We release a monthly newsletter that recaps the most important events and content from the Morningstar Ventures community. Find out what happened this month, and set your reminder for our first Live Podcast broadcasted via Twitter Spaces.
Twitter Spaces - Live Podcast:
João Leite (Polkastarter)
Don't miss our upcoming live podcast with Polkastarter
We are excited to start a new series of live podcasts broadcasted via Twitter Spaces, where our host Szabi will regularly interview founders and CEOs from our portfolio companies.
Participate in our first session on 📅 Tuesday, Feb 28, at 4.00pm CET, with João Leite from Polkastarter.
Set your reminder ➡️ here
Our Latest Initiatives
Discover this month's interview and project review
Every month we feature exciting projects and founders from our portfolio. This month, Gaby Dizon shares how he founded the successful Yield Guild Games in our Founder Stories series. Additionally, in our Project Review, we dive deeper into the cool gaming project Cantina Royale.
Read the full interview ➡️ here
Read the full project review ➡️ here
Our Podcast Page is now LIVE
Tune into our previous episodes and learn more about our portfolio projects!
We have recently launched a new Podcast section showing all our previous interviews with founders and CEOs. If you have missed some of our episodes in the past, then this is the place you can visit to tune into our exciting podcasts.
Here is the latest one, featuring Ganesh Swami (CEO at Covalent): ➡️ here
Discover the Podcast Section ➡️ here
If you have any questions or would like to drop us some suggestions on content, you would like featured in future newsletters, please don't hesitate to contact us.
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