BADideas.fund

About Janis Brugis

- 10Y+ in email deliverability

- Ramp ($1.4B in funding), part of Martal

- ex- Pipedrive

- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janis-brugis-62840bb1/

About BADideas.fund:

BADideas.fund is an early stage angel syndicate, led by helpful founders & operators, that provides €50K-€200K funding for CEE startups. Since launching at TechChill '22, we have invested over €3M in 25+, startups, and our global member pool keeps growing, spanning 200+ members from 20 countries and counting.

Our members are founders and operators, who’ve been building such companies as Vimeo ($450M funding), Printify ($54M), Pandadoc ($51M), Pipedrive ($90M), Bolt ($1.3B funding), Apollo ($151M), Bird ($783M funding), Shopify ($122M), Whimsical ($30M), Lokalise ($56M), Deel ($679M), Printful ($130M), Twilio ($614M), Veriff ($192.3M), Wise ($1.3B raised), Interactio ($30M raised), Vinted ($562.3M), NordVPN ($100M), Hubspot ($100.5M).

About Suhas Ghante

- 2x 500 Startups alum, 3x COO, and 4x advisor to high-growth startups

- Early executive at Innovaccer ($3.2B valuation)

- Former advisor at Shef (YC W19 $74M Series B)

- 8 years in Silicon Valley

- Featured mentor at Swissnex, Spain Tech Center, Founder Institute

- Currently COO at ChatWith.io and Partner at SVethos

- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suhasghante/

About BADideas.fund:

BADideas.fund is an early stage angel syndicate, led by helpful founders & operators, that provides €50K-€200K funding for CEE startups. Since launching at TechChill '22, we have invested over €2M, and our global member pool keeps growing, spanning 200+ members from 20 countries and counting.

Our members are founders and operators, who’ve been building such companies as Vimeo ($450M funding), Printify ($54M), Pandadoc ($51M), Pipedrive ($90M), Bolt ($1.3B funding), Apollo ($151M), Bird ($783M funding), Shopify ($122M), Whimsical ($30M), Lokalise ($56M), Deel ($679M), Printful ($130M), Twilio ($614M), Veriff ($192.3M), Wise ($1.3B raised), Interactio ($30M raised), Vinted ($562.3M), NordVPN ($100M), Hubspot ($100.5M).

00:00 Marijus' background

03:25 What is easier - to be a founder or an investor?

05:30 How the founder mindset helps Marijus be a better investor

08:00 5 non-negotiables to make an investment decision

11:25 Founders - the one thing that matters

17:05 What makes Baltic founders stand out

21:35 Signal vs noise in startup building

22:55 Building in stealth vs public

23:50 Marijus' take on the bigger picture

About Marijus Andrijauskas:

- Partner at FIRSTPICK, an early stage venture capital fund focused on Baltic tech founders

- Serial founder, including Teamgate (acquired by Xenon Partners), Ventury.app

- 15Y experience in tech strategy, sales, marketing, business development and operations

- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marijus-andrijauskas/

About BADideas.fund:

BADideas.fund is an early stage angel syndicate, led by helpful founders & operators, that provides €50K-€200K funding for CEE startups. Since launching at TechChill '22, we have invested over €2M, and our global member pool keeps growing, spanning 200+ members from 20 countries and counting.

Our members are founders and operators, who’ve been building such companies as Vimeo ($450M funding), Printify ($54M), Pandadoc ($51M), Pipedrive ($90M), Bolt ($1.3B funding), Apollo ($151M), Bird ($783M funding), Shopify ($122M), Whimsical ($30M), Lokalise ($56M), Deel ($679M), Printful ($130M), Twilio ($614M), Veriff ($192.3M), Wise ($1.3B raised), Interactio ($30M raised), Vinted ($562.3M), NordVPN ($100M), Hubspot ($100.5M).

