🇮🇱NMA Monday Alert #52
The week starts here! In today's newsletter you'll read about a recent event in Berlin and get some insights about current developments in the startup ecosystem.
Hello and welcome back to NMA Monday Alert!
This is a short week here as we head into the long Easter weekend that we all need to hide easter eggs for our kids and munch on chocolate easter bunnies.
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“From Crisis to Investment Opportunities?”
Our Managing Partner Nico Lumma went to Berlin last week to participate in a roundtable discussion hosted by ELNET that involved members of the German startup ecosystem as well as guests from Israel: Avi Hasson (CEO Startup Nation Israel) as well as his colleagues Emma Vardimon and Sharon Gour Arie, and also Manuel Sussholz (Spring Hill Venture Partners). Avi and his team presented some interesting numbers on the state of the Israeli startup ecosystem and Manuel as well showed that despite of the war in Gaza the M&A activity remains strong in Israel. The obvious focus right now is cybersecurity, where Israel has been the leading country for a long time now, but health is becoming are more important vertical as well. Startup Nation Israel really does an outstanding job creating a platform for startups and connecting them with investors and corporates worldwide. We are sure that Israel will rebound after the war and come back stronger - software from Israel is can and should be used globally and this creates plenty of opportunities for startups.
diva-e AI Hub
As a reminder for you, this is our announcement from last week and we’re really stoked to have won diva-e as a client! Together with our client diva-e, one of Germany's largest digital solutions provider, we're building the diva-e AI Hub to connect their corporate clients with AI startups. For startups and corporates alike, venture clienting is a way forward startups can provide solutions that corporate clients need. Together with diva-e we're taking venture clienting a step further and provide not only access to the right solutions, but also integrate the solutions into the IT infrastructure of the corporate client. This way corporate clients get the benefit of working together with startups that provide cutting edge AI technology while at the same time relying on the services provided by a long-term partner.
👉🏻 If you want to be part of the AI Hub, please connect with us! 👈🏻
Scaleup Landing Pad Hamburg
Attention Greentech founders! Please apply now to the Scaleup Landing Pad Hamburg for a chance to come to Hamburg to grow your business here! NMA is a proud partner of the Scaleup Landing Pad and enjoys working with international startups to provide venture clienting services to them and selected corporates from Hamburg.
This is the final call as the deadline is on March 31st!
Here’s a quick reminder: if you want to know more about AI, just ask us or buy our book!
Künstliche Intelligenz kompakt: Grundlagen, Chancen und Perspektiven. 🤖
🎢 Startup Ecosystem Updates 🚀
World Fund closes first €300M climate tech fund, seeking to follow-on and backing hardware
This is good news, both for startups and the climate!
GP/LP Roundtable: State of European VC Fundraising
tune into this session on April 10!
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Have a great start into the week!