Big rounds are back. VC Funding is flowing. In April, there were 28 fundraising rounds announced with >$10M in funding. We've seen private market (pre-launch) deals valued >$3B recently. Private Markets are hot. Public Market comps (FDVs) are hot. But who will buy our multi-billion dollar bags? Deal Flow Digest April w/: - Recap of largest web3 funding rounds - Airtable with ALL the data - Hackathons & Demo Days - VC Fundraises Read more here: https://lnkd.in/g7V4KrAj
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Congratulations to Hivebrite, a French-based SaaS community engagement platform, that raised $37M in Series B funding 🚀 The total financing has reached a record €56M! The round was led by Quadrille Capital, with participation from existing investors Insight Partners and angel investors. Led by CEO Jean Hamon, since 2015 Hivebrite has become a leading SaaS driven all-in-one community engagement platform serving such global clients as Boeing, Roche, the Obama Foundation, and others. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate the global team expansion and further strengthen the platform. #venturecapitaleurope #investments #businessdevelopment #funding #investments #investing #investors #venturecapital #venturefunding #privateequity #growth #europeantech #investment #business #technology #innovating #development #France
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What’s NEW 2024? If it’s your Canadian fund raising round let’s chat. We’re chatting at 1PM Eastern on Insta - that’s new for us! Capital Angel Network produced CANLABS to demystify early stage fundraising and to fast track investor networking. Q. Another accelerator? A. No! CANLABs is designed for accelerator grads and bootstrapped founders with traction signals. The Lightning Masterclass series is delivered by investors and venture experts. Unpublished laser fucussed tips including expediting your round, avoiding thorny redflags, enhancing investment confidence and winning valuation techniques. CANLABS is designed to support raises differentiated from a ‘pass’ to a ‘close with referrals’ Q. Is it worth my time? A. Founders completing the 90 minute / week series 17 Jan - 16 Feb, will be invited to pitch to CAN Investors at a Private CANLABs Investor / Founder Summit on 21 February. Learn more APPLY by 10 January LINK in comments
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At VedasLabs.io, we're passionate about empowering visionaries to reach new heights. That's why we're thrilled to introduce the Sequoia Pitch Deck Template, designed to elevate your fundraising journey. The Sequoia Pitch Deck Template is now available on Vedaslabs.io, equipping you with a powerful tool to captivate investors and fuel your success. Elevate your pitch and stand out in the competitive landscape! 🚀💼 #PitchDeck #FundraisingSuccess #VentureCapital #StartupResources
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How many VC meetings do founders need to raise a seed round? DocSend analysed thousands of fundraises in 2022/2023 using a combination of deck open rates and founder surveys. ✳ They found that contacting more VCs led (unsurprisingly) to more meetings, but more meetings didn’t translate into raising more money. ✳ Founders who successfully raised had an average of 30 VC meetings. ✳ Seed founders should continue to build relationships with the right investors who fund companies in their field and at their stage, rather than playing the high-volume numbers game. ✳ Pitching smarter, not harder, continues to be an effective strategy.
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I've written a weekly company update to a couple hundred potential & current investors every Friday at 1:30pm ET for the past 93 weeks. Here's how it's changed our company: When we were in our Techstars cohort, Ryan Kuder consistently emphasized the importance of two things: 1. Bring people along for the ride 2. Maintain you network as you build it I genuinely believe that was the most positively-impactful piece of advice we could have received early on in our journey. Even when at times when we were just building & testing without much to say yet, the consistency of checking in began to resonate with people on the list. We started to receive more feedback, ultimately leading to more help, which also led to more money raised - all thanks to our company updates. Now we're beginning to grow faster, we feel ready for the next step towards more aggressive growth, and we feel even more prepared knowing not only that we can ask for help when we need it & actually receive it, but also that each week, the investors we want to work with in the future are getting an even better understanding of who we are, what we're doing, and where this is headed. Write company updates!
