?? Community Newsletter ??

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This is your weekly update highlighting the events that happened in our community. A big welcome to the new subscribers that have joined since our last edition! ? Let's get started ??

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?? The Latest

Highlighting the latest news. We can't do our teams justice with the space we have here, so please head over to each of their WhatsApp groups to learn more. ??

?? Ross & Josh from Trove ??

Revolutionising wealth accumulation by offering seamless access to listed and unlisted assets for diversified, risk-adjusted returns.

New to the community, the Trove team are building out their strategy offering...and finalising the term sheet for an acquisition?! ???

Founder update:

• We have finalised the term sheet for acquisition of an existing in-market platform. This is huge…..for those of you who have seen our deck, you will know it is central to our GTM strategy and will mean we can be in market immediately upon being funded.

Founder asks:

• We’d love to connect with any of you in the community who have successfully scaled a fintech/wealthtech startup - to pressure test our assumptions and offer your perspective, as well as potentially being one of our expert interviewees if you’re open to it.

?? Adam from Auric Essentials ??

Transforming mental wellness through AI-driven aromatherapy.

They just got here but are wasting no time getting to work. The team are already shipping good moods...just wait until they ship AromaSphere devices. ??

Founder update:

• On the verge of finalizing our first 500 Auric AromaSphere device owners.
• Thrilled to welcome Dave Lowry, a Flutter expert based in Brisbane, to our mobile app development team. His expertise will be invaluable as we enhance our app’s capabilities and user interface.
• In promising discussions with two accelerator programs: Antler in Australia and Atlas in the USA.

Founder asks:

• We are considering joining Antler. While the opportunity to secure a Co-Founder and achieve our milestone of getting 500 devices on the cloud is attractive, we have concerns about the valuation and financial terms, given our advanced stage compared to other cohort members. Any advice on whether to proceed would be greatly appreciated.
• Exploring Digital Therapeutic Accreditation. Any advice or thoughts in this area would be welcomed.

Paul & Karen from GeoNadir ???

The most intuitive Earth observation analytics tools for environmental teams.

GeoNadir continued their awesome momentum this week with huge progress on their memo draft and a significant uptick in sales. ??

Founder update:

• Massive shout out to Jessie for all of her work and support in getting the memo to the next stage. Excited for everyone to see it and provide comments!
• Sales velocity is picking up and early morning and late evening calls are happening to get to the USA and Europe time zones. ARR has reached $87K.
• Been invited to speak at the Queensland Climate Tech Showcase on 24 July in Brisbane on a panel titled ‘From QLD to the world.’

Founder asks:

• Seeking input to the memo once it comes out - questions, comments, tear downs - anything to make it better :-)
• Introductions to anyone in the environmental consulting or environmental engineering world who might be a good customer fit.

Check out the full update in GeoNadir's WhatsApp channel!

Expert interview:

Jock conducted an interview with Romeo Durscher, a mobile robotics expert. This was a fascinating conversation and we're keen to share the full interview soon!

"Every single day, we're creating a new record amount of data that is being collected. And so it's extremely important that we get solutions in place that help us funnel the data, that make us able to get actionable data...I truly believe we have not even touched the surface of the possibilities of mobile robotics in conjunction with data and in conjunction with AI."

Alex from LustLab ??

Revolutionising content creation with hyper personalized generative AI.

Alex has been hard at work on LustLab's video generation capabilities while continuing to expand B2B partnerships. ??

Founder update:

• We’ve been continuing to R&D Sora-like video quality (OpenAI’s video generator). ?It’s a challenging technical problem, but it’s super fun and doable.
• We just secured another $1k in GPU credits! If we were a typical startup, getting these would be much easier. I've been rejected 99% of the time by applications and vendors across the board, but I keep trying anyway. Isn't there a word for doing the same thing and expecting different results…?
• One of our possible B2B partners wants to use our tech for SEO. ?Essentially, we'll take their existing media content, annotate it with our AI, and optimize it for better search engine rankings. Their current process for data annotation is manual ??

Check out the full update in LustLab's WhatsApp channel!

Charlie, Liam & Tom from VOLI ??

Bringing the worlds social impact into a single platform.

VOLI continued it's massive traction in attracting customers and developing it's product offering this week. ??

Founder update:

• Connected with a marketplace with over 300 creative agencies, our ICP and beachhead customer profile. Exploring some form of partnership / distribution agreement.
• Connected with a global volunteering coalition, affiliated with the World Economic Forum.
• Increasing the employees onboarded from our first paid pilot customer. We will be rolling out a ‘land and expand’ strategy across 5 pilot companies in the coming weeks/months.

Check out the full update in VOLI's WhatsApp channel!

?? Published Memos

A complete round up of recently published memos.

CHOICE ??

The marketplace for paid companionship and intimacy.

CHOICE continue to make big steps in safety and efforts to create market awareness through education.

Founder update:

• Q&A with former editor in chief of largest swiss newspaper completed (link in WhatsApp group).
• Info hub launched on website (link in WhatsApp group).
• First provider that re-routes all their bookings through CHOICE incl. the ones coming from their website

Check out the full update in CHOICE's WhatsApp channel!?

Expert interview:

“If you look at it from a global perspective and also regional perspective, this is an excellent time. We’re getting a lonelier society. There’s certainly a number of single people, obviously population growth etc. But that kind of divide between those who are partnered and those who aren’t and also the exploration around wellness and sexual acceptance is pretty vast and growing.” Rob Godwin – Founder & MD at Future eCom, previously Australasian Director & Head of Commercial Operations at Lovehoney Group.

?? Member Spotlight

Charlie Wood - Founder of Vitadrop and CVC alumni Charlie continues to be a force within the community. Keen to prove that a it really does take a village (or community) to raise startups, Charlie has been hard at work providing feedback on our model, referring founders for us to help, and providing references. Thank you for being a community role model, mate! ??

?? Member of the Week

Claude Michel - Founder, advisor, board member, investor, and senior product manager at AlphaSouth, Claude has deep commercialisation, valuation, and strategy experience. He's deploying this in our community by helping founders like Alex from LustLab with their memo, providing practical and actionable advice in areas such as B2B and valuation strategy. Legend! ??

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