More Momentum for Agility Scales
Last week our CEO, Jurgen Appelo announced the creation of the Happy Melly Group (read about it here).
Agility Scales (and the Mind Settlers platform) are a part of this positive shift! Here is some of what it means for us.
Becoming part of the Happy Melly Group
Our CEO Jurgen Appelo is combining his stakes in various ventures through a holding company, the Happy Melly Group:
Investor Implications
Jurgen writes:
Taking part in a holding company, which itself owns multiple startups, is a safer bet than having a stake in just one individual venture. This is precisely what many investors do when they pool their money in accelerators and angel funds. It reduces the risks and increases the opportunities.
…One company with a total of 25 workers, fast-growing income, and unique technologies is a much more interesting business partner than several small startups that each have only revenues but no technologies, or only technologies but no revenues. Whether you like it or not, size matters in negotiations with funders, customers, and vendors.
Agility Scales (Mind Settlers) has a valuable technology platform but low revenue as we build it out. If you are a current investor in Agility Scales (represented by the Mind Settlers icon above), you are free to keep your shares in Mind Settlers or exchange for shares in the Happy Melly Group. We’ll be reaching out to you with more information on the options in the next few months.
Leveraging the Group
Jurgen writes:
Perhaps most interestingly, by operating as a group, we can build a company where every unit reinforces the work of the others. Each of our startups is in the business of promoting ideas for better work-lives, but all have different business models. When seen holistically, we could grow a comprehensive ideas-to-innovation platform.
Here at Agility Scales, we’ve been developing functionality to support formal learning (such as workshops) as described here. We’re also testing early prototypes in Shiftup Workshops.
Expanded Opportunities
There are exciting opportunities for us to support other Happy Melly Group organizations Shiftup and Management 3.0 in the future through Mind Settlers. We are actively pursuing them now.
We can help turn learning into action — not only AFTER workshops (as we’ve written about here and here) but DURING workshops — enhancing group collaboration, sharing and deeper learning.
Our first device-agnostic (non-Android) prototypes will deliver on this.
