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๐Ÿ“ˆ๐Ÿš€Investors are tripping over one another to give hot start-ups money

๐Ÿ˜ท๐ŸŒAt the onset of the #covid19 pandemic, warnings of an impending doom for the startup ecosystem were unbridled. hose largely faded after the initial shock of the coronavirus wore off. Now, as the new reality of isolation supercharges the adoption of tech products and services, the sentiment has flipped even further โ€” in to a frenzy of deal making.

๐Ÿ’ฅThis frenzy helped startups amass $36.5 billion in funding in the Q3, up to 30% more from the previous year, according to CB Insights. Startups have raised 223 โ€œmega-roundsโ€ of $100 million or higher so far this year, on a pace to surpass last yearโ€™s total, according to PitchBook Data.

๐Ÿ’ธThe boom is being fueled not just by higher demand for digital products and services. Low interest rates are pushing investors to seek returns in ever-riskier assets and venture firms have raised record levels of capital!

๐Ÿ“ฃThis raises one important question, โ€œFor how long will this frenzy growth continue?
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โš ๏ธ๐Ÿš€What mistakes do startups make when pitching to investors?

In our latest InnMind interview with Melina Sรกnchez, evangelist of impact tech investing and investor at Impact First Investments, Israelโ€™s first impact investment platform, we tried to lighten the shadows within the topic of impact investing and understand better how do impact venture capitalists work and make investment decisions. Watch the full interview to learn about:

โœ”๏ธWhat is the difference between traditional venture capital investing and impact tech investing โ“
โœ”๏ธHow to choose a good impact startup โ“
โœ”๏ธWhat are incorrect stereotypes or conceptions of impact VC firms โ“
โœ”๏ธWhere is the highest concentration of impact tech startups and why Israel is a special hub for impact tech startups โ“

โ–ถ๏ธWatch the full interview on the InnMind's official Youtube Channel: https://bit.ly/3qMjx8C

๐ŸฆˆYou can pitch to Melina and other VC investors on the #1 startup platform - https://bit.ly/2LvMJAV
๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ“ƒStartup Valuation with Dave Berkus & How Not to Screw a Billion Dollar Venture Deal

๐Ÿ‘ฅDave Berkus is a globally known tech entrepreneur and angel investor, "Super Angel" as we call it in the industry with over 200 investments in #tech #startups made since 1990s. He is also the creator of the early stage startups #valuation method - The Berkus Method!

๐Ÿ“We described it among other widely used startup valuation methods in the article "How to calculate startup valuation: principal methods for early & pre-revenue stage" available here: https://bit.ly/2Kbpong

๐Ÿ“ฃWatch the #interview where we discussed how to calculate startup valuation at pre-revenue stage, how startup valuation works and how it can help in the investment decision making!

โ–ถ๏ธInnMind Youtube: https://bit.ly/3m8ZY6Y
๐ŸฆˆAnnouncing the VC's to participate in the December Shark Tank Pitching Session!

๐Ÿ—“On Thursday, December 17th at 5PM CET time InnMind will be holding a December Edition of VC Shark Tank #onlinepitch session with IIDF (Internet Initiatives Development Fund). Here are the VC's who will take part in the session this time around:

Oskar Stachowiak - Managing Partner at the Untitled ventures
Alexander Zemlyak - Senior Analyst at LETA Capital
Anton Antich - Head of InnMind Investment Engine
Mikhail Shatrov - Internet Initiatives Development Fund
Vadim Kazinets - Investment manager at Internet Initiatives Development Fund
Yves Baumann - Founder at Seven Capital Valor Ltd

๐Ÿš€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!

๐Ÿ‘‰Apply here: https://expert.innmind.com/pitching

โ–ถ๏ธ๐Ÿ””Set up a reminder to watch the livestream: https://youtu.be/fL5vNJ5wnsU
TAM, SAM & SOM! Whatโ€™s behind these letters and how to calculate these indicators?

๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸซIf you have ever presented your startup to an investor, you probably came across the question โ€œWhatโ€™s your TAM? SAM? SOM?โ€ Itโ€™s quite hard to answer on the spot - you should know your target marketโ€™s structure and the productive capacity of your startup in detail.

Why are these indicators so important โ“

๐Ÿ‘›The potential value of your startup in several years and return on investment are calculated on the basis of TAM/SAM/SOM. Any savvy investor will, most certainly, ask you about these!

At InnMind we took matters into our own hands, to make clear once and for all what these indicators mean and how to calculate them!
โœ’๏ธRead the full article: https://bit.ly/347xBjh
๐Ÿ“‰๐Ÿ’ธHow do people buy & how should YOU sell? Advice from serial techpreneur and investor - Anton Antich!

๐Ÿ‘ฅAnton Antich is a Board member at InnMind, COO at Intento, Inc., ex-Veeam Software and a serial #techpreneur and #investor with an outstanding track record. He joined Veeam when it was an early-stage startup and grew it to a multinational company with over 1 billion in annual sales!

