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Earlier this week 👀 at the Deep Tech Jam we heard business building stories interwoven with “the three things I wish I knew”, including: 🍓 different people take you from zero - 1, 1 - n, and n - n2 🍓when the No. 8 wire approach needs to expire 🍓the concept of MVP as it relates to deep tech (spoiler….it doesn’t!) 🍓focus focus focus 🍓stamping out “she’ll be ‘right” kiwi mentality 🍓creating wins out of the lab 🍓adapting to market conditions 🍓 a hole in the team is better than a bad hire A MASSIVE thank you to our story tellers! ⚡ @Fady Mishriki - Founder and ex CEO at PowerbyProxi 🔬 Rob Shaddock - ex CTO for Motorola and TE Connectivity 🧪 Sean Simpson - Founder and Chief Scientific Officer LanzaTech ⚕️ Hanie Y. - CCO and Chief of Staff Alimetry David Beard, Cassie McAdams, Belinda Yeo, Nathan Bell, Xander Beard, Fi Foster, Mark Stuart, Mark Vivian, Jason Graham, Millie McKelvie, Selena Chhit

🥕 Calling all Kiwi Sales & Marketing Operators 🥕 📅 Wednesday 4 September 2024 ⏰ 12 pm Join Movac Operating Partner - Serge van Dam and Co-Founder of Prosaic - Nick Houldsworth for a 60-minute online primer to nut through a practical 'carrots and sticks' approach for building and scaling effective channel and distribution partnerships. For further information and to register please use this link https://bit.ly/3WHZdGn Mark Vivian Mark Stuart David Beard Jason Graham Fi Foster Cassie McAdams Millie McKelvie Nathan Bell Selena Chhit Belinda Yeo Serge van Dam

Congratulations to the Yabble™ team for their acquisition by a listed UK company! YouGov is an ideal home for Yabble as it takes on its next stage of growth. We wish the team all the best!

A deep tech founder's journey includes scaling false summits, endless rabbit holes, longer amounts of time, larger amounts of capital, surprise setbacks, tough calls, and hopefully, BIG wins. In other words, it is f*cking hard. That's why we are bringing the deep tech Founder/CEO community together with a few people who have travelled this road before. Hear raw stories, practical tips and encouragement for the journey on the topic of 🎤 'The biggest challenges of growing a deep tech business: the three things I wish I knew' from: ⚡ Fady Mishriki - Founder and ex CEO at PowerbyProxi 🔬 Rob Shaddock - ex CTO for Motorola and TE Connectivity 🧪 Sean Simpson - Founder and Chief Scientific Officer LanzaTech ⚕️ Hanie Y. - CCO and Chief of Staff Alimetry Event details Date: Tuesday 13 August Time: 2.00 pm - 6.30 pm Location: Grid Auckland / John Lysaght Coworking Startup space Auckland. Further details and the event registration page can be found here - https://bit.ly/3A5sN0Q Tickets are limited. We are proud to be delivering this event with KiwiNet. Movac is a full lifecycle venture investor, investing in companies from pre-seed through to Series C and beyond, across deep tech, hardware and software. Currently, Movac has $40m reserved for deep tech companies from the pre-seed stage. Our current investments in this fund include Bspkl, Miruku, RespirAq and Wellumio, and prior deep tech investments include Mint Innovation, Alimetry, PowerbyProxi, Dawn Aerospace, NanoLayr and Aroa Biosurgery Limited. Our goal is to generate the next wave of iconic Kiwi companies! David Beard, Cassie McAdams, May Low, James Hutchinson, Belinda Yeo, Xander Beard, Fi Foster, Jason Graham, Millie McKelvie, Mark Stuart, Mark Vivian, Phil McCaw, Nathan Bell, Selena Chhit, Serge van Dam.

A deep tech founder's journey includes scaling false summits, endless rabbit holes, longer amounts of time, larger amounts of capital, surprise setbacks, tough calls, and hopefully, BIG wins. In other words, it is f*cking hard. That's why we are bringing the deep tech founder/CEO community together with a few people who have travelled this road before. Hear raw stories, practical tips and encouragement for the journey on the topic of 🎤 'The biggest challenges of growing a deep tech business: the three things I wish I knew' from: ⚡ Fady Mishriki - Founder and ex CEO at PowerbyProxi 🔬 Rob Shaddock - ex CTO for Motorola and TE Connectivity 🧪 Sean Simpson - Founder and Chief Scientific Officer LanzaTech ⚕️ Hanie Y. - CCO and Chief of Staff Alimetry Tuesday 13 August, 2-7pm, Auckland. Further details in the event registration page in the comments below. Tickets are limited. We are proud to be delivering this event with KiwiNet. David Beard, Cassie McAdams, May Low, James Hutchinson, Belinda Yeo, Xander Beard, Fi Foster, Jason Graham, Millie McKelvie, Mark Stuart, Mark Vivian, Phil McCaw, Nathan Bell, Selena Chhit, Serge van Dam. Movac is a full lifecycle venture investor, investing in companies from pre-seed through to Series C and beyond, across deep tech, hardware and software. Currently, Movac has $40m reserved for deep tech companies from the pre-seed stage. Our current investments in this fund include Bspkl, Miruku, RespirAq and Wellumio, and prior deep tech investments include Mint Innovation, Alimetry, PowerbyProxi, Dawn Aerospace, NanoLayr and Aroa Biosurgery Limited. Our goal is to generate the next wave of iconic kiwi companies!

