🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

19 Feb 2021 11:26

💬📝Get the ultimate list of questions that venture capitalists will ask you during the pre-funding interviews!

Are you ready for VC fundraising ❓
Do you know what questions you will have to answer ❓

👤To be prepared for external funding you need a strong positioning, structured investor deck, fair startup valuation, and thoughtful answers to investors’ questions.

So, in order to save your time and energy while preparing for your funding round - InnMind came up with a list of 101 most common questions venture investors usually ask startups before making an investment decision.

📃Leave us your contact details by following the link below and receive the full list!👇

💬Get the list: https://bit.ly/3tXhXm2

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

17 Feb 2021 09:43

👩‍💻♀️**Women in Tech and Venture Capital Business. Diversity and Leadership with Helena Torras**

Helena Torras is a Managing Partner at PaoCapital and Ambassador at Barcelona Tech City. With her mission to promote the tech startup mindset to society, and ensure that women are no left behind, Helena is a serial entrepreneur and investor, connecting the dots between the ecosystem: startup-corporate-investor.

💬In our interview, we discussed how to bring more diversity to venture capital and startups and inspire women leaders in business and tech. It is not about equal quotas or feministic slogans, it is about the value diversity creates in startups' and VC teams and in the business environment.👇

👀Watch the Interview: https://bit.ly/3amYHa0

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

16 Feb 2021 09:07

February Edition of InnMind Shark-Tank pitching Session is coming soon!

🦈The next InnMind VC Shark-Tank Pitching Session is coming soon - on 25th of February at 17:00 CEST! The focus of this session will be Seed - Series A & Tech oriented B2B SaaS solutions in Spain & Portugal!

Since last week’s announcement, the amount of confirmed VCs & CVCs joining the upcoming session increased as well as the amount of startups willing to pitch!⬇️

👤Ana Alvaro Moreta - Investment Analyst at Adara Ventures
👤Roma Jelinskaite - Principal at Caixa Capital Risc
👤Borja Ballesté Pérez de Olaguer - Investment Manager at Inveready
👤Martín González Caride - Investment Director at Nekko Capital
👤Marta Antunez Ruiz - Director at Wayra Barcelona

🔔Set up a reminder to watch the livestream: https://bit.ly/3afS4pW

🚀If you have a working product, and you're raising funds to grow, scale, and enter new markets, you're more than welcome to apply and pitch on our next session.

👉Apply Now: https://bit.ly/2Z9nKXl

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

15 Feb 2021 12:22

💬📝Get the ultimate list of questions that venture capitalists will ask you during the pre-funding interviews!

Are you ready for VC fundraising ❓

👤To be prepared for external funding you need a strong positioning, structured investor deck, fair startup valuation, and thoughtful answers to investors’ questions.

And to save your time and energy while preparing for your funding round - InnMindcame up with a list of 101 most common questions venture investors usually ask startups before making an investment decision. Leave us your contact details by following the link below and receive the full list!👇

💬Get the list: https://bit.ly/3748RKk

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

11 Feb 2021 15:22

🌐💬Customer-first leadership: Zendesk Founder Panel Discussion with Sendoso, Hatch and Eko Health!

How do you plan for the year ahead when the previous year was so full of surprises❓

💼Small and high growth businesses in particular have to be more innovative and adaptive. What better way to learn how to prepare your business than to speak to a collective of co-founders that can share their techniques and thought processes on how to successfully plan for a post-pandemic world!

👉Join Sarah Reed, Senior Director of Content and Event Marketing at Zendesk on February 25th at 13:00 EST, for a founder panel with:

👤Jason Bellet, Co-Founder & Chief Customer Officer at EKOHEALTH;
👤Kris Rudeegraap, Co-Founder & CEO at Sendoso;
👤Ann Crady Weiss, Co-Founder & CEO at Hatch;

📝Register here: https://bit.ly/3qa2jkO

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

10 Feb 2021 09:08

🚀Want to learn about the freshest investment opportunities of 2021? Here is InnMind’s January Startup Digest!

📆This January, we saw more than 1000 new professionals joining InnMind network, amongst which the majority are promising tech startups or as we love to say - the next unicorns that are on their way to push their business forward!