๐Ÿ“ฃOn the latest InnMindโ€™s private workshop: โ€œFrom $0 to $100 million in sales: Revenue generation process for global scalingโ€, Anton went through and facilitated answers to many questions that any growing startup encounters, including:

How to increase the end-to-end revenue generation process โ“
What are the most commons mistakes startups make when designing their sales process โ“
How to design a sales process that will help you sell moreโ“

โ–ถ๏ธTo learn the answers to these questions and much more, watch the recording of the webinar livestream on our official Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGw17pqJY0k

โœ’๏ธAnd read the article by Anton on #startups financial modelling in InnMindโ€™s blog: https://bit.ly/3lE2EtT
๐Ÿ˜ท๐Ÿ“ˆCan founders scale their startups during the pandemic?

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the forecast for entrepreneurs was dire: Expect major shutdowns and downsizing, said governments and business leaders alike. Nine months later, however, many of those predictions have proven to be surprisingly inaccurate. Rather than shuttering en masse, more than half of startups told researchers that they were financially on target or doing better than expected!

๐ŸŒ๐Ÿš€Despite #COVID19 pandemic being presented as an utter doomsday, #entrepreneurs have carved out niches and bucked expectations. And in all honesty, itโ€™s not the first time this has happened. Disney and Uber, held strong and grew during the Great Depression and last decadeโ€™s Great Recession, respectively. What could this mean for you and your business?

How can you and your startup, carve out new ways to success in these changing times โ“

๐Ÿ“ฃSubscribe to InnMind's weekly newsletter for event announcements, as well as latest #startup market news on https://bit.ly/3qXWMic !
Congratulations to one of the brightest startups from the InnMind platform - Bloqcube and itโ€™s founder, Rama Krishna Rao, for winning the startup pitch at the Virtual BlockHealth Summit 2020!

Bloqcube is an integrated CTMFS platform for the remote management and acceleration of clinical trials with an integrated financial module for speedy payments.

Check out Bloqcube's profile on InnMind: https://innmind.com/startups/9688

We are connecting Investors, service providers, Industry leaders with startups ready to rise and show themselves to the world. Validate your ideas and pitch your startup to venture and angel investors on https://innmind.com/
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๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ‘ฅWhat mistakes do startups make when pitching to investors? InnMind Interview with Melina Sanchez!

In our latest InnMind interview with Melina Sanchez, evangelist of impact tech investing and investor at Impact First Investments, Israelโ€™s first #impact investment platform, we tried to lighten the shadows within the topic of impact investing and understand better how do impact venture capitalists work and make investment decision. Here are some of the topics covered in the interview:

What is the difference between traditional venture capital investing and impact tech investing โ“
How to choose a good impact startup โ“
What are incorrect stereotypes or conceptions of impact VC firms โ“
What is an Impact Startup Company? What benefits does it have โ“

๐Ÿ‘‰Watch the full interview on the InnMindโ€™s official Youtube Channel to learn answers to all these questions and much more!

โ–ถ๏ธInnMind Youtube: https://youtu.be/Vi5TxlVxYKw
๐Ÿ”” Today we will start the stream of December Shark Tank Pitching Session at 17:00 CEST time on InnMind Youtube Channel.

6 investors and 7 startups, we expect the intense and hot pitching session today, finalizing the 2020 track record ๐Ÿคฉ

โฉ Set up the reminder and join the stream here: https://youtu.be/fL5vNJ5wnsU
๐Ÿ˜ท๐ŸŽ„ What will the lasting impact of the pandemic be in 2021?

๐Ÿ‘€๐ŸคงThe #covid19 pandemic caused entrepreneurs all over the world to scramble. Many businesses who relied heavily on traditional office environment, have since been forced to change their strategies and start working from home; in fact 42% of the U.S. workforce is now working from home full-time.

Those that depended on service customers in person, in some capacity, needed to figure out a way to deliver or serve digitally. And of course, many #entrepreneurs had to completely rethink their budgets in response to the economic impact of the pandemic.

But how is startup entrepreneurship going to change once this pandemic is overโ“

What will the entrepreneurship world look like after COVID-19โ“

๐Ÿ“ฃSubscribe to InnMindโ€™s weekly newsletter for event announcements, as well as latest #startup market news on https://bit.ly/3anty6u !
๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ˜‚Coming up with an idea is just the beginning! Like Steve Jobs once said: "Ideas are worth nothing unless executed!"

Have anything similar ever happened to you โ“
๐Ÿฆˆ๐Ÿš€December Edition of InnMindโ€™s Shark-Tank was a success! Watch it on innMind Youtube now!

โ–ถ๏ธWatch the livestream: https://bit.ly/34pniat

๐Ÿ—“On December 17th, InnMind held the new Edition of VC Shark Tank online pitch session with Internet Initiatives Development Fund and other leading VCs

InnMind VC Shark-Tank Pitching Session is a virtual event, whereby startup founders from all over the world e-meet invited investors, business angels and VC firms and pitch their solutions live to get immediate feedback! 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.

