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🚀 Here's the continuation of the journey to triumph in the Pitch Black competition! Part of Startup Festival Malta, proudly presented by Malta Enterprise. Stay tuned for more info on our LinkedIn page: 👉 https://lnkd.in/e-3REWez Pitching Day - October 6th 🎤 • Each of the 10 Finalists will pitch for 3 minutes. • No visual aids or additional tools allowed. • Finalists can use a handheld blackboard and chalk if desired. • Judges will pose questions after the pitch. • The audience gets to ask one question, determined by a voting mechanism. Regulations 📜 • The pitch presenter must be a company employee. • For Best Female-Led Start Up finalists, a female co-founder or employee must pitch. • Finalists must be physically present in Malta – no remote pitches on the big day. Mark These Dates 🗓️ • August 25th - Application Deadline • September 1st - Top 20 Finalists provide financial projections • September 8th - Financial projection submission closes • September 13th - Announcement of Top 10 finalists Discover more about the Pitch Black competition here: 👉 https://lnkd.in/e2zXu28k 🚀

At Haven Green Investment Management we get involved with and bring to market exciting opportunities to allocate across the capital structure into Funds, SMAs, Co-Investments and Direct Deals across these Alternative /Private Markets asset classes:   ·      Venture Capital & Private Equity ·      Private Credit ·      Real Estate/Direct Property ·      Infrastructure ·      Natural Resources/Agriculture   We are currently undertaking live capital raises in these strategies:   1.   Private Credit ~ US Lower / Mid-Market Senior Secured Loans (Fund VII), 2.   Venture Capital ~ AI / ML concentration (Fund II), global focus on AI technology and machine learning. 3.   Venture Capital ~ Life Sciences concentration (Fund IV), targeting opportunities in EU/UK & USA. 4.   Venture Capital ~ Health Tech concentration (Fund I) in Europe from a prestigious European VC firm. 5.   Real Estate ~ Unique Tech-Powered Granular Resi-Aggregation entity concentrating on the EU/UK. #VentureCapital #PrivateEquity #PrivateCredit #RealEstate #DirectProperty #Infrastructure #NaturalResources #Agriculture #CapitalRaising #BusinessDevelopment #AlternativeInvestments #PrivateMarkets #PrivateCapital #InstitutionalInvestment #FundSelection #AssetAllocation #Funds #CoInvestment #Primaries #DirectDeals

Next week, our Founder and CEO, Paul McIntosh, will be delivering a talk through Tribe Global Ventures on 12th June during London Tech Week.   Paul will address Australasian founders interested in entering the UK market. During the talk, delegates will learn how to start selling in the UK and the differences between the Australian/New Zealand and UK markets. Paul will cover: ✔ Re-finding product market fit; ✔ Essential activities for planning market entry; ✔ How to formulate a solid Go-to-market (GTM) strategy. #GTMStrategy #GoToMarket #UKMarketEntry

I'm looking forward to lively debate on the topic of developing successful #creative #entrepreneurship #ecosystems in this first Creative Islands Forum, with insightful input from colleagues FAZEEL NAJEEB, Peter Rudge, Johanna Kouzmine-Karavaïeff (Suo), Professor Khawar Hameed, and others. Please follow the link below for further details of the forum and how to join the debate.

When did you last hear proper feedback? Direct, Constructive, Actionable. Having attended numerous demo days across the years, I have found the most value adding sessions are the ones where pitches are evaluated and feedback is prioritised. That's why I ran my Demo Days in Europe with time allocated for feedback ONLY. Why? If your pitch was delivered effectively, your audience will be more than keen to overcome any inertia, to reach out to you directly for any questions and follow ups. The responses from founders were 100% positive, because there is a clear value add for the time invested. That's why I love Pitch Me Baby! 5 minutes pitch, 4 minutes of instant feedback, no QnA. Simple and effective. Kickstarted by my good friends Maciej Majewski and Maciej 🇵🇱 "Mattia" 🇮🇹 Koltonski at Accelpoint, they have now organised a whole series of feedback-only pitch events across 6 cities in #Poland, and expanding across Europe to Milan and beyond. With that, I am happy to announce that Turn Off Turn On Ventures is collaborating with Accelpoint to bring to the shores of Singapore, Pitch Me Baby Singapore / Vol 1. 16 November 1800 - 2000 WEWORK, 71 Robinson Road Join me for an evening to get to meet founders and investors from Europe like Accelpoint and PKO Bank Polski. Better yet, register to pitch! Click the link to register now, and I'm happy to chat to provide more information. https://lnkd.in/dz5ip5SK

