European tech continues to grow and grow while spreading more evenly across the continent. Dealroom data shows the number of European unicorns founded outside of the UK, Germany, Netherlands and Sweden quickly increasing and even smaller towns are seeing early-stage activity pick up. It’s fair to say that the next…

This is an email we sent out to the Kima portfolio founders to recap 2017 and introduce the new companies in the portfolio. Dear Kima founders, Last year was another very busy year for the Kima portfolio and team, keeping up the pace of 2 new investments per week…

This is an email I sent out to the Kima portfolio founders. Dear Kima founders, I hope you had a good break over the holidays and are looking forward to what lies ahead in 2018. It has now been 4.5 years since I started working at Kima Ventures and the…

This is an email we sent out to the Kima portfolio founders to recap 2016 and introduce the new companies in the portfolio. Dear Kima founders, We hope you’ve all had a happy holiday and are looking forward to what lies ahead in 2017. As we always enjoy reading your…

tl;dr we’ve closed the separate Kima15 offer and application as it was causing too much confusion around what Kima Ventures does. We are still actively making new investments (more and faster than ever before) and companies can continue to apply for early-stage funding from $100,000 to $200,000, at flexible terms…

Looking for more leads for your consulting business? Startups in accelerators are a great target as they’ve just raised funding and are looking for additional help. Accelerators have mentors who volunteer their time to advise the companies during the programme, if you use this to build an air of authority…

There are many factors that can help certain startup sectors to thrive in particular countries but an important one is the country’s regulatory environment. Founders who don’t find a clear and favorable regulatory environment for their business where they are, will quickly look to move to where regulation allows them…

[This is an email we sent out to the Kima portfolio founders to introduce our new team members.] Dear Kima founders, It’s been a few months since we sent out our previous update in September to welcome Jean to the team. …

A few months ago, @chrija polled founders to find out what they considered to be the worst part of raising venture capital funding. The factor that ranked the worst (4.06 on a scale of 5) was “Not knowing where I am in the process”. At Kima we try to make…