🔋🇪🇺 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

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

🤔Are you ready for VC fundraising ❓
🧐Are you, absolutely sure ❓

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

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. Save the list and make sure to have all the answers in advance!

👉Get the list: https://bit.ly/3rRMjUJ

🔝🚀March 2021 Startup Digest: Top Startups on InnMind Platform

📆This last March is officially marked as the most fruitful month for InnMind DeFi startups. Even if you feel critical towards the crypto finance and tokenized startups’ space, you should keep an eye on what’s going on in this sector in 2021. And it’s going crazy!😝

👇Here are some of the best startups on InnMind this month👇

VC Land (Spain🇪🇸 )
Quant Infinity Solutions (Cyprus🇨🇾 )
Catalyst GEM (USA🇺🇸 )
SharpShark (Chile🇨🇱 )
Scaleswap (Switzerland🇨🇭)
...and more!

👀Read the full March Startup Digest by InnMind in our blog: https://bit.ly/3cUqkrW

👋 Hi, everybody!

Remind you about the next edition of Shark Tank Pitching Sessions that will be streamed on InnMind Youtube channel.

At this session, we invite innovative startups in Digital Health & Medtech on Seed - Series A to present their projects to lead VCs in MedTech:

👤 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.

💥 Join the stream to learn new ideas and look at live startup pitching and communicating with investors.
⏩ https://youtu.be/uaqUI7zntc8

🦈The next InnMind VC Shark-Tank Pitching Session is coming! And sooner than you think!📆

🔔Set a reminder to watch the livestream: https://bit.ly/3wEPdQh
✔️Focus: DeFi, Crypto & Blockchain
✔️When: 15th of April, 17:00 CET

Confirmed VC:👇
👤Oliver Blakey - Ascensive Assets Management
👤Etiënne vantKruys - TRG Capital Management, Inc
👤Alex M - CRYPTOMERIA Capital
👤Luca Zerbini - Peak Point Partners
👤Yushan Zheng - Waterdrip Capital
👤Jonathan Habicht - Moonrock Capital
👤Tom Swartjes - DeFi Capital

📣If you are developing an outstanding solution in the DeFi, Crypto & Blockchain spaces we welcome you to apply to pitch at our next VC Shark Tank Pitching Session with the most active VCs & CVCs around!

👉Apply before April 14th: https://bit.ly/3dP3WQ7

🔝🚀Top Startup Solutions in Digital Healthcare & Medtech Industry

👉On the 8th of April InnMind streamed one of the regular VC Shark Tank focused on Digital Health & Medtech startups on Seed - Series A from over the world who were selected to pitch their solutions:

✔️PankhTech (🇪🇪Estonia)
✔️FIDEM (🇺🇸USA)
✔️Tongadive (🇬🇧UK)
✔️Bloqcube Inc (🇺🇸USA)
✔️Denty France (🇫🇷France)
✔️Cardiolyse (🇫🇮Finland)
✔️Swiss Custom Watches SA (🇨🇭Switzerland)
✔️HelmDA Systems (🇪🇪Estonia)

➡️Learn more in the InnMind blog: https://bit.ly/3a3YojK

🦈The DeFi InnMind VC Shark-Tank Pitching Session is coming this week!📆

🔔Set a reminder to watch the livestream: https://bit.ly/3wCEB4F

✔️Focus: DeFi, Crypto & Blockchain
✔️When: 15th of April, 17:00 CET
✔️Confirmed VC:👇

👤Oliver Blakey - Ascensive Assets Assets Management
👤Etiënne V. - TRG Capital Management, Inc Inc
👤Alex M - CRYPTOMERIA LTD Capital
👤Luca A. Zerbini A. Zerbini - Peak Point Partners GmbH
👤Yushan Zheng - Waterdrip Capital
👤Jonathan Habicht - Moonrock Capital
👤Tom Swartjes - DeFi Capital

📣If you are developing an outstanding solution in the DeFi, Crypto & Blockchain spaces we welcome you to apply to pitch at our next VC Shark Tank Pitching Session with the most active VCs & CVCs around!

👉Apply before April 14th: https://bit.ly/3wGXrHA

🔊 Calling all scaleup founders: Are you ready to enter into innovative commercial partnerships or pilot projects with leading corporations, institutions, foundations or cities to scale up your business in Switzerland?

If you are a later-stage tech startup in the fields of #EdTech & #NewWork, #FinTech, #Food & #Retail Tech, #HealthTech #SmartCity & #Technology, #CircularEconomy then apply for KickstartInnovation 2021 tomorrow! #Kickstarters21

https://bit.ly/3slOYpY

🔔 DeFi & Crypto Session Vol.2 will be streamed in 2 hours on Youtube

The second pitching session focused on DeFi, Blockchain, NFT & Crypto startups starts at 17:00 CET on InnMind Youtube Channel.

