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Another FKA Friday ● 15 October 2021#39

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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 Andy.Harwood@fka.nz 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?

Another FKA Friday ● 1 October 2021#37

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Apologies, this issue may have gone a little Covid wild □

Ashley Smout. Okay, the hair is a little shorter and the name a little modified but the man still got it according to Andy, Glen and Maheen. Ashley just stepped off the DD for Integration Fox.

However, if anyone knows of any reasons why Ashley should not fly with FKA, now is the time to speak up. Please email the Board in confidence!

Josh has nearly $400k for Integration Fox. Email him to find out more.

ADI.Clinic is running again in Wellington Thanks to Simon Hay, Susan Iorns and Tim Pointer, mentors from Angel HQ and FKA.

Learn from the best, they say! That's why our CCH is talking to Gwen Edwards who has attracted more female angels than most. Golden Seeds has 300+ members. Also, hear Gwen on sales HERE.

The report is just out. See the Oceania rankings here and Dil Khosa is the NZ Ambassador and occasional ADI Mentor with the Auckland team.

Flying Kiwi Angels is now a brand on Giphy In WhatsApp and anywhere else that pulls in Giphy GIFs you can grab the GIFs from this newsletter, all 1.8k of them. 1.8M views so far...

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

Maheen helps with FKA's onboarding of new angels. He is also consolidating FKA's AANZ Award nominations.

Another FKA Friday ● 24 September 2021#36

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Spot the flag This is what a zooming pitch night looks like.

Vlatko gave a great update on Hot Lime Labs #13 HERE and Debra presented an interesting proposition for KiwiNet HERE.

The DD Report on Integration Fox is out. More at fka.nz/open-deals for investors. Any questions? Josh is your man, just email.

Join the — the $100k Challenge Grand Final.

What is Alan up to? See HERE — natural language processing ?

FKA — run by angels for angels to help startup founders with advice, connections and money in New Zealand. LinkedIn

October 28 - 29, registrations are open!

What is Josh up to again? See HERE — money, money, money ?

This is promising to be interesting... check it our HERE!

Another FKA Friday ● 17 September 2021#35

17/9/2021


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Not Andy Harwood the artist but our Andy will MC the virtual pitch night next Tuesday. He did such a fine job last month □

Tue, 21 September 2021, 18:30 Register NOW

A record sales month and Moxion #10 is adding more sales power!

LOS ANGELES - Moxion announced today the arrival of new Sales Directors, Stephen Goldsmith and Steve Marshall. They join the company at a time of unprecedented growth for the Moxion business. Read More.

News is spreading fast Spread your legs to help against Covid. Spread your wings to help a startup!

Richard has recently made an investment via FKA Nominees. Turns out he is a big fish in the Aussie angel world Read on!

Brett Herkt from BoardPro is organising a great webinar on Strategy!

Thu 30 September, 11:00am AEST | 1:00pm NZDT Register now.

Brough and her investor director Suse have been hustling hard to close this round for Narrative Muse #18. FKA is pleased to be among the supporters! GO BROUGH!

No better experts of family photos than □ Happy Moose #27!

Round closed, docs signed, money sent GO ALEX!

FKA's latest portfolio company HazEL #30 will help environmental agencies around the globe to protect people and places from the hazards of chemical substances in our environment. GO KATE!

If MM was short for Marilyn Monro then MMM is short for Member Man Maheen who helps with FKA's onboarding of new angels. He is also consolidating FKA's AANZ Award nominations.

You may remember our Chief Cat Herder's "No Fees on Founders" campaign of 2019?

News just in. One of the biggest startup investors in NZ has abandoned the 6% commission on founders model in favour of 2% commission and 5% carry, albeit without hurdle, on investors.

Kick-off ⨁ I'm not gonna take it

Another FKA Friday ● 10 September 2021#34

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In July Josh brought Ryan to pitch Integration Fox. With 82% support to proceed, Josh put together a sterling DD Team. Positive Outcome! We will circulate the DD report to co-investors early next week.

Last week's cover would not be complete without acknowledging Debra. She is at the forefront of innovation as chair of KiwiNet's IC and untill March chair of BraTech company Rose & Thorne. See the 2018 range!

We have upgraded our ADI Booking System. Mentors can now have all the bookings to hand on their phones' calendar app.

David is one of the pioneers

Last week we had a video extolling the virtues of sales. This week we have another one on sales "A Few Good Expenses"! Thanks, Rob.

David talks to Nicola Shepheard at the NBR about the Get Ecommerce Movement - the GEM initiative.

With HazEL we have hit a milestone, we now have 30 Portfolio Companies. Still gotta update the fka.nz/founders page though

We have come such a long way since 2014. Notable PDF pitched to a room of four angels (4!), has since rebranded to Kami and is going from strength to strength - as are so many companies in our portfolio

For the convenience of Flying Kiwis and our co-investors, we have compiled fka.nz/open-deals which brings together the relevant information of all the rounds that FKA is currently supporting.

Christelle Blanchet-Aïssaoui did this survey last year and is doing it again! Give it 5 min before 22 September and get the results at the end of November. Here you go for 2021!

See last year's results!

Locating Your Tech-Based Business in California

Register HERE for this 21 September briefing, grab the guide HERE.

Dovetail Studios - 5 guys, mostly AUS based, help startup founders with a wrap-around service centred around tech development.

HERE is their Afterpay story.

OMG Gotta be a con! FKA nominated for the M&A Awards 2021, yeah, right! Amuse yourself and see for yourself, HERE.

But please, please don't click on Accept Nomination!!!

ADI is busier than every under L4. At the peak, we had 12 or so on the call. Thank you, Ewart, Byron, Jonathan, David Jeff, Andy, Matthew, Glen, Pip, Rudi, and two first-timers Sarah and Chris.

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