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We help European tech champions get funded.
In Seed and Series A/B.
Why do fundraises fail?
And what can you do to keep the lights on & pay the salaries of your employees?
1. No proper Storyline & Pitch Deck
Nr. 1 reason why the fundraise fails is due to the story/deck and/or team. Team we can't change, but story we can. A consistent, coherent story needs to be sold to VCs for either 30mins or 45mins slots, and it's a craft to be mastered.
2. Wrong Ask or Valuation based on P&L
Setting a wrong ask & valuation can kill your round before it even starts. Your current VCs on your cap table could and will have diverging interests here. We will check for your numbers in order to make sure that you survive & thrive.
3. No Call Recording & Feedback Loop
No one listens in to your intro calls as CEO. But we will, in order to get into the feedback loop as quickly as possible and make appropriate changes for upcoming calls, before you burn through the leads.
4. No proper Process and Urgency
There needs to be a clear competitive process with deadlines given to VC, out of which the best offers emerge. Letting the reach-out process run without clear deadlines will lead to 'being out for too long' in the market, at which point VCs will lose interest.
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5. Limited Contact Base
The majority of founders have 25-50 warm leads. VCs are constrained in how many intros they can make due to the number of portfolio companies. We will make introductions to warm contacts in our network of >600 investors. This will include personal calls on our behalf, but otherwise directly through email.
6. No proper Data Room & Due Diligence Process
It's essential for Series A & B companies to have proper data room setup with essential materials, both in PDF and also Video format, explaining the hardest parts of your USP, patents, and other stuff. Technical DD needs to happen properly by setting up a Q&A and updating with incoming new VC questionnaires.
VCs that we've been partnering with.
>500 VCs from the US to the EU.
Albert Wenger- Partner Union Square Ventures
"I greatly appreciate Deniz's effort. He has pointed USV to a number of interesting opportunities over the years."
John Doe, Designer
"As an designer, I love the technical challenges that come with a fast growing company."
Markets that we focus on.
Those are our expertise areas, but in general we're open to any startup vertical.
Greentech, Energy, Climate, Sustainability
The market for Greentech has seen a huge number of new Seed & Series A focused funds come up in the past 2-3 years. Greentech is the area where Edgy currently has the majority of warm contacts with around 200 VCs.
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Generative AI
By now it's clear that LLMs are gonna change the world. We're witnessing a new paradigm shift, similar to the era of mobile, which is gonna have a huge impact on almost any area of business.
Fintech, Web3, Crypto
Fintech, and Crypto specifically, has been our own background since 2013. Hence, Edgy has a lot of crypto/web3 native connections, spanning all the way to Fintech.
Marketplaces
Anything from B2C to B2B marketplaces, but also Exchanges. Food, Talent, Social, and type of Services and Tech. We love people with subject matter expertise, that bring their unique way of thinking & experience in order to tackle new markets.
B2B SaaS
70-80% Gross Margins, healthy & measurable MRR with an adequate burn rate, are always great canidates for funding. A lot of those businesses are even bootstrapped, and only need the cash to grow faster.
Hardware, Deep Tech, Robotics & Engineering
Anything hardware based, spanning from engineering and industry based applications like robotics, up to quantum computing. The world of atoms vs. the world of bits.
About Us
In Munich 'Dahoam', in Europe at home.
Your co-pilot for the fundraise.
Fundraising can be a very lonely, excruciating and risky process, which becomes your main job as the CEO for at least a few weeks to months. If it fails, it's game over, your company will die. You need a co-pilot to do sparring with. I've got your back.
As a serial entrepreneur myself I know the pain that entrepreneurs go through, the countless hours spent without knowing the outcome, the sacrifices in their personal lives & relationships, always striving for the goal of building something great. If you have that fire inside of you, the chip on your shoulder, the desire to succeed: I'm happy to fight together with you & help you on your journey to crush it in the smartest way possible by avoiding crucial mistakes, so you can win.
For your VCs, a failure is part of their business model, they will shrug it off and say 'next'. But for you, this is not acceptable, it's your life's work, it's the death of your baby.
Funding Rounds that we have done.
In European Seed, Series A, and B rounds.
How it works.
Free Pitch Deck + P&L Screening. We will look over your shoulder and tell you quickly, if we can help you in your current fundraise.
Strategy Session. We will conduct a strategy session together & lay out the path to your success.
Investor List. We will share our investor list for the 'target audience' and compare it with yours, so we can decide together wether to proceed to a collaboration.
Hone in Story and Deck. We will make sure you've got a concise story to tell for 30 or 45 minutes, which leaves enough time for questions & logistics (next steps).
Start Fundraise. We will tackle our warm candidates opportunistically, depending on where your already with your own candidates, if you have some.
Get into Feedback Loop. From now on we will be in contact 24/7 through Whatsapp and Calls, and gather all the feedback by listening in to your call recordings with VCs.
Hustle until close. We will change the strategy where needed, provide the VCs will all questions they need on their DD, and hustle together until we get the round done!
Apply now for a free intro call.
30 minutes to get to know each other.
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