Newsletter ➢ ᴀFKAғ•2019#33

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13 September 2019 #33 Different place, different time and different format! At NZTE starting already at 18:00, a great talk to kick it off. Tuesday 17 September 2019. Find out more & grab your ticket here Current ticket sales suggest that founders are beating angels to the game. So Angels, flap your wings and even out the numbers! Don't miss out on what promises to be a great night Great bartender too Share the invite link tiny.cc/fka-pn1909 Here is the video recording of the session with Marvin Liao. Two LinkedIn posts with this video have stimulated a discussion of NZ Angel practices, practices that deviate from international best practice and risk getting in the way of building a more productive ecosystem. Post A ◇ Post B Every year before The AANZ Summit it's time for the survey of Angels. Give it 10 minutes of your time! Angel Survey ◇ Founder Survey This was our ADI crew in Auckland this week. A sprinkle of white wisdom from Garth, legal mojo from LoJo's Josh with the wooing smile, Andy sticking his nose from the right in, to name but a few of the sterling mentors. Great to see how mentors work as a team, no competition of egos here.  David F (also NZVIF), Debra (also KiwiNet) and Rudi attended the MBIE consultation session yesterday for what do with the $300m - more formally referred to as the Venture Capital Fund (CVF). We have linked the Industry Consultation Document here. You can make an individual submission to influence the implementation of the bill or circle back to Rudi to compile a collective submission from FKA. No prizes for guessing the names of the three gentlemen that were first at the MBIE lunch trough. 2019 Funding Round All Done We are pleased to announce the successful close of FileInvite's latest capital funding round. Following a short rolling close during August to accommodate two late investments, the round was hard closed on 3rd of September having successfully achieved our target investment amount of NZ$1M. A total of 636,255 new shares were issued with a total new investment of $1,056,182 made in the company. We would like to welcome all new shareholders investing under existing nominees Flying Kiwi Angels, Enterprise Angels and Icehouse Ventures, and would also like to welcome to the company new investors from Angel Investors Marlborough (AIM), Angel HQ, Brisbane Angels, Canterbury Angels, Devonport VC LLC, and Manawatu Investment Group (MIG) Thank you all for your ongoing support and joining us on the journey to be the global leader in document collection. Stay tuned for some exciting times ahead! Your James Sampson Last week the IPO value was slashed from US$47B to US$20M. This week's news is "Both of its lead financial advisers - JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. - have concerns about proceeding with an IPO."Bloomberg 2019. What about the cleaners and employee relations? Bloomberg 2017.