🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

31 Oct 2022 17:11

Reddit is pushing NFT market UP again!

With 52 million daily active users and ~430 million monthly users, Reddit is one of the most popular social media channels in North America (while is still very underestimated in Europe and CIS).

Earlier this summer Reddit launched its Polygon-based NFT marketplace, allowing users to purchase blockchain-based profile pictures based on the social network’s logo, Snoo.

By the end of October, the cumulative sale of all Reddit NFTs has exceeded $8.6 million, challenging blue-chip NFT collections like Bored Ape Yacht Club. Last week, a Reddit executive reported over 3 million users opening Polygon wallets for them.

This pushed the OpenSea Polygon volume to all-time high of around $3 million last week. Impressive outcome from the activity of one market player, agree?

And now imagine: what will happen with the market and adoption adoption when more players like Reddit will join the NFT and crypto move… 🤩

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

27 Oct 2022 16:22

Yesterday we hosted one more crypto VC Pitching session, focused on Web3 infrastructure and DeFi startups in active fundraising phase

We had 6 startups presenting to 12 VC engaged investors 🤩

Who did a show:
🔹 Weld Money - they are issuing VISA/Mastercard cards with NFTs on it, from Lithuania
🔹 Futurent.io - web3 investing platform, from United Arab Emirates
🔹 Power DCloud: Fully Decentralized Web3 Platform - truly decentralized infrastructure, from Estonia
🔹 ecoPros - clean energy, from Germany
🔹 Water150 - blockchain and clean drinking water, from Sweden
🔹 DoxyChain - a bridge between web 2.0 and web 3.0 for documents, from Poland

Don't worry if you missed the session! Follow the calendar on the InnMind website and sign up for the next one on 09.11.

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

26 Oct 2022 17:14

LIVE NOW:
Web3 Infrastructure and DeFi Startups pitching to Crypto VC investors 👇
https://youtu.be/xRpM4sKNZac

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

25 Oct 2022 16:01

It usually takes startups between 6 and 12 months to find a venture capitalist😨

The web3 and crypto venture capital sector is more dynamic, but on a bear market it still can take you 4-6 months to sign the deal. If it takes you more time, you should probably wonder why it is not working. It is true that finding your business angel isn't easy, but it is a task well within the reach of promising startups. To shorten your time searching for a good VC, check out our top list of the most active investors:

🔹 InnMind Capital, a business network investing in decentralized infrastructure and applications, new blockchain protocols, Web3, DeFi, gaming, NFT and other projects. The average size of an investment check is up to $250,000.
🔹 Waterdrip Capital is a company that invests in blockchain startups that work on various areas of the blockchain ecology, including public circuits, Defi and DAO applications, and NFT-related projects. The average investment check is up to $500,000.
369 Capital is a company that makes strategic investments in blockchain startups. The average size of an investment check is up to $250,000.
🔹 Clock Capital is a blockchain fund focused on investments (primary and secondary) and post-investment management. It focuses on public circuits, DeFi, Web3.0, metaverse and other areas with creative and tech entrepreneurs.
🔹 OIG Capital is a private venture capital firm that gives crypto projects all the resources they need to raise capital and facilitate organic community growth.
🔹 Sanctum Global Ventures is dedicated to providing strategic and tactical advice to startups looking to enter emerging markets.
🔹 LucidBlue Ventures is an investment firm and venture creation platform focused on blockchain, digital assets and digital finance.
🔹 Shima Capital is an investment fund dedicated to supporting cutting-edge blockchain startups.
🔹 Magnus Capital is an investment advisory firm focused on digital assets.

More information about venture capitalists can be found on our site

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

20 Oct 2022 17:24

Only 1% of all crypto and web3 startups receive funding from venture capitalists.

After all, investors invest their funds based on the startup's valuation. Therefore, as a startup founder, regardless of the business model and development stage, sooner or later you will be faced with the need to evaluate it.

To quickly and efficiently calculate the value of crypto startups, the InnMind team has released an intuitive, yet reliable and versatile tool - the Startup Valuation Calculator. It evaluates a company based on the most important aspects:
✨ The startup's capabilities compared to other competitors
✨ The client base, revenue and overall growth rate of the company
✨ The skills of the development team
✨ Intellectual property and patents held by the startup

Thanks to this tool you can find out the approximate value of a startup in just a few minutes.

