngel Rudi Bublitz  has looked more closely at VOOZA and  is keen to bring this startup to  pitch night in order to enlist other FKAngels to  help with collective  diligence.  
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First though this pitch video has to get support from a simple majority of angels in the limited partnership to proceed. But will it?

  • "To come up with something truely amazing you have to ignore common sense."
  • "Then also, we steal data from your phone and sell it."
  • " We make sure our app is filled with authenticity."
  • "What if you photo filter had an API , and what if that API had it's own photo filter?"
  • "Great idea but then we found out it was illegal, so then we had to pivot."
  • "...a bit like Quora but without the questions."
  • "If you look at how much we've failed  that's where you can see how smart we've become."
  • "We believe in radical, impactful  transparency, something that we call RADIMPARENCY."

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