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How to Build Momentum in Your Round

You'll often hear people, myself included, emphasize the importance of FOMO (fear of missing out) and building momentum in your fundraising efforts. As a VC, I have personally witnessed the impact it can have on an investor's decision-making process, especially when working with founders on their...

How to Show Investors You Can Execute

At the early stages of your business, there may not be much to show for your hard work. Typically, you are pre-revenue, not yet regulated, and lack sufficient data to provide investors with a comprehensive analysis of your future direction. When it comes to investing, you often face rejections f...

How to Prepare Your FAQs for a Fundraise

About a year ago, I was helping a founder raise their Seed round (we raised Ā£2m in the end). About a month into our 1-2-1 calls I got him to take some practice investor calls and send me the recordings. When I received these calls I was surprised at how bad he actually was. During one call, a V...

The 8 Questions Investors Think About You

One major problem I see with founders when they try to fundraise is that they often lack substantial information on what investors look for in founders and founding teams. Investors will rarely tell you exactly why they do not like you. Instead, they may give you generic rejections that mean lit...

How to Communicate During Your Fundraise

This week's tip: the 3 tips on how to communicate during your fundraise. Fundraising for your startup can be particularly challenging because investors often rely on their emotions when making investment decisions. Many founders believe they can overcome this by showcasing their amazing produc...

How to Prep Your Network for a Fundraise

This week's tip: how to prep your network for a fundraise. Fundraising for your start-up is never an easy task. From the hundreds of start-ups Iā€™ve seen try to raise on every side of the table I can tell you one thing: Most founders are failing to fundraise purely because they are not preparin...

How to Build a Support Network

Over the past decade, I have participated in over 70 fundraises and $350m+ in funding. I have been a founder myself, worked with my portfolio companies as a VC, and now serve as an advisor. What I have come to realise from being involved in so many fundraising efforts and seeing it from all side...

The 6 Metrics That Make You Investable

If you have read enough of my LinkedIn posts or this newsletter, you will know that I constantly emphasize how fundraising is all about you, the founder. Fundamentally, investors want to invest into investable founders. The problem I've seen is that many of you may find it difficult to understan...

How to Build Investor Relationships

This weekā€™s tip: the 5 steps to nurture VC relationships There are two common occurrences that happens when founders look to fundraise. Either you: Successfully get meetings with investors, but you canā€™t get any terms sheets Every investor rejects you before you even meet them Both of the...

Keeping Yourself Happy During a Fundraise

This week's tip: How to keep yourself happy and energetic during your fundraise. Fundraising is mentally brutal. There are so many ups and downs during your journey to succeed: All of the rejections One step away from a term sheet Feeling like the fundraise will ever end Believe me when ...