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🚨 We are one week away from our chat with David Kestenbaum, a remarkable investor and entrepreneur whose journey has taken him from building a $1 billion e-commerce business for AB InBev to co-founding a groundbreaking precision agriculture startup that just raised a $7M Seed Round led by Main Sequence and Horizons Ventures. Investing & company building is at the core of David's expertise, and he'll shed light on his corporate venture experience, on how he’s building his angel investing portfolio, and advice to new angel investors. This conversation will be moderated by Ileana Gonzalez, CEO of Tech Bloc. Find the link to RSVP in the comments 👇

If you want to get perspectives on the current state of early stage venture investing, join me and a panel of other investors as we give our take and provide perspectives and tips for founders looking to raise. https://lnkd.in/dFbbEJDM

Learn more about The Idea Village Team and the VILLAGEx accelerator on November 2nd!

Getting investors to travel is hard. When it comes to Demo Day, regional UK and European accelerators based outside the principal pools of venture capital (London, Berlin, Paris....) are at a disadvantage. So, accelerators: here's a radical solution: Take your cohort showcase to where the money is! Bring your cohort to London, and we do the rest with a fully managed Demo Day program. Pitchflix is the company that brings you rev, the VC reverse pitch series for pre-seed to series A founders; warp, the accelerator reverse pitch series for the earliest-stage founders; and now DDHQ so that at the end of the accelerator program, the cohort has an opportunity to engage with genuine investors.

First funding round ✅ We officially closed an equity round with our VC and Angel Investors after 3 years building Kickbite. A huge thanks to the large pool of business angels (the backbone of early stage startups, you guys rock!!!!!!) and to our lead VC investor Backbone (that name actually makes sense Jan Claudio Muñoz 🤝) for the continuous trust and support! The last 3 years have been the most rewarding. Some quick facts: ✅ +150 monthly active users with a stickiness of +60% ✅ The trust of D2C category leaders such as Athletic Greens or Ankerkraut GmbH ✅ Tracked and analysed +60 Million website sessions in 2023 alone (What a crazy number) ✅ Achieved growth every year despite the challenging economics + a beta product until September 2023 To name a few, big thanks to: BackBone Ventures, Radboud Langenhorst, Ruurd van der Weide, Sjoerd van Berkel, Hugo Suidman, Daniel Schulz, Maren Frey, Andreas Burike, Matthias Frost, Mark Hoffmann, Daniel Offermann, Christian Terborg, Haike Spek, Dr. Hans J. Dohrmann, Nicolas Pless, Joris Willekens, Constantijn Weytingh, Ardan Bousché, Pawel Wierzbicki

Exciting News from Kickbite! We're proud to announce the closing of an equity round with our VC and angel investors, marking a key milestone after three years of hard work. A huge shoutout to our team in Kyiv, whose resilience has been the cornerstone of our success, especially through challenging times. Volodymyr Tereshchenko & Denis Tsvietkov Special thanks to our business angels and our lead VC, Backbone, for their unwavering support. Your trust fuels our journey. Some of our Innovations at Kickbite: AI Click and Impression Attribution Model 🚀 : Revolutionizing how upper-funnel channels are valued by merging data-driven attribution with media mix modeling. This integration acknowledges the true value of each channel. Profitability Module 💸 : We're advancing beyond traditional ROAS metrics enabling optimizing ad spend for profitability. This strategic pivot ensures that every dollar spent is an investment toward sustainable growth. Sidekick AI 🤖 : combining high-quality data with advanced AI to provide automated, actionable recommendations for smarter decision-making. #Kickbite #Innovation #AI #DataDriven #ProfitabilityFocus

Getting investors to travel is hard. When it comes to Demo Day, regional UK and European accelerators based outside the principal pools of venture capital (London, Berlin, Paris....) are at a disadvantage. So, accelerators: here's a radical solution: Take your cohort showcase to where the money is! Bring your cohort to London, and we do the rest with a fully managed Demo Day program. Pitchflix is the company that brings you rev, the VC reverse pitch series for pre-seed to series A founders; warp, the accelerator reverse pitch series for the earliest-stage founders; and now DDHQ so that at the end of the accelerator program, the cohort has an opportunity to engage with genuine investors.

Capital Engine announces strategic partnership with Black Dog Venture Partners, hosts of the VC Fast Pitch networking event, connecting startups with top investors. Capital Engine® powering online Capital Markets Black Dog Venture Partners VC Fast Pitch #VCFastPitch #capitalengine #venturecapital #strategicpartnerships #startupfunding Zach Gerland Scott Kelly

📣 Early-stage founders, January Ventures wants to hear from you! Our friends at January Ventures are building on years of research and kicking off their 5th annual company-building survey to understand what founders are experiencing. They're gathering data about: 📊 What it's like operating in the current environment 🚧 The challenges you're facing 🙌🏽 How the venture community can better support you Help them out by taking the survey here:  https://lnkd.in/gYZ9AtNN

Startups at NICF Investor Summit! 🚀 Meet Mohtashim Ali, Founder, and Maryam Joumaa, Co-founder of SalamKidsTV, who will be pitching their venture at the Investor Summit! 👋🎤 Tune in to the video to learn about their venture! 🎧