👇Let’s take a look at the featured startups for the past month:

✔️UPHAQAR Limited (Nigeria🇳🇬)
✔️Ender Turing - Natural Language Technologies Suite with Speech Recognition/Synthesising (Estonia🇪🇪)
✔️Ludimos - Online cricket coaching platform (Netherlands🇳🇱)
✔️ORQUEST (Spain🇪🇸)
✔️BeeEye (Israel🇮🇱)
✔️Plato Data Intelligence (USA🇺🇸)
✔️FIXAR Global (Latvia🇱🇻)

✒️Read the January 2021 Startup Digest: https://bit.ly/3jyamW6

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

09 Feb 2021 10:04

February Edition of InnMind Shark-Tank pitching Session is coming soon!

🦈The next InnMind VC Shark-Tank Pitching Session is coming soon - on 25th of February at 17:00 CEST! The focus of this session will be Seed - Series A & Tech oriented B2B SaaS solutions in Spain & Portugal!

Here are the VC's who will take part in this session⬇️

👤Ana Alvaro Moreta - Investment Analyst at Adara Ventures
👤Roma Jelinskaite - Principal at Caixa Capital Risc
👤Borja Ballesté Pérez de Olaguer - Investment Manager at Inveready

🔔Set up a reminder to watch the livestream: https://bit.ly/36QIUh8

🚀If you have a working product, and you're raising funds to grow, scale, and enter new markets, you're more than welcome to apply and pitch on our next session.

👉Apply Now: https://bit.ly/3oYTlFU

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

08 Feb 2021 13:20

📊📔Worst Startup Pitch Deck Examples: 8 Critical Mistakes You Should Avoid!

Why so many startup pitch decks get rejected by investors ❓

And how to make a good investor pitch deck ❓

On InnMind we collected the critical mistakes that we see in startup pitch decks too often. And combined them into a set of harmful advice for startup founders on how to make the worst pitch deck!

👀📰Read the InnMind blog and watch our videos on YouTube to learn from examples that will help you better understand what exactly drives investors crazy and makes them say 🚫NO in the middle of your presentation!

✒️InnMind Blog: https://bit.ly/39Vx3kd

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

05 Feb 2021 12:55

💡How can I make sure no one will steal my startup idea?

🤔At InnMind we hear this question quite often. Without validation and execution part your business idea worth nothing!

If you can’t accept this simple truth, you will only increase your chances to fail!

Here are 5️⃣ reasons why keeping your business idea as a secret may significantly harm your future business and reduce your opportunities for successful execution:

✔️Unique Ideas Rarely Exist
✔️Idea Validation is Essential
✔️Idea Execution is Everything
✔️Building Startup Team
✔️Fundraising on Idea Stage

👉✒️Read the Article: https://bit.ly/2MRHA6T

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

03 Feb 2021 16:25

📑 25 PITCH DECK EXAMPLES FROM VC FUNDED STARTUPS 📑 ⬇️

💥 Don't miss the opportunity of getting knowledge and inspiration from 25 VC funded startups.
We collected the investment pitch decks of the most successful startups, that raised VC money and proved their model working as cash-generating machine.

This should be at interest to startup entrepreneurs who are sending their pitch decks to VC investors now or planning to.

✅ 25 investment decks of VC funded startups!
✅ What did they emphasize on when pitching to investors on early stage?
✅ How did they structure the investment deck and what attracted investors' attention?
Want these files?

Drop your email in a PM, and we'll send it over! ⬇️

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

02 Feb 2021 16:21

🤔💰What is it that makes SaaS so attractive to VCs?

🦄In 2020, European VC’s invested around €12bn into the SaaS sector, with Romanian SaaS giant UiPath becoming one of Europe’s most valuable tech startups. After raising $225m in July, UiPath’s valuation rose to $10.2bn, making it the region’s first SaaS ‘decacorn’!
SaaS businesses provide predictable, recurring revenue. A monthly subscription to Netflix is a repeatable, secure form of income that can be grown by acquiring more subscriptions or increasing its cost, compared with a one-off payment to download a film. SaaS companies are extremely capital-efficient. You can build a large, profitable business for less than $10m in funding.

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

01 Feb 2021 17:32

🚀🦈Get insight from leading VCs about what investors want to see in your pitchdeck!

