Capture Opportunities We Have Been Talking

This is Jessie Chuang with Global League - a platform and network for engagement, alignment, knowledge sharing, collaboration, and relationship-building between investors, LPs, and startups recommended by investors. It's pointless if we only talk about opportunities and no ways to capture them. Let's get to real businesses.

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Demo Day on Feb. 23, 2024 - WIth Connect X

Smart Grid and Virtual Power Plants are major investment opportunities in the energy transition, our previous panel (Major Challenges in Energy Transition Infrastructure and Opportunities) covered this topic which raised high interest - some quotes: "VPP is closer than most people think", "The timing is now!".

The Feb. 23 Demo Day meeting was a head-on conversation, thanks, to Victor, Zohaib, Jonathan, Patrick, Hrishikesh, Jordan, and other panelists (~20 joined, 30 signed up). To help the company go to our next step - form an investment committee and diligence - give your feedback, or ask questions, in the survey form linked below. (sharing this email with others who might be interested is ok)

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Investor Panel on Mar. 1st, 2024 - With Big Idea Ventures

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Join our meeting with Big Idea Ventures (BIV) to learn more about the Generation Food Rural Partners Fund (GFRP) launching 20-40 companies to help Agri-Food supply chain industry partners hit their GHG reduction goals in time.?They identify industry challenges and build new companies with matched IPs from universities, their corporate partners offer piloting or testing opportunities to collaborate with startups from an early stage. The GFRP fund invests in decarbonizing the whole Agri-Food value chain, not only in alternative proteins.

We met Tom Mastrobuoni, the Chief Investment Officer at Big Idea Ventures (BIV) last month (Decarbonization and Sustainability of Agri-Food System), there were too many questions and too little time, so we will dive deeper this Friday. Tom had set up the CVC for Tyson Ventures before joining BIV, his track record with Tyson Ventures is MOIC 4.3x / IRR 69%, including Beyond Meat's MOIC of 3.4x / IRR 76%. The team has accumulated impressive experience in venture building/investing. We'll learn about what works and what does not in their venture-building model and Agri-Food innovations with major enterprises.

Our syndication allows smaller checks (> $5000) to participate in the fund, and potential business partnerships with their portfolio companies, and big check writers (> $5M) can invest directly. We won't charge any management fee and carry for the SPV, only the cost of SPV will be shared proportionally. Check out their deck, learn more about the thesis and portfolio, join the GFRP fund evaluation and DD, or just follow up on our updates here.

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Onboarding to the Digital Platform

To support our networking, communications, workflow, and method, please sign up for DueDash with our invitation link so you can use certain functionalities with us for free. (we pay for the collaboration, updating, and management needed). Investing is about data matching, communications, and relationships.

Startups (learn more)

• Free features include building a public profile (visible to thousands of investors), sharing your deck with investors, dashboard with analytical insights (viewer analytics), investor CRM & data room, unlimited investor inbound, guidance and self-evaluation framework (SIQ) to make your company investable?–?the free features can replace the Docsend paid account already, plus a framework and guidance to help startups get investment ready.
• Self-evaluation of your Startup Investability Quotient (SIQ): SIQ is an approximate value of your startup’s investability from an investor’s point of view. The higher the score, the higher the startup’s investability. It’s based on a startup’s 5T rating, an evaluation across the 5 dimensions of Team, Timing, Traction, Technology, and TAM.
• Startups can invite prospective investors to the platform for continuous engagement, and send updates with a suggested framework or diligence process support. Besides, there are 2000 investors from around the globe on the platform.
• Paid features include unlimited outbounds, unlimited users, unlimited investor search, full investing profile insights, etc.
• Whether you’re preparing to raise now or later, register to the IR platform through?the?Global League Invite link, then click ” Register ” in?the top-right corner. It’s always free to get started with your investor relations building.
• Startups signed up through our link can update their status to the Global League network of investors through us, we’ll track your progress, make introductions, and take action when appropriate. Startups need to sign up to set up a nice profile with at least a deck and an elevator pitch to go for Demo Day.

Investors (learn more)

• Streamline the process and automate some steps from end to end across boundaries,
• Get quality deal flow from our selection and VCs on the platform,
• Deal sharing with our group or with angels and VCs on the platform,
• Structured workflow for deal screening and evaluation with a quality framework used by top VCs,
• Communications step by step with startups and fellows, in one place,
• Collaboration within or outside the group with experts needed in the evaluation and diligence,
• Due diligence with curated documents/reports and collective intelligence,
• Market and startup data analysis,
• Deal pipeline management (before investing)?and portfolio management (after investing),
• Key metrics reporting and regular updates from startups (before or after investing, by the way, are you wondering why your SPV or fund managers fail to give you updates continuously after taking your money? That bothers me seriously....),
• Showcase you as an investor, make your thesis and portfolio visible to thousands of startups, and LPs, and we might make introductions if see fit,
• You can invite your startups if you like to recommend and help them raise.

We're always collecting a lot of market signals and insights but will share less, and will share them only when they are actionable. Less cognitive loading for you, more work behind the scenes for us. We only ask for your actions and feedback.

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