August Newsletter
Welcome to the August edition of the SCV Newsletter! 🍾
The big news for the upcoming months is that Cohort 5.0 is taking shape, with the start date being the 19th of September. Make sure to keep an eye out to see our shiny new startups. 🌟
SuperCharger Ventures continues its mission to build the world’s leading EdTech Accelerator.
We would love to meet you in person, so if you are attending the Bett Asia Startup Competition, let us know, as our co-founder Alessandro will be there. We’re excited to also be supporting the EdVentures GBA Fellowship. 🎉 Reach out to us for details on these events!
We’re also happy to share a ground-breaking initiative that took place this month, the very first ‘Founder’s Retreat’ in Austria. We were joined by some of our portfolio companies, who’s founders made commitments to investing in themselves, taking steps closer to becoming the leaders they envisioned themselves as.
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📣 August in a Nutshell
🚀 Supercharger Cohort 5.0: The offers are out! We can’t wait to announce the future leaders of EdTech on the 19th of September.
🌆 Bett Asia : EdTech Startup Competition - The finalists will be revealed this September!
🌟 EdVentures GBA Fellowship - A fellowship looking for proven EdTech solutions that can strengthen global education, enterprise and lifelong learning. Will you be at the Summit?
🦄 SCV Portfolio News - Keeping you updated on everything SCV.
👩🏫 Founders Taboo - The first retreat in the Austrian Alps with 6 founders was a great success!
🔨 The SCV Marketing Toolbox - PhantomBuster has revolutionised our marketing.
Stay with us, we’re just getting started…
🌆 Bett Asia Startup Competition
We're super exited to announce that we are collaborating with Bett Global Asia, to create the first Bett Asia Startup Competition! 🚀
🏆 This competition will convey the very best that Asia’s EdTech startup space has to offer, showcasing cutting-edge innovations that are powering changes in education across the region.
Nominations closed on the 25th of August, and it isn’t long now until the finalists are named on the 8th of September. 🥇🥈🥉
The final will take place on the 11th of October 2022, at The Athenee Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.
Interested? Visit the website for more information.
🌟 EdVentures GBA Fellowship 🌟
Calling Growth-Stage EdTech Ventures that are ready to Expand into Asia!
We're excited to announce the 'EdVentures GBA Fellowship', an opportunity for startups from across the globe to build and consolidate an international network with ease and support. 🚀
The Edventures GBA Summit will take place on the 14th of October.
At SuperCharger Ventures, we are thrilled to have partnered with Esperanza Life in order to support this event! 🎉
👉 Visit the website for more information : www.edventuresgba.com
🦄 SCV Portfolio News
Our founders have some exciting news to share! 🗞
MatchUPGlobal
We have recently closed two key partnerships 🍾:
Mygrants: for International Students, a job placement in Italy before they arrive there.
Mpower Financing: for financing the International Students that wish to study in the US and Canada with loans up to 100K.
Last but not least, we are getting close to the Seed Round closure. We have an available remaining balance of USD 330, with several candidates interested in taking it. 🎊🎊
Acreditta
🎤 We will be speaking at HolonIQ Mex Summit on the 28th of September.
Virtual Film School
✍🏻 We’ve signed with Knoma, and Quotanda, who both provide student financing.
We launched our new round of test classes last week with students in London, LA, and China, with great success. We’ve also done an MOU with the Hollywood Creative Academy, who will fund our next free intro classes and sell them through their channels. 🚀
Incluzon
We’ve raised a bridge round led by Ah! Ventures - This got covered by over 10 media houses! 🎉
We are running an anonymous Workforce Expansion Survey to understand challenges in hiring and what makes it easy. 🧍🏻♂️
Workademy
We raised 145K EUR in a Pre-Seed Angel round. 💰👏🏻
Fructify Network
The Fachstelle Migration Zug (Switzerland) 🇨🇭 is organising a one-day seminar on the 23rd of September to address issues regarding employment. FMZ and experts from the business world will support job-seekers in Switzerland with information on how to get back on their feet. The English-language sessions will be a combination of presentations from guest speakers, small break-out groups, and group discussions.
Fructify Network 🍊 is honoured to be partnering with FMZ in order to co-design the workshop 'Entrepreneurship – forging your own path' to help participants to find their own mission.
More info & registration: https://www.fmzug.ch/en/employment/back-to-work-in-english
For women passionate about sustainability, SDGs, and using their skills to create change, herHACK, organised by Digital Switzerland this autumn, is the place to be! And Fructify Network is a proud content partner of this event, collaborating to create and deliver the workshops on Design Thinking, Business Canva & Impact Creation. 🚀
More details & registration here:https://digitaltage.swiss/en/herhack
Analytikus
We were selected as one of the 2022 Edventures GBA Fellows! 🏆
Cyber Mentor DoJo
We were accepted onto the Plexal Growth Accelerator, a government initiative that accelerates Cyber Security startups.
Founder’s Taboo
Our inaugural retreat for Founder’s Mental Health and Wellbeing was a great success. We were joined by some of our portfolio companies, such as iGolf (Jonah & Patrick) & Empowerment Lab (Marija)
This retreat is part of SuperCharger’s commitment to bringing awareness to the importance of founders allowing themselves the time and space necessary to invest in themselves, find balance, and become the leaders they envision themselves as.
The retreat over two days focused on:
Leading yourself; addressing your physical, mental and emotional needs, building resilience and refreshing motivation and purpose, so you can enjoy a sustainable career.
Leading others and your venture; balancing demands, decision-making and action planning so you can build your business and life in a holistic way.
It was hosted in the pristine Austrian Alps for a nature-based immersive experience.
If you wish to participate in future retreats, just email us or directly contact Janos.
Alternatively, any portfolio companies, or applicants of SuperCharger Ventures can access to a series of resources to help founders build resilience in their startup journey.
🔨 The SCV Marketing Toolbox
Have you heard of PhantomBuster? If you haven’t, you’re missing out! PhantomBuster has become the bread and butter of our marketing campaigns, as producing great content is only half of the job. Being data-driven is key to successful marketing, as only through data and analytics can you actually see what content is successful and use your posts to create leads.
Flows : On PhantomBuster, you can link up different phantoms together and use the results from one to kickstart another. Some examples of flows we have recently put together are-
Like Extractor + Auto Connect : The Like Extractor Phantom extracts data regarding what profiles have liked certain posts, providing you with all the information available on these contacts. Once this Phantom extracts this information, the Auto Connect Phantom is triggered and automatically sends new likers a connection request.
Like Extractor + Message Sender (But through Zapier!) : Another key move is reaching out to people who engage with your posts. We’ve linked up the Like Extractor with the Message Sender Phantom, but keep in mind that this will not automatically exclude people who are already within your network! We’ve been using Zapier to connect PhantomBuster with Airtable, where we store all of our data, in order to use our data files to filter out our team and connections from possible new leads.
See you next month!
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