00:00 Girts' bio: Engineer to angel investor

04:45 What Girts is looking for in a startup

10:00 Top 3 red flags for investors

20:40 The big startup ideas of tomorrow

24:55 Where to find Girts

About Girts Graudins:

- ex-Director, Engineering at Twilio

- Built SDK Platform org, built and launched multiple products

- Scaled Twilio Video 10x

- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/girts/

- Twitter: @girtis

About BADideas.fund:

BADideas.fund is an early stage angel syndicate, led by helpful founders & operators, that provides €50K-€200K funding for CEE startups. Since launching at TechChill '22, we have invested over €2M, and our global member pool keeps growing, spanning 200+ members from 20 countries and counting.

Our members are founders and operators, who’ve been building such companies as Vimeo ($450M funding), Printify ($54M), Pandadoc ($51M), Pipedrive ($90M), Bolt ($1.3B funding), Apollo ($151M), Bird ($783M funding), Shopify ($122M), Whimsical ($30M), Lokalise ($56M), Deel ($679M), Printful ($130M), Twilio ($614M), Veriff ($192.3M), Wise ($1.3B raised), Interactio ($30M raised), Vinted ($562.3M), NordVPN ($100M), Hubspot ($100.5M).

00:00 Ross' bio

02:20 How to think about and forecast growth models

05:50 How Vimeo scaled 4x user growth and 3x revenue growth, and how Braid

09:15 How Braid went from 0 to $1M revenue in under 6M

12:20 Quantitative growth model in action. Step 1 - Set up & inputs.

23:20 Step 2 - The 1% exercise

24:30 Step 3 - Action items

25:10 Step 4 - Measuring impact & reiteration

31:00 When to build the first growth model

37:00 How to reach Ross

Resources:

- End-to-end growth creation plan at Braid: https://www.reforge.com/artifacts/end...

- How to build a growth-creation plan: https://www.fishmanafnewsletter.com/p...

About Ross Nazarenko:

- ex-Growth PM at Vimeo (achieved 4x user and 3x revenue growth)

- ex-Growth Manager at Bird ($783M funding)

- ex-Senior Growth Manager at Braid (grew from 0 to $1M revenue in under 6M)

- Top 3 Reforge contributor

- Part of Sequoia’s 1% talent pool

- Linkedin:  

 / ruslannazarenko  

About BADideas.fund:

BADideas.fund is an early stage angel syndicate, led by helpful founders & operators, that provides €50K-€200K funding for CEE startups. Since launching at TechChill '22, we have invested over €2M, and our global member pool keeps growing, spanning 200+ members from 20 countries and counting.

Our members are founders and operators, who’ve been building such companies as Vimeo ($450M funding), Printify ($54M), Pandadoc ($51M), Pipedrive ($90M), Bolt ($1.3B funding), Apollo ($151M), Bird ($783M funding), Shopify ($122M), Whimsical ($30M), Lokalise ($56M), Deel ($679M), Printful ($130M), Twilio ($614M), Veriff ($192.3M), Wise ($1.3B raised), Interactio ($30M raised), Vinted ($562.3M), NordVPN ($100M), Hubspot ($100.5M).

Timestamps:

00:00 Miranda's background

04:20 Is startup investing an obvious thing to do?

06:08 Passion vs financial upside in angel investing

08:20 How to get started

11:06 Creating an investment process and evaluating dealflow

14:05 Two unexpected lessons from angel investing

17:00 Investing as a startup builder - fuel or distraction?

20:00 Portfolio construction - how to start and how that evolves.

25:50 What makes CEE (and BADideas.fund :) special

28:00 Where is the healthtech going

31:45 Advice for new angel investors

About Miranda Gottlieb:

- Venture Partner at Pappas Capital and fractional CMO (Healthy CMO: https://www.healthycmo.com/) to Seed-Series A startups

- 5 years in health tech corporate venture, venture capital, and Seed-Unicorn startups

- Ex-CMO of Curative, which she helped grow from $0 to unicorn w/ 7k employees through a $25M marketing budget

- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mirandaegottlieb/

About BADideas.fund:

BADideas.fund is an early stage angel syndicate, led by helpful founders & operators, that provides €50K-€200K funding for CEE startups. Since launching at TechChill '22, we have invested over €2M, and our global member pool keeps growing, spanning 150+ members from 16 countries and counting.

