Networks of influence: How Floww is changing the startup game

When trying to change an entire system, we have to be next-level driven and ready to double down. Meanwhile, startups, the venture capital that backs them and the illiquid market have largely remained the same for decades. Venture capitalists pick the companies they want to back, mostly via warm introductions from their existing network – friends of friends. Then, once these founders and startups are funded, there is a lack of data on pretty much every aspect of the business.   This way of connecting means the process has inherent bias and some of the best entrepreneurs remain hidden – unbacked and unable to share their visions on the scale they deserve, simply because they don’t belong to the right network. An early passion for tech Martijn De Wever, serial entrepreneur and Founder of Floww, is changing all of that. He grew up fixing computers that his dad brought back from his job at IBM. It was here that his true passion for technology and innovation began.  De Wever later combined this passion with his wide-ranging experience as a London credit trader to launch his own venture captial firm, Force Over Mass. In the beginning, he says, investor nights were…
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