Newsletter ➢ ᴀFKAғ•2021#14

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23 April 2021 #14 788   ʀᴇᴀᴅᴇʀs   Laura Bell is the first to deliver her video after pitching on Tuesday. Andy is the champion and the DD Vote is underway. Here the video! Susan Nemeth (Aportio), Alex Dong (HappyMoose) and Liz Berryman (chnnl) were the other three who pitched on Tuesday. We will share their videos in our next issue.  Jason Kerr on Medium. Opportunity in a crisis: How Spoke Phone went from $99 to $20,000 MRR customers over COVID #15 Extreme recruitment measures of a rapidly growing startup... See who! Similar birthday shirt but different hairstyle, happy birthday James! □ Office Party at FileInvite #14  The Moxion + Arch VFX workflow integration is now official! Russell Crowe headliner 'Unhinged' saw 10 weeks shaved off the prod schedule + 65% reduction in VFX costs. Moxion is #10 in the FKA stable! AANZ's Suse is giving money away for Kiwi angels to attend ACA Summit. More here! The NZGCP Board is searching for a new CEO after James Fletcher has been settling the Dellabarcle as interim CEO. More Here! Here some commentary from Rowan Simpson. It is now nearly two years since Rudi's post and two-part video to point to the Dellabarcle. Onwards and upwards! The transcript of the NBR interview was not up to the usual standard. Josh was our pitch night MC and corrected a few things. So here the original. It is unclear if Josh will apply for the NZGCP CEO job but there is a lot of talk of his voice taking over from David Attenborough. Watch that space! Another case we had at ADI recently. "It looks like you are in need of $400M for a startup, pre-revenue and zero collateral and it looks like you need a funder to do 100% of the $400M. That is very challenging but we do have funders that do projects like yours at 100% funding. [...] has minimal out of pocket fees but you do not get them back and the one attached has just a $250k totally refundable commitment fee to keep you engaged during the 3 or 4-month underwriting process. You get that back even if they fund you or we or you fund funding elsewhere." We said dodgy Some of our angels have wings others fly in zero gravity.  Go, Averill! The team at Kindrik Partners have just issues an updated set of template docs, a much-appreciated resource in the startup ecosystem. Here goes! Based in New Zealand, he single-handedly just raised Accord’s first round of capital from a US investor three months after starting the company, for almost NZ$600,000 — and he did it through a Twitter DM. Read more! LevelTwo has rebranded to Outset Ventures. More. Astrix founders Fia Jones, Max Daniels and William Hunter are all 21 and have raised $500k from Peter Beck, Outset Ventures et al. Read More! Hwang used swaps, a type of derivative that gives an investor exposure to the gains or losses in an underlying asset without owning it directly. His US$20 billion net worth was almost as liquid as a government stimulus check. And then, in two short days, it was gone. Interesting Reading!