🇪🇸🦈Iberian Edition of InnMind Shark-Tank Pitching Session was a a resounding success!

🔎The focus of this session was Seed - Series A & Tech oriented B2B SaaS solutions in Spain & Portugal and 7 VC’s took part in the session!👇

👥Ana Alvaro - Investment Analyst at Adara Ventures, Inc.
👥Roma Jelinskaite - Principal at Caixa Capital Risc S.G.E.C.R
👥Martín González - Investment Director at Nekko Capital
👥Borja Balleste - Investment Manager at Inveready
👥Marta Antunez Ruiz - Director at Wayra Barcelona
👥Juan Lopez - Investment Director at Kibo Ventures
👥Paloma Cañete - Investment Director at Fides Capital

👉Learn what each VC had to say and what advice they gave to participating startups at the end of the session!

▶️Watch the livestream: https://bit.ly/38c86PT

📢On March 11th we will have the VC Shark Tank online pitch session focused on DeFi, Blockchain and Crypto startups, 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 here: https://bit.ly/3bkJqaa

🚀📈See the most promising startups on InnMind platform in February 2021!

📆February has brought InnMind a bunch of promising tech startups that rapidly expand on international markets and choose InnMind as a companion throughout their journey!

Take a look at some of the most promising ones that our VCs & CVCs together with our team pointed out👇

✔️Scaleswap (Switzerland🇨🇭)
✔️Cardiolyse(Finland🇫🇮)
✔️SWISS CUSTOM WATCHES SA (Switzerland🇨🇭)
✔️TalntQ Ltd (Israel🇮🇱)
✔️Twindo (Russia🇷🇺)
✔️Optimus Price (Spain🇪🇸)
✔️Feeder - The Reaction App (Spain🇪🇸)
✔️Bioo (Spain🇪🇸)
✔️OrbitalAds (Spain🇪🇸)
...and much more!👇

👀📃Read the full Startup Digest in the InnMind blog: https://bit.ly/3rr2QQ4

💰📈Are YOU are prepared for a fundraising? What are those essentially important things all investors want to see?

📆🎙In 2018-2021, InnMind organised hundreds of interviews with the top VCs and business angels from Europe, Silicon Valley, Israel, and Asia. During interviews we asked investors about most important criteria of the startups' evaluation, critical information they require on different stages and other elements that finally bring them to the decision to invest in a startup or not.

👇Here are some of the most interesting answers they gave us👇

✔️ Over 85% of investors consider market data to be essentially important for making investment decision
✔️ Every second investor would avoid financing a startup without a marketing strategy
✔️ Over 90% of investors mentioned among the TOP startup mistakes the lack of clear and detailed business model

✒️Read the full article in the InnMind blog: https://bit.ly/3qBufxK

🔔 DeFi VC Shark Tank starts in an hour!

March edition of regular online startup pitching session starts in 30 minutes at 17:00 CET on InnMind Youtube Channel.

At the event, you will e-meet promising DeFi, crypto and blockchain startups from our network and active investors and VC representatives in the following funds 👇
✔️ Oliver Blakey, Ascensive Asset Management
✔️ Etiënne vantKruys, TRG Capital
✔️ Ian Emerson, Fabric Ventures
✔️ Patrick Soh, Petrock Capital
✔️ Alex M., Cryptomeria Capital

⏩ Join the stream here: https://youtu.be/ZUv4hkAGoSo

📌 Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube Channel not to miss any further releases!

🇬🇧💷The UK government will reportedly buy stakes in tech startups!

Financial Times sources say the country is establishing a "Future Fund: Breakthrough" effort that would spend up to £375 million (about $522 million) on stakes in "later stage" tech startups.

👀According to some rumours, every investment would range into the "tens of millions of pounds" and would be matched by private funds. It would focus on a relatively small number of larger companies.

💰A fund like this would raise questions👇

Are there any mechanisms to avoid favoritism❓
Would residents be happy knowing they've effectively become venture capital investors❓

💬Let’s discuss! Leave us your thoughts👇

🌐🧠Overview of InnMind Venture Capital & Corporate Network!

InnMind is the #1 deal-origination platform for startups & investors, providing acceleration, fundraising, networking and match-making support to help your business grow faster & with less risk!

💬“InnMind is like a pro-sports team that thrives to get starts up to meet their goals!” (Watson Matsa, eSusFarm®)

✔️1300+ VC, family offices & angel investors
✔️150+ CVC & Corporate Open Innovation Labs
✔️1000+ New startups joining InnMind Network every month
✔️40+ VC firms joining InnMind network every month
✔️And more..

