🔊 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!! 🙌🙌🙌

2 more days to go!
👉If you believe in the potential of SocialMedia for networking and growing your business, in InnMind we do to! This is why our new platform provides users with the best features of Linkedin, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter all in one:

✅CONNECT with investors and startups.
✅GROW your business through investment and networking.
✅SHARE your content with potential investors.

📌Learn the different market analysis strategies and how to implement them on your startup with Anna Magiera, Finance PM Senior Partner, Startups & Venture Businesses.

👉3 types of market analysis for startups: 1. MarketSize, 2. MarketTrends, 3. Competitive landscape.

https://bit.ly/32OVSK1

💥Tomorrow we #launch the new #InnMind platform for all users. #JoinUs and we will help you grow your #startup to the next level.
👉Sign up for free here: https://bit.ly/3eq32tu

💥We are excited to announce that the new InnMind platform is now live!!!

👉Open the active funding round and active investors will be notified that you’re actively fundraising
👉Message and pitch to relevant investors directly on the platform
See who viewed your startup profile
👉Share updates about your startup in the feed, and see updates from other founders and investors
👉Better match-making algorithm is implemented: it analyses the parameters in your startup profile and matches them with the parameters of investors’ profiles. The max score is 500
👉Investors will be able to add your startup profile to their pipeline and even make soft commitments to invest directly on the platform

...And much more! Explore it yourself for free: https://bit.ly/32UmmK7

This is what Alina Kornienko, co-founder of InnMind member Quppy says about us! 👉How is InnMind helping you?

📌Quppy is a European fintech startup with over three years of impeccable financial expertise. The Quppy all-in-one contactless digital payment solution offers all kinds of financial services with traditional and digital funds. You can open a multicurrency IBAN account in Euro and British pounds in no more than 15 minutes using your mobile device only. Quppy supports instant SEPA operations. Quppy is currently working on prepaid cards launch, on gift cards purchase solution, recurrent bills payment!

✔️To find startups like Quppy and connect with investors, sign up for free here: https://bit.ly/3eNrjtL!

🚀🚀🚀 HERE WE GO AGAIN!🚀🚀🚀

🤝Meet thousands of the most disruptives internationals startups & Scaleups, accelerators, investors, corporates & Universities at Startup OLÉ 2021!
🗓From 8th to 10th September: Three days full of activities: matchmaking, pitch competition and the best networking in the Spanish way to share your passion!
📌InnMind will be participating as speakers in the event!

+Info: https://bit.ly/3eNSDIl

🚀🚀🚀What are you waiting for? StartupOLE where talent meets opportunities🚀🚀🚀

👉 Did you know that we are the leading deal-origination platform for startups and investors? Put your startup on the radar of active VCs and CVCs, connect, build relationships, and get funded.

✔️Become a part of the most promising professional network for free here: https://bit.ly/3t99H0E

👉Today we'd like to introduce you OGMO a startup on InnMind.

💻OGMO helps eCommerce companies to transform their websites into AugmentedReality. With the help of AI-powered 3D reconstruction, they make it easy and affordable for small and medium eCommerce companies to compete with large players globally through Augmented Reality.

📌Visit OGMO profile on the InnMind Platform here to learn more about them: https://bit.ly/3eTH82j

Meet Nelli Orlova, CEO at InnMind.

Nelli is our idea generator and driver, crazy positivist, passionate about dogs & startups. She launched her first startup when she was 19!! Nelli knows how to thrive through chaos and never gives up!