Awaiting Moderation....

There's a much more interesting post below.....

But while I'm awaiting moderation on Phil Wilkinson's post about Seedcamp this week - I'll take the chance to quickly post my comments here. I'm going off the grid now, so have a great weekend and thanks to everyone - especially Reshma, Alasdair and all the teams - for a brilliant Seedcamp Week.

Saul (@cape)

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@Phil – sorry it’s taken some time to get to your post, as I’m sure you can imagine its been a pretty busy week with the 22 teams at Seedcamp. Also sorry you couldn’t make it last night to connect at the Techcrunch party, it would have been good to talk in person. I did have a quick chat to Mike Butcher that I’m delighted to discuss this and any other questions folks have on Seedcamp in the next few weeks – see http://bit.ly/mWAQx

One quick factual point – of course mentors are able to attend the judging sessions, several did this year and have done every year. I think what happened yesterday was a pretty innocent misunderstanding – you came into the room mid-pitch and as you’d not been a mentor during the week, I guess that’s why Reshma asked very politely for you to not join the session.

@Nick – we also love the thought of any investors putting money into Seedcamp finalists who don’t make the top 6 or in fact the top 6 as well. This year (as every year) investors from all over Europe joined us throughout the week meeting and mentors the teams; including William from DFJ, Sandy from Pentech, Lukasz from Team Europe, Sean from ProFounders, Fred from USV, Will from Amadeus, Ashish from Partech, Mario from Eagle Ventures to name a few. While most of the teams love Seedcamp for the advice and networking, I’m sure they’ll be delighted to hear from any of the above – or the other investors who have been following up with teams from the great coverage Techcrunch (http://bit.ly/vECkN) has given to all 22 Seedcamp Week finalists and the 140 teams we’ve mentored throughout the year at seven Mini Seedcamps (http://bit.ly/mWAQx)

Signing off now for the long weekend – looking forward to spending time with the family and doing penance on Monday for my year’s indiscretions (http://bit.ly/13ou3W)

Apologies you felt slighted. Reshma and team have done and amazing job this year with Seedcamp, I know no offense was meant. I’m looking forward to chatting with Mike about the issues you raise and any others people want to throw to him.

In the meantime, lets celebrate 22 awesome teams and 6 very special winners from Jordan, Estonia, Cambridge, Romania, Poland and Birmingham looking to build world-beating companies from the hub we are building in London (http://bit.ly/2xj9fb, http://bit.ly/1ZTK37).

We should be proud and have lots to look forward to. Peace.

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