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Todd Porter

Todd Porter

@toddjapan

Asia Pacific ecosystem entrepreneur: Regenerative Finance, Agriculture, Energy; NZ Edmund Hillary Fellow; Board Venture Cafe @Cambridge Innovation Center Tokyo

Tokyo Katılım Haziran 2008
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Todd Porter
Todd Porter@toddjapan·
Tokyo crew - a great group of global and local AI players coming together tomorrow at CIC Tokyo from 16:30-18:30 for an event on AI Sovereignty & Identity: Who Controls the Stack? Signup here: lnkd.in/gdpA-aF7
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Henry Shi
Henry Shi@henrythe9ths·
I got rejected by 144 investors before raising $150M for my $200M+ rev/year startup. After 144 rejections, I started questioning our approach. Were we solving the right problem? What were we doing wrong? Why weren’t investors seeing what we were seeing? Were we the right team to build this? We tried everything: different pitch angles, new deck structures, and reframing the problem. Then came the 145th meeting, where we closed our first growth round. That yes made everything worth it. But getting there took years of mistakes and hard work. We went through a lot of trial and error just to figure out what resonates with investors. We tried dozens of approaches to figure out what made investors engage. Some landed, most didn't. But each iteration taught us something about what builds conviction versus what just sounds good on paper. And once we cracked that code, our Series C closed faster than expected. And today, I see so many founders in the exact same position I was in 10 years ago: grinding through rejections, questioning everything, and trying to figure out what works. So today I want to give you the resource I wish I had back then: Something that shows you exactly how to structure these conversations and navigate the entire process (because the fundraising cycle can be a big distraction and take a toll on you as a founder). So I've partnered with Notion's Startups Team to create the essential fundraising resource that helps you avoid the mistakes that cost me years. Here's what you are getting: • The actual decks I used to raise $150M for Super[.]com (Series B, C) • 50 real examples from funded startups like Eleven Labs and Artisan AI • A searchable database of 10,000+ investors - angels, VCs, and accelerators you can reach out to immediately (this alone would take months to build manually) • An AI-powered fundraising agent built into Notion with step-by-step prompts (no separate ChatGPT needed) Want access? • Like and share this post • Comment "FUNDRAISE" • Follow me so I can DM you the link I'll send it over ASAP. P.S.: If you are serious about fundraising (now or in the future), you should grab it right away.
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Todd Porter
Todd Porter@toddjapan·
Osaka-based/connected friends: CIC is launching their 3rd innovation campus in Japan and looking for team members for multiple positions, so for anyone looking for aligned opportunities see/share this link jp.cic.com/en/career/
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Todd Porter@toddjapan·
Creative young Moroccan Yasmine has just launched a crowdfunding campaign for Voyaj, her community app bringing people from diverse perspectives together to realize our shared humanity indiegogo.com/projects/make-…
Yasmine El Baggari@yelbaggari

I'd love your support in bringing us to the finish line! The Voyaj mission is to connect people for meaningful interactions, to expand perspectives, open hearts and minds, and to build affinity and peace.” igg.me/at/voyaj @VoyajTravel

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Todd Porter@toddjapan·
Happy World Penguin Day! Created to celebrate these amazing creatures & to alert people to threats facing them. Of the 18 penguin species, 12 considered endangered or vulnerable. Among the main threats to penguins are climate change and ice melt, overfishing, and oil spills
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Todd Porter@toddjapan·
I am verifying my ownership of Real-World SimCity for Climate -- the Planetary Insight Center (PIC) on Gitcoin Grants at gitcoin.co/grants/5108/re…. 👍🎉🎆🎉🎊🎉
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Todd Porter@toddjapan·
Tokyo friends - 2 more days for one of the best exhibitions I have been to in years....so well done by Subaquatic Messenger Ai Futaki and the team at the Cervantes Institute...beautiful, meaningful...including an immersive video room..
ai futaki@aifutaki

2more days…😭 二木あい写真展「共に生きる」 2022年 2月27日 までインスティトゥト・セルバンテス東京にて。 「Coexistencia」 hasta el 27-Feb-2022 en el Instituto Cervantes de Tokio 「Co-Exist」 At Institute Cervantes Tokyo until February 27th, 2022. aifutaki-coexsistencia2.peatix.com

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Gunter Pauli
Gunter Pauli@MyBlueEconomy·
It took one year to make a sheet of stonepaper from #rock #waste without #water. LungMeng needed a decade to #design machines producing 100K tons per year. Another decade to turn stonepaper into cardboard. Lets start a #RevolutionNow turn #Mining waste without water into #Paper!
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Dream DAO 👩🏽‍🚀🚀
It's too easy to imagine the end of the world. Much easier, sometimes, than imagining a pathway to a better world. Shout out to all the artists and educators who inspire us to believe that a better future is possible, and make that future a reality 🌞❤️
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BFF 🌈
BFF 🌈@MyBFF·
Friends who earn together, learn together. 👯‍♀️ And we are here to make it happen. Who is BFF & what are we building?? Find out at our kickoff event BFF Minted, 1/26! It’s FREE & payoffs for attending will be BIG (trust us). Join & spread the word! 🎟️ 👉 mybff.xyz
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