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Investment Readiness & Fundraising

Develop all business metrics, support materials to reach investment-readiness, in order for you to raise funds from VCs and strategic investors

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Your Problems & Challenges

Venture Capital requires to have a 100% investment readiness and venture worthiness to be interesting for funding

Fundraising is becoming the new startup “milestone”, while the real milestones should be sustainable and repeatable company growth

Number #1 reason for startup failure comes from poor PMF and low product and service distribution and growth

1% of all startups will attract the  of 99% of investments. So focus on becoming a top 1% startup and not in excelling in fundraising

Our Focus & Approach

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We cover fundraising end-to-end, from investor research and filtering, through data room setup, to pitching and negotiations
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We are trusted and vested partners, not just service providers, always trying to align with clients' interests and successes
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We work with mainly industry-agnostic B2B tech startups and scaleups, on their post-seed and Series X round
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Our sweet spots are the first formal rounds in which a solid, repeatable and sustainable growth case is relevant.

Our Products & Services

IR & Fundraising Chat

  • Remote 1-1 sessions with a Managing Partner to discuss problems related to IR & Fundraising
 
  • Expected Results:
    • Direct value with at least 3 implementable action points or solutions to the problems exposed
    • Sharing any tools, case studies, or anything else that is relevant for your company during or shortly after the Chats.
    • Different time slots and package pricing (with discounts) are available

IR & Fundraising Mentoring

  • We mentor your company / team on Investment Readiness & Fundraising topics, by providing everything that we provide in the IR & Fundraising Chat and IR & Fundraising Checkup on a more long-term basis.
  • Weekly Mentoring Sessions of total 2 hours with Managing Partner
 
  • Expected Results:
    • During the session: Actionable ideas, feedback, tools, solutions, and availability to provide further information after every session on open questions
    • Definition of next steps to be worked by the team between sessions to push things forward
    • Strong accountability between both parties

IR & Fundraising Consulting

  • We consult your company / team on Investment Readiness & Fundraising topics, by providing everything that we provide in the IR & Fundraising Mentoring sessions, but with executional support.
  • Monthly Mentoring Sessions with 4 package types:
    • From 10 hours to 80 hours monthly with a Managing Partner / Senior PM and with a Business Analyst 
  • Expected Results:
    • During the session: Actionable ideas, feedback, tools, solutions, and availability to provide further information after every session on open questions
    • In between sessions support to your team in implementing, and executing investment and fundraising activities
    • Definition of next steps to be worked by the team between sessions to push things forward
    • Strong accountability between both parties

Fundraising Booster (FRB)

  • FundRaising Booster (FRB) is an exclusive and all-inclusive 6-weeks 4-phase program for high-potential Post-Seed & Series  A+ tech startups and scaleups, aiming to maximize fundraising efficiency and to maximize effectiveness and time to funding.
  • Pricing aligns to startups’ business models by offering a mix of retainer and success fees (in form of cash and/or stock options)
 
  • Expected Results:
    • Reaching Investment Readiness and producing all the investment materials and data rooms
    • Providing our FFA investor database + researching new targeted investors for your specific case
    • Organizing 1-1 meetings and pitches with investors
    • Supporting on negotiations, syndications, due diligence, and closing

Fractional CFO

  • Fractional CFO is a service in which you get the support from a seasoned professional from our managing team to handle any entrepreneurial finance related challenges.
  • From developing financial plans for current or future growth cases, through analyzing and improving unit economics, to raising funds from Venture Capital (VC) and M&A transaction support
  • Pricing aligns to startups’ business models by offering a mix of retainer and success fees (in form of cash and/or stock options)
 
  • Expected Results:
    • Outsource the CFO / VP Fundraising position to us for a given period of time, especially in very early stages when a full-time CFO is too expensive
    • Work on any finance-related activities that you wouldn’t usually work on in your day by day and get an outside perspective on things

