Another FKA Friday ● 26 August 2022#30

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26 August 2022 #30 817 FKA is a community partner for Sunrise Aotearoa. Hosted on September 6 at the ASB Waterfront in Auckland, a startup festival by our friends at Blackbird. It will be a day of inspiration and provocation! Blackbird have offered the FKA community a special discounted rate - head here. ADI.Clinic runs every week, helping founders with advice, connections and more. Typically 5 or so angels in the room. We saw 3 founders yesterday and will talk to the smart team at Woolchemy next week. Join us if you're not sheepish! From PitchBooks's ETI report. Q2 deal value down significantly, down 39% from Q1’s $8.3b, down 52% from Q4’s all-time peak of $10.6b. Web3/DeFi tops deal value, fintech falls: For the fourth consecutive quarter, Web3 & DeFi was the largest area of ETI investment. Fintech saw one of its weakest quarters. The 2022 Bridgewest Conference will be in Wellington, New Zealand on 6th to 8th November 2022. REGISTER HERE. Cropsy's Liela Deljkovic, who attended the recent Wellington Runway, tells why she loved it. The next Runway will be in Auckland on 14th September. Register—don't miss out! Rudi says, "I'll be there!" Interesting discussion kicked off by Harry Stebbings from The 20 Minute VC. HERE. The customer service at VC-darlings like Uber and AirBnb is dropping. Is that a  consequence of overfunding? More here. □ From CNN. Looks like competition for Soul Machines, sounds scary. Also, on LinkedIn and over 2,000 FKA GIFs on GIPHY.