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Tech Startups & Scaleups

We support Tech Startups and Scaleups to accelerate their success by enabling their Global Growth and Fundraising

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Tech Startups & Scaleups

Your Problems & Challenges

Number #1 reason for startup failure comes from poor PMF and Low Product and Service Distribution and Slow Growth

Fundraising is becoming the new startup “milestone”, while the real milestones should be Sustainable and Repeatable Growth

Venture Capital requires you to have a strong investment readiness and venture worthiness to be interesting for funding

1% of all startups will attract the 99% of investments.
The problem is how to become the 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 advisors, trying to not only work as a service provider, but as a partner
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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.

Product and Service Categories

Growth Engineering &
Go-To-Market

Develop your company’s global growth with us by implementing strategies and tactics with an engineered and systematic approach

We partner up with mainly B2B tech startups and scaleups to tackle their growth challenges, by providing mentoring, advisory or operational support, by including our venture experience, tailored tools, tested best practices and processes.

We cover everything from growth engine setup, through experimentation and validation of new markets, to executing go-to-market and building growth cases to be used in scaling activities. We are full stack on all major martech and salestech tools and solutions on the market.

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Inquire your Growth Engineering & GTM Service

Growth & Go-To-Market

Develop your company’s global growth with us by implementing strategies and tactics across different audiences, traction channels and funnels

We partner up with mainly B2B tech startups and scaleups to tackle their growth challenges, by providing mentoring, advisory or operational support, by including our venture experience, tailored tools, tested best practices and processes.

We cover everything from growth engine setup, through experimentation and validation of new markets, to executing go-to-market and building growth cases to be used in scaling activities. We are full stack on all major martech and salestech tools and solutions on the market.

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

We partner up with startups and scaleups to assess their investment-readiness and to identify and close the gaps in both content and delivery of the investment case.

We furthermore support investment-ready companies end-to-end on the whole process to raise formal funding rounds from regional or international VC and strategic investors.

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Inquire your generic IR & Fundraising Service

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

We partner up with startups and scaleups to assess their investment-readiness and to identify and close the gaps in both content and delivery of the investment case.

We furthermore support investment-ready companies end-to-end on the whole process to raise formal funding rounds from regional or international VC and strategic investors.

Read our Client Stories & Case Studies

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.
Tech Startups & Scaleups
Investment Readiness & Fundraising
We supported Health Robotics in their VC-backed funding roadmap to fuel their insane automated i.v. station sales growth worldwide
#Medtech #Europe
We helped at that time Italy-based Health Robotics with their heavy technical management team to understand the opportunities that VC investments would bring to fuel commercial growth in markets like the US and Asia. We co-created the investment cases (based on the different regional growth scenarios and cases), investment materials and data rooms needed for the fundraising process.
Tech Startups & Scaleups
Growth & Go-To-Market
We helped Ezcloud to increase their customer signups by 300%+ and reduce their blended CAC by 70%+ across SEA in 3 months
#B2B SaaS #Asia Pacific
We helped Singapore-based B2B SaaS scaleup ezCloud on their challenge to structure, validate, and accelerate their growth across different channels in 3 countries across South East Asia for existing and some new products. With our growth engineering framework we quickly reiterated experiments and found channel-market fit, increasing the customer base by 300% and reducing the blended CAC by 70%.
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These messages keep our motivation high and our team going strong

Patrick Pedevilla
Co-Founder & CEO, Seventwenty by Airhelmet

Without Fast Forward Advisors we would’ve not been able to find the project partners and raise the seed funding. We would certainly not be here today

Werner Rainer
Former President of the Board, Health Robotics

Working with FFA enabled us to fully understand which path we could take in terms of venture capital or private equity investments and were very supportive along the whole process

Niklas Jansen
Co-Founder & CPO, Blinkist

Working with FFA enabled us to understand the complexities and opportunities of a B2B / B2B2C strategy, which at that time was out of our reach

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Explore our Content & 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,
#Tools & Resources#growth tactics
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.
#Tools & Resources#Investor Search#Venture Capital
Investment Readiness & Fundraising
Tech Startups & Scaleups
Venture Funding – Phases and Investor Types
The goal of this resource is to provide an overview of the venture funding stages as well as different types of investors typically investing at those stages.
#Tools & Resources#Right Investors#Venture Capital
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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 a tailored service proposal and pricing related to it.

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

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

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