At the moment our calculator is best suited for revenue-generating startups: from seed to A-stage and beyond. Soon we will update it and add an extended algorithm for evaluating startups in the pre-revenue stage🔥

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

19 Oct 2022 11:14

Meet another great startup, that aims to disrupt the P2P sector in the cryptocurrency space: ByBarter.io⚒

Investing in the crypto industry does not have to involve buying digital currencies. Statistics shows that it is more reliable to invest in crypto ecosystems that help build industry infrastructure. According to information resource Pitchbook, venture capital investment in such projects amounted to $10 billion in the first quarter of this year😨

Among such projects, ByBarter, the world's first decentralized, non-custodial P2P-As-A-Service platform, which enables P2P transactions directly from your self-custodial wallet, is worth mentioning. This project originated from the idea of Satoshi Nakamoto - his vision of the Peer-2-Peer value transfer system was not fully realized by centralized exchanges. Therefore, the authors of ByBarter decided to remove all barriers and give people back the power over their assets✨

If you want to learn more about how to pitch your project, join InnMind!🔥

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

17 Oct 2022 12:36

More and more fashion brands are turning their attention to the metaverse

The market share of the metaverse in fashion is expected to increase to USD 6.61 billion between 2022 and 2026 and the market growth rate is expected to accelerate to 36.47% per annum. In addition, many large venture capitalists are pouring millions into metaverse fashion startups. The Fabricant, for example, announced this spring that it had raised $14 million in a funding round🪡

CrazyMeta is focus in “Phygital”, which is creating its own promising cool brand that combines the metaverse and the real world. CrazyMeta is going to use the power of Web3 with decentralized management, NFTs and Tokenization in creating an ecosystem by rewarding designers and creating digital fashion in the form of NFTs and cross them into limited physical collectibles.

CrazyApez a product line of CrazyMeta has just been release with the promise of “Making the Bored Ape COOLER by making them physical mystery box collectibles”

If you want to learn how to pitch your project properly and interestingly, then get in touch with the experts at InnMind🎠

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

12 Oct 2022 11:40

💹📈📉Weekly Review of the Crypto Market Macro Updates

Guessing what will happen with crypto this week and when the market sentiments will switch to «positive» mode?🧐

We introduce the new weekly section on our channel: #cryptomarket weekly review from our partner Gotbit, a professional crypto market-maker on DEXes and CEXes.

«In this paper you will find out how main political events influence markets and visualization of crypto indicators and indexes. Enjoy reading!

This report aims to help you while making decisions about your project’s future!

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

11 Oct 2022 14:39

What is the biggest fundraising challenge for web3 and crypto startups?🧐

According to the poll we made recently, over 70% of startup founders say it is ACCESS to INVESTORS.

This is solved by InnMind VC pitching sessions, where founders can pitch directly to most active, recognized and professional crypto venture capitalists, get investors feedback and an opportunity to raise funds!

👉 Join the next live VC pitch session Tomorrow, on October 12th, at 17:00 CEST (pitching will be traditionally live-streamed on YouTube and in LinkedIn).

Criteria for startups:

🎯 Focus Area: GameFi / NFT/ Metaverse / Blockchain Entertainment

🎯 Stage: Seed/Pre-Seed/Round A

🎯 Geography: Worldwide

Apply and get evaluated before the session

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

30 Mar 2021 10:51

🔋🇪🇺 RURAL EUROPEAN INNOVATION AREA INITIATIVE LAUNCHED

InnMind's partner's - the new European initiative ReInA (Rural European Innovation Area) was created to reduce the gap between the two “worlds” with the purpose of providing resources, attracting investment, generating projects and creating employment in rural area!

👉It’s aim is to bring together, on the one hand, relevant actors of the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem such as investment funds, corporations, public institutions, local governments, county councils and universities with, on the other hand, startups, innovative SMEs, local action groups and all kinds of rural platforms.

📝Read more about ReInA here: https://bit.ly/3sB83FE

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

29 Mar 2021 10:57

🛠🚀20 hacking tools for startups: Let’s Grow!

InnMind composed a list of growth hacking tools that will help startups and entrepreneurs attract potential clients, activate and monetize their business!

