Chris Yeh an Investor, Entrepreneur, Mentor and Author of the books: Blitzscaling: The Lightning Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies and The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age. Chris Yeh is also the Founding Partner of the Blitzscaling Academy and Blitzscaling Ventures. We will discuss topics related to Investing, Tech, Entrepreneurship and building valuable companies.

In this episode a wide range of topics are discussed such as: Early-Stage Startups, Innovation, Decentralization, Industry Strategy, the Metaverse and a just for entertainment question at the last half-hour. Joining this episode is previous interview guests Vihangi Mehta-Managing Director of Maple Angels and Michael-Anthony Clement-Director of the Innovation Gatineau Institute.

Candid Capital podcast curates and discusses topics related to Business,  Investment, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation as it relates to Industry Disruption to Startup Ecosystems, International and the Policies that Influence Industry. The perspective shared on events regarding Technology, Deal flow, and Business Models are covered  periodically with occasional interviews and just for fun content segments.

MLA angels are successful entrepreneurs/executives who invest and take an active interest in early-stage companies. In this episode Vihangi Mehta the managing director is interviewed where we discuss what makes a good angel investor, startups, valuations and tech.

Episode 10

Title: Episode 10-The market News segments

Description (300 Words): Market Highlights: VC Investment Fund White Star Capital, Market highlights: EU Q1 Investment, Colombia , Corporate Venture: Amazon, Tokio Marine. Netflix Channel Ads.

Category: The market News segments

Sources:

https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/10/netflix-could-introduce-its-ad-supported-plan-as-soon-as-this-year/

https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/softbank-latin-america-vision-fund-shakeup-misra-claure

https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/21/amazon-invests-5-startups-new-1b-industrial-innovation-fund

https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/27/the-corporate-venture-comeback-what-startups-considering-cvc-need-to-know/

https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/19/japanese-insurance-company-tokio-marine-launches-cvc-fund-to-back-early-stage-startups/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-venture-capital-is-pouring-into-canadian-enterprise-tech-startups-11650276000

https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/15/european-startups-elude-global-vc-funding-slowdown-in-q1-2022/

Episode guest Maire Tatibouet is the Chief Marketing Officer of Gate.io (Second Largest Exchange Globally at the time of the recording).  Marie has been in the Crypto space for over 5 years and has been a thought leader in the industry, most recently participating in the Paris Blockchain Week Summit. The topics we will discuss will be related to: NFTs, Crypto and the Metaverse. 

You can find more information on Gate and Marie at:

https://gate.io/  

https://twitter.com/marietatibouet?s=20&t=S51o6Cg9HTdQEdl9U-spdw 

Market Highlights:  Regulation-Ai & SPACS, Capital-Valuations/Multiples, Industry-Twitter Takeover, Tech-Healthcare, Visa-NFTS & Sony-Metaverse

Sources: (Tech Crunch Heavy Episode):

https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/01/ai-act-powers

https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/spac-merger-sec-rules-venture-capital

https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/01/late-stage-software-startups-might-be-in-the-most-valuation-trouble/

https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/13/vc-distributions-are-down-90-in-q1-says-industry-ventures-an-lp-in-450-funds/

https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/14/elon-musk-offers-to-buy-twitter-for-43-billion/

https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/28/brain-space-remakes-the-eeg-for-our-modern-world-and-soon-off-world/

https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/30/visa-launches-nft-program-as-it-considers-the-digital-art-a-new-form-of-ecommerce/

https://news-primer.com/from-sonys-1-billion-epic-games-deal-to-deezers-ipo-talks-its-mbws-weekly-roundup/

Market Highlights: Market Correction Commentary, Quantum Computing, Eco-Enzymes, Open Markets Act (App Stores), Digital Markets Act (European Protectionism), EU-U.S. Privacy Shield (Data Trade), Emerging Tech Ecosystem-Colombian Startup Large Series A (Potential Unicorn?)

Sources: (Tech Crunch Heavy Episode): 

Michael-Anthony Clement, works with entrepreneurs and early stage startups. We discuss entrepreneurship, startups, industry and the future.

 Market Highlights: Sony Ventures Corporation Fund, Stipe & Crypto, PEG & Ford Collaboration, Cool Startup Pick

Market Highlights: US Startup Visa Program, The SEC’s New Private Equity Rules Proposal, Microsoft's Open Letter, AI & the Metaverse