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The Syndicate

Where Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists Talk Early Stage Tech Startups

Announcing The Startup Tank Climate Investor Pitch Podcast

May 27, 2022 by Matt

Are you a climate or impact startup looking for funding? Are you an investor looking for interesting world-positive companies to invest in?

Then let me introduce you to The Startup Tank presented by 4WARD.VC, the ultimate startup investor pitch contest where top climate tech and impact founders pitch to a panel of VCs looking to fund world-positive cleantech, sustainability, health and impact startups looking to move the world forward.

If you’ve ever wanted a chance to pitch your company or get in front of VCs and angel investors, now is your time to shine.

Learn more and apply at thestartuptank.com

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TODAY’S PRESENTING STARTUPS INCLUDE:

  • wiCow: Reducing cow birthing deaths from 6% to 1%.
  • Bomway: The Alibaba of sustainable product/supplier sourcing
  • DOTS: Soil sensing to stop billions in fertilizer runoff pollution
  • Materials Nexus: Harnessing AI to develop sustainable new materials
  • Foodsquared: Upcycling food and drink by-products into plant-based proteins
  • Voltiris: Transforming greenhouses into renewable solar powerplants

Investor Panelists:

  • Sven Meyer – Investor at 4Impact VC
  • Madeline Lawrence – Investor at Peak Capital
  • Ricardo Camarinha – Investor at Teal Impact

About 4WARD.VC’s Angel Syndicate:

4WARD.VC’s angel group invests in mission-driven pre seed and seed stage startups moving the world forward by tackling big problems in the areas of commerce/ecommerce, platforms/marketplaces, consumer tech, fintech, cleantech & climate change, B2B/enterprise, hardware-as-a-service and of course software/SaaS.For more information on 4WARD.VC and our angel syndicate:

4WARD.VC/syndicate

About The Startup Tank:

YCombinator popularized the demo day. Shark Tank revolutionized the investor pitch. We take the best of both worlds combined with the Covid-fueled remote nature of everything to bring you The Startup Tank Demo Days presented by 4WARD.VC, the startup pitch fest where founders get to pitch to prospective investors, possible cofounders and the tech ecosystem as a whole. If you’ve ever wanted a chance to pitch your company or get in front of VCs and angel investors, now is your time to shine. 

About the host:

Matt Ward is a serial entrepreneur & startup advisor, lead’s 4WARD.VC’s angel syndicate focused on early-stage climate and impact companies that move the world forward and Venture Partner with Climentum Capital dedicated to helping great startup founders change the world for the better through strategy, growth and fundraising support

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Announcing The Startup Tank Climate Investor Pitch Podcast

May 9, 2022 by Matt

Are you a climate or impact startup looking for funding? Are you an investor looking for interesting world-positive companies to invest in?

Welcome to The Startup Tank presented by 4WARD.VC 4WARD.VC angel group, a special Swiss-focused startup pitch competition where founders pitch their project to our investor panel including the Swiss ICT Investor Club (SICTIC), Sparrow Ventures and Wingman as well as investors and VCs tuning in from across the globe.

If you’ve ever wanted a chance to pitch your company or get in front of VCs and angel investors, now is your time to shine.

Learn more and apply at thestartuptank.com

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PRESENTING STARTUPS INCLUDE:

  • Voltiris: Transforming greenhouses into renewable solar powerplants
  • Potiio – Soft drink flavor, 30% less sugar – no artificial flavoring.
  • Zario – Free yourself from your phone and get on with your life.
  • Raush: Your travel recommendations bookable directly via social media
  • Footsnap: Foot scanning to ensure online shoes shopping always fits
  • Kapsly: An all-in-one startup services for equity platform
  • Blue Salmon: Aquacultured sustainable Swiss salmon

Investor Panelists:

  • Thomas Ackermann – Director of SICTIC
  • Antonia Albert – Investor at Wingman Ventures
  • Claudius Stammbach – Investor at Sparrow Ventures

About 4WARD.VC’s Angel Syndicate:

4WARD.VC’s angel group invests in mission-driven pre seed and seed stage startups moving the world forward by tackling big problems in the areas of commerce/ecommerce, platforms/marketplaces, consumer tech, fintech, cleantech & climate change, B2B/enterprise, hardware-as-a-service and of course software/SaaS.For more information on 4WARD.VC and our angel syndicate:

4WARD.VC/syndicate

About The Startup Tank:

YCombinator popularized the demo day. Shark Tank revolutionized the investor pitch. We take the best of both worlds combined with the Covid-fueled remote nature of everything to bring you The Startup Tank Demo Days presented by 4WARD.VC, the startup pitch fest where founders get to pitch to prospective investors, possible cofounders and the tech ecosystem as a whole. If you’ve ever wanted a chance to pitch your company or get in front of VCs and angel investors, now is your time to shine. 

About the host:

Matt Ward is a serial entrepreneur & startup advisor, lead’s 4WARD.VC’s angel syndicate focused on early-stage climate and impact companies that move the world forward and Venture Partner with Climentum Capital dedicated to helping great startup founders change the world for the better through strategy, growth and fundraising support

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Tackling Climate Change With Economic Incentives and Circular Economics | Andrew Winston

June 1, 2020 by Regine

Andrew Winston is the founder of Winston Eco-Strategies, author of The Big Pivot and Green Recovery, and coauthored Green to Gold, the best-selling guide to what works — and what doesn’t — when companies go green.

He’s a globally recognized expert on green business and has appeared in WSJ, Time, BusinessWeek, NYTimes, and CNBC. His clients have included Bank of America, Bayer, HP, Pepsi, Boeing, and IKEA.

