During the Builders Investor House, we combine our efforts and partner up with startups and scale-ups to host the next events. This edition was co-hosted with EYnovation. As part of EY's mission to build a better working world, their EYnovation initiative supports entrepreneurs early in their business cycle to establish life-long relationships. On this evening we got a few ins and outs of EYnovation by Richard van der Pluym and Theodoor Huiskes. On top of that, scaleup Clockworks hit the stage for an honest fireside chat sharing their vision, success and challenges. Noon delivered their investor pitch, after which our challenge was about coming up with reasons why Noon should not receive any funding by grilling them in order for them to learn.

After this, it was time to solve some challenges for the ventures involved. These were the challenges we grappled with during the evening.

1. Grill Noon, giving them all the arguments for not investing in Noon. Preparing them for their upcoming fundraiser.
2. Clockworks x GPT, how can we define Clockworks’ niche in a market associated with ChatGPT?

Here are some learnings from this meet-up. 📄

• Saul Johnson, Noon: "Today, we learned that our product is great, and to communicate this in a more proficient way we should enhance the credibility on our platform. In this way, we show people that they can trust us in this difficult well-being space."
• Victor Westerwoudt, Clockworks: "Positioning ourselves in this market is about communicating that we’re not consultants creating product for companies, but that we’re AI craftsmen who create AI products in the best way. While, of course, staying humble while doing and communicating so."