Our members are founders and operators, who’ve been building such companies as Vimeo ($450M funding), Printify ($54M), Pandadoc ($51M), Pipedrive ($90M), Bolt ($1.3B funding), Apollo ($151M), Bird ($783M funding), Shopify ($122M), Whimsical ($30M), Lokalise ($56M), Deel ($679M), Printful ($130M), Twilio ($614M), Veriff ($192.3M), Wise ($1.3B raised), Interactio ($30M raised), Vinted ($562.3M), NordVPN ($100M), Hubspot ($100.5M).

Timestamps

00:00 Intros

02:35 How Hyperjob leveraged personal networks for fundraising

03:55 How WasteHero built the investor target list

07:25 The first investor meeting

10:20 Derisking the investment

14:00 How to make the No's hurt less

17:50 Nurturing long-term investor relationships

22:10 Investor targeting by geography

23:30 What makes an investor say Yes

28:05 Fundraising at different stages, what's different and what's the same

About Janis Kreilis

- CEO & Co-founder at Hyperjob (Antler alum)

- Serial entrepreneur (YourMove, tella)

- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kreilis/

About Hussam Mansour

- CEO & Founder at WasteHero (InnoFounder Batch of September 2018)

- Serial entrepreneur (Nicetrends, Rose Essence)

- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hussam-ma...

About Suhas Ghante

- 2x 500 Startups alum, 3x COO, and 4x advisor to high-growth startups

- Early executive at Innovaccer ($3.2B valuation)

- Former advisor at Shef (YC W19 $74M Series B)

- 8 years in Silicon Valley

- Featured mentor at Swissnex, Spain Tech Center, Founder Institute

- Currently COO at ChatWith.io and Partner at SVethos

- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suhasghante/

About BADideas.fund:

BADideas.fund is an early stage angel syndicate, led by helpful founders & operators, that provides €50K-€200K funding for CEE startups. Since launching at TechChill '22, we have invested over €1M, and our global member pool keeps growing, spanning 150+ members from 16 countries and counting.

Our members are founders and operators, who’ve been building such companies as Vimeo ($450M funding), Printify ($54M), Pandadoc ($51M), Pipedrive ($90M), Bolt ($1.3B funding), Apollo ($151M), Bird ($783M funding), Shopify ($122M), Whimsical ($30M), Lokalise ($56M), Deel ($679M), Printful ($130M), Twilio ($614M), Veriff ($192.3M), Wise ($1.3B raised), Interactio ($30M raised), Vinted ($562.3M), NordVPN ($100M), Hubspot ($100.5M).

Timestamps:

1:05 Anda's background and the road to art investing

3:38 How art investments work

7:10 Criteria for art investment - author, artwork, gallery track record or aesthetic?

13:40 Create and they will come, or not.

16:50 Unlikely winners and bad ideas that turned out to be great

21:00 Returns

23:50 Anda's take on AI-generated art

28:15 What the future holds for art investment

About Anda Klavina

- Art curator and critic with 20+ year experience in art investing:

- Co founder of Corinthian Contemporary Art Partnership, an invitation-only partnership to support emerging art talent: https://corinthiancontemporary.art/

- MA Philosophy of Art, Middlesex University

- Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/anda-klavina-85155137/

- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anda.klavin...

About BADideas.fund:

BADideas.fund is an early stage angel syndicate, led by helpful founders & operators, that provides €50K-€250K funding for CEE startups. Since launching at TechChill '22, we have invested over $2M, and our global member pool keeps growing, spanning 150+ members from 16 countries and counting.

