How to get funded by venture capital and angel investors
Fundraising Presentation
If you are the founder of a startup that is looking to raise funds, there is a lot that you don’t know that you don’t know.
It’s incredibly stressful now knowing, but you can learn and become the master of your fears.
This is a presentations on how to get funded for startup founders.
Are you totally clueless about how to fundraise?
If you are like 100% of founders who have never raised before, then you need to get smart quickly.
This is a presentation (I wrote in 4 hours the night before whist chain-smoking-gross!) I gave to founders at TechStars, Startup Next on ‘How to get funded’ from venture capitalists and Angel investors.
The slides are talked to, but quickly flick through and you will absorb the high-level take-aways so you can fathom everything you need to get au fait with.
This is a high-level walk-through of how a founder needs to prepare, go through the process and avoid silly mistakes (Such as asking for an NDA).
Key topics discussed
- Requirements – what investors care about (AKA the basics)
- What you need to prepare before raising
- How to approach investors
- How to manage the process
- How to close the round
- And ‘no nos’ that founders should not do (Silly mistakes)
Throughout the deck on how to get funded, I have provided links to templates and blog articles I have written to absorb further content on specific topics.
I highly recommend founders do some reading and there is so much content available on the internet. Also, reach out to founders who have just raised cash, or ideally done it a few times. They will be able to give you invaluable insight on how to get things done.
Be smart, but mainly, work really hard
There are no shortcuts in raising other than to put in hard work and take the whole process seriously. Some founders think raising will just happen and they ‘have better things to do.’ Trust me. if you need to make payroll and you aren’t profitable, I can’t think of a bigger priority than keeping the lights on.
Take it from the Unicorn that almost wasn’t
I talked to a founder of a Unicorn last week who said:
The early days were hard. When we were raising Seed, we weren’t able to make payroll that month. If X hadn’t invested just then, we would have shut down the business…
So strap yourself in for the ride, get funded and make it happen!
Your slide deck really helps. This personally will help me to reshape things. I am sure I was not doing right. Thanks Alex.