He’s a respected speaker, served as the Director of Corporate Environmental Strategy Project at Yale’s renowned School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and has a weekly column for Harvard Business Online. He was recently named a “Planet Defender” by Rock the Earth.

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Coal is Dead, Climate Change is Real, and Bezos and Alexa for President | Nikolas Badminton

May 11, 2020 by Regine

Nikolas Badminton is a world-respected futurist speaker, author, and researcher. He wows audiences with keynote speeches on the impact of exponential technologies including: Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality; Work Productivity; The Sharing Economy; Autonomous Transportation; Smart Cities; Education; The Future of AI integrated with Life and Business; and Predictions for humanity from 2017 to 2030, and beyond. Nikolas regularly appears on the BBC, CBC, CTV, Global News, Fast Company, VICE, and writes for the Techcrunch, Huffington Post, Forbes, Venturebeat, Betakit, TechVibes, Business.com, and other media.

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Energy, Infrastructure, Fracking and the Future of Journalism | Russell Gold

February 10, 2020 by Regine

Russell Gold is an author and award-winning investigative journalist and energy reporter at The Wall Street Journal best known for covering the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill. They were awarded the Gerald Loeb Award for best business story of the year and were finalists for the Pulitzer.

He’s the author of The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World and his new book, Superpower: One Man’s Quest to Transform Energy tells the story of Michael Skelly, who helped created the wind energy industry in the US in a push for sustainability.

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Elon Musk’s Wrong, Driverless Cars Make Things Worse and Buses are the Future of Transportation | Jarrett Walker

February 3, 2020 by Regine

Jarrett Walker is an international public transit network design and policy consultant and the author of popular public transit blog HumanTransit.org, and the book Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives. This book is a friendly, non-technical introduction to transit’s underlying geometry and the real value judgments that must be explored to make both transit and development policy.

His background integrates an arts and humanities Ph.D. with long technical experience in all aspects of transit and its role in city-building. He is a frequent keynote speaker, teacher, and facilitator of decision-making processes.

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Why Blockchain and Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency Threaten Governments and What a Decentralized Renewable Energy Future Looks Like | Abe Cambridge

November 4, 2019 by Regine

Abe Cambridge is a serial energy entrepreneur who establishes businesses and projects around the world that use solar energy to bring about out major socio-economic shifts. In 2010, he pioneered utility-scale solar in Britain and in 2012 one of his businesses, The Renewable Energy Co-operative, was nominated ‘International Co-operative of The Year’ in the United Nations Year of Co-operatives.

In 2014, Abe launched Sun Exchange—a global solar micro-leasing marketplace that closes the funding gap for commercial- and community-scale solar projects in emerging markets, while streaming monetized sunshine all over the world. Sun Exchange has been named Best Bitcoin & Blockchain Business in Africa two years in a row and Abe delivers keynote speeches around the world.

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Space Law, Piracy, Profit and Militarization in Age of Star Wars | Frans von der Dunk

October 14, 2019 by Regine

Frans von der Dunk is a Professor of Space Law at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Director of Black Holes Consultancy, and is generally recognized as one of the world’s leading space law experts. Franz has served as an adviser to a number of governments, the European Commission, ESA, the United Nations, the OECD, various national space agencies, the Association of Space Explorers, the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, and a number of companies. He is Director Public Relations of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL), Member of the Board of the European Centre for Space Law (ECSL), and Member for the Netherlands in the International Law Association’s (ILA) Committee on Space Law. He is also Member of the International Editorial Board of ‘Space Policy’ and many other long acronyms, incredibly important organizations and initiatives focused on space.

 


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The Epic Battle Between Technologists and Naturalists Trying to Stop Climate Change | Charles Mann

October 7, 2019 by Regine

Charles Mann is a science-focused journalist and award-winning author. He’s the author of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus which won the National Academies Communication Award for best book of the year which he followed up with 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created. Charles has co-authored four books, is contributing editor for Science, The Atlantic Monthly, and Wired and has also written for Fortune, NYTimes, Smithsonian, Vanity Fair, and The Washington Post. He is a three-time National Magazine Award finalist and a recipient of writing awards from the American Bar Association, the American Institute of Physics, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation. In 2018, Mann published The Wizard and the Prophet, which details two competing theories about the future of agriculture, population, and the environment.

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AI, Apple, Autonomous Vehicles and Reducing 51% of CO2 Emissions | Kevin Surace

June 10, 2019 by Regine

Kevin Surace (@kevinsurace) is a futurist and disruptive innovation speaker, creator of the first smartphone and digital assistant and innovator of the decade. Surace has disrupted every industry he has entered from communications to A.I. to clean energy, been named Inc. Magazine’s 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year, CNBC’s Innovator of the Decade, and inducted into RIT’s Innovation Hall of Fame. He helped develop soundproof drywall with lower carbon footprints and more energy-efficient windows to completely retrofit the Empire State Building and NYSE in record time and under budget, was the co-inventor of multivariate reverse auctions and has now turned his attention back to AI As CEO of Appvance.ai, Surace’s company is now disrupting the software testing industry by eliminating the need for human testers. He has a life outside technology as well and in his latest project “Big, Bold, and, Brassy,” Surace serves as conductor for a 28-piece orchestra featuring international jazz star Nicole Henry where they play selections of broadway and pop tunes for corporate events. Surace’s work has been featured in Businessweek, Time, Fortune, Forbes, CNN, ABC, MSNBC, and FOX News. He has keynoted hundreds of events, from INC5000 to 15 TED Talks to the US Congress and even been awarded 28 patents. Continue Reading …
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