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Another FKA Friday ● 27 October 2023#38

27/10/2023

 
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Kara - Sign language has never been this LOUD! Ash & Rudi caught up with the Kara crew who are quietly working away at something big. More to come...

James at the intersection of FileInvite and LinkedIn, bizarre comments.  

Last night, 11 awards to recognize key players in NZ's Global Entreprenur Network. MC Colart posing with two very worthy winners Pauli and MJ in the connector and investor category respectively. See all the winners HERE!

Bridget from AANZ is calling for nominations of the outstanding angels/founders of 2023. More here, then tell Bridget who your your favourite candiates are. Bingo!

Spelling is not important but focus trumps! More HERE!

Funny thing, a Hammy alerted us to this chikin piece □

If you're one half of two then give Cupla.app a go and tell us what you think.

Good, bad, or indifferent, just a quick email.

Some angel investors seek moonshots, others like Glen and Martin think space travel. On Wednesday they caught up with Peter Beck from RocketLab at an Engineering NZ event. □‍

More startups shut down in Q3 2023 than in any of the previous 19 quarters. 2019 to 2021 were amazing years for the global VC industry. Easy money supply led to massive funding rounds and astronomical valuations.

Once valued at $3.8bn and backed by Jeff Bezos (think Amazon), trucking tech startup Convoy has been forced to close its doors after failing to find a buyer. MORE!

Convoy CEO Dan Lewis, eyes watery from an emotional speech, said goodbye.

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Another FKA Friday ● 20 October 2023#37

20/10/2023

 
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Bootstrapping is a virtue that commands respect from angel investors. But it's not easy and GridAKL gives a little hand with this breakfast meetup. Give it a boot!

Join the GEN NZ 2023 Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Awards!
Thu 26th Oct 2023, 18:00, RSVP
Techion is fighting parasites in the field and in the Petri Dish, some great progress with Microsoft□ Read more!

This could this put them on a path to cloning money like in a Petri Dish. Ask [email protected] about the current round.

Chief Editor Fiona Rotherham is running a fortnightly column How we Met featuring how investor and founder got together in a funding sense and how their relationship has evolved. Interested? Rudi will connect you with Fiona.

Crowdpleasers like FTN Motion can do crowdfunding! See here! We looked at FTN in the past, great team +  product. But buying the product ≠ investing in the business.


Raised via Equitise in which CCH has some equity!

How NZ tech companies are perceived in 4 global markets. Highlights and the full research report. Interesting! Helpful? Not surprisingly, price, expertise and proven experience are the top 3 purchase drivers.

Remarkable pivot! From 3D printed horseshoes as Cavaltech in 2014 to telling stories on Snapchat as Mish Guru and exiting in 2023. A bit of history, exit press!
CCH invested after the pivot!
Ralf Witgen is a Flying Kiwi Angel with a day job as customer success manager at Datacom. He posted the above after Tuesday's pitch night. Shit! CCH could take first prize this week for using a 4-letter word 3-times in a single LinkedIn comment

Pitch videos from Tuesday to follow. After the pitches we had some pitchers across the road from KPMG. Now, guess what was the topic of conversation? Lawn mowing and The Luba. But beware there are hidden dangers with eLMs!

Get in touch with either Karl or Garth if you want to join the eLM enthusiasts club!

Pip Gilbert is a Flying Kiwi Angel with a day job at AWS. Here her post this week on delivering both productivity benefits and societal impact.
Bureau van Dijk hacked!  A major publisher of business information, specialising in private company data for searching and analysing, a Moody’s Analytics company.  Data breached in August 2021, now distributed through hacking forums.
CCH's data was leaked, check your email at haveibeenpwned.com 
Now, after the shock of the data leak, some Halloween-themed games, even if it says Easter App Get it HERE
If you know Glen & Jeneene but know not of their Halloween Party, ask them!
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Another FKA Friday ● 13 October 2023#36

13/10/2023

 
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Our last but one pitch night this year. A little different with an 18:30 sharp start for Tim talk "AI: Dreams, Doubts and Brilliance". He is now worldfamous in NZ as Mr AI.

Campbell Yule will give an update on Codedesign aka Cerulean. Chris will share insights from his recent trip about global tech progress with a special interest in aviation fuel, think Island Aviation. Charlie Meaden has recovered from his fast fail in 2017 and will share some his founder learnings.

Don't miss a great night, if you read this you're welcome! Tue, 17 Oct, 18:30, KPMG, 18 Viaduct Harbour Avenue, Auckland. QT Bar afterwards for hard core angels/founders!

Great to see our GridAKL and Stone & Chalk partnering across the Tasman. Great to see so many Flying Kiwis flying in on Tuesday to join the celebration. Starting from tall Jeff, then Heath, Glen, Chris, Ralf, Rudi and sunny Tim.

The Flip Interview in the HBR. Worth giving it a try. Let founders quiz angels, job applicants ask founders. More HERE.

As usual Jordan talks a lot of sense. See HERE. Rudi is a big fan, if not his barber.

It's OKAY! Not just for founders... Read on!

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Another FKA Friday ● 6 October 2023#35

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Yesterday's ADI.Clinic team: Rudi, Jeff, Lucy, Mathew, Andy, David, Ashley, Glen, Tim, and Ewart who missed the photo call. We had six founders who benefited from the collective wisdom in the room after overcoming the first shock. □

Karl von Randow is a Flying Kiwi with a 'prickly' job at Catcuslab. He is enjoying exits via his FKA investments but is also making his own hay! Hot off the press, Letterbxd, last year Verifi, before that  Camera+! 

Dark Horses deliver, Unicorns□ not so!

VCs and jobs, falling victim to fashion, chasing the latested trend! As this Kiwi recruitment ad illustrates!

Jeff Skidmore is a Flying Kiwi with a day job at Polipay. He recently unleashed a 'Hannibal Lecter' barrister on STUFF. "Despite the hysterical tone and laughably error-ridden original piece, it's allowed us to get our story published for the first time in 13 years in this business."

Polipay is available at the bottom of every cash call for the convenience of FKA investors, of course, at no cost! Thanks, Jeff.

Sadly, many people have been cryptoed in the wake of the FTX collapse. "Super impressed with the creator's ability to break down some complex subject matter and make it understandable. Great job."—just one of the comments about this video.
Building a business on a social media platform can be a great way to start but it comes with dependency risks that can be fatal. Read on.
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