Edition 26: Preparing for DD; 10x is easier than 2x; Pipeline cures all;
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JOBS OF THE WEEK
Our awesome portfolio companies are hiring! 🤩
Head of Product Marketing • Synthesized
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OFFICE HOURS
Edition 11: Female Founder Office Hours
If you're a female founder and would like to meet investors for pitching or mentoring you still have time to apply by Tuesday, 26th March.
You can register here.
READS
“For companies in early markets, building pipeline is the oxygen for growth. You just need to find more customers.” —Ron Gabrisko, CRO of Databricks
Building an outbound culture is hard. The best CROs explain to their teams why generating pipeline through an outbound motion is critical to both the company hitting revenue numbers and sales reps hitting their individual KPIs.
HOW TO PREPARE FOR DUE DILIGENCE 👀 🔎
Recently we hosted a webinar with SeedLegals, who help hundreds of start-ups with all things legal: start, raise and grow.
Key Topics Covered:
How to create a data room and what should be included
What VCs look for when doing due diligence on a startup
How to stand out from the crowd when approaching VCs
Top tips on speeding up DD and completing a round efficiently
The full recording is available here.
Data Room Template i available here.
This webinar was 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).
ATTEND
🇺🇸 26 March
Brex Supper Club: Women Founders Edition (New York)
Brex Supper Club is an event series, of private dinners with the goal of building meaningful relationships. Brex hosted these dinners in 15 cities last year and expanded internationally.
🇬🇧 27 March
Google Lunch & Learn: Cloud, digital and AI to scale your business faster (London)
The speaker is Alex Cohen, Climate Tech Lead at Google Cloud and advisor to startups and scale-ups on Cloud Ready Sustainability. Topics covered include:
Scaling your business with Google Cloud
Google’s take on cloud-ready sustainability and sustainable development
AI developments in Google and beyond
💻 10 April
"Series A Academy" is a sequence of online events during which investors, founders, and industry experts offer insights and advice, and respond in real-time to your questions regarding fundraising for Series A.
LEARN
👀 We are listening to How to Create a Sales Strategy by Sifted
Steph interviews Kevin Petry, operating partner at Newark Venture Partners and sales advisor at Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Lab, Jenny Tsai, founder and CEO at Wearisma, and Jenna Lloyd, fractional CMO at Made For More Marketing.
📚 And reading the 10x Is Easier Than 2x: How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More by Doing Less by Dan Sullivan
FUTURE OF BUSINESSES FUNDING ROUNDS 🎉
OpenMeter raises $3M led by Y Combinator, Haystack and Others
Infrastructure / Dev Tools • Seed • San Francisco, CACogna raised $4.8m led by Hoxton Ventures
Data / AI / Machine Learning • Seed • London, United KingdomTheia Insights raises $6.5M led by Unusual Ventures
Data / AI / Machine Learning • Seed • Cambridge, United KingdomFluent raises $7.5M led by Hoxton Ventures and Tiferes Ventures
Data / AI / Machine Learning • Seed • London, United KingdomESG • Seed • Berlin, Germany
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