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💥 Highly Recommended Post for Investors & Founders: We love this Post! Our Pubs in the UK are perfect social environments to network and meetup with others. I fondly remember meeting some very interesting people in Pub environments during 2013, after moving back to London after a long spell in Bristol. You won't believe it, but at that time, Bitcoin was starting to take off & some very interesting folks would gather around tables in North London Pubs, to explore & discuss this uncanny new Cryptocurrency, which was starting to evolve at the time. If my mind serves me correctly, BTC was still trading around $80 to $250 BTC, before it spiked to about $1,300 BTC. The thing that amazed me was the people I met were from all walks of life, equally fascinated about a digital asset out of nowhere, introduced to our global ecosystem by someone or entity called Satoshi! I took what I learned from these Pub gatherings about Bitcoin & moved to Barcelona, where I participated in panel speaking events & in Madrid at co-working hubs, gave talks at IESE Business school and eventually founded Blockchain Company whilst living in a Barcelona Hostel from 2014 to 2017. It was whilst living at the Blackswan Hostel with the only possession I had, my iMac, that I came back to the hostel one evening and told everyone I had just raised a first seed round of 1.25 million euros, from a Family Office who shared our vision to help create an Ecosystem for the 4th Industrial Revolution of Technologies. Subsequently, our small team I put together was invited by the AMF " Autorite Marche Financiere " in Paris, to discuss our Utility Token project in 2018, as they were working on developing a Framework for Initial Coin Offerings to pass through their Senate. We were invited back in 2019 for almost 3 hrs to determine if our project would qualify as a Utility Token & not a " Security Token " use case. We passed that litmus test & then spent 3.5 years going through a lengthy regulatory process, in spite of Covid-19, banking crisis and crypto FTX collapse setbacks. We finally got approval for our 4IR Utility Token launch in January 2023, the only 3rd utility token to be approved by a major EU Regulator. Great things can happen in Pubs over a Pint 🍻 So go ahead and follow your instincts, because you never know who you'd meet, what you'd learn and what can happen 🤓 Morpheus thinks 🌿 💥 Ask LinkedIn AI right here about 4IRGPT.com and how it works. Someone needs to know what you know more than they know. Trade Your Knowledge today 🌿 Steven Bartlett Linas Beliūnas Jason Calacanis Chamath Palihapitiya Salim Ismail Yinka Adegoke FCA Steven George-Hilley Brian Armstrong Anessa Allen Santos, David O. Sacks Arthur Hayes Kemi Badenoch C.F.R Chris Dixon Tom Bilyeu James Caan CBE Max Chafkin Caroline Hyde Edward Ludlow Andrew Ross Sorkin Catherine Wood Richard Branson Craig Pearce Chris Tottman Clara Shih Dr. Martha Boeckenfeld Sara-Louise Porter Peter H. Diamandis Tucker Carlson Tom Crinks

"Taylor Swift is hands-down the best CEO of 2023 for me", said JCal in the latest All-In podcast as they gave away "The Bestie Awards! Recapping the best and worst of 2023". Here are my takes on the best CEO, best investor, and favorite media of 2023 along with the bestie's takes. My views: - Best CEO: N Chandrasekaran (for his incredible successes leading the Tata Sons including the very complicated #airindia-Vistara-Air Asia merger, #tatamotors stock turn-around, #tatatechnologies IPO, etc.) - Best Investor: Vinod Khosla ("It's all about being disciplined at the right times"). Along with generating insane returns for their very early bet on Open AI, #khoslaventures completed one of the largest funding rounds by a VC firm this year, defying startup slump, which will give them the dry powder to invest at great valuations now - Favorite media: WTF Podcast by Nikhil Kamath. Truly one of the most amazing new media ventures that captured my attention this year Bestie's views: Best CEO: - JCal: Taylor Swift (unparalleled tour revenue, reinventing music business, etc.) #taylorswift - Friedberg: Sam Altman (for changing the AI landscape with Open AI/ Chat GPT) #samaltman - Sacks: Jensen Huang (for guiding #nvidia through a tremendous year) - Chamath: Satya Nadella (for adding $1T+ in #msft market cap, closing Activision deal, retaining max stake in #openai) - My view:   Best Investor: - Sacks and Friedberg: Bill Ackman (for timing the bond market trade perfectly, similar to his COVID trade) - Chamath: #citadel / Ken Griffin (for consistently compounding returns at 15%+ CAGR, almost uncorrelated to market) - JCal: Arthur Dantchik (co-founder of Susquehanna International Group, which owns ~15% of ByteDance, #tiktok's parent co)   Favorite Media: - Friedberg: The Idea Factory book (how Bell Labs helped usher in a new wave of tech innovation) - Sacks: Geopolitics podcasts such as The Duran, Judge Napolitano, and Daniel Davis - Chamath: Anything that Taylor Swift did this year - JCal: #succession finale Let me know what you think as well we were wrap up this year! See the full video at https://lnkd.in/eHEKNMQB

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