Emurgo to Bring More VC Startup Money to Cardano with Antler Ibex

00:49 Who is Antler
01:22 Breaking down the announcement
02:31 Why is this important
03:58 Antler Ibex Team Experience
04:38 Contact them!
05:53 Closing thoughts

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Omergo bring their a game and this is huge, this
big announcement, their partnership with Antler Eyeblex, this new initiative
that's out there to bring in VC investment and startup
help for all these businesses building on Candana. This could
be huge for any project that is building, looking for
an investment, looking for startup advice, looking to scale their business.

(00:22):
This is big. Let's get into it. Hey everyone, I'm
Pete Buy Welcome back to the Learn Canda podcast. On
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and I'll keep you update with everything that's happening in
the Candina ecosystem. This is the big news here. This
is the post from Amergo talking about their an announcement
of their strategic partnership with Eyeblex, the corporate innovation arm

(00:45):
with Antler Global. And I had a look into this
one here. Antler Global is a massive VC startup investing company.
I had a look at their website to see what
companies I had invested in. There's over one thousand companies
in Antler's portfolio. This is massive. I scrolled through here

(01:06):
trying to narrow down something. Maybe I'd recognize something I'm
just filtered here by Australia and the list just goes
on and on with the mount of companies that I've
have gone through the incubator and are under the umbrella
of Antler Groups. So this is absolutely amazing. But let's
have a look at the announcement here around this strategic
partnership from Amerga and IBEX. So this is a strategic

(01:29):
collaboration support founders, scale startups and tackle industry challenges through
the synergy of blockchain technology and Antler's global innovation network.
IBLEX is a new initiative by Antler and is the
sector specific innovation investment platform and they're looking to invest
specifically in fintech and web three technologies, leveraging Amerga's deep

(01:51):
expertise and Antler's expansive global network to support founders and
scale startups. That is amazing. They're going to identify invest in,
drive growth in global founders and startup projects, tackle key
industry challenges, build robust financial technology stacks that this is
called that is interoperable with Kadano, So that is one

(02:13):
of the key things they're going to do. Kardano needs
more interoperability support. Amurgo drive breakthrough innovations across growth stages.
This is so so cool. I'll put a link down
below for this particular press release, but you can find
it's floating around x all over the place. Now, why
is this a big deal? And Sheldon here from Omergo

(02:36):
breaks it down for us so we can get a
better understanding of why this is so important for us. We,
like everyone else in the community, know there is further
need for VC and incubation support. This partnership looks to
attempt to feel part of that gap. Now, this is
an important bit down here. With Eyeblex, they can offer
guidance and development, connecting them with key players in traditional

(02:59):
industry and finance to help them navigate the process of
building scalable projects for real world use cases. And I
think that's so important that bit there that he highlights.
It's in italics there. I don't know if you can
see it, And I think that's the really important bit there.
Real world use cases. No more of these meme coins,
no more of just trading art pictures. I'm sorry or

(03:21):
the awesome artists out there, but we need this to
evolve to real world use cases where it's integrating into
our everyday lives, more identity solutions, more deep in real
world assets, all of those things that can take advantage
of blockchain and what Cadana can deliver so well, I
think is crucial here and this initiative, this strategic partnership

(03:43):
between the two here, I think will really help a
lot of Cardana projects, especially the ones that are in
the RWA space that are doing deep in and I
think they're the leading projects in the Cadana space anyway,
So this is absolutely awesome. Now, I did have a
look at the antler Ibex team and everything else around it,
So this is like their sales page. I'll put a

(04:04):
link down below so you guys can have a look
over it as well. But this definitely is a team
that have years of experience working in corporate and building
up some big, big businesses. I'll put a link to
their profiles down below as well, but you can have
a look and a bit of a glance over here.
They've worked in all sort of VCS, fundraising, startup spaces, business,

(04:29):
you name it. They've got the experience for it. So
I'm really excited about the potential of this strategic partnership
and where it can potentially bring various Candana projects. Now,
if you are interested, you can contact Themrgo team and
put your name in the hat and see if you
get selected for a short listing here. But they will
be at Token twenty forty nine in Singapore. So if

(04:52):
you are one of these players that is potentially looking
for investment VC money, head over to Singapore and go
to Token twenty forty nine and get yourself in front
of these people. I think it's probably important, especially to
get their attention early on if you are really serious

(05:13):
about a VC funding in this type of space, this
type of reach, This is absolutely crazy. The Singapore Token
twenty forty nine looks like an absolutely amazing event. It
literally is next week on the eighteenth and nineteenth of September.
All the other previous events from around the world in
Dubai and Singapore have been absolutely amazing. Now it is

(05:34):
just before the Singapore Grand Prix as well, so if
you do happen to go, book a couple of extra
days so you can go to the Grand Prix as well.
It's definitely a highlight of the calendar here in Southeast Asia.
So this looks like an amazing event. This is an
absolutely amazing news announcement as well from the Murgo team.
I know there's been a little bit of drama and

(05:56):
controversy around this exact thing bringing vcs into the Candana space,
with that previous space and interview with three UTXO that
leaked pitch deck. They're looking for it funding from the
Kadana Treasury. Let's go this way. This is a nice option,
working with a team that has extensive experience and also

(06:18):
has a lot of backing and connections already, they have
the funds. All we need to do is present are
awesome tech and awesome projects building a Kadana. Let's get it, guys.
Let's make this happen. I'd love to see some Kadana
projects get snapped up by these vcs and take it
to the mood. Let's do it, guys. All right, that's
all I have for this news update. If you enjoyed it,

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