Grai Media

24/10/2022

🌎 Global Media for Equity Report 2022.

After 10 months of challenges, work and commitment, we are proud and honored to share some of the report stats.

From our 2021 European report, we have learned that this is an untapped opportunity for B2C companies, media groups, and investors to use strategically when planning for company growth, innovation, and sales revenue diversification and optimizing marketing budgets.

This year, we took the challenge to research, document, and publish the global perspective of media-for-equity, understanding the effect of media investments throughout company growth. 

This is the original report where we documented North America, South America, Europe, South East Asia, India, and the Middle East, enabling us to draw a significant comparison between these global markets. This model is a true differentiating factor when B2C companies are ready for growth.

Interested to learn more, register for the launching event: http://rb.gy/6abfoc.

           

19/04/2022

Stefan Koritar, CEO & Partner Grai Ventures, dar și CEO Offera a vorbit în podcastul Thinking Made Visible despre:

▶ Ce este ?
▶ Care este impactul pe care îl are Offera?
▶ Ce este Cheta Digitală?
▶ Cum l-a ajutat felul de a gândi, ca vizionar, în a crea Offera?
▶ Care sunt cele mai faine 3 lecții pe care Offera i le-a adus și pe care le vede acum, cu ocazia lansării?
▶ Un sfat pentru alți vizionari, pentru că și alți vizionari să înțeleagă că nu sunt doar “împrăștiați”, “prea băgați în multe”, “irealiști”, ci că felul de a gândi al unui vizionar este ceea ce face lumea să evolueze. 😎

Acesta le vei afla în episodul 60 din , dar și multe altele....

Descoperă conversația pe:

📌 Spotify: spoti.fi/3JIIt9g
📌 Apple Podcast: apple.co/3M9NXMd

Audiție plăcută!

Posibil să ai și tu colegi, parteneri, șefi care ți se pare că gândesc pe dos față de tine. Și te enervează maxim uneori, dar alteori îți dai seama că fix acela le e talentul. 🙃

Sau poate lucrezi lângă un antreprenor care te obosește prin cât de MARE visează afacerea și ție ți se pare că sunt zeci de lucruri de făcut ACUM, unde sunteți.

👏 Stefan Koritar, CEO & Partner la Grai Ventures, dar și CEO la Offera a fost invitatul de săptămâna trecută la podcastul Thinking Made Visible cu Mădălina Vasiu.

Ștefan a vorbit exact despre:

▶ Ce este ?
▶ Care este impactul pe care îl are Offera?
▶ Ce este Cheta Digitală?
▶ Cum l-a ajutat felul de a gândi, ca vizionar, în a crea Offera?
▶ Care sunt cele mai faine 3 lecții pe care Offera i le-a adus și pe care le vede acum, cu ocazia lansării?
▶ Un sfat pentru alți vizionari, pentru că și alți vizionari să înțeleagă că nu sunt doar “împrăștiați”, “prea băgați în multe”, “irealiști”, ci că felul de a gândi al unui vizionar este ceea ce face lumea să evolueze. 😎

Acesta le vei afla în episodul 60 din , dar și multe altele....

Descoperă conversația pe:

📌 Spotify: spoti.fi/3JIIt9g
📌 Apple Podcast: apple.co/3M9NXMd

Audiție plăcută! ❤️

21/03/2022

The Global Media for Equity Report is a project we have been planning for the past couple of months.

The initial plan was to share this news last month, but writing about anything tech and investments is hard these days…We agreed to start talking about it, as I’m sure there will be both regional and international startups that can benefit from our initiative.

Led by Grai Ventures in collaboration with our headline partners Brand Capital International, The Times Group’s venture capital arm, Arrandale Ventures, and our data partner Dealroom.co - this is the first global startup report to assess how these investments impact the company’s business and brand performance.

