Sharon being Sharon now wants to challenge us onto the water, in 2 yachts, each with 20 crew. Again an incredibly generous offer. All she is asking that each participant make a donation to the NZ Sailing Trust.

Thursday afternoon 17 October, see the full details here.

Email Hattaf.Ansari@fka.nz to secure your spot! 10 spots reserved for FKAngels, 30 spots on a first come irst serve basis for our wider network. Everyone plays a role in making FKA so great at helping Kiwi Startups grow and do better.

Great to see support from all our sponsors. Julian from Potentia, front row as you'd expect from a recruiter, James from KPMG and Andrew from LoJo in the middle rows that accountants and lawyers gravitate to.

BTW, poster boy Julian won the beauty contest at Potentia and will forthwith bring people smarts to ADI every third Thursday. AWESOME!

Join the 7 Million User Party, Saturday 7 September, 18:00 @ Kami HQ, 214 K Rd, AKL. RSVP for an accurate stock up order for the bar.

2 Oct ☞ NZ SME Founder Wellbeing Workshop

3 Oct ☞ NZ Entrepreneur Wellbeing Workshop

Drinks and nibbles at the new Auckland Bioengineering Institute's incubator space. Thursday 5 September 2019, 4.00pm until 6.30pm

Think IP rich deal flow! Please register here.
StretchSense, Hot Lime Labs, FormusLabs

It looks like he has already put his name to a first cameo role with Brad & Co. Judging by the accents, Icehouse veteran Ken Erskine may also play a role in it.

Potentia wants to beat that for the FKA pitch night in September and so does KPMG for the rest of 2019 - just smaller numbers!

A not so rare LinkedIn inbox find Maybe an interesting addition to the "Towel King" stealth project that Danny and Hattaf are cooking up?

28 August 2019, 14:00, AKL ☞  Register

This timely Seraf article about portfolio strategy came in just this morning. While the stage of company most common for angels to invest is at the seed stage, it’s important for portfolio diversity to consider other stages. If you have access to interesting deals where a company is at a major growth inflection point, you should consider making an investment.

University of Auckland

No Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia!

Matt has attended ADI and sends the odd Aussie startups to ADI.

Here is her #womenintech podcast - powered by Wherewolf №12 

We will circulate it with the co-investment call over the weekend. The German hand on the last stretch will be punctual!

The above are just some examples of the FKAing talent you can expect.

However, let's not forget Blenheim, Hamilton and Whangarei that opened the week with 1, 3 and 2 bookings respectivly. That brings the total of founders that Angels and local mentors have helped this week to 13.

Hi Craig, An Abby H. is offering 15% of Mango. Is this real or a scam? Best Rudi ◇ Hi Rudi, it's real. Definitely not a scam. Cheers Craig.

This does not constitute an endorsement. Mangos can be good or bad.

Thank you, Phil, for suggesting this shortcut

About: Biomeds, patents, founder teams, million-$ investments, billion-$ exits, grotesque storylines and knees that cheat human anatomy.

Notice how the guy on the left looks like Tape Face.

The photo exposes an interesting phenomenon. It is a still, certainly for all under 35, 50% of people aged between 35 and 45 observe a slight jittering, and 100% of people over 45 see intense jittering.

Join the 7 Million User Party, the last party was awesome, says Rudi. Note Saturday 7 September, 18:00 @ Kami HQ, 214 K Rd, AKL. RSVP

Maybe not that alternative any more?

Just a quick reminder, Marvin Liao,  Partner at 500 Startups will be in New Zealand for Callaghan Innovation’s Southern SaaS which is already sold out. He will also answer questions in a room with 30 investors. 

28 August 2019, 14:00, AKL.

Rudi will facilitate the session. ➤ Secure your place here.

I have received your response to my email and I quite appreciate your interest in handling the investment. It is therefore my great pleasure to be in contact with you once again. I am a Procurement Assistant with instructions to secure a capable person who can handle an investment to the tune of USD$350Million and above.