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Interesting data below. The data point on VCs spending more time on the traction slide aligns with the refocus on traction from growth. Dont's: Don't create 30+ slides in your deck. Don't expect to get funding from the first investor meeting. Fundraising is a part-time to full-time job for at least one of the founders. 🚀 DocSend's Insights: - VCs spend 2m12s on seed decks (down 40%) - Successful seed fundraises involve 46 meetings - 35% raised without a live product - Average deck: 16 pages - Fundraising takes 15 weeks (87% >6 weeks) - 7% VCs revisit successful decks - 25% more time on traction slide in 2023 Impressive granular data tracking! #StartupInsights 📈💼
DocSend has hosted 100,000+ pitch decks over the last decade. Here’s what they saw: ⚡ VCs spend an average of 2m12s reviewing a seed deck, down 40% from 2021 ⚡ Successful seed fundraises involved an average of 46 meetings ⚡ 35% of early stage companies that raised did not have a live product ⚡ Average seed deck length is 16 pages ⚡ Average seed fundraising time was 15 weeks ⚡ Only 13% of seed raises were completed within 6 weeks ⚡ For successful decks, only 7% of VCs took a second look on Docsend. For unsuccessful decks, 15% took a second look ⚡ VCs spent 25% longer looking at the traction slide in 2023 than in 2022. For unsuccessful decks, this jumped to 110% more time on the traction slide Pretty impressive that such granular, slide-level data has been gathered. Even more impressive that DocSend are tracking exactly how much time you spend looking at each slide!
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I chatted with Daniel Shellard, Partner at Breega, towards the end of 2023 for our VC spotlight series. We discussed their new fund, the value-add they provide to founders, what he looks for in a startup beyond just thesis alignment, the firm's fundraising experience and much more! Article link in the comments below 👇
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+ another observation - not updating dates in the pitch deck and the deck itself. Sometime we see pitch decks where Actuals are more than 3 months old or worst case the deck has a date on it which is like 6-9 months old. Then I start wonder right away - since when are they fundraising and why does it take so long?
The fundraising struggle is real – 44% of early-stage founders say access to capital is one of their biggest challenges. We spoke to three investors to share the most common mistakes they see in first-time founders. Read on to see what Eva Arh from 3VC, Andra Bagdonaite of FIRSTPICK, and David Today Ventzel of Accelerace have to say. https://lnkd.in/d3bweiYq ✍ Krista Krumina, Julia Gifford
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We connected with 35 Seed funds in 3 days! Want to know how? Here’s your seed raise hack: - Find VCs that allow you to apply on their website. - Create an amazing application package. - Apply strategically. Want our list? Comment YES! below to receive our list of VCs and boost your chances of securing investor meetings. Let’s get you funded! #StartupFunding #VCHack #GetFunded #VentureCapital #ArkeoAI
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This is an excellent breakdown of raising a seed round, right now. Note: I usually recommend a list of 200-300 for my founders. In other words, prepare to do more, to generate the outcome and maybe it will yield your results faster.
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To get the 3 VC checks for our $780k pre-seed, I built an investor pipeline of 300 funds. Here's how underrepresented founders can figure out how many funds they need to target to raise a round of VC funding 👇🏾 Your investor pipeline is a list of funds and angel investors that you're targeting to invest in your round. Like sales, it's a funnel. For every 10 investors on our target list, I got a meeting with 3 of them - a 30% conversion rate. For every 30 meetings, I got 1 check. Unless you're YC-backed or a founder with a great track record, I wouldn't plan on a list-to-meeting conversion rate higher than 50% or a meeting-to-check conversion rate higher than 10%. Once you have these numbers, you need to work backward to figure out how many investors you need on your list. A $1M round will probably break out like this: - 1 lead investor for $500k - 1 follow-on investor for $250k - 1 follow-on investor for $150k - $100k in smaller checks from angels and friends and family So, you need 3 checks to form your round. Now let's work backward to figure out how many funds we need on our target list. Assuming better than average conversion rates of 40% for a meeting and 5% for a check, the math shapes out to: - 3 is 5% of 60 → 𝗪𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝟲𝟬 𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 - 60 is 40% of 150 → 𝗪𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝟭𝟱𝟬 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁 Note - these numbers are *very* optimistic. Y'all know the deal - work twice as hard for half as much. Plan on your conversion rates to be half that of other founders, which means you'll need to talk to twice as many funds. There's a reason Black founders get less than 1% of VC funding 🤷🏾♂️ Having such a large list sounds like a lot (and it is), but knowing this number makes the process so much easier. Treat it like a game. The sooner you get to 150 investor touches, the sooner you get your money. #venturecapital #fundraising #blackfounders
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Interesting insights on VC funding! 🚀 The resurgence in web3 rounds and pre-launch valuations highlights the growing investor confidence. 🔥 Excited to follow this trend closely!