Another FKA Friday ● 4 September 2026#31

Angelic news from the NZ group that says it how it is □

« 4 September 2026 #31 » 1,657 Readers • 51% Mailchimp • 49% LinkedIn  OMG, Nicole is hiring for marketing. Not junior. Not super senior. Someone in that magic middle. Kind of chic, she reckons. Carissa had to hire burly men to help collect the funds of the first close. FKA was leading the round and 37 individual investors delivered collectively $282k. Thank you, Mark Robinson, for driving the DD process and for taking up the role of investor director. Big balls is where Terry's passion is at. He and his team are getting increasingly better at selling them around the world. More here! The round is still open to help them spin faster □ Encouraged by the positive reception of her first AI Law workshop at Outset, Anna has taken the bait from last week's newsletter and she will run another one for the FKA network. Pencil 15 September □ Modest NZ startup prizes can pay back years later in more ways than one!  Paying it forward, with the Velocity (formerly Spark) Challenge of the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Auckland. HERE Beware of the advisors who have not walked to walk. Those types run around in New Zealand with invisible egg on their faces or your face if you're not careful. Oh, no! «Can someone explain to me the difference between Elizabeth Holmes claiming that she was gonna stick a whole LabCorp in a thimble and Wario claiming AI is gonna cure cancer in 5-10 years? Or how about Elon and SpaceX saying they're gonna have data centers in space, where cooling is only possible with radiation?» Victor Moreno is asking pertinent questions and shares his surname with the editor's tip cafe in Auckland! Last Friday's drinks were on Andrew Steele and Guardian Flame. That launch felt a bit like a fashion show. Yesterday's ADI.Clinic may have already surfaced the much needed diversity this flaming team needs. SPECIALIZED Mark will connect. Tomorrow is FKA 1st Saturday Drinks □ 16:00 onwards, see here! All welcome. Dress code, as usual, is casual □