“As a father and venture capitalist, it became evident how important it is for the black community to be able to create generational wealth.” – Michael Lints, Executive Producer, Broken Chains; Partner, Golden Gate Ventures

Here’s a quick rundown of interesting articles blooming in my digital garden this week; including strategy, VC, people & community – enjoy!

Wondering what to expect at Wolves Summit 2021? We sat down with Diana Florescu, board member and director at Wolves Summit, to peek behind the curtains at what’s in store for this year’s summit!

Atomico’s State of European Tech team just announced that they’re creating 10 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and awarding them to members of the tech community. We talked to Sarah Guemouri, co-author of the State of European Tech report, about the launch.

We caught up with Benjamin Joffe, partner at SOSV & asked him about the new Climate Tech Summit he’s organizing to bring world-class investors together with emerging climate tech founders. For FREE.

Weekly Calendar in Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship for October 18th – 24th.

It’s very unlikely that online events will replace our desire to meet IRL anytime soon. At least not until the promises of the metaverse become a reality for a vast majority of Internet users. And with the recent outage of Facebook, I’m not sure we’re even ready for that.

We touched base recently with Delia Goos, Lead Events Open Innovation & Incubation at Henkel dx to get the scoop on this year’s Xathon.

We’re not the only conference struggling to decide between the highest level of speakers & reaching gender equality on stage. Even though there should be more women CEOs, it is us – the conference “makers” – who feel that we have to justify ourselves for not reaching the target.

Weekly Calendar in Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship for October 11th – 17th.

The Mayor of Paris is handing the keys to City Hall to 3,500 participants : startups, experts, investors, major French and foreign corporates.

At this 100% virtual event, you’ll hear from the CEOs who scaled multi-billion-dollar companies, meet the investors cutting the checks, and discover the next-gen. of SaaS startups going boldly where no one has gone before.