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This week's Steelhead post is live, and it's a special, transatlantic edition 🇺🇸 🌊 🇫🇷 Last week I moderated and co-hosted an event in Paris with 4 successful French founders with significant US experience. The event was called Cross, Land, Expand: Winning in the US as a French Startup. We explored YC, Fundraising, Hiring, Selling, and M&A, all with a US focus. This post explores the key lessons learned from the event, including: 🚀 Is YC still worth it? 💰 How to run a good fundraising process and differences between US & European VCs 🇺🇸 Tips for selling in the US as a non-US-based startup 🎉 Lessons learned from hosting an event like this Huge thanks to my amazing co-hosts Sébastien Boyer Jean-Yves Stephan Olivier Moindrot and Laurent Jolie! https://lnkd.in/eUvgs6VW

📣 Coming to Slush? Check Business Finland side events on 20-21 Nov ▶ foreign companies & investors are welcome to collaborate with the Finnish companies & ecosystems: 20 Nov: Climate tech for built environment – go-to-market 20 Nov: Startup in Finland 20 Nov: How to Engage with Leading Companies' Ecosystems 2.0 20 Nov: Finnish Quantum Tech and Investor matchmaking 21 Nov: Innovating your next Big Thing in Finland 21 Nov: New Business from Remote Sensing Data – Investors and Companies Get Together #EENCanHelp

Inventures 2024 is just around the corner! Come and join me, Iran Karimian, Clinton Senkow, EMBA, Zack Storms and Andrea Barzetti at our session, Playbooks for Growth: Innovative Approaches for Scaling Start-Ups, while you're there. #Inventures2024

Come check out our CEO pitch!

Shared with me by our friends at Oxentia. Deadline approaching. 🚨 Seeking startups interested in pitching at a demo day they are organising with partners at Accelerate Estonia.     On October 1st (4-6PM), Oxentia and Accelerate Estonia are hosting a Pitch Day to find the most promising UK startups that are facing regulatory barriers to growth. Looking for companies that could benefit from Estonia’s fast and agile regulatory environment to help move their business and product development forward.    Benefit for startups  -Test and validate their solutions in a supportive environment.  -Gain a streamlined path to scaling across the EU.  -Connect with industry experts, regulators, and potential partners. 🚨Application deadline: *extended* to 17th September Apply here: https://lnkd.in/eiDn5ui6

This is a great opportunity to get face time with the Bazaar founders and also learn from other early-stage companies. Bazaar Technologies + Endeavor Pakistan will be hosting these sessions on a monthly basis, shortlisting themes based on the feedback from founders. The idea is to address the most common pain points and have candid discussions on how to overcome these. Founders can learn from the path that Hamza Jawaid & Saad Jangda took and how they solved issues like fundraising, scaling, surviving a downturn as well as other tactical challenges. #Payitforward #MultiplierEffect

Happy National Day to all my new and old Swedish connections celebrating tomorrow 🇸🇪🥳 To mark the occasion, I wanted to share some stats and facts about the Swedish startup ecosystem: 🚀 Swedish startups have a total valuation of 239 billion euros. 🚀 Sweden has produced 41 unicorns. 🚀 Last year, Swedish startups drew in 4.7 billion euros in VC investments. 🚀 74 percent of the Swedish investments went to impact companies. 🚀🌏 Stockholm ranks first globally for climate tech funding. 🚀 Sweden is the 4th most most important European start up ecosystem. 🇸🇪🤝🇬🇧 Swedish companies have created nearly 23,400 jobs in the UK in the last decade – out of which 3,500 in London. Quite impressive, I'd say! I hope to help even more Swedish companies grow in London in the coming years 🥳🇸🇪🇬🇧 P.S. Did I miss anything? And what would you say is the best thing about the Swedish startup ecosystem? 🤔

I felt sorry when I heard their pitch So many great startups. Exciting to listen to Ukrainian Tech companies pitching for investors. They impressed me. But, many also made me sad. Their presentations where too complicated for the audience. The investor sitting next to me said: "Did you understand this?". I looked at the person my other side. She was shaking her head as a big question mark. We did not understand. If you want to pitch to me, please help me. 👉 Help me to understand what problem you are solving. 👉Help me to understand how you, your product or services is different. 👉Help me to understand what your ambition and vision are. 👉Help me to understand what you want from me. Please make it easy for me and other investors to understand.

"The idea itself is worth nothing. What matters is how you implement it, bring it to the market, and scale it. Without a clear plan, an idea remains just an idea."💬 Last week, we had a business breakfast with one of the Mission Possible venture building program mentors, Nina Levchuk 🇺🇦. 📌 Nina Levchuk 🇺🇦 - Startup and Venture Capital Lead at Google DACH. Over coffee, we discussed: ✔️ Startup culture; ✔️ The importance of market size, pivot, traction and team for attracting investment; ✔️ Using AI in business; ✔️ The role of investors in supporting startups; ✔️ Developing female entrepreneurship. The breakfast was moderated by Sviatoslav Sviatnenko. 🔔 Follow us on Medium to catch a blog with tips and insights from Nina Levchuk! Learn more about the program: https://lnkd.in/dnpZda86

So glad to be working with these smart and ambitious people shaping the future of industrial innovation! We back both software and hardware startups aiming to disrupt industrial value chain. Do you have a startup within industrial tech or know one? Ping me! 🚀 #industrialtech #greentech #venturecapital #hardware #startups