📆The January Edition of the InnMind Shark-Tank Pitching Sessions on 28th of January was a great success! Here are the the investors who took part in this session:

🦈 - Dana Qtaishat , Fintech Investment Analyst at AB Ventures
🦈 - Gergely Paljak, Startup Tech Investor at Wille Finance
🦈 - David Boulton, DIP Capital LLP
🦈 - Anton Antich; Head of InnMind Investment Engine
🦈 - Mariusz Adamski; Partner at ff Venture Capital

🚀And the startups and founders who pitched to them:

BeeEye (Israel), RobinBrick (Spain), ROBO.AI (Germany), Ender Turing - Natural Language Technologies Suite with Speech Recognition/Synthesising (Estonia), Orbo.ai (UK), Quppy (Estonia), EcoSteer (Italy)

👀Watch the livestream: https://bit.ly/3oF8ADv

💼💸InnMind Shark-Tank Pitching Sessions are a great opportunity for pro-startups in our community to increase their networking, gain experience with investors, and most importantly have the chance to get funded!

❗️APPLY for the next Shark-Tank NOW: https://bit.ly/3pBq3OI

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

29 Jan 2021 12:27

🇪🇺📆The most anticipated startup events for Q1 and Q2 2021 in Europe.

2020 was a difficult year that brought a whole bag of change with it. Since last March, we have been attending our favorite events and conferences only online, from the safety of our homes and comfort of the couch!

🕗Many of those were postponed or even cancelled, and at InnMind we decided to show you some of the best ones you can take part in this year! Here are some of the best startup events, I think any founder should be looking forward to, in the first half of 2021!

✒️Read the article: http://bit.ly/3pvdKU5

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

28 Jan 2021 14:14

📊😠It is extremely frustrating to see countless startup founders spending excruciating amounts of time and effort on decks that in the end, nobody will finish

On InnMind we collected the critical mistakes that we see in startup pitch decks too often. And combined them into a set of harmful advice for startup founders on how to make the worst pitch deck!

✒️InnMind Blog: https://bit.ly/2Yo7GAF

And to help startup founders better understand what is expected from their presentations, InnMind has collected some of the best examples of pitch-decks by successful startups who have triumphed and closed their deals! This database consists of 25 pitch deck examples from Airbnb & Uber to BuzzFeed & Facebook, some of the best in the industry.

💬Leave us a comment down below, with a "+" and we will send it to you soon!👇

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

27 Jan 2021 15:47

🚀🦈The January Edition of the VC Shark-Tank Pitching Session is tomorrow at 17:00 CEST!

📆We want to remind you that the next edition of our monthly VC Shark-Tank Pitching Session will be held TOMORROW on 28th of January at 17:00 CEST! This time, Series A-B, SaaS & b2b startups from the EU, UK & Israel are welcome to join!

💼💸InnMind Shark-Tank Pitching Sessions are a great opportunity for pro-startups in our community to increase their networking, gain experience with investors, and most importantly have the chance to get funded!

🎓Don't miss your chance to pitch LIVE in front of investors and VC firms, receive feedback and most importantly - get funding!

❗️APPLY NOW: https://bit.ly/2MuGX2V

▶️ In addition, join our tomorrow stream on Youtube: https://youtu.be/gLfjVuz_-jQ

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

17 Feb 2021 18:33

🚀🏆The secret startup weapon no one talks about: Befriending competitors

🏅Many probably already know that it’s important to keep an eye on the competition. You want to continually analyse what they’re doing in order to learn from their approach and understand where you can stand out.

✔️One major goal of befriending the competition is to set up a future opportunity to acquire them. Another is providing you a lot of opportunities to collaborate.

✅And even if there isn’t a clear opportunity to work with a competitor, it’s still good to build the relationship because your competition might become a little less competitive!

What do you think ❓ Do you agree ❓

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

16 Feb 2021 14:28

🌐New Design on InnMind Website! The #1 Platform for Startups & Investors!

🚀We are proud with our work at InnMind and are always looking for ways to improve! Today we want to show you the new design for the new InnMind website!👇

InnMind is an international company, founded in Switzerland and acting in over 40 countries worldwide. We work with a huge pool of investors, venture capital firms and business angels, helping them with startups expertise and projects selection process!