A deep tech founder's journey includes scaling false summits, endless rabbit holes, longer amounts of time, larger amounts of capital, surprise setbacks, tough calls, and hopefully, BIG wins. In other words, it is f*cking hard. That's why we are bringing the deep tech founder/CEO community together with a few people who have travelled this road before. Hear raw stories, practical tips and encouragement for the journey on the topic of 🎤 'The biggest challenges of growing a deep tech business: the three things I wish I knew' from: ⚡ Fady Mishriki - Founder and ex CEO at PowerbyProxi 🔬 Rob Shaddock - ex CTO for Motorola and TE Connectivity 🧪 Sean Simpson - Founder and Chief Scientific Officer LanzaTech ⚕️ Hanie Y. - CCO and Chief of Staff Alimetry Tuesday 13 August, 2-7pm, Auckland. Further details in the event registration page in the comments below. Tickets are limited. We are proud to be delivering this event with KiwiNet. David Beard, Cassie McAdams, May Low, James Hutchinson, Belinda Yeo, Xander Beard, Fi Foster, Jason Graham, Millie McKelvie, Mark Stuart, Mark Vivian, Phil McCaw, Nathan Bell, Selena Chhit, Serge van Dam. Movac is a full lifecycle venture investor, investing in companies from pre-seed through to Series C and beyond, across deep tech, hardware and software. Currently, Movac has $40m reserved for deep tech companies from the pre-seed stage. Our current investments in this fund include Bspkl, Miruku, RespirAq and Wellumio, and prior deep tech investments include Mint Innovation, Alimetry, PowerbyProxi, Dawn Aerospace, NanoLayr and Aroa Biosurgery Limited. Our goal is to generate the next wave of iconic kiwi companies!

It was a day of huge energy at the Ministry of Awesome's Electrify Conference! A place where females building businesses come to see role models, hear how others have failed and picked themselves up and learn tips from those who have done it before. If you see it, you can be it! We loved hearing from Movac Operating Partner Serge van Dam & Brooke Roberts on risk taking, Brianne West on business AND impact, and her next venture, Anna Curzon's tips on ways of being, Amber Taylor's business build and the global demand for education on indigenous culture story, Nicola O'Rourke on GTM for CPG, and the going offshore panel! Our own Investment Manager Cassie McAdams joined a panel with other sponsor funds, GD1 (Global From Day One), Even Capital and Punakaiki Fund and New Zealand Trade and Enterprise to talk about 'how to get ready for investment'. Congratulations to all of the women who pitched their business as part of the Electrify Accelerator on Tuesday. You have come such a long way in a few short months. We look forward to watching your journey. Big ups to Marian Johnson and the Ministry of Awesome team for this important work! 👏🏽👌🏽 Nathan Bell, Serge van Dam, Cassie McAdams, Millie McKelvie, Fi Foster, Mark Vivian, Jason Graham, Mark Stuart, David Beard, Xander Beard, Belinda Yeo, Selena Chhit,

🎉 Calling all Wellington-based SaaS operators! 🎉 We have 2 free tickets to the 2nd International SaaS Day Party this Thursday 20th June at Dockside Wellington up for grabs! Be one of the first two people to comment on this post, and we'll get in touch with you to claim your tickets. Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity! 🚀 Mark Vivian Mark Stuart David Beard Jason Graham Phil McCaw Fi Foster Millie McKelvie Cassie McAdams Nathan Bell Selena Chhit Belinda Yeo #SaaSDay #Wellington #FreeTickets #TechEvent

🗒 Last week we hosted an online primer on "Marketing and AI" which addressed practical approaches to exploit technology and automation to get '100 Marketing Interns' 🗒 A huge thank you to our speakers, who shared with our 100 marketing leaders in attendance, how they are actively exploiting AI to scale their marketing programmes: ⭐ Zheng Li - VP Marketing, Raygun ⭐ Greg Stephenson - Chief Marketing Officer, LawVu ⭐ Dulan Perera - Demand Generation, Re-Leased Big thanks as always, to our host and Movac Operating Partner Serge van Dam. If you are keen to get started on your AI journey but not sure where to begin check out these resources below: 🔗 Hubspot Industry Survey - http://bit.ly/4aTdiWE 🔗 Tool directory to inspire you - https://bit.ly/4ef79Xy 🔗 Courses and how-to guides - https://bit.ly/4cgDtaR 🔗 Prompt Library - https://bit.ly/4ecKuuZ For information on upcoming events within our Sales & Marketing Chapter, check out the lineup - https://bit.ly/3yRxqem Mark Vivian David Beard Jason Graham Mark Stuart Fi Foster Cassie McAdams Millie McKelvie Nathan Bell Belinda Yeo Selena Chhit

Happening today at noon! Online. Register at the link for dial in details.