Another FKA Friday ● 29 October 2021#41

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Little known fact, Hengjie gives his product updates from the kitchen. Oh, also Kami #02 has just clocked 30M users. Whoo-hoo!

Marc from Hunting HQ is not hanging around. The DD Vote is already underway after he sent his pitch video. View it here! Wanna help with DD if we go ahead? Email [email protected]

The other pitch videos will come next week

Caro loves this - the RegTech NZ group that has just launched

"I am a regulatory nerd and these are my people" Join the nerds HERE!

"Seriously though, if FMA and others are trying to set up a space where people with regulatory/compliance issues can create solutions with tech folk, and find capital to do it, I want to be there too."

Startup mag bringing feel-good stories. Feel it here!

NBR article on 5 Kiwi founders, 2 of them part of the FKA Portfolio. Both talk of smarts not just $$$. Also...

Thank you for the subtle plug Bob@Kami & Liz@Chnnl

WHōW! $60m of angel investments in NZ in the first half of 2021. More!

NBR article on 5 Kiwi angels, Debra is one of them lovely reading.

Another FKA Friday ● 22 October 2021#40

22/10/2021


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Four great pitches on Tuesday

FileInvite • HuntingHQ • Keytrack • LifeStone

Here a little taster before we get the full pitch videos.

Kami #02 is #01 at Giveaways

FKA proud as STILL! HERE

Okay, angels go to heaven but what before then?

Wed, 27 October 19:00 - more here!

Matty pitched Hectre to FKA in June 2019. We didn't end up investing. Great to see that two years on with great progress, Matty has just raised $3.5m. Hectre is not so much upsetting the applecart but rather disrupting apple orchards Read more.

Toby called into ADI back in February this year. He found our advice helpful and has pivoted to a business model that is generating $$$. Not all easy, actually. More about EasyRent.

Not one hour after publishing last week's newsletter Keegan from Orchestra shared this useful resource on ESOP HERE. Thank you.

We at FKA, we want to help KiwiNet produce more Superheros. Our pledges are building! Check and contribute HERE, reference FKA so we can claim 1 or 2 Superheros.

The Chief Cat Herder said when making his pledge, "Flying Kiwi Angels helping crazy and not so Crazy Kiwi Scientists □"

LinkedIn: The 10 New Zealand companies on the rise

Companies must be fully independent, privately held, have 30 or more full-time employees, be 7 years old or younger and be headquartered in NZ.

Are they? VCs are going early big time but don't help startups find product-market-fit thus smothering their deal flow. Founders beware!

Most investors use a mental framework to judge the risk and likelihood of success of any given company. At NFX, a well-known seed-stage venture capital firm that has invested in hundreds of startups, that framework is called the “Ladder of Proof.” Read more.

Covid has covered other issues, such as the changes to the Callaghan Innovation growth grants. No doubt, this is affecting several of our portfolio companies. Read on.

Another FKA Friday ● 15 October 2021#39

15/10/2021


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October Pitch Night is coming fast at you, next Tuesday @ 18:30.

We have four topics, brought by four angels: Debra, the Angel of Death, Stephen, the Desert Hunter, Hot Jonathan & Property, Phil, never speechless. Join our MC, Andy Hardwood @ fka.nz/vPitch □

Vlatko from Hot Lime Labs #13 has just sent in the investor update. No doubt this team is working hard for success. Go Team HLL

Debra made a compelling case for "Turning Kiwi Scientists into Superheroes", watch it HERE. $25k seems a good investment to turn a nerdy scientist into a savvy entrepreneur. Vlatko from Hot Lime Labs is a fine graduate of the KiwiNet programme.

We at FKA want to help KiwiNet produce more Superheros. The first $10k have already been pledged and we hope that many more from FKA will join this pledge HERE, reference FKA so we can claim 1 or 2 Superheros.

One Stephen has the ESOP t-shirt, the other Stephen is making an FKA t-shirt. Always grateful for contributions to this newsletter from our angels.

This one on ESOP came in overnight from the former. our UK angel, the other is our UAE angel More here!

Laura and her team are stacking $2.3m. Great result! Laura gave a compelling pitch to FKA in April but in the end, we didn't proceed to invest.

Chintaka and GD1 were leading and closed this $1m raise. We had first contact with Junofem in March of last year but were unsure about their direct to consumer strategy, not the UPCO man. Good to see this done!

If you have a sense of FOMO over the two above cases then make sure you're at the table of the next DD!

Congrats to Robbie Paul and the team at Icehouse Ventures! Many years of supporting startups at the early stage are clearly paying off for the IVX growth fund. Onwards and upwards! LinkedIn & NBR

IHV is a co-investor in Formus Labs #17 and their Series A is coming!

Suse is chasing! The 2021 Survey of the Kiwi startup Ecosystem!

Angels HERE & Founders HERE—PLEASE!

The AANZ 2021 Summit is now 8 & 9 December.
Angels YES | Bad Santas NO Register here!

Yep, there is such a thing More here!

Free for all Virtual Event with virtual sports master, Ian Taylor. Register!

Another FKA Friday ● 8 October 2021#38

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Know the customer you're hunting! Christoph Janz has an informative model and charming accent. More here!

The Flying Kiwi Angels are hunting for great deals up and down the country. Charlie got this one in his sight at ADI Wanaka. We reckon this outdoor AirBnB twist deserves a champion. Great pitch deck and video. Get in touch with [email protected] if you take the bait.

Not just Ju is excited about Formus Labs #17 getting ready for Series A. More details from our investor rep Debra will follow in due course.

Lane from Chatterize #22 and her team have regrouped following the education changes in China. More at our October pitch night! 21st!

AANZ is calling angels & founders to participate in this year's survey of the Kiwi startup ecosystem. Angels HERE & Founders HERE—PLEASE!

Scary man Karl is a Flying Kiwi Angel and behind a number of startups including Letterboxd which is turning 10. See the latest Call Sheet!

Ray Avery has produced the Quote of the qWeek in the ever-popular Covid debate «Using the Government's "one size fits all" Covid elimination strategy is like giving condoms' to men in aged care facilities to stop STD infections in our young people.» LinkedIn

Now moved to 8 & 9 December. Angels & Xmas Register here!

Just a few hours after last week's notice of the new date, the official notice: AANZ :: Summit 2021 :: it’s now a Christmas party !!

Are you hunting sales? You can never have enough sales!
Check this one out! HERE

Auckland Unlimited, the hip brand for Auckland Council is running GridAKL which is where we're running our Auckland ADI. But Auckland Unlimited does other cool stuff for startups too, see this video.

This week in Robett's Ramble, a WOF for SMEs. Really?