After a massive 2021 for European tech, we are seeing more and more of these big funds being announced by European VC’s – it’s a good sign of things to come for the year, fresh money boosting fresh innovation and ambition..
https://www.eu-startups.com/2022/02/amsterdams-connected-capital-closes-e154-million-fund-to-boost-european-b2b-saas-startups/?fbclid=IwAR245I4PXqVtk4TWuf8oZos9PpattMqxuM-ldGqSG3U7OSztXCcNJjbMDAQ

Hey GoGlobers!
The Tax season is a headache for many entrepreneurs in the US, especially if you started your first company. We want show you a simple way on how to file taxes yourself and invited out licenced Tax Advisor.
Join us!

✅ Following his fiery Twitter tirades, Bolt founder Ryan Breslow is no longer CEO — and he says it’s his choice

✅ The Eastern European Paradox: How a Troubled Region Generated Unicorns and Decacorns in 2021, and What to Expect this Year

✅ Vienna’s edtech unicorn GoStudent acquires UK-based Seneca Learning and Spanish Tus Media Group

✅ The major small business trends from 2500+ leaders worldwide: embracing digitalisation and thinking long term

✅ Startups Names Stay Strange As Bad Spelling Proliferates

Did wonder why some sales are closing better than others?
Well, some have a natural gift of selling but the vast majority do their homework well starting with preparation and prospecting. Prospect is an essential step to find, qualify leads, and identify triggers that can break the ice and let you build a relationship with your potential customers.
We talked about all this with Ken Ma.
Watch the podcast here.

Winning the hearts and minds of your audience at pitch competition is not enough, you also need to win the competition. The winner is always the only one! David decided to give the main tools and advice to get well prepared to pitch in front of your audience and win pitch competitions. This is a series of three podcasts on different pitching scenarios. We hope it would help your business win your pitch competition!
1. Pitch to Win Customers
2. Pitch to Win Competition
3. Pitch to Win Investors

Tokyo's startup ecosystem has continuously been expanding because of the digitalization in various industries even amidst COVID-19. Tokyo launched the "Tokyo Consortium” in 2020 with 220+ VCs, leading companies and universities etc, to enter the new era together with startups.

To discuss what is Japan Startup Ecosystem is like for international founders and the latest development in Japan, we invited Yuki Shirato to give us the most important details to know.

Yiki is the Managing Partner of www.yakumi.co as well as Corporate Attorney, Angel Investor, Startup Enthusiast based in Japan who live in many countries.
Watch here

We see the rise of international funding opportunities. How to capture the attention of global VCs, what are the triggers and criteria they have to invest in international startups?

We invited Oscar Ramos, an International VC, to share his insights and recommendations to help global founders fundraise.
Watch here

✅ Startup Pitch Tournament by Podium Star - Industry 4.0

✅ Have we hit peak unicorn?

✅ 7 Dangerous Mistakes to Avoid When Building an MVP

✅ SegmentStream nabs $2.7M to enable marketing analytics without cookies

✅ Biggest seed fund in the Baltic launches as region booms

✅ Destinus plans to fly a hydrogen-powered, hypersonic cargo craft with $29M seed round

✅ Ukraine and Belarus private equity and venture capital (PE & VC) market map

✅ Exclusive: Linguix Raises $1M to Help Spanish and Portuguese Speakers

✅ H20 Capital bets on seed capital with a second fund of US$65 million

✅ 40+ Black and mixed-race female founders in Europe

✅ Scandit, 150 million dollars to the Swiss unicorn of "Smart Data Capture" for retail

✅ After Record Year, Supply Chain Funding Shows No Signs of Breaking Down

✅ 10 European startups simplifying supply chains, according to VCs

Don't be fooled by all the deal announcements you see. Raising is still hard...
https://www.inc.com/bill-reichert/7-critical-factors-for-startups-raising-venture-capital.html?fbclid=IwAR2DmiR7QW2CliUmlRUkla-M_1Ec8AN_c-VFI0oRZgHsejPK95p0_XJ5bFg

Startups need to keep their Cap Tables in order during fundraising and afterward. It helps founders to understand her real ownership and dilution accounting for all SAFE, convertible notes, and equity investments. Igor Yarunov will cover the main topics and give examples of Cap Table calculations.
Igor is a Deputy Chief Investment Officer in Intema. He specialized in direct and venture investments, fin. modeling, structuring Experience. He has 12 years of experience in venture investments, business development, consulting in such companies as IIDF, Finstar, Embria, GPS ventures.

Denis Kalyshkin is holding a webinar on Cap Table with Igor Iarunov on Feb 16.

Join us here

Hey GoGlobers!
We are glad to announce the webinar before the International Women's Day: "Female founders: Does the discrimination still exist and how to address it?".
We would like to discuss discrimination. Does the discrimination against female founders still exists and how to address it?
At Go Global World we take it as a serious issue and we want to help bright minds among female founders to be able to focus on creating new value in the world.
Our speakers from around the world:
1. Svitlana Muzychenko, Founder at SMT (Brazil)
2. Elena Poughia, MD of Dataconomy Media (Germany)
3. Jessika Angarita, Co-Founder at PACTA (Canada and Columbia)
4. Anna Szymanowska, Founder of Fighter Shots (England)
5. Romy Sigl, Founder of COWORKINGSALZBURG Center for New Work (Austria).
Join us!

✅ VC ECONOMICS: WHY STARTUP VALUATIONS ARE ART WHILE DILUTION IS A SCIENCE

✅ 10 super promising Polish startups to keep an eye on in 2022!