📣Joining InnMind as a member of our community, gets you access to relevant Investors, promising startups, knowledgeable service providers, tools, publications & articles, every legal document you need, webinars & shark-tanks and so much more!

👉Check out InnMind: https://bit.ly/3qoieMK

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

15 Feb 2021 17:00

📈🚀Scale-Up: Southeast Asia is a one-day online conference bringing together funds, accelerators, and entrepreneurs doing businesses in Southeast Asia

✔️What are the specifics of Southeast Asian markets?
✅What steps are to be taken to enter these markets?
✔️How do I get investments from Southeast Asian funds?
✅What types of businesses is Southeast Asia a perfect place for?

👉These and other questions will be answered by the speakers of the Scale-Up: Southeast Asia conference, including:

👤Irina Chuchkina (Rapyd)
👤Timur Daudpota (500 Startups)
👤Kanyet Raev (Appboxo)
👤Nikita Okulov (WorkClass)
& representatives of Monk's Hill Ventures, Cento Ventures, Atlas Ventures, Block71 and others!

🆓The event is free of charge and will take place on February 25, 2021. Registration is available at https://bit.ly/3rSsbT3

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

11 Feb 2021 18:43

👎📊Worst Startup Pitch Deck Examples: 8️⃣ Critical Mistakes You Should Avoid!

Why so many startup pitch decks get rejected by investors❓
Are numbers really important in your startups' pitch deck❓

On InnMind we collected the critical mistakes that we see in startup pitch decks too often. And combined them into a set of harmful advice for startup founders on how to make the worst pitch deck!

👀Learn from examples that will help you better understand what exactly drives investors crazy and makes them say 🚫NO🚫 in the middle of your presentation!

✒️InnMind Blog: https://bit.ly/2YWQOBk

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

11 Feb 2021 10:47

February Edition of InnMind Shark-Tank pitching Session is coming soon!

🦈The next InnMind VC Shark-Tank Pitching Session is coming soon - on 25th of February at 17:00 CEST! The focus of this session will be Seed - Series A & Tech oriented B2B SaaS solutions in Spain & Portugal!

Here are the VC's who will take part in this session⬇️

👤Ana Alvaro Moreta - Investment Analyst at Adara Ventures
👤Roma Jelinskaite - Principal at Caixa Capital Risc
👤Borja Ballesté Pérez de Olaguer - Investment Manager at Inveready

🔔Set up a reminder to watch the livestream: https://bit.ly/3jq2LsR

🚀If you have a working product, and you're raising funds to grow, scale, and enter new markets, you're more than welcome to apply and pitch on our next session.

👉Apply Now: https://bit.ly/3jp9CCS

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

09 Feb 2021 14:26

6️⃣5️⃣➕ Directories to Promote your Startup! The comprehensive list of the best startup directories and listing sources to promote your startup!

💿📺If you are building your tech product and believe that once you release it - thousands of people will be happy to use it. But the challenge is in finding those thousands of early adopters!

👉How do you plan to get those ❓

At InnMind, we've collected the comprehensive list of startup directories, listings and websites that you can use to reach out to early adopters and build a great community around your startup!

✒️Read the article: https://bit.ly/2N5pIoS

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

08 Feb 2021 17:56

🅰️💰Are you raising an ambitious Series A Investment?

Would you like to increase the investment and valuation amount❓ Do you want to save time, costs and effort at no costs, no equity and limited travel❓

✔️If the answers are YES, then you should apply now to join the InvestHorizon Accelerator.

The program, financed by the European Commission and in association with Eureka, has already supported European scale-ups in raising over EUR 53M€ in 2019 and 2020.

➡️Do you want to be the next ❓

Apply Now: https://bit.ly/39ZEff7

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

08 Feb 2021 09:04

📆📈December 2021 was a hot month for new unicorns. So was January. February likely will be more of the same.

The venture capital market has skewed later and larger in recent quarters, something you might have felt in the rapid recent pace of new unicorn formation. Powering those unicorn births are huge rounds led by large funds.

✔️In 2020 there were at least 97 global fintech rounds worth $100 million or more.
✅Venture capital in Europe during Q4 2020 set a record for dollars invested around $14.3 billion
✔️Series B on the continent saw its value double from $10 million in 2016 to $20 million in 2020
✅And the U.S. startup industry raised around 90 rounds worth $100 million or more in Q3 2020 alone

👉And that’s not even close to the end. 2021 could be more than just more of the same; this year could set fresh records for private investment results.