If you’re a Seed-stage+ startup, I would love to know your experience with using various media types to advertise your products and services. The survey takes just a few minutes and it’s anonymous - https://research.typeform.com/to/sniZb5gq

Let's ensure that we do what we can to take the ecosystem to the next level in 2022! 😎

Media for Equity is an investment model where media groups and dedicated Media for Equity funds provide startups with the media budget and support in developing their media campaign, in exchange for an equity share in the business.

01/03/2022

!Founder, this event is for YOU! Podim 2022 applications for startups and scaleups are now OPEN.

🧐 Why should you apply?

📌 You’ll be exposed to 100+ highly motivated investors and you’ll get the chance to have plenty of 1-on-1 meetings with them.

📌 You’ll discuss your ideas and plans with various industry leaders, C-level executives, mentors and get invaluable feedback.

📌 You’ll make new connections, get new leads and perhaps even find a strategic partner.

😎 Do you see yourself as a part of it?

Then don’t hesitate! Apply here: https://podim.org/startup-registration/

The Grai Ventures team team will be there, and we think you should be there too. We would like to meet you at Podim summit, the main event, which will take place in Maribor, Slovenia from the 16th to 18th May.

30/12/2021

📰 Our top five most read articles from 2021:

📍Venture Building Studios 101 - A new model for entrepreneurship - if you are new to the startup studio model, this article provides all the basic principles you need to know - what defines a startup studio? what are the different types of studios and how the model evolved over time? Where does it fit in today’s innovation landscape and how does Grai operate?

📍5 Benefits of creating a corporate startup together with external entrepreneurs - Some corporations, including Google, Cisco or Axa have successfully developed their own “venture studios”, launching numerous new businesses over the course of several years. However many more had tried but failed to deliver the expected results and had their units closed. This article covers just 5 of the reasons why corporations should partner with startup founders to build new ventures rather than doing it themselves

📍The Rise of Media for Equity as an alternative investment model - 40+ pages of actionable insights, case studies and expert interviews on media for equity. This paper explores the evolution of Media for Equity as a driver for revenue growth and diversification through the lenses of European startups and broadcasters, the challenges to successful implementation, and the best practices to overcome them.

📍5-Step Guide for Media Holdings' CEOs in Central Eastern Europe to Get Started With Media for Equity Investments - We have gathered best learnings from senior media executives, fund managers, and from analysing 100+ media for equity deals across Europe. We compressed them into five lessons valuable to any business leader looking to align their organisation on a strategic direction for getting started with this investment model.

📍What is a Venture Validation Sprint and how can you use it to de-risk your corporate startup failing? - a step by step approach at scoping and validating a new idea before you go into ex*****on; this short process of 2-3 months is designed to de-risk the chances of failure and save you time and resources (implicitly costs) as you progress through the next phases of your venture.

🔗 You can find other articles, podcasts, webinars and more on our website: https://lnkd.in/dxbjvb3Z

As for the article mentioned above, you will find the link in the comment section.

24/12/2021

Echipa Grai îți urează un Crăciun Fericit alături de cei dragi! ❤️🎁🎄

06/12/2021

To find our more >>> www.graigroup.com/media-for-equity

01/12/2021

La mulți ani România! 💙💛❤️

21/10/2021

At Grai we're thrilled to partner with innovative companies such as what3words.

Hear from Chris Sheldrick, Co-Founder, and CEO on how his plans to raise funding resulted in a partnership with .

22/09/2021

On the event in partnership with Startup Grind:

🔸Diana Alice Florescu, Managing Partner at Grai Ventures
🔸Tomasz Rudolf, Executive Chairman at The Heart
🔸Michal Wrzolek, Senior Investment Director at Tar Heel Capital Pathfinder,

sat down with Ahmad Piraiee, himself Startup Grind Warsaw Chapter Director, for a wide-ranging discussion on venture building and the future of collaboration between VCs and these venture studios.

"What any investor needs to know about venture building studios" is now available on or . Find the links in the comment section.

Startup studios are interchangeably known around the globe as venture studios, venture builders, or company builders. These venture builders are getting a lot of attention these days. If ten years ago, there were fewer than a handful, today, there are more than 500.

16/09/2021

Could become the next venture builders?