👀📊Check out the full infographic to learn more about InnMind in our blog: https://bit.ly/3bvAnTC

👨‍🏫💬 VC Advice from the March InnMind Shark-Tank Pitching Session!

👇Learn from the best defi startups and active defi investors in 2021!
⭐️Oliver Blakey (Ascensive Assets Management)
⭐️Etiënne VantKruys (TRG Capital Management)
⭐️Ian Emerson (Fabric Ventures)
⭐️Patrick Soh (PetRock Capital)
⭐️Alex M. (CRYPTOMERIA Capital)

📝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 Shark-Tanks here: https://bit.ly/30DGcbE

👀▶️Watch the livestream: https://bit.ly/2PWHVGR

🦈💰Watch the special edition of the VC Shark Tank pitch session focused on Blockchain, NFT, Crypto and DeFi startups. Learn from the best defi startups and active defi investors in 2021!

👀▶️Watch the livestream: https://bit.ly/3cokQ7B

🤝Special thanks to the startups & founders who took part in this Edition of our monthly pitching sessions👇
🚀 Tokenplace (UK): Dmitry Knox, Co-founder
🚀 GeoDB - Geo Data Block (UK): Luis Gelado, Co-founder
🚀 Scaleswap (Switzerland): Ralf P. Gerteis, Co-founder
🚀 SolidBlock (Israel): Yael Tamar, Co-founder
🚀 FDR - French Digital Reserve (France): Olivier LEMOINE, Co-founder
🚀 Waryer Tech (USA): Niki Ram, Founder
🚀 Quppy (Estonia): Alina Kornienko, Co-founder
🚀 MetisDAO (Canada): Elena Sinelnikova, Co-founder

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, InvestHorizon invites you to an Introduction Webinar to the free InvestHorizon Accelerator!

⌛️When: Thursday, the 18th of March & the 1st of April and more / 4 pm CET.
🌐Where: in zoom
🤔How: register here: https://bit.ly/3qUElde

👇What to expect during the webinar👇

1) 15-minutes Presentation of the InvestHorizon Accelerator Programme -
* • How is the free InvestHorizon Accelerator different?
* • How will you benefit from it?
* • How to apply - steps and requirements?
2) Open floor for Q&A session - where you could ask your questions

📣You want more details about InvestHorizon accelerator watch 2-minute explainer video here: https://bit.ly/3qUEfCo or simply visit https://bit.ly/3lghV4K

🚫Last deadline for applications is on the 28th of May!

📝👨‍🎓Register now! Best practices for hiring interns and more!

📆On the 25th March at 17:00 CET, InnMind together with Bianca Pavel from Hult International Business School will be delivering a presentation for registered startups on InnMind, sharing best practices for hiring interns!

👇Some topics she will cover are👇
📣What internships are and are not ?
📣How interns can add value to start-ups ?
📣Do’s and dont’s before hiring an intern!
📣How to hire and integrate an intern?

👉Grab your spot here: https://bit.ly/3bPm1Oj

👨‍🏫💬 VC Advice from the March InnMind Shark-Tank Pitching Session!

👀▶️Watch the livestream: https://bit.ly/30IHz8Q

👇Learn from the best defi startups and active defi investors in 2021!👇

⭐️Oliver Blakey (Ascensive Assets Management)
⭐️Etiënne VantKruys (TRG Capital Management, Inc)
⭐️Ian Emerson (Fabric Ventures)
⭐️Patrick Soh (PetRock Capital)
⭐️Alex M. (CRYPTOMERIA LTD Capital)

📝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 Shark-Tanks here: https://bit.ly/3qPAldR

🚀💰Not all startups want to take VC funding. But what are their alternatives in Europe?

🌐👀Headlines about large valuations and big funding rounds hide the fact that a huge number of venture-backed startups fail. And yet, that’s part of the game plan: most VCs expect three out of 10 of their investments to fail completely.

This leads to VCs hedging their bets on one or two startups and reserving follow-up funding for them. It also leads to pressure to grow quickly, take further investment and exit.

📊Investment into women-led companies has dropped to 2% globally. According to Atomico’s State of European Tech report 2020, 62% of founders of colour found it hard to raise VC.

📖🚀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.

🚀🌐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

🚫💰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

🚀🌐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

🚀🦈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

📜 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!

🚀🦈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

🔔 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