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

04 Feb 2021 09:06

🇪🇺📆The most anticipated startup events for Q1 and Q2 2021 in Europe!

2020 was a difficult year that brought a whole bag of change with it. Since last March, we have been attending our favourite events and conferences only online, from the safety of our homes and comfort of the couch!

🕗Many of those were postponed or even cancelled, and at InnMind we decided to show you some of the best ones you can take part in this year!

Here are some of the best startup events, I think any founder should be looking forward to, in the first half of 2021!👇

✒️Read the article in the InnMind blog: https://bit.ly/36zwj1K

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

03 Feb 2021 10:25

📊🚫How NOT to make a Startup PitchDeck! 8 Critical Mistakes You Should Avoid!

Why so many startup pitch decks get rejected by investors ❓

And how to make a good investor pitch deck ❓

On InnMind we collected the critical mistakes that we see in startup pitch decks too often. And combined them into a set of harmful advice for startup founders on how to make the worst pitch deck!

👇👀Read the full article to learn from examples that will help you better understand what exactly drives investors crazy and makes them say NO in the middle of your presentation!

✒️InnMind Blog: https://bit.ly/2MjaY5O

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

02 Feb 2021 07:48

🌐🎙What do journalists look for when writing about a startup? Interview about PR with Trevor Clawson!

👤Trevor Clawson is a finance and business journalist, copywriter and author, specialising in start-ups, fast growth companies and corporate finance. He has written for a wide range of magazines and newspapers including Forbes, The New York Times, The Guardian & Startups.com, among others, and is the perfect person to answer any startup’s pressing questions about public relations!

👇Find out everything you need to know about startup PR in the latest InnMind Interview with Trevor, on the official InnMind Youtube channel!

▶️InnMind YouTube: https://bit.ly/3pAx5mF

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

01 Feb 2021 09:33

Do journalists prefer to talk to a PR representative or the entrepreneur themselves?

👤Trevor Clawson is a finance and business journalist, copywriter and author, specialising in start-ups, fast growth companies and corporate finance. He has written for a wide range of magazines and newspapers including Forbes, The New York Times, The Guardian & Startups.com, among others, and is the perfect person to answer any startup’s pressing questions about public relations!

👇Find out the answers to these and many other questions in the latest InnMind Interview with Trevor Clawson on the official InnMind Youtube channel!

▶️InnMind YouTube: https://bit.ly/36matPa

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

28 Jan 2021 16:03

☑️ Join Pitching Session stream on Youtube!

We invite everybody to watch the event to listen to other founders pitching to venture capitalists and learn the questions that investors ask them after the pitch. Most probably, you’ll be asked the same questions when you start pitching!

Today at 5:00 pm CET we have the first VC Shark-Tank in 2021 with 5 VCs, investing in B2B SaaS startups on late seed and A stage.

⏩ Join here: https://youtu.be/gLfjVuz_-jQ

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

28 Jan 2021 10:20

➕✖️Help us improve our Startup Valuation Calculator!

👉🏻Try out the InnMind Valuation Calculator here: https://lnkd.in/dBmJwy4

📝Answer the poll, and if you have any suggestions, leave them in the comment section below!

🦄Web3 Startups and VCs

26 Jan 2021 18:15

🇰🇷South Korean Startup and VC Ecosystem. How to enter the Korean startup market?

The Korean Startup Market is a very dynamic, fast-growing & known to be very open to adopting new technologies. But, there are certain challenges faced by startup founders from outside Asia, who want to expand to the Korean market, but don’t know where to start.

🤔It’s hard to find relevant market data in English, difficult to analyze competitors, understand local rules and regulations, and it is especially hard to get in touch with local partners and investors if you don't know anyone in Korea.

🌐So in order to inform ourselves and YOU on all the intricacies of this market, InnMind invited an expert from South Korea, a startup advisor and mentor, CEO at Terminal Korea Startup Agency - Riso Ahn, to answer the questions from the global startup community and share practical advice on how to enter the Korean market!

▶️Watch the Interview: https://bit.ly/3oiwtko