👇This list of tools will help you to👇

✔️Understand the weaknesses of your business;
✔️Create and spread ads about your product on different platforms;
✔️Effectively communicate with clients via emails, push messages, etc.
✔️Analyze customer behaviour and data;
✔️Involve your customers and followers in referral programs;

👀👉Read the full list in the InnMind blog: https://bit.ly/3cjO2xG

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

25 Mar 2021 12:20

🔔 Reminder for business owners and entrepreneurs

Today at 5 pm CET InnMind provides a free workshop "Best Practices of Hiring Interns" with Bianca Pavel from Hult International Business School. We will talk about:

❔ What internships are and are not
❔ How interns can add value to start-ups
❔ Dos and don'ts before hiring an intern
❔ How to hire and integrate an intern

I'm waiting for you to join our live stream via this link https://youtu.be/Qif1-CwxW80

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

24 Mar 2021 11:00

📜 TOP 50 MOST ACTIVE EUROPEAN VC FUNDS 🆓

📉Do you know what venture capital firms are driving the market these days? Despite economic uncertainty spurred by the pandemic, some VCs continued to invest in promising startups!

From those that are betting on the riskiest tech startups, to those supporting later stage, private equity-backed businesses, at InnMind we have compiled a list of 50+ most active VC funds in Europe and we want to give it to you! Completely for FREE!😍

💬Please, PM me with your e-mail and we’ll send it over!

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

22 Mar 2021 17:55

🚀🌐What are the red flags in DeFi projects? Investor’s decision-making with Fabric VC

✔️How to identify good investment opportunities in defi and blockchain space ❓
✅What are the red flags in defi startups you should keep an eye on ❓
✔️What is different in the investment approach by Fabric VC ❓
✅What is NFT and how it may change the market ❓
✔️How to find crypto investors and how startups can select a good, "smart" investor ❓

👉Acquire answers to these questions and great insights on how to invest in defi and blockchain startups, what an analyst looks for when analyzing startups to invest in, and what the investors' decision-making is based on from the latest InnMind Interview, where InnMind's CEO Nelli Orlova interviews - Ian Emerson, Venture Analyst at Fabric Ventures, one of the top-tier VC firms in blockchain and defi space!👇

👀Watch the Interview: https://bit.ly/2OOEF06

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

19 Mar 2021 15:45

🚀🌐Check out some of the startups from the InnMind Pitching Sessions!

🦈🚀A lot of amazing startups took part the latest InnMind Shark-Tank Pitching Session! (Watch the livestream: https://bit.ly/3ltLZdt)

🤝We want to thank and showcase the startups who took part in this latest session, starting with Scaleswap!

👉Scaleswap is a fully decentralized IDO launchpad - harnessesing the power of an advanced layer 2 scaling protocol. They have the ambition to become the #1 DeFi launchpad for innovative blockchain-based projects on their path to a successful launch and decentralized exchange listing!👇

📣Check out Scaleswap: https://bit.ly/3ltLMXJ

📝If you have an MVP or working product, and you're #fundraising​​, seeking capital to grow, scale, and enter new markets, you're more than welcome to apply and pitch in our monthly Pitching Session here: https://bit.ly/3ltLZKv

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

28 Oct 2022 14:37

To create DApps, you need either in-depth knowledge of software development or competent employees who know everything about decentralized applications. Creating such a project will cost you $45,000-$60,000. Therefore, it is much more profitable to create the app yourself or in a team with your friends. But, so that you can approach this business with a great knowledge, you need to be trained to create DApps. The Realm Academy, an online education platform with a lot of tutorials on metaverse and web3 topics, will help you with this🧐

Realm Academy programs focus on many of today's crypto education topics: such as navigating the metaverse, introduction to blockchain and NFT.

You can also save on your Realm Academy tuition by joining the InnMind Perks Club and getting a 20% discount on courses⚒

Learn more about Realm Academy and the benefits of Perks Club here

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

27 Oct 2022 13:56

According to MarketWatch, the global media and entertainment blockchain market will reach $1.54 billion by 2024. And there's a reason for that - many startups are actively using this technology, not only for the ease and convenience of paying for services such as Bitcoin, but also for the security and protection of their company's data. If you want to provide your startup with reliability, performance and support, then look to the QuickNode platform✨

QuickNode helps startups gain access to 15 chains across more than 20 networks, and advises developers and companies in creating, launching and scaling their blockchain-based apps (dApps).

By joining the InnMind Perks Club, you can take advantage of a 35% discount on QuickNode services and save your money on software⚒

Learn more about QuickNode and the benefits of Perks Club here

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

26 Oct 2022 15:29

🧐 Some takeaways from Aptos token dump 🧐

Startups make mistakes and fail very often.

Even well-funded, super hyped crypto projects, backed by the top-tier VC funds (like APTOS), are not secured from this…

And the only way to get better is analyse your own and others’ mistakes and learn on them.