This event is highlighted by the count of Investors - more than 10 investors and VC representatives that looking for quality deal-flow:
⭐️ Oliver Blakey - Ascensive Asset Management
⭐️ Etiënne vantKruys - TRG Capital
⭐️ Alex M - CryptoMeria Capital
⭐️ Luca Zerbini - Peak Point Partners
⭐️ Yushan Zheng - Waterdrip Capital
⭐️ Jonathan Habicht - Moonrock Capital
⭐️ Tom Swartjes - DeFi Capital
And other investors!

⏩ SET UP THE REMINDER ⏩ https://youtu.be/KV_yO0SyQqw

See you there!

▶️ Check out the recording of DeFi & Crypto Pitching Session Vol.2

Last week InnMind hosted the second edition of a pitching session focused on DeFi, Crypto & NFT startups.

Startups from over the world presented their ideas to investors and to get feedback and, most importantly - close the deals! Startups also had an opportunity to communicate with interested investors privately after the event to discuss their rounds and close the investment deals.

⏩Check out the results of the pitching session and get the recorded version in our latest blog post: https://bit.ly/3anpgv2

📢 InnMindsupports the call for European DeepTech companies

For the 8th time, EIT Digital Challenge is looking for the most innovative European #deeptech companies to help them grow internationally. Apply for the 2021 edition of our flagship competition and become the next European success story 🇪🇺

The best 3 companies will receive prizes totalling €250,000 to scale up their business 😊

⏩ Apply by 10 May: https://bit.ly/3ajOlH9

📊 Financial Model: What Investors Want To See

InnMind together with Finance PM organize a private workshop on the 22nd of April at 17:00 CET for premium startups from InnMind community.

The workshop is dedicated to the startup financial model and we will discuss such topics:
❓ What is a Financial Model? Where to start?
❓ Basic structure of the financial model
❓ Principles of working with the financial model
❓ The main mistakes when working with the financial model
❓ Financial metrics

🎤 The speaker is Anna Magiera, Senior Partner, Startups & Venture Business at Finance PM. She has 15 years of corporate, venture, and startup experience and a vast network in the CEE region.

Premium startups are allowed to listen to the workshop and ask questions to the expert and get valuable feedback about their business.

➕ If you want to join Premium Startup Community, please, register on InnMind and upgrade your profile here:
⏩ https://bit.ly/3sz6qaK

🌟 InnMind Training is one of the global conferences not to be missed

Want to share some achievement: InnMind offline event EU | Silicon Valley 5-days Entrepreneurship Training was listed in Entrepreneur's article as one of the best digital retail & e-commerce conferences not to be missed in 2021!😃

▶️ Read the article here: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/368724

🚀 Our 5-day Training organising together with Draper University is a really good place to get recourses and knowledge to boost your business.

⏩ Follow the link to learn the event program and apply: https://bit.ly/3sF6NAl

🔊 ❗️ Attention startup founders

InnMind partner, Kickstart, an ecosystem innovation platform that bridges the gap between startups, corporations, cities, foundations and universities to accelerate partnerships and deep tech innovation, looking for late-stage startups

Are you ready to enter into innovative commercial partnerships or pilot projects with leading corporations, institutions, foundations or cities to scale up your business in Switzerland?

If you are a later-stage tech startup in the fields of EdTech & NewWork, FinTech, Food & Retail Tech, HealthTech, SmartCity & Technology, CircularEconomy then apply now for Kickstart Innovation 2021! via the link:

⏩https://www.kickstart-innovation.com/home/what-we-offer/Startups.html

💼 Should investors stop taking "warm" intros?

Sarah Turner, angel investor & co-founder of angel investor network Academe, has published an article on Sifted about startup intros with investors.

Warm intro value is time economy when a person who knows what you are looking for, present startup to you. But these trust networks are small and this way you can miss the brilliant.

💡 That's why Sarah considers that the best way is the application form on the VCs' website. This was is also fair and transparent for everyone "as they have to use the same front door"

▶️ Read the whole article here: https://sifted.eu/articles/warm-intros/

For InnMind, a warm intro is a big part of our work and this way we help startup and investors find each other.

❓ So, want to hear investors from our network: do warm intros help you find the best startups or such startups come from other sources?

🎯 3 key factors in a startup pitch

Cedric Odje from Debiopharm shared several useful pieces of advice on how to make startup pitch more professional at one of the previous InnMind Pitching sessions.

Cedric mentioned that investors always ask about the differentiation factors, competitors’ landscapes and the end value. 3 answers to these questions will save investors’ time and will help you get better response rates after presenting your solution!

🔊 Turn on the sound to hear other pieces of advice

⏩ Watch the full recording of MedTech pitching session here https://bit.ly/3dGOoyV

🎯 65+ directories to promote your startup

InnMind gathered the 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! We have updated the list twice, excluded not working websites and added new resources.

You are welcome to use it! ⏩ https://bit.ly/3xgkQ3a

🔔We are excited to announce that our new platform will be launched in 3 days for all InnMind users! Stay tuned!! 🙌🙌🙌