Our members are founders and operators, who’ve been building the kinds of companies that have collectively raised $13B+ in funding, such as Vimeo ($450M funding), Printify ($54M), Pandadoc ($51M), Pipedrive ($90M), Bolt ($1.3B funding), Apollo ($151M), Bird ($783M funding), Shopify ($122M), Whimsical ($30M), Lokalise ($56M), Deel ($679M), Printful ($130M), Twilio ($614M), Veriff ($192.3M), Wise ($1.3B raised), Interactio ($30M raised), Vinted ($562.3M), NordVPN ($100M), Hubspot ($100.5M).

https://badideas.fund/

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro and Marvin's track record

02:15 How has the tech and investing scene changed over years

03:55 Why angel investing?

05:20 Mistakes when angel investing

06:08 What makes CEE founders stand out?

07:00 Local vs. global maximum, and how to spot the latter

10:26 Marvin's biggest miss and what he learned from it

11:35 How to get started

15:05 How to think about risk & reward

16:35 Evaluating pre-seed vs seed deals

17:10 A few words of wisdom and advice

About Marvin Liao

- Invested in & worked with 463+ pre-seed & seed stage startups

- Previously a Partner at the most active global VC Fund 500 Startups

- Among investments: Aircall, ManyChat, Shippo, Eaze, Printify, Embroker, Indio (Acquired), Backlot Cars (Acquired)

- He serves on inv.committees and boards of several VC funds and mentors startups

- https://www.linkedin.com/in/marvinliao/

About BADideas.fund:

- We are an angel syndicate, providing early stage funding for CEE startups led by helpful founders and operators

- Since launching at TechChill '22, we have invested over €1.8M in 15 startups, and our global member pool keeps growing, spanning 150+ members from 16 countries and counting.

- Our members are founders and operators who’ve been building such companies as Vimeo ($450M), Printify ($54M), Pandadoc ($51M funding), Pipedrive ($90M), Bolt ($1.3B funding), Apollo ($151M funding), Bird ($783M funding), Shopify ($122M), Printful ($130M), Twilio ($614M), Veriff ($192.3M), Wise ($1.3B raised), Interactio ($30M), Vinted ($562.3M), NordVPN ($100M), Hubspot ($100.5M).

Timestamps

00:30 Intro and how it all started

07:05 Gerri's biggest miss (and what it taught him)

11:25 What made Bolt & Veriff stand out at the time

16:00 Two things that matter most for investment decisions

17:15 The best advice Gerri received when starting angel investing

19:10 Who really is in the driving seat

21:55 How to get into angel investing (without dropping your full time gig)

24:07 The bottom line

About Gerri Kodres

- Founding Partner at Specialist VC, a €50m fund that's backed over 45 teams and is an early investor in Bolt, Veriff, Monese, CoModule, Starship, NFTPort, etc.

- One of the most prominent VCs in the region, voted #1 startup investor in Jan 2020 by Estonian tech founders

- 15+ year experience in strategy and general management of early & growth stage tech teams

- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerrikodres/

About BADideas.fund:

BADideas.fund is an early stage angel syndicate, led by helpful founders & operators, that provides €50K-€200K funding for CEE startups. Since launching at TechChill '22, we have invested over €1M, and our global member pool keeps growing, spanning 150+ members from 16 countries and counting.

Our members are founders and operators, who’ve been building such companies as Vimeo ($450M funding), Printify ($54M), Pandadoc ($51M), Pipedrive ($90M), Bolt ($1.3B funding), Apollo ($151M), Bird ($783M funding), Shopify ($122M), Whimsical ($30M), Lokalise ($56M), Deel ($679M), Printful ($130M), Twilio ($614M), Veriff ($192.3M), Wise ($1.3B raised), Interactio ($30M raised), Vinted ($562.3M), NordVPN ($100M), Hubspot ($100.5M).