Our partner Gotbit.io, the #1 market-maker for crypto startups, analyzed the recent launch of Aptos Protocol and its frustrating $APT token price drop after the long-awaited listing on Binance Exchange.

Hope it will give you some meat for thoughts while analysing projects for invesments or preparing your own token launch

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

24 Oct 2022 14:30

🚀 #InnMindAccelerate Updates 🚀

Apart from regular fundraising support & VC Pitching Sessions, we also run InnMind Accelerate, an intensive 3-months program designed for a limited amount of startups looking for acceleration and fundraising traction! We recently finished the 3rd week of our journey together with 10 selected startups!✨

During these 3 weeks, founders had numerous sessions with their personal mentors, group workshops, VC Pitching session and much more! Amongst the special guests we had On Yavin from Cointelligence Fund, Ivan Semenov from Cryptomeria Capital and many others! In addition, entrepreneurs attended a session by Ekaterina Khan from Skill Labs on proper interaction with KOLs.

There’s still a lot of work, information, experience and meetings with leading analysts and venture investors ahead.

To learn more about the InnMind Accelerate program and apply for the next batch in 2023, visit our site

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

19 Oct 2022 15:00

To turn an idea into a real business you need money. Sometimes your own savings are not enough for this, and that is why business angels - venture capitalists - come to the aid of startups✨

Despite the difficult economic situation, the venture capital market is relatively stable. According to PitchBook analysts, U.S. venture capitalists raised $62.3 billion in 4,456 deals in the second quarter of 2022, a strong result compared to 2021

However, 2022 has been a really tough year for crypto and Web3 startups and many of them are having trouble finding an investor💪

So, the InnMind team decided to help startup founders and put together a comprehensive list of cryptocurrency VC funds to help navigate the web3 and cryptocurrency venture capital sector. You can read about them in our new article

We also decided to give out a full list of cryptocurrency VC’s to anyone interested. In order to get the dataset, please leave your email under our blog article and we will be sure to send you all the information you need.

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

18 Oct 2022 16:57

The first thing 90% of venture capitalists in web3 and crypto do is evaluate startups’ TOKENOMICS✨

This is one of the core due-diligence aspects before deciding whether to invest or not. And this is where many startups FAIL to get funded. BUT calculating and balancing it yourself is really a tough task, requiring a LOT of time, energy and resources from founders⚒

InnMind team has designed a special TOKENOMICS CALCULATOR template which will help you design the balanced tokenomics 10 times faster and easier!🔥

Only today and for 24 hours we’re launching a special offer for all those founders who will purchase tokenomics calculator during this period

Go to our site and get special bonuses

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

13 Oct 2022 12:13

⚒ According to DocSend research, which analyzed 200 pitch decks, investors spend on average 3 minutes 21 seconds looking at a startup's pitch deck at the pre-seed stage and 3 minutes 44 seconds at the seed stage

The main criteria for a successful presentation were said to be its logic, clarity, conciseness and style. So, how to write a pitch deck in order to impress an investor?
🔹 Include growth rate data (CAGR)
🔹 Show your serviceable Obtainable Market (SOM)
🔹 Tell us about the basic income generation model

A well-prepared pitch deck will serve as a solid basis for your partnership with investors. If you do not know how to prepare the right pitching documents for your Web3 project, go to our app, where you can find pitch deck templates for all occasions

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

11 Oct 2022 17:51

Do you like making new friends and meeting interesting people? You don't have to install Tinder. You can go to the colorful and dynamic world of Metarun instead!🏃🏻

Metarun is:
✨ 45 unique characters
✨ Upgradable skins
✨ Numerous missions and in-game events
✨ Free-to-Play and Run-to-Earn mechanics
✨ Developed ecosystem, powered by native $MRUN token
✨ Gamer-focused NFT marketplace
✨ Low entry barrier
✨ Attractive in-game rewards.

Play, Win and Earn!

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

31 Mar 2021 11:07

💼👨‍💻The Reality about Corporate Innovation: Tendayi Viki and Pirates In The Navy

How to innovate in a corporate environment and why corporate innovation fails❓

🚧There are many stereotypes and obstacles when it comes to corporate innovation process, that is why many initiatives, events and hackathons end up with no real implementation of great ideas and technologies.

🌐On InnMind we want to understand what are the best practices to implement in 2021. Nelli Orlova and Ekaterina Naimushina met with Tendayi Viki, a corporate innovation expert, to discuss how to deal with the corporate innovation challenges by attracting business units to collaborate efficiently with innovation departments.