✅ UK startups are loving angels instead

✅ RIDECO DRIVES UP EXPANSION WITH $20 MILLION SERIES A

✅ Specialist VC Launches a €50M Dual Strategy Fund to Back Startups The Future 5 of Chicago Tech, Q1 2022in the Baltics and Beyond

✅ SEC Eyes Big Changes That Could Affect Venture Investors And Growing Unicorn Herd

✅ You’re Not an Imposter. You’re Actually Pretty Amazing.

✅ The Future 5 of Chicago Tech, Q1 2022

✅ Singapore is opening the doors to Southeast Asian tech expansion

✅ How to Grow Your Business by 500%

✅ Top 10 Innovative Korean Startups in the Food and Beverage Industry

✅ DoorDash shares soar after posting record order numbers

Everyone is wondering how to raise capital and just very few really raise. On youtube, you may find much advice on fundraising, but hardly you can find what can work for you. At this talk, Ken Ma and Danil Kislinskiy want to change it and give practical methods to raise funding:

1. Are you ready to raise capital?
2. What are the fundable milestones for your raise?
3. Who do you start raising capital from?
4. How do you approach investors?
5. What about crowdfunding?
6. Do you update your investors?

Watch here https://youtu.be/cyRbW5dBk84

Hey GoGlobers,
Highline Beta and Avery Dennison are thrilled to announce AD Stretch, a non-dilutive and fully-funded commercial pilot opportunity with Avery Dennison.

If your startup is working on addressing sustainability and value chain challenges in packaging and labelling, click here to learn more: ​​https://bit.ly/3uOeeKD

Applications are now open and can be submitted until Sunday, March 20 at 11:59pm GMT. There will also be three info sessions throughout the application process where startups will have the opportunity to meet with the Avery Dennison and Highline Beta teams and ask them questions directly on the following dates:

Thursday, March 3rd at 9am GMT / 5pm SNST / 4am EST
(For startups in Asia Pacific)

Monday, March 7th at 10pm GMT / 7pm BRT / 5pm EST (For startups in Latin & North America)

Thursday, March 10th at 10am CST
(for startups in China, presented in Mandarin & English)

Hey GoGlobers!

Please take a look at our recent demo day of Batch 3 and meet the selected startup founders who did significant improvements in their pitching and strategy since the program started. We are glad to see them having direct communication with some of the interested global investors.

Also, our common network is there to help them raise their investments.

The following startups have participated in the Demo Day of Batch #3:

1. NexPage from Singapore🇸🇬

2. HyperC from the USA 🇺🇸

3. VPD Money (VPD Technology) from Nigeria🇳🇬

4. UpLyft from the USA 🇺🇸

https://youtu.be/STmvzmWle9A

Hi GoGlobers!
We hope you are well and safe!
We count on your understanding for the following request and please respond to it only if possible.

Several of our team members are currently in Ukraine and face money problems as most of the people in there. One of our team members Dmitry Prasolov and his family are now in Dnipro sheltering with other people after being evacuated from Kharkiv. They need help to evacuate his family and others to Europe.

We will be most grateful if you can help with any information or with a financial contribution. Our organization is free and unfortunately we are limited with financial resources.

Please see the banking details of Dmitry Prasolov to help him and other Ukrainian citizens near him:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T_JtZrTKNslZPJfTUksG5dLeS3Xu_xmW/view?usp=sharing

Also, these are his social media if you want personally contact him to help and support him.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dmitry.prasolov
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmitry-prasolov

Hey GoGlobers!

How startups from non-European countries enter the European market and "pack" everything correctly and immediately, from the point of view of Data privacy, both on the website and in the company's business processes.
How to get GDPR-Ready status simply and quickly, in just 48 (forty-eight) hours of work with the Defendocs service, using five simple tools and removing the risk of fines from the regulators already at the hypothesis testing stage.

We discussed all this and more with Sergey Kretsu, CEO and Co-Founder at GDPR Compliance DEFENDOCS LIMITED.

Watch the video here

VC Pitching Session for Ukrainian Startups

In the light of the ongoing world conflict, InnMind and the Untitled ventures continue supporting international startups and growing businesses. To support the startup teams from Ukraine who managed to relocate to a safe place and focus now on driving their company further in fundraising.

They invite vertical agnostic startups operating worldwide with the Ukrainian founding team to join us on the 23rd March at 17:00 CET on a dedicated VC Pitching Session.

Apply to Participate

Hi GoGlobers!
Exciting news! Let's catch up Mexico City. We invite you all to a networking meetup in Mexico City, if you are in the city. Can't wait to see you soon in person.
https://www.goglobal.world/event-details/Go-Global-World-MeetUp-in-Mexico-City

Hey GoGlobers!

China market, as a fast-constant growing market in gaming, has attracted more and more western companies to set up and expand their China reach.

With a contribution of $45.6 billion in revenues, China is by far the primary driver in Asia-Pacific regions which is the biggest region by game revenues, taking up around 26% of the Global Games Market in 2021. Owing to its massively mobile-first games, it was less impacted by COVID-19 in 2020 and indeed was a reverse growth upon that. There are more opportunities than challenges here though the Chinese government has lifted more strict rules in the market, which it becomes a major concern for most companies.

Upon the major impact of both Apple’s removal of IDFA policy and China’s strict policy in ISBN & Anti-addiction, Cherry Chen would love to share insights into how to enter China market by specifying its process, reasonable business terms, tips on finding the right partner.

Watch video here

Sequoia Capital are thrilled to introduce Arc, a seed-stage catalyst for founders. 

Receive an up-front investment of $1M and spend 8 weeks learning Company Design, the Sequoia way to start, build and scale enduring companies.

Learn more https://lnkd.in/eQzFXMKT and apply now for our European cohort https://seq.vc/arc (US coming soon).