Magic Memories is a startup born to make people smile by capturing photographic memories at tourism attractions. In 2020 they received $25m from their investors to continue on their journey “to go big or go home”.
John will talk to us about the high and lows of their twenty year ride, how he dealt with market challenges beyond his control and what it takes to continue scaling and aiming high.
John Wikstrom - Magic Memories founder
Capital strategy is all about thinking longer term about capital requirements, but the nuance is in the balance between much longer term thinking while maintaining an enormous amount of agility and adaptability to deal with everyday things.
We will look at how capital strategy varies across industries from SaaS through to capital intensive companies such as hardware, manufacturing and biotech and the role that banks could and should play especially with those capital intensive companies.
Keith Davison - Dovetail Studio
Tim Wixon - BNZ
Moderator: Bridget Unsworth - Angel Association
Key terms can quite often make or break a deal, not perhaps at the time of negotiation but further down the track as the company evolves. The industry term sheet template has recently been updated to better reflect the types of deals we are doing now and the deals we want to do in the future.
We look at why these terms need to be updated, why they matter and how they are going to help us better support companies to ‘go big or go home’ in their own specific contexts.
Cassie McAdams - Movac
Vignesh Kumar - Global from Day One
Moderator: Caitlin Ashworth - Avid Legal
In this session we focus on HOW do we as NZ Inc leverage our competitive advantage in SaaS AND deep tech and what is it about both of these things that scaling SaaS and deep tech startups from Aotearoa gives us an unfair advantage. Both delivering jobs and solutions to the world’s big problems that are critical to our future and are not a case of one or the other. We need both.
Andrew Chen - Matu Fund
Haley Horan - Microsoft
Moderator: Carl Jones - WNT Ventures
In this session we explore HOW you as an individual angel, building a startup portfolio, can help those you are backing to deliver on ‘go big or go home’. Julian and ?? have both invested in a meaningful number of startups and talk about the approach they take to deciding where and who to invest in and how they monitor and engage with founders and their startups.
Julian So - Enterprise Angels
Sharon Bryant - AngelHQ
Moderator: Vanessa Otang - Jarden
We discuss HOW the Government and the Startup Advisors Council aspire to help us execute and deliver the outsized benefit we know is generated from startups. We will dig into what the Council have learned from their town hall meetings and how the global startup ecosystem benchmarker, Startup Genome, is helping them to land the right policies and priorities for action.
Suse Reynolds - Angel Association
San Francisco Band of Angels veteran investor, Ron Weissman, has presented at a couple of our summits. We keep asking him back because he brings such a wealth of experience and a uniquely thoughtful and data based approach to generating value from startup investment. He will talk to us about why angel investment makes sense - bull or bear market.
Ron Weissman - San Francisco Band of Angels
Arch Angel Award – our uber angel
Kotahitanga Award – service to the community
Puawaitanga Award – exemplar founder/investor team
Roz Buick is a Lincoln College graduate who has been based in the US for the last twenty plus years. She has a wealth of experience working at c-suite level for two multinational firms - Trimble and Oracle. Much of her career has been spent scaling new products and integrating technology companies into these firms. She will share what she’s learned about how to scale super effectively - the role of ambition, success benchmarks, the impact of genuine partnership and how it’s not really about the technology but more about how you integrate technology that delivers value.
Roz Buick - Oracle
New Zealand startups must have global ambitions from the beginning. They are actively pursuing “go big or go home” in our own unique Aotearoa context. But HOW do we collectively support our companies to be ambitious and are we set up to leverage our potential advantage as a country of five million to execute on this.
We will get an update on investor and founder sentiment from the annual AANZ surveys we run and draw on these insights to challenge us all to play a more active role in the early stage investment scene.
Rob Coneybeer - Shasta Ventures
Imche Fourie - Outset Ventures
Moderator: Ben O’Brien - Stretch Sense
Understanding what we stand for … how this helps with the HOW
Aotearoa New Zealand has a unique history. Our human history started when explorers arrived from the Pacific. Te ao Maori and matauranga Maori are part of who we are as a nation and a people - tangata whenua and pakeha/tauiwi. We will explore how we appropriately honour and reflect our indigenous heritage in this session and how this heritage and values such as manaakitanga, whanautanga, kotahitanga and puawaitanga can amplify the value that startups born of Aotearoa can bring to the world.
Rhonda Kite - Kiwa Digital
Tane Bradley - Agrisea
Moderator: Aisha Ross - Hillfarrance
Ten years ago Brianne West started mixing up potions in her kitchen in Christchurch. She was driven by the desire to minimise the impact shampoo was having on the planet. Today, having raised external capital from angels, crowdfunding platforms and others, Brianne is still driving hard for Ethique to become a “billion dollar” brand. She shares her story and ethos to close this year’s summit and fire us all off to “go big or go home”.
Brianne West - Ethique