Newsletter ➢ ᴀFKAғ•2017#44

8/12/2017

8 December 2017 #44


	8 December 2017#44

Mon 14:00	FKA Startup Video @ BizDojo Takapuna Angelic Q+A, email [email protected] if you can help make it fun
Tue 10:00	FKA Board Meeting @ 12 Madden St, AKL
Wed 16:00	Dojo Xmas Potluck BBQ @ BizDojo Parnell
Thu 17:15	Devo Drinks @ Tiny Triumphs aka Sawmill 5 Clarence St, Devonport, AKL
	Coming Soon
Dec 15	Last 2017 Issue #45 of Another FKA Friday
Dec 18	ADI.Wellington @ BizDojo
Dec 20	ADI.Clinic Takapuna @ BizDojo

"During fundraising entrepreneurs must understand the shackles that come with the shekels."

Interesting and precisely what we advise startups. Focus!

Article

We know it takes seven Minions to change a light bulb. How many graduates does it take to decorate a Xmas tree?

Sattler Airlines aka Auckland Seaplanes has reported an aerial encounter with Santa. The supplied footage was taken shortly before they could land the plane, all passengers, Santa and the reindeers safely on a beach.

Déjà vu extract from this August 2016 LinkedIn article on Tim Warren.
After paying for my university fees as a professional drummer, I spent my 20s as a software developer with WinGate, a global software phenomenon. Then I switched to financial services to learn more about this equity thing i'd missed out on. Starting in 2005 at Goldman Sachs, I was on board for the wild ride of the GFC before becoming COO for JBWere for 3 years. Since then i've spent a lot of time with startups, both investing and advising, and I fill in my days with other management consulting gigs.

I'm generally known for doing semi-extreme things in my personal time things like bungee, skydiving, marathon running, car racing, dad of twins, motorcycling, cage-fighting and fire-walking, although one of those is not true.

I've been a Flying Kiwi since almost the beginning and one of the best things I've got from FKA is a great group of friends. I'm on the board and I look forward to our next crop of companies.

Josh and Tim's Review of 2017
Without all their embellishments at the November Pitch Night #036

February

Healiase and Moxion are caught in a race for the last slot in LP1 to be portfolio company #10.
Josh Comrie is formally appointed to the FKA Board because he so photogenic and a gifted actor, as can be seen here.

March

LP2 partners voted to proceed with DD on Hot Lime Labs, with 12 YES out of 18 votes.
The FKApprentice role was created.
Potentia IDT Recruitment becomes our first silver sponsor.
We welcomed twelve new LPs into LP2, taking the total to 32.
Kami hits 3,000,000 users.

April

Lowndes Jordan become our second Silver Sponsor.

May

Wherewolf gets 93% YES votes, DD proceeds
NexTransfer pitches with DD report in hand.
Moxion becomes portfolio company #10.

June

NexTransfer becomes first investment for LP2 - raises $1m in record time (15 days after pitch night)

July

Wherewolf becomes FKA portfolio company #12.
Moxion closes at $927.6k raised - Rudi spends 3 weeks on the road pitching with moxion
Delta Insurance join the party as third Silver Sponsor.

August

Kami FKA PFC#02 win in the under $1,000,000 turnover category (American Chamber of Commerce US export)
Fuel 50 FKA PFC#05 secures US$2m from US VCs Rincon and Bonfire, FKA take up all rights.
Wherewolf becomes our portfolio company #12 with $622k raised we a have second founder by the name Ben.
Uproar FKA PFC#09 raises another $600k.

September

Palace passes DD vote.
New FKA website goes live.
Kami passes 4,000,000 users.

October

Deloitte Fast 50 award Wherewolf the Rising Star.
Hot Lime Labs becomes FKA PFC#13.
Party at CCH's residence, board meeting same place, next day at 10am.
Uli is voluntold into the role of Deal Flow Master.

November

Julian kicks off ADI.Clinic Hamilton.
FileInvite passes DD vote
StretchSense secures a option to exit, just 3 years after FKA starts!
50x turns $10k into $500k. In NZ angel circles, unprecedented.
Average deal size for FKA in 2017 is $700k.

Newsletter ➢ ᴀFKAғ•2017#44

8 December 2017#44

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