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Another FKA Friday ● 28 October 2022#39

28/10/2022


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The 2022 AANZ Angel Summit is in full swing as you're reading this. Hundreds of angels and VCs huddled together, glamping in a big white tent. A super spreader event, not of viruses but wisdoms.

We salute this year's Arch Angel Dana McKenzie. Read more HERE as the site updates and Dana takes the top spot.

“During the first half of 2022, the early-stage technology sector proved remarkably robust considering the turmoil in the public markets and the well-documented uncertainty currently facing the global economy.” Read more!

David has assembled a formidable DD Team for Stock Trim and they are away.

Glen's DD Team is already putting the DD Canvas for Kitea Health together.

Team is key! Wed 2 Nov 1730, Serko, Parnell, Auckland. REGISTER

An article from Every, The End of Excel? Or how it can be bad to be too big.

AgTech startups. See the summary of pitches from the recent cohort. HERE

Jessy Wu laments "Investors not providing founders honest feedback about why they’ve passed on an investment - sometimes, for fear that founders will take offence and badmouth the investor." Debra, of course, agrees!

Our Andy Harwood has fallen on hard times and is selling his bach. It is a sad day for many who have enjoyed Andy's hospitality on Makorori beach.

Reviewers Debra & Katheren: Is Andy okay with this? Editor Rudi: Andy, very much what I threatened? Andy: Haha, all good, as long as we don’t have too many blanks in our FKA portfolio!

Also, on LinkedIn and over 2,000 FKA GIFs on GIPHY.

Another FKA Friday ● 21 October 2022#38

21/10/2022


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Dom, the founder of Stock Trim is the first of the block to deliver his pitch video after Tuesday's pitch night. He got a positive result from the DD Vote and David will lead DD which will commence next week. Email David if you can help with DD!

The other pitch videos will follow in our next issue.

Uli is a Flying Kiwi with a day job. Join his workshop "Navigating Finance in Times of Inflation" next Thursday for FREE.

Alex, our founder in Dunedin has just released keepers.photos. He visited Auckland this week to catch up with shareholders and to pick their brains.

Jeff is a Flying Kiwi with a day job in payment processing. Thanks to him, FKA is now taking investments via POLi making life easier for investors and our back office.

A big thank you to David and Jonty for hosting our pitch night on Tuesday. 5 pitches made for a busy night. David also shared some results from the recent KPMG CEO Outlook report. More HERE!

From the Economist. An interesting look at Zuckerberg's Meta strategy. How much trouble is Mark Zuckerberg in?

But then Forbes has this to say...

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Another FKA Friday ● 14 October 2022#37

14/10/2022


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We have a strong, rock-crushing lineup for our pitch night next Tuesday. Usual place and time! Thank you KPMG. Be there! A few peeps from Auckland Unlimited will join us too, Mayor Wayne Brown willing.

Bessemer Venture Partners admit. ❝Jeremy Levine met Brian Chesky in January 2010, the first $100k revenue month. Brian's $40M valuation ask was "crazy," but Jeremy was impressed and made a plan to reconnect in May.
Unbeknownst to him, $100k in January became 200 in February and 300 in March. In April, Airbnb raised money at 1.5x the "crazy" price, going public in December 2020 valued $47 billion.❞

Zenno Astronautics, founded by Max Arshavsky, pioneers applications of super-magnets in sustainable space exploration. Max will talk at the Grand Finals this year. Grab your ticket for next Wednesday, 19 October 6:00 pm HERE.

From Fortune. Making better founders? Hold on, also better angel investors!!!

C'mon! Suse and Bridget are asking for your help.
Please, fill in the AANZ 2022 surveys for founders, for angels.

They have 5 boxes of Bohemein chocolates for five lucky survey completers.

Marvin Liao's interesting take on Euro startups, HERE. Walking down memory lane, Marvin Liao and the Fee Freedom Fighter in 2019, HERE.□

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Another FKA Friday ● 7 October 2022#36

7/10/2022


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We invested in Vlatko and Hot Lime Labs in 2017. The tech is hot, the business is growing, and Vlako is recognising that his feet are smaller than the boots of the CTO and CEO call for. Easy, Vlatko now focuses on the CTO role, and Tijs is CEO.

From the NZ Entrepreneur. Founder Q&A: HazEL—an FKA portfolio company.

Tue, 11 October 2022, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm @ Melodics. Register!

At ADI yesterday, angels looked at camera angles to AI-secure the back of trucks. Very interesting! GIF from our 4-part series FKA Ⓕ for Flexible. FUN!

Of course, the team at inviol are serious about health and safety! ‍♀️

When our fellow angels at EA asked to use our DD Canvas template we were happy to share it and took it to be the kind of Imitation that is honest flattery.

It should foster syndication and so it did! EA shared their first DD Canvas. Feedback from our angels is, they like what EA has done with the canvas—form & content.

Not sure if Claudia is a keen skater but she is passionate about health! She is one of the Dirty Dozen who formed FKA. Angel's time budgets swing around and that's okay. No apologies needed!

From The Generalist. "Softbank: Twilight of an Empire". Five years after Masayoshi Son’s $100 billion fund shook the financial world, Softbank’s venture firm is crumbling. Can it be saved?

From Fortune this month. Also, from The CEO Magazine, April 2020.

Canva is a very big part of Blackbird's success.
Ride a unicorn and you ride into the sunset! □

From the Daily Mail. Still great value after 36% reduction.

See what Alan our angel in London has to say on this topic. HERE □

At FKA we don't practice HIPPO! We don't think that the size of cheque is proportional to the smarts of the cheque writer. We have many smart young angels writing small cheques out of income.

Hold on, Stephen, another of our angels in London sugested this Crunchbase article. "Global VC Pullback Is Dramatic In Q3 2022", HERE!

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Canva is a very big part of Blackbird's success. Ride a unicorn and you ride into the sunset! □

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Canva is a very big part of Blackbird's success.
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