Another FKA Friday ● 17 May 2024#17

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17 May 2024 #17 848+387  Party & Pitches! Next Tuesday! 10th-floor Sunset Bar of the Sudima Hotel. $100 pays for your meal & 1st drink. Last chance to secure your spot and mingle with angels, founders, partners, and next-gen angels. Nanobuble AgriTech! Glen, Olivia & Seth have just completed the DD Canvas and we will have more on this wet winner next week!   Rommie and Hollie from Blue Mirror pitched to Angel HQ and their support put BM into oversubscription. There was also strong interest at this week's pitch night in Marlborough with AIM. Final commitments from AIM will close this round! MINDHIVE: Thank you to Flying Kiwi Angels who led that deal, AngelHQ who came in in support, and Snowball Effect who simply did more work than I thought possible to help us fill the round. THE POST! The Snowball 'Snow Queen' Sophie McLernon worked hard to close this round!!!□ Abiotic Factor has sold over 250,000 copies since it began its journey on May 2nd, 2024. Steam News & Youtube Review. 10 FKA investors reckon there is some upside thanks to working with Chris Jagger from Alt Ventures and Tim Ponting.  NZ Herald, 2012. Rudi Bublitz, winner of the 2011 Active Angel [Ice Angels] Award, jokes that he's "on the brink of becoming a serial s*** investor" after recently investing some of his hard-earned cash in a smart portable toilet start-up and another new company focused on counting parasitic eggs in sheep poo. Haha! The toilet business is no more, it was lacking the savvy SHVT Box marketing, and the sheep shit counter is today's Techion #08. The late Ray Thomson has inspired many of the active angels of today. His brother Graeme is still mixing it up with FKA and MIG Angels. If you are selling a system to build an audience and then monetise it by selling courses on how to build an audience and monetise it then you AREN'T DOING ANYTHING! Read Luke's Post! ADI.Clinic this week: Our angels expected to get closer to God but "Seeking funding to build a cathedral, hall, chapel and manse and to build congregation numbers through church planting" sadly was a no-show. But we had 4 other interesting founders who showed up. In our last edition, we noted that Kiwi investors were bucking international trends, as our investment levels in startups remained relatively stable compared to the same period of the previous year.  [Maybe Kiwi investors were slow to react?] Investment activity for the remainder of 2023 did not demonstrate the same resilience, resulting in a 12% decline in funding for the full year. As a result, the total investment in 2023 amounted to $163m, compared to $186m in 2022. Full Report  Also, on LinkedIn and over 2,000 FKA GIFs on GIPHY.