Newsletter ➢ ᴀFKAғ•2018#44

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14 December 2018 #44 Tuesday 18 December 2018, 18:30 at The Flagship All partners, founders and Angels, get your $66 ticket ☞ here. Numbers are limited for this boutique venue. Be there, it will be a great night! □ At the end of 2018, this is FKA's 16x85 portfolio matrix. Ian has backed all 16 startups, closely followed by Chris, Heath, Josh and Rudi who are backing 15. FileInvite has the most nominee investors with 44, then Wherewolf 40, Moxion 39, the average is 27 investors per startup. At the end of 2018, we have clocked up 1175 ADI sessions since we started this initiative in 2013. A proud result! Not all founders like what we tell them but most of them appreciate our frank advice and helpful connections. Sadly, we are seeing only modest participation from other angel groups. This is about helping #KIWIstartups, not hogging deal flow! Welcome aboard, Graeme! He has cleared the FKA Veto Gate without incident and that makes the last mug shot to be added to our list of Active Angels fka.nz/angels for this year, a nice round number of 50! Tinsel the tree, the bra or moxion to Tinseltown? Just in time for the silly season that is so much about gifting, we bring you Debra's musings of last year, still just as relevant in 2018. «My husband has never bought me a bra… » Reading about Peter's deed has inspired our CCH. Rudi will put an investment voucher into the stockings of his kids for them to invest alongside any FKA investment in 2019. This should add extra fire to the already lively dinner table conversations about startups. Technically all will be done under Rudi's normal investment vehicle. Agtech is one form of hitech in NZ. Peter Wren-Hilton, Dean Tilyard and Vic Crone dig this sector and report from their trip to the Agtech Nexus Europe conference in Dublin. Hot and sticky! Our Hot Lime Labs co-investor Brent Ogilvie aka Pacific Channel is, like all angel investors, looking for stickiness in every business. With Engender he has taken that into a different direction with great success. Read all about it! Steph lives in Dunedin but prefers to hang with the Wellington Angels. Some say she is a Taniwha, others say she is an Angel. Like a Taniwha, she hijacked a recent FKA LinkedIn post to unashamedly promote a startup all about safety, particularly around forklift trucks. Funny how investor and founder can look alike...  ☞ LinkedIn