CAMentrepreneurs Newsletter #07
Richard Lucas
This newsletter contains news of recent events, plans for the future, and community announcements.
Recent events
Our summer mixer in Daly’s Wine Bar was a success, well attended with positive feedback from those who attended. This was the first of a series of events supported by Penningtons Manches Cooper who have been supporting our events in Oxford for some time.
Photos here
Fireside Chat with Unicorns event in San Francisco
Sebastian Donovan is the host and builder of the Fireside Chats with Unicorns series.
Thanks to our panellists Mike Anderson is the Founder of Tealium, Alexey Dubov is the co-Founder and CIO of Mighty Buildings, backed by over $150M from Khosla Ventures and over 40 other investors. Janelle Teng is a Vice President at Bessemer Venture Partners, a multi-stage VC fund with $20 billion AUM. Shashank Saxena is a Managing Partner at Sierra Ventures, where he leads enterprise software investments. Event sponsors and hosts were Orrick. special thanks to Joseph Perkins Nick Mider Amy Huang, Summer Buhl
We want to do more events in SVBA. If you want to help, please use this form .
Peter Cowley’s book is on sale https://www.ps-pg.com. Peter was President of European Business Angels Network, Chairman of the Cambridge Angels, Angel Investor of the Year, co founder of CAMentrepreneurs, and has late stage cancer.
Coming events
CAMentrepreneurs online networking, mini-pitches with Peter Cowley
Wednesday, September 11 6:00 - 8:30 PM
Peter Cowley author of recently published Private Grief Public Success will share some reflections. Co-Founder CAMentrepreneurs Chair of Cambridge Angels, Angel of the Year, President of European Business Angels Network, and author of Private Grief Public Success https://www.ps-pg.com * Tickets here https://lu.ma/qrjyr6zy
Mini Pitches - if you to make a mini pitch, apply here Peter has late stage cancer and his participation is health dependent. Follow updates which he posts here on Linkedin.
Coffee Pitch & Chat
Thu, 12th Sept 2024, 8:00 - 9:30 am AEST
Sydney Startup Hub, Sydney, NSW - Tickets here
October
CAMentrepreneurs Oxford Autumn Gathering - tickets here
Monday, October 14 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM 46 Woodstock Rd Oxford
Hosted by Jon Hill Linkedin and Richard Lucas Linkedin If you want to help CAMentrepreneurs thrive in Oxford, please let us know via this form.
If you want to make a lightening pitch at this event, please use this form . The number of slots is limited.
Special Guest Elliott Cooper - Ex-Team GB Gymnast, Entrepreneur and stuntman "Are you boring enough to be world class? Lessons for entrepreneurs"
Many thanks to Penningtons Manches Cooper for supporting this event, and to Grassroots Workspace for providing the venue at symbolic cost.
CAMentrepreneurs/London Business School event
Save the date 23rd October -
November
CAMentrepreneurs/LSE event
Save the date 20th Nov
Summer Drinks Pitch Festival
Thu, 21st Nov 2024, 5:30 - 8:00 pm AEDT
Tea Gardens Hotel, Bondi, NSW Tickets here
Guest pitch
Thomas and Rachel Peach were both at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in the early 1990s. Tom has been critical in getting CAMentrepreneurs going in Sydney.
The origin story is: it was 10pm at night, Rachel was laying out pieces of paper, cross referencing the schema of work for year 12 biology, and creating content for tomorrow’s lesson. Thomas looked at it and thought, ‘there must be a better way.’
We’ve now created a basic engine to create high quality lesson plans which is free to use, the business opportunity is to take these lesson plans, universalise them, and create the links to all of the required outputs. Whilst AI is the heart of the business, it’s vitally important that quality and consistency of outputs is maintained.
For example in a simple enzyme introductory lesson the class would need to be designed for pupils with bespoke needs, from a different coloured paper and font set for a pupil with dyslexia to a different practical demonstration for a pupil with ADHD.
We’re aiming to remove the problem of grunt work, freeing up over 15 hours a week for a full time teacher, and providing access to a community of practice and quality experience. This will benefit the teacher by saving time, the students by improving lessons, and the profession by reducing stress and thereby reducing teacher turnover.
We’re engaging at the school level, in most markets the school has autonomy to add tools to improve practice, from on-line quiz engines to lesson plan databases. These add-ins are all part of our product roadmap.
Our ask is to reach out to us if you’re an angel investor in the ed-tech space and are interested in a by teachers / for teachers startup at the seed investment phase.”
CAMentrepreneurs Links
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Official site
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Feedback welcome.
Richard Lucas, Founder
richardlucas@richardlucas.com