If you want to know more: 

⚡️ How the new reality helps form a meritocratic society; 
⚡️ About the recent Alchemists' program in Europe (with Siemens is an anchor LP) and going all-virtual; 
⚡️ About differences in European and Silicon Valley entrepreneurial culture. 
 
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Founder's Guide to the TOP U.S. Accelerator ALCHEMIST: RAVI BELANI

Watch the video and learn how to grow the angels club and why the "Learning by doing" approach also works for investors. We talked about angel investing shifting to digital, education for investors, the average ticket of a seed round. Luigi mentioned the growing governmental support for innovators in Italy and the EU in general - in particular, fiscal deduction on startups investments and recently established Fund-of-funds. 
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Luigi Amati - one of the founders of Italian Angels for Growth, the largest angel group in Italy, and the President of Business Angels Europe. Chairman of META Ventures, an investment company with over €100 ml under management, of which over €60 ml has already been invested in more than 60 companies. With more than 25 years’ worth of expertise in research, innovation, and venture capital, Luigi Amati has a unique perspective on the overall entrepreneurial ecosystem.

How to Pitch up to 45 000 Business Angels at a time? LUIGI AMATI

Today we talk to Kinga Stanislawska, General Partner at Experior Venture Fund. Kinga is eager to invest in scale-ups and growth, pure software with strong ML/AI in SaaS, including software deep tech, e-commerce, big-data-driven companies across all verticals.

In our fifth vlog, together with Mrs. Stanislawska we talked about women in VC and the Community of European Women in VC (evf.com.pl/en/european-women-vc) initiated by Kinga and currently unites female VCs from more than 20 countries. Moreover, Kinga Stanislawska shared her vision on the future of VC and funding, priorities, and trends they are following with Experior Venture Fund, innovations to be supported by the European Commission via the EU Innovation Council and EIC Accelerator (https://ec.europa.eu/easme/en/eic-acc...) and strong personalities trends.

Join us as we talk about how to fundraise on Zoom, how VC follows their portfolio, and recent news about tech events during the Q-time.

Why Every European Innovator Should Care about EU Innovation Council: KINGA STANISLAWSKA

Our special guest is Vitaly M Golomb (golomb.net) - Managing Partner at GS Capital (gscap.co) and a founding partner of HP Tech Ventures. Expert on technology venture. Obsessed with the future of EV/AV mobility. A frequent speaker and the author of Accelerated Startup.

In this chat, Vitaly M Golomb shares his vision on the future of mobility, provide some insights on how investors life in Silicon Valley changed and give us some VC market predictions.

Join us as we talk about opportunities & industries to watch after the outbreak, advice for CEOs and CFOs for their business, and how to stay positive with the new realities.

The Life of Silicon Valley Investors in a New Reality, the Future of Mobility: VITALY M. GOLOMB

Today we talked to Adam Niewiński, General Partner at OTB Ventures (www.otb.vc), which is a leading VC firm in the CEE investing in early growth, post-productstart-ups that are developing unique technologies (cybersecurity, AI, Big Data, IoT, robotics, various cloud and SaaS verticals, and Fintech). 

Join us as we talk about the new OTB Ventures fund of € 100 million raised in January 2020, importance of joining Draper Venture Network, and opportunities in the CEE region.

About guest: Adam has over 18 years of experience as an entrepreneur and senior executive and has been an angel investor for over a decade. He shared his thoughts about areas that have grown during the Q-time, vision on trends that may be interesting for the VC funds, future investments via Zoom and IP related startups coming from Academia.

How to Benefit from Draper Venture Network & Raise Funds from the Largest VC in CEE: ADAM NIEWINSKI

Our new guest Hambardzum Kaghketsyan is a Partner at SmartGateVC, Customer development professional, formerly Draper University EIR.

With Hambardzum we’ve talked about new opportunities for Eastern European startups in California, effective communication with investors for founders, angels & demons of venture capital investing, and lessons learned from Tim Draper. 

SmartGateVC is a Silicon Valley pre-seed VC with offices also in LA and Yerevan (backed by Tim Draper and other high profile entrepreneurs and VCs) and focuses on deep tech companies in Eastern Europe. Their co-investors/follow on investors include True Ventures, Foundation Capital, YC, Sierra Ventures, Baidu, etc. 

Hero House Glendale (California, USA) opportunity for eastern European startups: https://bit.ly/37j1IVn

The hidden key for founders to successful communication with investors: HAM KAGHKETSYAN

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