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📣 STARTUP FOUNDERS RAISING IN 2024! 🔍 We're seeking startup talent to pitch their groundbreaking ideas to our prestigious and active angel and VC investors. 🚀 If you're at the MVP or early revenue stage and you're on the way to raising your pre-seed or seed round, and tick the below, we'd love to receive your application. ✅ Have a clear business plan that showcases your company’s potential ✅ Have conducted thorough research to identify market demand for your product or service ✅ Have a well-defined vision that inspires and captivates ✅ Have an in-depth understanding of your target market, enabling strategic decision-making 😇 If selected, you’ll have the opportunity to pitch directly to our esteemed angel and VC investor members. This could be your chance to elevate your vision. 👉 Apply to pitch here: https://bit.ly/3OQGq8N 📷 A "Meet The Founders" session at a recent Brisbane Horizon Inner Circle. #founders #pitchingfounders #pitch #techfounder #applytopitch #angelinvestors #vc #vcfunding #funding #seedfunding #preseed #innovationbay

Dear Founder/Founding teams,   Your dreams are valid!   We recognize this much and would love to play a significant part in actualizing them.   The reality though is we do not have unlimited resources, at least, for now.   However, what we can guarantee is, if you make it past our rigorous selection process, we have structured our fund to ensure our PortCo founders would never have to think of capital.   Even if you decide to have every other excuse not to succeed, it wouldn’t be capital. It also wouldn’t be not knowing what to do & how to do.   The FbX Council would handhold FbX PortCo founders towards achieving everything we all need to succeed.   We identify with the life of a founder and we believe it doesn’t have to be that hard.   We are not an accelerator or the traditional venture builder. We want to become everything but a traditional VC.   As FbX, we will work with our PortCo founders from pre-seed through Seed to Series A, and we exit, at a win-win premium, for you (the founders), our Limited Partners & our good selves too. We have designed a viable pathway for these exit opportunities. We call it Tunnel buying™   If the idea of an uncharacteristic early exit appeals to your motivation and vision, you may be one of the 10 we are going to back by our first fund, Jamma by FbX.   $250,000 for Pre-seed and $1.2 million for Seed.   We believe building great stuff and revenue generation should be fun despite the hard work required.   We encourage you to spend some time and understand how we have set out to do VC differently.   Best of luck with your pitch!    ^From all of us at FbX^ Follow and find the pitch guide on the FbX page and visit http://fbx.ventures/ to learn more. #reimaginingventurecapital #findingmarketshapers #conventionisboring #communityovercult #microPE #TunnelBuying  

Panellist announcement for MeetFounders VC Night in London, January 31st 2024! Please welcome Alex Menn, VC at Begin Capital who will be joining as a VC panelist on our "Panel 1: Investor Outreach - Best Practices", should be a great one. About Alex: If Alex was asked why did you choose the profession of a venture investor? He would answer: What else could I do? Sometimes you have to stop thinking so much and go where your heart takes you. We believe that Alex’s heart is somewhere between AI and Software, albeit his soul and body actively approaching FoodTech.  Alex is not able to sit still and wait for new opportunities, but proactively creates them. For 15 years in private equity and venture capital investments, he took part in more than 50 transactions with a total volume of over $3.5 billion. Alex's strengths include: structuring deals, finding new opportunities, finance, strategy and sales. Unlike most VCs, Alex loves to read long letters and study detailed decks from the founders. We will have two panels of VCs give advice and 10 startups will be pitching for funding live :-) Check out our Eventbrite page for the full list of VCs attending! #venturecapital #entrepreneur #startup #fundraising #london

It took me 18mths physically, 3 years emotionally and 6 years psychologically to repair from my last business. So that's 6 years to get back to 100%... Being able to have the flexibility to put my extra outside-of-work energy into something I care about so deeply and have such an affinity to is a blessing. And with that flexibility, I'm super excited about to talk about what the future holds with Community VC. It started as a way to engage more investors and startups to talk about their capital raising endeavors and over 6 months on-the-side we were able to build: 🚀A community of >8000 people execute four deals 🚀redistribute the rewards to the community 🚀Give thousands of people the shot at Venture Quality deals they never would have seen before. We're on a mission to help founders to invite early supporters, refine their pitch, and build momentum into their capital-raising round with our community of curated experts. And We're on the same mission to be a platform for investors and talent to support their favorite companies through capital raising by investing as little as $250 ro contributing as little as 1 hour of time. Here's a peak at our v1 website in the comments below :) Lastly, thank you to everyone who has supported our efforts so far - it's an incredible honor to work with such smart, passionate and driven people all the time. We can't wait to help everyone scale their deals, deal-doing, investing and contributing far beyond what you (and we) thought was possible 🦄 #startups #communitybuilding #angelinvesting

