Edition 25: Avoid these pitch deck mistakes (with cool examples); Apply to office hours; 2024 guide to fundraising;
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OFFICE HOURS
Edition 11: Female Founder Office Hours
We're excited to participate alongside 170 VCs in the Europe-wide Female Founder Office Hours on 18th April 2024, led by Playfair Capital in collaboration with Google Cloud, Revolut Business, and Fieldhouse Associates.
To date, this initiative has brought together 2,200 founders for 9,000 one-to-one investor meetings across ten editions. Edition 11 will be the largest yet.
If you're a female founder and would like the opportunity to meet investors for pitching or mentoring, you can register here.
READS
2024 Guide to Start-up Funding (SeedLegals x Pretiosum Ventures)
Where does that leave us in 2024? Well, while the era of quick multimillion-dollar seed rounds at soaring valuations has likely passed (for the time being), we’re seeing plenty of promising signs that investors are warming up again to startups who can prove sustainable, capital-efficient growth.
AVOID THESE PITCH DECK MISTAKES 🙅♂️
Last week we hosted a webinar with Deck Doctors, who helped 150+ start-ups raise millions of 💸💸💸 Recording is available here.
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ATTEND
🇺🇸 12 March
Founders Dinner (New York)
🤝 Who's coming? The typical attendee profile is a mix of current founders building venture-backed startups between pre-seed, seed, and Series, A, but all founders are welcome too.
💻 14 March
Preparing for Due Diligence: Advice for Founders at Seed & Series A
This webinar is the first in a 3 part series focused on raising from VCs, with participation from active investors. The next webinars will cover how to structure early-stage startup fundraising (April 10th) and understand your start-up's equity compensation and team motivation (May 15th).
LEARN
👀 We are listening to 20Growth: How to Master Product-Led Growth, The Biggest Mistakes Startups Make When Scaling into Enterprises, How to Assess “Bets” in Growth; Which to Take and Which Not with Gonto, Interim CMO @Vercel by 20VC
📚 And reading the Go to Market Handbook for B2B SaaS Leaders: How to Stack the Odds in your Favour when Scaling your Software Business by Richard Blundell, Paul Watson and Chris Tottman
There are few people we admire more than the Founders and Leaders of software companies who have the courage, determination and, some might say, sheer madness to put their livelihoods and reputation on the line, to leave their own ‘dent in the universe’. It's day-to-day, up at dawn, pride swallowing siege to lead such a business. And we know this for a fact because we’ve walked in your shoes many times.
FUTURE OF BUSINESSES FUNDING ROUNDS 🎉
Filigran raises $16M led by Accel
Risk / Security • Series A • Paris, FranceHeyflow raises $16M led by Singular
Sales / Marketing • Series A • Hamburg, GermanyAI • Seed • London, UK
Embedded integration platform as a service (IPaaS) • Seed • London, UK
Compliance / KYC • Debt • Copenhagen, Denmark
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