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All my #Chicago peeeps building and/or investing in B2B SaaS companies, this one’s for you! If your goals for attending #TechWeekChicago include meeting potential investors, other awesome founders to bounce ideas off of and/or just meet nodes in the ecosystem, definitely RSVP for our Founder & Funder Breakfast. We intentionally review all the RSVP’s and curate one awesome room full of people. Hope to see you there! 🥐☕️💫 #EarlyStage #Founder #VC

🚀 Thanks Maria Rotilu from Openseed VC for another fantastic training workshop with our Investor team at Oxford Seed Fund! Maria shared her career journey from a management consultant at Deloitte, investing at Hustle Fund and Octopus Ventures to founding Openseed VC, a pre-seed fund. Maria talked to our team about her fundraising strategy targeting experienced operators. Our main take aways from the chat: 🙋♀️ Build your personal brand and use your authentic voice; be consistent, build relationships over time. 🤝 Build a support system of advisors and VCs who have 'done it before'. Being a solo GP can be lonely - so build your network, and have a process/system in place for selecting investments. ⏲️ If you want to start your own fund, starting planning it early to align with the right partners and develop your approach.

Raising Seed Capital: Here are the GOLDEN NUGGETS you need: 1️⃣ **Diverse Funding Sources**: From VCs to angel investors, know where to find the money and how to win it. 2️⃣ **Perfecting Your Pitch**: What REALLY matters to investors? Think traction, product, and team. 3️⃣ **Creating FOMO**: Make investors feel like they're missing out on the next big thing. 4️⃣ **Post-Pitch Moves**: Steps to keep the momentum and lock down that capital. ----- Follow All Chance to learn from more innovative insights.

Raising Seed Capital: Here are the GOLDEN NUGGETS you need: 1️⃣ **Diverse Funding Sources**: From VCs to angel investors, know where to find the money and how to win it. 2️⃣ **Perfecting Your Pitch**: What REALLY matters to investors? Think traction, product, and team. 3️⃣ **Creating FOMO**: Make investors feel like they're missing out on the next big thing. 4️⃣ **Post-Pitch Moves**: Steps to keep the momentum and lock down that capital. ----- Follow All Chance to learn from more innovative insights.

Why is raising for pre-seed so hard to do? Before I answer that question, here's a quick history lesson on how pre-seed rounds came about: To keep it simple, pre-seed rounds started popping up around 5 to 10 years ago as investors started realizing there was more and more competition at the seed and series a stages. On top of that, LPs were dying to get their hands on great investment opportunities that hadn't been discovered yet. Hence, the pre-seed round was created. But as money poured in, so did risk. Now we're seeing VCs prioritize profitability sooner. We're seeing a shift from blitz scaling to sustainable growth. LPs are much more cautious now, which in turn is forcing VCs to be more cautious with the bets they choose to take... This is one of the reasons I've been pushing some of the founders I work closely with to consider raising an angel round, but that's a convo for another time. The clip below is a small part of the full episode I put out today on Funded, make sure to check the full ep out ⬇

Raising Seed Capital: Here are the GOLDEN NUGGETS you need: 1️⃣ **Diverse Funding Sources**: From VCs to angel investors, know where to find the money and how to win it. 2️⃣ **Perfecting Your Pitch**: What REALLY matters to investors? Think traction, product, and team. 3️⃣ **Creating FOMO**: Make investors feel like they're missing out on the next big thing. 4️⃣ **Post-Pitch Moves**: Steps to keep the momentum and lock down that capital. Follow All Chance to learn from more innovative insights.

Here's a very quick update for our future potential investors! KreiosLabs just surpassed $8.5k in ARR this month! While April's growth was slower than anticipated, we saw a strong rebound in May and hopefully it continues from here. I recently attended the Raid the Fridge event hosted by Kickstarter Ventures that featured Expedock Cofounders Jig Y. and Jeff Tan. My two main takeaways from the talk are: 1. I'm simply not working hard enough 2. Go global And guess what? That's exactly what we will do for the next few months - work harder and go global. Stay tuned for our next update!

Jed Tan is going global. I'm excited for more stories like this. Keep the fire alive, we need more young dreamers to rally around your story! Jed literally just proved the spectators wrong that "there's no tech talent and entrepreneurs in Manila" 🤣 🤣 🤣 I havent' been in the local scene for years because we were busy grinding but I'm shocked at this change in language from investors. "VC's" now love to call entrepreneurs, dreamers, and visionaries with the derogatory term of "operators". 🙄🙄🙄 "Operators" vs "Spectators" is harmful language and reflective of subconcious #crabmentality . To even debate this dichotomy is a farce. I will pick a fight with anyone who uses the word "operator" to puff themselves up because of their inability to execute & deliver results themselves. My younger brother, Jeremy Young, helped me realize that the real language should be: "Kings" and "Kingmakers" - allies who shape the future together. Both are capital & time allocators, both are operators that drive ROI, both are visionaries, both are dreamers. We have different roles and emphasis but a shared mission. Cheering your story on, Jed! I'm confident your SaaS first approach will surpass ours earlier and much faster! #carryingcrabs

In the course of our work at Angel School, some things are always inspirational: ✅ Equipping emerging investors with real skills and no-BS knowledge ✅ Seeing our community grow organically (30+ countries at this point) ✅ Happy community talking about their great experience So glad to tick all 3 boxes for Karim Hemdan Sabbah!

Advisors, accelerators, and investor lists are great tools to raise capital. But many founders still struggle, wasting time and energy. The TORUS Raise & Marketing Roadmap is your capital-raising machine, built to help you nail the 30 essential steps that make a difference. No fluff, just a clear path to raising faster, stronger rounds Make a copy here https://lnkd.in/dmkwEsHW Kane Templeton Jason Atkins