👀Watch the Interview 👉 https://bit.ly/3m1KzXO

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

29 Mar 2021 18:23

🦈The next InnMind VC Shark-Tank Pitching Session is coming soon - 8th of April 2020 at 17:00 CET!

✔️Focus: Digital Healthcare & Medtech, Seed Series A
✔️When: 8th of April, 17:00 CET
✔️Confirmed VC:👇

👤 André Sarmento, Investment Analyst at Bynd Venture Capital
👤 Raghu Mandalika, Creator of NBSX
👤 Mangalam Singhal, Analytics & Research Lead at World V VC
👤 Cédric Odje, Investment Analyst Debiopharm

📣If you are developing an outstanding solution in the digital healthcare or medtech space and have already achieved some traction, we welcome you to apply to pitch at our next VC Shark Tank Pitching Session with the most active VCs & CVCs, such as Novartis and World Five VC!

👉Apply now: https://bit.ly/2QGiM3x

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

26 Mar 2021 10:09

🦈The next InnMind VC Shark-Tank Pitching Session is coming soon - 8th of April 2020 at 17:00 CET!

✔️Focus: Digital Healthcare & Medtech, Series A
✔️When: 8th of April, 17:00 CET
✔️Confirmed VC:👇

👤André Sarmento, Investment Analyst at Bynd Venture Capital
👤Raghu Mandalika, Creator of NBSX
👤Mangalam Singhal, Analytics & Research Lead at World V VC

📣If you are developing an outstanding solution in the digital healthcare or medtech space and have already achieved some traction, we welcome you to apply to pitch at our next VC Shark Tank Pitching Session with the most active VCs & CVCs, such as Novartis and World Five VC!

👉Apply now: https://bit.ly/2QGiM3x

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

24 Mar 2021 17:40

🚀🦈Check out some of the startups from the InnMind Pitching Sessions!

📊A lot of amazing startups took part the latest InnMindShark-Tank Pitching Session! (Watch the livestream: https://bit.ly/3vUhvWK)

🤝We want to thank and showcase the startups who took part in this latest session and today it is: 🔥Quppy🔥

🌐Quppy is an all-in-one digital financial solution consolidating your bank cards and accounts. It aims to bring all the necessary financial and investment services on a single application so that their clients can consolidate all their cards and accounts within one interface!

👀Check out Quppy: https://bit.ly/3d0JgnL

👉If you have an MVP or working product, and you're #fundraising , seeking capital to grow, scale, and enter new markets, you're more than welcome to apply and pitch in our monthly Pitching Session here: https://bit.ly/3fn9HHl

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

23 Mar 2021 10:56

🚀🦈Check out some of the startups from the InnMind Pitching Sessions!

📊A lot of amazing startups took part the latest InnMind Shark-Tank Pitching Session! (Watch the livestream: https://bit.ly/313qDtS)
🤝We want to thank and showcase the startups who took part in this latest session and today it is: Tokenplace LTD!👇

👛Tokenplace is an online trading terminal, based in the UK, which aggregates liquidity from multiple cryptocurrency exchanges, giving traders the best asset prices on the market globally!

👉If you have an MVP or working product, and you're #fundraising , seeking capital to grow, scale, and enter new markets, you're more than welcome to apply and pitch in our monthly Pitching Session here: https://bit.ly/3sbN9N8

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

22 Mar 2021 11:05

🚫💰How Fake Investors Trick Money out of Startups!

📣We want to address a very dangerous topic: investors’ scams. While this topic is severely undervalued by mass media, seems that the activity of fake investors has increased during the pandemic!

👤They may have a nice investors profile and even well-designed LinkedIn account, they may have a corporate email and a fancy looking company website. But in reality, their ugly plan is to play on the vulnerable point of all startup entrepreneurs!

In the InnMind blog you can find examples of scam e-mails and messages that these fake investors use and see for yourself! Read the full article and protect yourself and your startup from scams!👇

✒️InnMind Blog: https://bit.ly/30VCBWv

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

19 Mar 2021 08:29

📖🚀Why Storytelling is Important for Startups? Tell us your story!

👀Every startup has an incredible story to share with the world. Some stories are centered around an “Eureka!” moment. Others may be stories of friends or family members that team up to start a business rooted in a specific mission and meet the needs of its target audience.

📝It’s important to share the story of your startup, from humble beginnings to where it is now in the present day, for several reasons. Storytelling gives us the chance to share who is behind the business and its purpose, or mission, with its audience.