Auckland Bootstrapper’s Breakfast / April 2024

• Have a startup idea, but don’t know where to start?
• Working on something in your spare time and want to connect with others?
• Been bootstrapping for a while and need some help figuring out where to go next?

Sit down and share your issues, problems, and asks with the GridAKL team and others in a similar position and we’ll find a way forward together. Breakfast & Coffee will be provided by GridAKL.

☕ Bootstrapper’s Breakfasts meetings are for founders of early-stage startups. It’s a light before-work event to meet similar minded people; share what you’re working on to get some help; and build a peer support network for yourself so you don’t feel like you’re doing it all on your own.

Guest Speaker 

Byron Vag Vugt | Investment Manager @ NZ Growth Capital Partners

Byron is an Investment Manager at NZGCP’s Aspire NZ Seed Fund, a government backed venture capital fund investing in early-stage Kiwi technology start-ups. Byron joined the fund with a background in Mechanical Engineering and enjoys balancing understanding both the technical and customer side of innovation and working with founders to make their technology concepts real.

Byron will talk through some of the basics behind VC investments, including what VC’s are looking for in the investments they make and some pro and cons of receiving VC funding

After some networking, we’ll use the lean coffee format to help share our current roadblocks and asks for help, then collaboratively find ways forward to help one another.

You should leave the morning event caffeinated ready for your day ahead, along with some new friends, and good ideas moving forward through the current issues you’re facing bootstrapping your venture or idea.

Hope to see you there!

📍GridAKL / John Lysaght Building – 101 Pakenham Street West, Wynyard Quarter
📅 7:30am / Tues 23 April