The fund will be transferred to your custody and you will be charged with the sole responsibility of investing the funds in businesses of your choice with an Annual Return on Investment (AROI) of 5-10% per year. The fund belong to high profile individuals who are highly placed in government and wish to invest anonymously by providing fund to set up new business of good return or inject funds to companies seeking for fund to increase productivity in an already established business for a percentage share in the Annual Return on Investment (AROI).

Please, be informed that the investor wants to make sure that the investment fund will not be used for high risk investment or illegal business which might put the entire fund into jeopardy, hence he wants capable and reliable person or company to use the fund for investment. The investment amount is currently in a bank from where it will be transferred to your account once both parties meet and sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).

All arrangement will be in place for the fund to be transferred to you for investment through the necessary financial legal channel of the bank in custody of the investment fund. The investments will be under your direct control and management and once you have agreed on the terms with the investor, the fund will be released to you.

We look forward to your co-operation and wealth creation through partnership as I await your urgent response.

Yours respectfully, Mr. Thiele Jeffry (Broker)
Mobile: +4474 3880 0096 (WhatsApp)

FKAngels - always partners in crime!

Marvin Liao is a Partner at 500 Startups and works with startups across the globe and within Silicon Valley accelerators. Before that, he worked at Yahoo for more than 10 years, holding roles in business development, ad operations and marketing.

Marvin is in New Zealand for Callaghan Innovation’s Southern SaaS. In this special investor session, he’ll share his observations on accelerator programmes, founders and founding teams, and what he’s learned from working with startups around the world. Here is his public talk at last year's Southern SaaS.

28 August 2019, 14:00, AKL. Following Marvin's presentation, you're invited to stay on and network with Marvin and the other guests.

Rudi will facilitate the session, Marvin is gold, register ➤ here. Callaghan will also provide webinar access for Angels in the regions who cannot make it, most likely via Lawrence's Horn.co 

☞ Register for the upcoming Showcase here!

We have recently facilitated an internal $75k market for shares of one of our portfolio companies that benefitted both buyers and sellers over the conditions otherwise available.

We will facilitate the purchase of shares under preemptive rights in another portfolio company. Discounted by 25% against the last round, there is healthy interest in these shares.

Onwards and upwards for another year and beyond!

This business proposal is for your mutual consideration, a very good friend of mine a Financial Consultant has the contact of some investors who are seriously looking for Investment Manager to handle huge investment projects or fund any already existing projects.

According to my friend, the fund will be re-invest strictly under the managerial care of the Investment Manager, which allows the Investment Manager to control the initial title.

Upon the receipt of your positive response, I shall explain in details for your better understanding.

Yours respectfully, Mr. Thiele Jeffry. (Broker) [thiele.jeffryuk@hotmail.com]

Now champion Andy and his DD Team have their work cut out sifting through all the building blocks that make up this business in the construction industry.

Here is the Herald article in case you've missed it.

Another Showcase but this one is different. Jackie (not pictured above) runs the incubation programme at the ecentre without charging founders and without taking equity. Callaghan Innovation is paying already. GREAT!

The icing on the cake (excuse the pun) would be a Massey/ecentre seed fund to support graduates in their subsequent external round. That would be truly founder and investor-friendly! Jackie?

☞ Register for the upcoming Showcase here!

Smart Seeds is a design-led innovation program empowering diverse groups of people to co-create integrated solutions to complex challenges. In 2019 the program is running in 13 cities in 5 global regions, including urban and regional cities in Australia, New Zealand and North America. See the culmination of 11 weeks of work from 6 teams next Wednesday in Auckland. ☞ More here.

Onwards and upwards for another year and beyond!

Investors will receive the DD Report and Co-investment Call shortly.

However, we have a video from their Air New Zealand awards night.

The Voting Angels are bound by majority vote for their first $2,500. Over and above that, they invest at their discretion as do all other FKAngels and co-investors subject to minimum investment levels.

It is our aim to give founders a swift YES or NO. However, for that, we rely on the Voting Angels to get on with the voting. Normally that works very well, however, for close decisions it can take virtually every Angel to vote which can be difficult. For that reason, we have introduced the following refinement.

If a majority of 18 YES/NO votes has not been achieved within 14 days of the commencement of voting then a smaller majority of 13 YES/NO votes or more will decide the final vote where at least 75% of the Voting Angels have cast their vote.