It takes time, effort, and skill to build investor relationships. Here are 5 things to do to improve your chances of being successful with an investor: ✅ Reach out early, even before you start raising --> So many founders reach out when they're raising. This works well for Series A and beyond because the DD process can take 3-6 months, but for early stage, it's best to reach out before ✅ Set milestones for each month ✅ Update potential investors as you hit these milestones (make sure they get the updates, I'd go for text over email if possible) ✅ Go out of your way to help VCs/angels where you can ✅ Start raising your round once you hit the most important milestones (e.g. $100k ARR, 25k MAUs,) If you make it a process centered around growth and relationship building investors will have more conviction about your ability to build and to raise future rounds. #founders #startups #VCs

📣 STARTUP FOUNDERS RAISING IN 2024! This one is for you... 🔍 We're seeking startup talent to pitch their groundbreaking ideas to our prestigious and active angel and VC investors. 🚀 If you're at the MVP or early revenue stage and you're on the way to raising your pre-seed or seed round, and tick the below, we'd love to receive your application. ✅ Have a clear business plan that showcases your company’s potential ✅ Have conducted thorough research to identify market demand for your product or service ✅ Have a well-defined vision that inspires and captivates ✅ Have an in-depth understanding of your target market, enabling strategic decision-making 😇 If selected, you’ll have the opportunity to pitch directly to our esteemed angel and VC investor members. This could be your chance to elevate your vision. 👉 Apply to pitch here: https://bit.ly/3OQGq8N 📷 Paul Sernia PhD, CEO of Endua, presenting at Venture Downunder in Noosa 2022. #founders #pitchingfounders #pitch #techfounder #applytopitch #angelinvestors #vc #vcfunding #funding #seedfunding #preseed #innovationbay

There is so much noise at this time of year about completing your funding round by the end of tax year. 👇 I hate the pressure 😣 this puts founders under and the way it's sets (March) hares running 🐇 unnecessarily! Of course, a deadline focuses the mind - but there are other times to raise investment. In fact Spring (April- June) can be a great time to raise. 🌷 Sam Simpson of FounderCatalyst and I have put our heads together and developed some great content which will explain why you can stop panicking about 4th April and focused instead on: 👉 Why Spring is a great time to raise investment 👉What you need to standout as an investable startup 👉Where to find investors that back startups like yours 👉How to secure serious investors quickly 👉How there is more than one way to close your funding round Grab the link from the comments and join us next Friday at 12pm (GMT) to get focused on closing your funding round this Spring - not by 4th April!

I also disagree with Y Combinator's advice to only meet investors when you're actively raising. Instead, I believe founders should start building relationships with investors from day one. Raising a seed round typically requires numerous conversations, and having established connections can make this process smoother. While focusing solely on investor meetings is impractical for most founders, dedicating 10-20% of your time to regular interactions with angels, syndicates, and VCs can be invaluable. Treating investors as people rather than just sources of capital helps you understand their interests and build a rapport. Keeping them updated on your progress not only fosters goodwill but can also lead to valuable connections, including potential customers, partners, or hires. Building these relationships early on is akin to creating a sales pipeline for your startup’s future success. #InvestorRelations #StartupAdvice #Fundraising #Networking #FounderTips #Entrepreneurship #Business

💸 Are you a startup founder about to raise? 👀 We're seeking startup talent to pitch their groundbreaking ideas to our angel and VC investors. If you're at the MVP or early revenue stage and you're on the way to raising your pre-seed or seed round, and tick the below, we encourage you to apply to pitch. ✅ Have a clear business plan that showcases your company’s potential ✅ Have conducted thorough research to identify market demand for your product or service ✅ Have a well-defined vision that inspires and captivates ✅ Have an in-depth understanding of your target market, enabling strategic decision-making If selected, you’ll have the opportunity to pitch directly to our esteemed angel and VC investor members. This could be your chance to elevate your vision. 👉 Apply to pitch here: https://bit.ly/3OQGq8N 📷 Sten Pittet, Co-Founder of Tability, talking to investors following what would become a successful fundraising pitch for his company. #founders #pitchingfounders #pitch #techfounder #applytopitch #angelinvestors #vc #vcfunding #funding #seedstage #earlystage #innovationbay

VCs and founders seem aligned, but do their interests fully overlap? According to Seth Levine, hidden incentives can lead to friction down the road. Next time you're negotiating a VC deal, remember that incentives may diverge. Align on vision but watch for signs investors prioritize their own interests over the company's long-term growth. As Seth points out, founders and VCs don't always work in perfect harmony despite seeming aligned on the surface. VCs ultimately need to serve their own fund's interests first. This can lead to conflict when those incentives diverge from the startup's, especially at later stages. #venturecapital #startupfunding #founderlife #startupinvesting #VCfunding