Sam Eshrati

COO & Chief Engagement Officer at TechBBQ

[VDS @VDS_event]

Don't miss the chance to see the extraordinary Sol Campbell live at the Main Stage! 🔥

⚽ "Beyond Football: Stories of Courage, Perseverance and Success" with Sol Campbell, Legendary Former England Captain & Premier League Champion, Sport Tech Leader

🎧 @SamEshrati (@TechBBQ & https://t.co/Xm1CoTUC8W) as moderator

[Sam Eshrati @SamEshrati]

@Meta why do you have a support department when they can not support and respond to users? sent 4 emails regarding my unfair marketplace suspension. YET to hear back a word. Good reason to move on from FB. #nosupport #META

[Europe Startup Nations Alliance @ESNAlliance]

Moderated by @vithorky (@czechfounders), the panel featured @josefschwarz (EC Representation in CZ), @SabrinaGuelck (Undiced), @SamEshrati (@TechBBQ , @nordicangels_ ), @JaroslavTon (MalcomFinance), and @ESNAlliance 's @Carorossi . They tackled how risk-averse narratives & regulatory complexity hinder scale. #RiskMindset #Regulation

[Startup Valencia @Startup_VLC]

🛶 From Valencia to Copenhagen, we're building ties with the Nordic innovation scene and @TechBBQ

We welcomed a visit to our Base 2 office at @lamarinadevlc as part of our international mission to unite forces and drive growth across borders 🫂

[Sam Eshrati @SamEshrati]

What a shame as a regular traveller that @HIAQatar is turning to a bus terminal, and @qatarairways has committed to poor quality and service for a while.
we will avoid both the airline and airport at all costs in the future. 👎

[Ada Ventures @adaventures]

Matt Penneycard sat down with the @Maddyness_UK team to share how we think about backing winners and our broader mission to back game-changing startups and catalyse the VC industry to make it more inclusive.

Read the article 👉 https://t.co/60trhl3IyA

Our focus is on climate equity, healthy ageing, and economic empowerment. We're proud to support startups like @MaterialsNexus, @oxmedprod and @buildwithtract, led by passionate founders who are building impactful companies. We think future is about meeting society's challenges head-on, and we believe that inclusive solutions are crucial. That's why our investment strategy puts inclusive investing lens at the forefront.

[Ada Ventures @adaventures]

https://t.co/vRoq1OAFnh

[Ada Ventures @adaventures]

Just over a year ago, we became the first VC in Europe to help pay for the childcare costs of our parent founders.

Childcare is often cited as one of the most significant barriers to parents’ – especially women’s – success in entrepreneurship. This initiative, in partnership with @bubbleChildcare – an Ada portfolio company and the UK's leading on-demand childcare platform – was designed to alleviate this burden and demonstrate our support for the ‘whole founder’.

In the spirit of open-source learning and a commitment to encourage others to adopt a new approach, we wanted to share the details of how the first year has gone.

Key updates include:

👶 30% of eligible Ada Ventures founders have already used this childcare support

🤝 A further 19% plan to access this support in the near future

📈 192.25 hours of Ada-sponsored childcare have been claimed so far

We’re incredibly proud of these numbers, but even more so of the valuable testimonials we've received in recent months. Diarra Smith, Head of Portfolio and Brand at Ada, has written about the impact this support has had over on Medium – here’s a glimpse of what our founders had to say:

💬 “It’s made me more resilient. I know that if I can work around childcare and still attend meetings.” – @hannahsut13, Co-Founder & COO of @themoonhub

💬 “My wife and I both work so one of us has to take care of the kids after work and during holiday time. The [founder/investor relationship] is like a business marriage. The investor needs to show that they care about other things going on in that founder's life.” – @MarkWhitcroft, Founder of @PlannerPalAI.

💬 “It has been heartening to see other venture firms pick up this lead set by Ada by offering childcare support to their portfolios. Once again, Ada has set in motion a welcome ripple effect to build for the future we want to see.” – Dr. @juliafanli, Co-Founder & CEO of @micrographiaBio.

