👨‍🏫💬 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

🦈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

🛠🚀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

🦈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

🔋🇪🇺 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

💼👨‍💻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

💰🚫Why Raising Too Much Money Can Harm Your Startup

🤔Fundraising isn’t fun. But it’s an important process. And while having more money makes today easier, having a lower valuation makes tomorrow easier.

💬Reflexively founders want to raise as much money as they can because they figure it will give them more resources, better chances of competing and a longer runways before they have to do the often painful job of asking, yet again, for money.

👉Every time you ask for money you’re faced with the possible of feeling literally and figuratively like a failure.

👀Learn all the reasons why in the InnMind blog: https://bit.ly/3drGwA1

🔔Set a reminder: 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 Moraes Sarmento, Investment Analyst at Bynd Venture Capital
👤Raghu M., Creator of NBSX
👤Mangalam Singhal, Analytics & Research Lead at World V VC
👤Cédric Odje, Investment Analyst at 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/3ukOLVu