Akudos, the people who are all about making people feel valued, have reached 18 votes of support for DD. With that Lawrence has his work cut out. We have some volunteers to help with DD already but there is room for some extra brain power.

Please get in touch with Lawrence.Levine@fka.nz directly.  

Julian and Phil are going in on the Kiwi Fintech Accelerator LP Fund with others via the AngelHQ nominee. Thanks, AngelHQ! It doesn't make sense to consolidate less than five investors on a nominee for an investment into a fund.

Existing FKA Nominee shareholders have invested a further $30,000 in the Vesper Marine 2019 Round. It's all about marine safety!

Commitments for the FileInvite 2019 Round are building. Garth has lined up pitches up and down the country and in Australia. This could see him beat our Syndication Queen Debra.

An interesting infographic that lets you dynamically see how old the founders of big-name businesses were when they started their business.

For example: James Casey 19 [UPS], William Boeing 35 [Boeing], Charles Flint 61 [IBM],

Kate was with KPMG in 2017 when she raised $3,206.85 for Lifewise. Now she is with Datamine and pay is still miserable. HELP KATE!

Angela Saini's article is a sad testament of how the power of women is simply being ignored. FKA sees a lot of entrepreneurial women in science startups. We value the opinions of our female Angels because we know diverse groups make for better outcomes!

In July 2016 Domecq expressed interest in joining FKA and shared her IM for Innovation Foundery. She never got back to face the various concerns raised by a number of FKAngels. 

This week's NBR article "Domecq opts for bankruptcy as Aussie investors close in" as "millions of dollars are still owed to creditors of several companies linked to Ms Domecq".

According to press articles, Rob Campbell was associated with Domecq in several transactions and governance roles.

This Telegraph article from 2010 was telling.

Sadly the ACA notice for this aptly named session came a little too late and the NZ time of 4am would have been a little early. 

All of you, here comes the video to show what you've missed out on if you didn't join the flight of 50 on Monday 20 May 2019.

We're running ADI.Clinic at eight sites across the country with the help of other angels groups that are stepping up in the regions. Whangarei is one of those sites and Akudos comes from there after the team has been coached by Lawrence over several months.

This is their pitch video, FKA's 34 Voting Angels are currently deliberating whether to proceed to DD. Nearly half the votes are in so far and there is clearly interest in Akudos.

"It will be administered by the Super fund, with NZVIF making the investments through private sector fund managers."

"The Venture Capital Association had expressed concerns that if NZVIF went it alone with investments, bypassing private fund managers, that would run counter to its original remit of helping grow a strong private sector venture capital industry in New Zealand and could "crowd out" private investment." ☞ full article

Also, ☞ this article.  "[...] Icehouse chief executive Andy Hamilton also said the challenge would be getting the private sector on board to match the investment." Meaning increase the $3m($100m) fund presumably?

Ping Garth.Hinton@fka.nz for more info.

The above shot shows impeccable timing from Lance Wiggs. Still, he is clearly better at investing than photography.

Martin gave a little teaser on a Mobility event he is putting together for the hot summer days in Whangarei. Lawrence introduced the team from Akudos who pitched well. They will submit their video for our DD Vote in the next few days, for now, we have this teaser.

Impossible to list all the events that Flying Kiwis have attended or facilitated this week, suffice it to say "It's been awesome but tiring!".

He has worked and talked with Debra, Garth and Rudi. They each say, "A perfect candidate!". However, if you know of any contraindications, please, advise the Board in confidence.

As always though, if you know of any dead camels in his closet or elsewhere, please, advise the Board in confidence.

Lawrence is bringing a company from Whangarei that is all about "Making People Feel Valued". Lawrence is not a year in the country and has already appeared on TVNZ. Let's hope he has more luck picking his startups than with picking his cars. Back in the US, he is still working on a 'unicorn' aptly named Horn.co.

From deep tech to hair tech, Sean and Peter would make great test candidates. Hairsense.co is a fine example of the sort of ideas and startups we get to meet at ADI.Clinic. This tech is a far cry from the early beginnings of Suck Cut in Wayne's World.  

Let's hope that the MBIE RFP that is imminent will produce a batch of more founder and co-investor friendly Tech Incubators. There are certainly some promising candidates that intend to apply in this round.

50 Angels Flying on Monday, 20 May at 10:00. ☞ Register

Last chance to register. We have secured fashionista Paul Blomfield to judge who is stepping "Best Dressed" off a Lime scooter, UBCO farm bike, Kwikli moped or from a Yoogo car. Our friends and co-investors at Potentia have pledged a champagne magnum for the winner.

50 Angels Flying on Monday, 20 May at 10:00. ☞ Register

A wide mix of Angels from groups around the country have already registered including some Aussie VC types. It's going to be a blast!

Find out more and register HERE.