To mark the anniversary of the scheme our very own @checkwarner has also written for Forbes about why VC-backed childcare support is needed now more than ever.

Today’s update also coincides with the launch of @wvce_tech's report on ‘The Untold Stories of Mothers in VC.’ The report features some sobering statistics on women’s anxieties around motherhood in the venture capital industry, and serves as an important reminder that there’s still much work to be done across the board.

Read Check’s article here 👉 https://t.co/e4UU7YMf3x

Read Diarra’s piece here 👉
https://t.co/ED0q4KM87h

Check out WVC:E’s new report and their exclusive with @Siftedeu  👇

[Sam Eshrati @SamEshrati]

@GritDaily thanks for this
@adaventures

[Grit Daily News @GritDaily]

Ada Ventures Announces Sam Eshrati, COO & Chief Engagement Officer at TechBBQ, as One of Its 10 New Danish Business Angels https://t.co/jvs2uipO3r #News #announcement #news #techbbq

[Sam Eshrati @SamEshrati]

@pejmannozad congratulations! Well deserved

[Pejman Nozad @pejmannozad]

Silicon Valley gave me a chance, and I am forever grateful for the opportunities to support founders. To my team and everyone who believed in me, thank you for making this possible!🙏

[Robin Wauters @robinwauters]

It's been absolutely heartwarming to read all of your comments (here and on other channels). 🙏🏼

Thank you all for the support and kindness.

I considered getting back to everyone personally, but that will be impossible. Besides, I'm on a break. 😜

See you all soon!

[Ada Ventures @adaventures]

🚩Today we are proud to unveil 10 new angel investors for our inaugural European angel investing programme in #Denmark

Designed to diversify the angel investing community and help uncover a new generation of overlooked founder talent, ten angels have been selected. Over the next year, they will be able to make write checks of kr200,000 into Danish startups building game-changing solutions across economic empowerment, healthy ageing and climate equity.

Danish based founders may contact the angels via the public directory: https://t.co/IdknWchOhE

The angels who have been selected include founders, community leaders, and operators.

They also bring an inspiring and diverse array of new talent to the Danish angel investment community:

👊🏼70% of the successful angels identify as women
👊🏼40% identify as an ethnic minority in Denmark
👊🏼50% come from lower socioeconomic background

Thank you to the organisations who have so far supported us in the launch and delivery of the Danish Ada’s Angels program, including: @Eifo_fond, @TechBBQ, @AARSOME and @UnconvenVc.

Cc: @JakobKnutzen, @alphachar, @TheSaintedDoc,
@SamEshrati

[Sam Eshrati @SamEshrati]

@bhatti_saqib Why the UK is leading in innovation 👉From 10 to 154 unicorns in the past decade 😳 @tech_eu

[VDS @VDS_event]

Did you know that VDS is still on the lookout for new #speakers? 👓

🫣 Join us at the international #tech event happening on Oct 23-24, and share the topics you're most passionate

Submit your idea ASAP and join our #VDS2024 speaker lineup at https://t.co/4rHswHItpT ✨

[Sam Eshrati @SamEshrati]

@AirCanada stop operating until you can operate properly. NEVER again.

[Robin Wauters @robinwauters]

Still surreal that this actually happened :)

Calls for a return to NYC (already plotting).

Thanks to our @tech_eu friends over at @Nasdaq (shout-out to @AdamKostyal)

[Sam Eshrati @SamEshrati]

@SoulaimaGourani Not just A founder but a super start 👊

[Sam Eshrati @SamEshrati]

@robinwauters @tech_eu @robinwauters & @tech_eu amazing ride 👌

[Robin Wauters @robinwauters]

29 November 2023 is a special day.

Today, @tech_eu celebrates a decade of chronicling the development of the European tech community.

In so much, I thought it most appropriate, and time-saving for me, to finally put down in words the answers and stories to the questions I'm most often asked about https://t.co/JIJVmQfQ60.

>> https://t.co/AXlX8wqO68

[Rowan Cheung @rowancheung]

Microsoft, Google, Harvard, and DeepLearning have all released free courses on AI and ChatGPT.

Here are the top 10 free courses I'd recommend to learn AI in 2023: