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Maximilian Fleitmann is an active angel investor and the co-founder of Wizard Ventures, an internet holding company that buys, builds, and operates online startups. He has been building businesses since he was 13, starting in the gaming industry before transitioning to education.

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Abhishek has been a consultant and operator in Technology, Media, and Telecoms industry in the US and APAC. After 13 years in the industry, in 2017 Abhishek launched Shoffr, an ad-tech platform serving marketers of retail brands. In 2019, Shoffr was bought by Affle, a publicly listed company in India. Abhishek started Fewcents in 2020 to solve subscription fatigue in online media.

Fewcents provides a plug-and-play micro-access solution for online media companies. Online media is getting squeezed for subscription and ad revenues; Users face subscription fatigue. Fewcents Wall allows brands to target audiences across the Fewcents content network and micro-sponsor individual content in exchange of user data with explicit opt-in of the user. Alternatively, users can pay for individual content using their local payment option across 80+ supported countries. Regulated by the MAS in Singapore, Fewcents offers users a wallet facility to store value and consume individual content on the fly.

⏱️ Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
0:32- Abhishek’s background
1:27 - From startup to exit
3:44 - Fewcents origin story
5:22 - Fewcents MVP
8:33 - Product suite
10:52 - Demo
12:30 - Data sharing
14:20 - Revenue model
15:45 - Cohort targeting
18:24 - Use cases
20:04 - Micro-sponsorships
21:28 - Go-to-market strategy
23:50 - How to approach partnerships
29:04 - The Fewcents team and growth
31:03 - Fundraising
33:20 - Upcoming plans
35:11 - Advice on exiting

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ℹ️ Guest & Company info
🚀 Startup - Fewcents
🌐 Startup's site - https://www.fewcents.co/
🗂️ Crunchbase - https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/fewcents
🧑‍💻 Founder - Abhishek Dadoo
💼 Founder's LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/adadoo/

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Jed Ng is the Founder of AngelSchool.vc. Their mission is to help angel investors build their own syndicates. He’s a self-taught angel with 1x exit and has backed 2 startups from seed to unicorn. He started his own syndicate in 2020 and has grown this from 0 to 1000+ LPs with $0 marketing spend. As an operator, He built the world’s largest API Marketplace with RapidAPI (a16z and M12 backed unicorn). He holds an MBA from INSEAD.

AngelSchool.vc is a Fellowship program dedicated to helping Angel Investors build their own syndicates. Program Fellows are equipped with a syndicate blueprint in just 8 weeks. After that, they’re invited to the Investment Committee (IC) to gain real deal experience and earn carried interest. Angel School’s syndicate is backed by 1000+ LPs and deploys $MNs annually.

Sebastian is the CEO and Founder of Sealution, a startup that aims to improve safety, health, and productivity on merchant vessels by deploying IoT solutions. As a former maritime officer, Sebastian recognized the lack of connectivity below deck, which inspired him to create Sealution. By introducing digital innovation to the maritime sector, Sealution is ushering in a new era of connectivity, making vessels safer and more productive. Sebastian is committed to finding innovative solutions to the challenges faced by the industry, and with Sealution, he is leading the way for a more connected, safe, and efficient maritime sector.

Sealution is a B2B hardware-enabled software startup providing connectivity on board merchant vessels to enable data collection below deck. The collected data is used for preventive maintenance and furthermore for reselling to relevant data aggregators such as insurance companies. The system significantly reduces areas without connectivity, displays the real-time location of the crewmembers, connects the vessels internal systems to the central module and displays ship status in real life to our users

Stuart was Co-founder and CEO of hoolah, the buy-now-pay-later company that anticipated the growth in the consumer spending sector to build first-mover advantage in Asia. hoolah exited to Shopback in 2021. Prior to that Stuart had over 20 years of experience in industries ranging from telecoms to payments to eCommerce across Europe, Asia and Australasia. Originally from the UK, Stuart held leadership roles within both large enterprises and start-ups - including companies such as Verizon, Vodafone and Worldpay. Now he is embarking on startup number 2 and this time in the sports industry with heros.