Read our Client Stories & Case Studies

Tech Startups & Scaleups
Growth & Go-To-Market
We supported AppQuality (now unguess) in experimenting, validating, and scaling new, profitable, and repeatable Growth Activities with an 1000% ROI
#B2B SaaS #Europe
We supported Milan-based AppQuality (now unguess), a digital crowdtesting company, in expanding their Growth Stack by experimenting, validating, and scaling new Growth Activities, especially related to new industries and new geographical markets, reaching an annual 1000% ROI. We ran our Growth Engine defining and prioritizing the best growth tactics to be run with Minimum Viable Tests (MVTs).
Accelerators & Incubators & STPs
Portfolio Development & Growth
We supported Wayra’s portfolio companies in LatAm on growth and investment readiness topics with tailored 1-1 mentoring sessions
#Agritech #Latin America
We supported Wayra, a global accelerator by Spain-HQed Telco giant Telefonica, and their portfolio companies in LatAm on growth and investment readiness topics with tailored 1-1 mentoring sessions. We were selected because of our capability of working with global ventures and in handling different business models and industries. 12 months after the program startups raised seed and Series A rounds
Tech Startups & Scaleups
Growth & Go-To-Market
We supported Blinkist to experiment and validate a low-touch and enterprise B2B and B2B2C offering to complement their B2C business model
#Consumer Apps #Europe
We helped Berlin-based Blinkist to build a minimum viable test to validate if there is an opportunity to create a value proposition that low-touch and enterprise B2B would buy and implement in their organizations. We found plenty of validations, with some enterprise companies buying big bulks of licenses and striking some great B2B2B partnerships.

These messages keep our motivation high and our team going strong

Explore our Content, Blog Posts & Resources

Growth & Go-To-Market
Tech Startups & Scaleups
5 ways to deadlift your growth strategies
In every startup conference, you will find a panel about startup growth challenges and secret recipes.. If we ask you to spell out a growth strategy for B2B SaaS companies starting with the letters G R O W T H,
Government & Agencies
European Technology Ecosystems – Insights, Stakeholders and Success Cases
Europe has shown to be a leading technology ecosystem in the world. We created a white paper digging into the State of European Technology Report and providing some examples of interesting stakeholders and success cases in each of the national
Investment Readiness & Fundraising
Tech Startups & Scaleups
How To Find the Right Investors For Your Startup
Every startup founder dreams of landing a meaningful amount of investment. While it can be tempting to simply accept checks from anyone, your investor choices can destroy your dreams or become a source of strength to fuel your success.

FAQ

Our programs and services are best designed and fit for mainly B2B tech companies with an existing product and ideally with PMF already and experiencing early, traction, aiming to raise a first formal investment round (Series A+). We are industry-agnostic, 80%+ of the IR & Fundraising challenges are common to every industry.

But we also worked with B2C, seed companies, or pre-PMF startups, especially in the low-touch services like chat and mentoring.

We don’t have a crystal ball and can’t predict the future of markets. We focus on having you 100% venture-worthy and investment-ready and maximize your reach to fit investors. We are looking to be more efficient and ideally more effective than if you would be doing fundraising yourselves.

As a side note, in the last 10+ years our portfolio and client companies raised $300M+ in formal and informal venture capital.

Usually we do “investment brokering” only in specific cases: when we have equity / vested interest in the company, or the company hired us for other high-value services like venture growth.

After you inquire / apply to any of the services or programs we’ll review the materials and come back to you with an answer.

 

We don’t have a fixed price list, because we work across different regions and ecosystems. Please inquire/apply to the specific service and we’ll come back to you with our tailored proposal and price list.

In general lines we try to be aggressive on our business models, asking for a mix of retainer fees and success fees (which could include rev-share, commissions on the value created, stock options, or a mix of these), so we can align with our clients’ interests.

It depends on the situation.

We either:

  • Charge service fees which include some mix of retainer fees and success/performance fees, especially for the more complex services

or

  • Hold equity in your companies and therefore are providing the service at competitive prices to appreciate our equity holding

or

  • Are working with you on other services (e.g. venture growth) and therefore can provide IR & Fundraising services as a cheap add-on