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🚀 We've got €1M up for grabs. Will it be yours? "Good companies are built by extraordinary people," says Riivo Anton, Specialist VC's Lead Investor at #Latitude59, "Let us know about your extraordinary achievements!" Yes, indeed - L59 Pitch Competition is looking for extraordinary startups with a positive impact and a scalable product. Apply now, and show our investors from Estonian Business Angels Network (EstBAN) and Specialist VC what you've got! 🔥 Application link in the comments below! 🔥

I compiled a ranking with all institutional investors that did at least two investments in Swedish startups so far in 2024. There's an overall ranking, as well as sub rankings for pre-seed and later stages. Link in the comments. Most active overall: Almi Invest, Industrifonden, Norrsken VC & Norrsken Launcher, Chalmers Ventures, Antler, Y Combinator, byFounders, Partnerinvest Norr, Navigare Ventures, Propel Capital, and Gorilla Capital. If you believe a figure should be updated, please send me a message. (Ranking inspired by this one from Joseph Michael https://lnkd.in/de6jBdvx)

The Problem with Venture Capital by Naval Ravikant: Ever wondered why startups face so many hurdles despite having funding? Naval Ravikant breaks it down – from misaligned incentives to the pressure of rapid scaling. Funding isn't the silver bullet we think it is. PS. check out 🔔 for a winning pitch deck the template created by Silicon Valley legend, Peter Thiel https://lnkd.in/ejp-Bhnu

UK's iCOMAT Secures $22.5M in Funding, with NATO Innovation Fund Co-leading the Round iCOMAT, a trailblazer in advanced composite manufacturing, recently capped its Series A funding round, amassing $22.5 million. The funding initiative was spearheaded by 8VC, with the NATO Innovation Fund (NIF) playing a co-leading role. Additional support came from Syensqo Ventures along with contributions from returning investors like Velocity.Partners Venture Capital. https://lnkd.in/eSmuvpxG #iCOMAT #AdvancedCompositeManufacturing #SeriesA #FundingRound #22point5million #8VC #NATOInnovationFund #SyensqoVentures #VelocityPartnersVC #Investment #StartupFunding #ManufacturingTechnology #CompositeMaterials #AdvancedMaterials #MaterialScience #InnovationFunding #VCFunding #EarlyStageStartup #SeriesAFunding #InvestmentNews #TechFunding #TechStartup #ManufacturingStartup #ManufacturingNews #FundingNews #StartupNews #TechIndustryNews #MaterialsIndustry #MaterialsNews #BusinessNews

CEOs of exited startups often become angel investors. But what about CTOs? There's a new wave of successful founding CTOs who have become prolific angel investors. Here is a list of the top 12 French CTOs who became angel investors 🇫🇷 Olivier Bonnet Renaud Visage Sylvain Zimmer Quentin de Chivré Francis Nappez Julien Lemoine Alexandre Cognard Justin Ziegler Pierre-Baptiste B. Alexis L. Jean-Baptiste Aviat Joël Bentolila P.S.: this list and the number of investments are based on publicly available data from LinkedIn and Dealroom.co P.P.S: who did I forget? Please ping them in the comment section below.

📚💡Founders are often asked if they are building a tech company or tech-enabled company. Understanding this distinction and what kind of company they are building can guide some key decisions for founders. In this blog, Catalyst Fund venture builders Ngetha Mwangi and Kevin Rejko break down the differences and describe how this distinction can help founders make the right choices for their ventures: https://lnkd.in/dSDBHuBA #VentureBuilding #ClimateResilience Maelis Carraro, Maxime Bayen, Rasima Swarup, Javier Linares, Gabriel Abagalana, Valiullah Hashmi, Charles I. Nweke, Sydney Thiam, Maureen K.

Bind Fire is taking its first steps into the US market! For the next two months we will be based in New York at the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA). All this is possible thanks to the support of the ITA - Italian Trade Agency, which has selected the most promising Italian startups to guide them towards potential partnerships with companies and investors, and to expose them to the dynamic innovation ecosystem of New York. Bind Fire has developed and patented an innovative clean agent fire suppression system that does not dissipate the potential energy of the gaseous propellant, thus significantly minimizing the cost and carbon footprint of the system. The market for gas-based fire suppression is $3 billion and growing at 4%.

✨ More than asking what you can do with Sibill as an SME, you should ask what you can't do. Sibill is one of the startups in our Investments portfolio, created by Mattia Montepara, Lorenzo Liguori, and Dario Prencipe and it acts like a "Swiss Army knife" for companies to seamlessly, quickly, and automatically manage their financial operations. To give you a better introduction to Sibill, we gave Mattia a call, and here’s what he had to say! 📞

REASON #6 to APPLY to THE HERITAGE GROUP ACCELERATOR: We Move Fast, Even for HardTech How do we achieve our mission of scaling startups like yours in 13 weeks? We curate panels of speakers, targeted networking events and workshops to connect our founders with professionals who can help propel them forward – all with the goal of making you the most well-rounded HardTech founder on the planet. Let’s accelerate together https://lnkd.in/ddujDVbc

Is the value of patents a precise science? No. Each day we have more data on the value of patents though. With reliable data points we get closer and closer to precision.