๐Ÿ‘‰Apply here: https://bit.ly/34mrSWX
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๐Ÿฆˆ๐Ÿš€Visualisation and clear communication is one of the most imperative parts of your startup pitch!

๐Ÿ—“On December 17th, InnMind held the a new Edition of VC Shark Tank online pitch session with IIDFC (Internet Initiatives Development Fund) and other leading VCs:

Oskar Stachowiak - Managing Partner at the Untitled Ventures

Anton Antich - Head of InnMind Investment Engine

Mikhail Shatrov - Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF)

Vadim Kazinets - Investment manager at Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF)

InnMind VC Shark-Tank Pitching Session is a virtual event, whereby startup founders from all over the world e-meet invited investors, business angels and VC firms and pitch their solutions live to get immediate feedback!

โ–ถ๏ธWatch the livestream: https://bit.ly/3mzoMFD

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.

๐Ÿ‘‰Apply here: https://bit.ly/34xuNMW
๐Ÿ“†๐Ÿ“’New Q3 insights in the Status of Venture Capital Report 2020!

The VC industry continues to be very active against the pandemic headwinds. In Q3, we saw lots of deal activity and ample deal values, enough to top last yearโ€™s numbers. Weโ€™ll be particularly diving deeper into whatโ€™s driving the massive expansion of late-stage activity as well as the exit environment, both of which are booming!

๐Ÿ‘‰Global VC deal value reached $84bn in Q3, a 34% jump since Q2, and a 39% increase from the same period last year.

๐Ÿ‘‰At $1.9 Billion, Seed Funding In Q3 Was Down Only 8% Since Last Quarter

๐Ÿ‘‰Early-Stage Funding Also Racked Up $14 BN Deal Value In Q3

๐Ÿ‘‰Late-stage total deal value dropped only 2% since last quarter with 1050 rounds raising $33.7 billion.

In conclusion, in Q3 there was a shift in Capital and instead of correction, Investors are risk-adjusting their portfolios, allocating capital into later-stages vs. earlier-stages, and into hot industries vs negatively affected industries.
๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ˜‚Sometimes, you have too perform truly amazing things in order to push through with your ideas!

๐Ÿ‘คAs Steve Jobs once said, โ€œIโ€™m convinced that about half of what separates a successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseveranceโ€!

Have you ever had a similar experience?
๐Ÿš€๐ŸฆˆHow to make a remarkable pitch to Venture Capital Funds? VC's advice from the latest Shark-Tank!

Last week, InnMind has wrapped 2020 with the last Shark-Tank pitching Session this year! 7 amazing startups joined the session in order to pitch to Oskar Stachowiak (Managing partner at the Untitled Ventures), Anton Antich (Head of InnMind Investment Engine), Mikhail Shatrov (Head of marketing and scouting at IIDF), Vadim Kazinets (Investment manager at IIDF) & Alexander Zemlyak (Senior Analyst at LETA Capital)!

Spadrone (Spain๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ)
Revain (United Kingdom๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง)
StyleScan (USA๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ)
XperiencEra (Lithuania๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡น)
Quppy (Estonia๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ช)
and more... !

๐Ÿ‘‰Learn what each of the VCโ€™s had to say at the end of the session and what kind of advice they gave to the participating startups in the InnMind blog!

โœ’๏ธRead the Article: https://bit.ly/38rEYDH
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โžก๏ธ๐Ÿ‘ฅSort out your go-to-market strategy now! VC's advice from the latest InnMind Shark-Tank!

InnMind has wrapped 2020 with the last Shark-Tank Pitching Session on 17th of December! 7 amazing startups participated in the session and pitched their projects to Oskar Stachowiak (Managing partner at the Untitled Ventures), Anton Antich (Head of InnMind Investment Engine), Mikhail Shatrov (Head of marketing and scouting at IIDF), Vadim Kazinets (Investment manager at IIDF) & Alexander Zemlyak (Senior Analyst at LETA Capital)!

๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿš€Here are some of the startups who took part in the Shark-Tank:

Spadrone (Spain๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ)
Revain (United Kingdom
StyleScan (USA๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ)
XperiencEra (Lithuania๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡น)
Quppy (Estonia๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ช)
and more... !

๐Ÿ‘‰Learn what each of the VCโ€™s had to say at the end of the session and what kind of advice they gave to the participating startups in the InnMind blog!

โœ’๏ธRead the Article: https://bit.ly/37FThoZ
TAM, SAM & SOM! Whatโ€™s behind these letters and how to calculate these indicators?

๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸซIf you have ever presented your startup to an investor, you probably came across the question โ€œWhatโ€™s your TAM? SAM? SOM?โ€ Itโ€™s quite hard to answer on the spot - you should know your target marketโ€™s structure and the productive capacity of your startup in detail.

๐Ÿ‘›Why are these indicators so important? The potential value of your startup in several years and return on investment are calculated on the basis of TAM/SAM/SOM. And any savvy investor will, most certainly, inquire you about these!

At InnMind we took matters into our own hands, to make clear, once and for all, what these indicators mean and how to calculate them!

โœ’๏ธRead the full article: https://bit.ly/2Jie48Q