heroes is a membership club platform enabling athletes and fans to connect, inspire and invest in each other. The mission is to solve the unsolved issue of athlete earning, living and maximising true value. By building a community around the athletes, connecting and enabling fan engagement and rewards as well as bring brands to engage the athletes and fans, we aim to create a new ecosystem for the ever growing sports industry. Borrowing from the Patreon model - its time to level the playing field in sport, enable athletes from all sports, career stages, backgrounds and countries to earn & experience a career and achieve their dreams. 

➡️ Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

0:39 - Stuart's background

4:19 - Recognising a startup opportunity 

7:34 - Competing against incumbents

9:38 - Experience and advice around being acquired

14:27 - Establishing relationships with potential acquirers

17:15 - Heros origin story

25:46 - How Heros works for athletes

31:24 - The Heros MVP

33:00 - Acquiring athletes to Heros

35:12 - Working with sports industry insiders

36:30 - How Heros acquires fans / consumers39:03 - The Heros team

40:51 - Financing

42:00 - Stuart’s call-to-action it’s

43:37 - Advising startups

48:21 - Top 3 pieces of advice for early-stage startup founders

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ℹ️ Guest & Company info

🚀 Startup - Heros

🌐  Startup's site - https://www.heros.xyz/

🗂️ Crunchbase - https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/heros-aee8

🧑‍💻 Founder - Stuart Thornton

💼 Founder's LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartjthornton

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Superlinked makes it easy for developers to build their own scalable and real-time ML-powered personalization engine, and deliver a highly relevant user experience, driving engagement and retention.                                                                                                                                                                                            
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Richard is a serial entrepreneur and expert in the Technology, Companion Animal (Pet), Media & Lifestyle industries with over two decades of experience.

MyPetGo is the first of its kind Health and Wellness monitor (Wearable) for dogs, coupled with decision intelligence (AA/ML/AI) that provides the care taker with next step data-driven recommendations, bridging a connection to a marketplace of locally relevant service providers or products. The triaged data with the AA/ML/AI recommendations and the marketplace (link-out) forms the entire MyPetGo pet-care Ecosystem. Truly a one-stop-pet- care-shop.The aim is to improve the well-being and livelihood of pets, while simplifying the (guess)work and pet chores off being a (responsible)pet parent.

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Hailing from Bangalore, India, Sidhant Gupta is the co-founder of Clearbot, an AI-powered, self-navigating boat that can automate marine cleanup, oil clearing, foam removal and other critical maritime tasks without any pollution or manpower requirement.

Sidhant holds a Guinness World Record for building the world's fastest robotic fish, has spoken at TEDx and is a Tatler Gen-T honoree. 

Clearbot builds electric, emission free, self-driving boats.

0:00 - Intro

Guest & Company info

Startup - Clearbot

Startup's site - https://www.clearbot.org/

Founder - Sidhant Gupta

Founder's LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sdhntgupta/

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Paddy is the cofounder of Odin, who are building a new way for people to invest in angel syndicates and venture capital funds. Prior to Odin he worked in corporate venture at Coca Cola, started a vodka brand and at the Irish Embassy in Moscow.

Odin is a community-centric investment marketplace for angel syndicates and venture capital funds.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

0:23 - Paddy’s background

02:38 - Odin origin story

09:43 - Competitive landscape

14:16 - Odin’s MVP

17:03 - User experience & demo

20:08 - Customer acquisition

24:28 - Odin success stories

28:23 - Job openings

33:23 - Odin’s investment news

36:12 - Fundraising advice

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Guest & Company info

Startup - Odin

Startup's site - https://www.joinodin.com/

Founder - Patrick Ryan

Founder's LinkedIn - https://uk.linkedin.com/in/paddy-ryan

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