Introducing your new Friday batch of Founders
Jock Fairweather ??
I help founders uncover their early believers and turn them into incredible advocates.
Hi team,
This week four of our new forums go live, which means we have 20 new founders to introduce.
Each founder has a scheduled day per week, for eight weeks to show their true selves and get their burning questions answered by our supporters.
We'll introduce each new founder batch each day this week - each founders' introduction question is listed below.
???? Our Web3 Forum goes live on Monday, get amongst it!: https://community-vc.com/forums/deep-tech/? ????
?? Friday ESG Founder (starts next week)
?Founder name: Baz Iyer | https://www.dhirubhai.net/in/baziyer/
?Company: https://www.usevulcan.app/
?Stage: Seed
?Tagline: Detailed home energy design
?Find more from the ESG Forum here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/Cdqt0l8G0IQ2hosgSpNrJD?
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?? Friday Fintech Founder
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?Founder name: ?Daniel Monge
?LinkedIn Profile?https://www.dhirubhai.net/in/daniel-monge-101159186/
Company name: Biptap
*Tagline*: - Biptap is the World’s first crypto card with an offshore bank account, integrated with your Web3 wallet and major cryptocurrencies.
Sector: AI/Big Data, Fintech, Blockchain/Crypto/Web3, ESG
Stage: Seed
Ask: Which communities with 10k+ struggle most with payments?
Context: Projects often talk on the mission to 'bank the unbanked', I'd like to understand how they plan on doing so ...
Find more from the Fintech Forum here:?
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??Friday Healthtech Founder
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*Founder name*: Rebecca Veksler
LinkedIn Profile?https://www.dhirubhai.net/in/rebecca-veksler-82778765/
*Company name*: Frooms
*Tagline*: FROOMS AI technology synthesises and simplifies complex patient health data so practitioners can focus on what they love most: helping people feel better.
Sector: Health
Stage: Our team are currently preparing for an investment round. We have a few options and would love your advice and experience shares.
Context: Our team are currently preparing for an investment round for our startup. We currently have around 60 clients ready to become purchasing customers once we go live, including 10 outstanding practitioners committed to being our pilot testers—this group includes several large clinics. Our CTO is highly skilled and building everything from scratch, which gives us confidence in our capabilities. However, we’re grappling with the trade-off: do we dilute now to raise funding or persevere without external capital, growing more slowly while increasing our market cap?
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Ask: We would love feedback from the community on the following: A) Continue to Bootstrap – is it best to get our product live and establish credibility before raising funds? B) Raise small now SAFEs / loans – how do VCs perceive this on the cap table down the line? C) Pursue pre-seed round now to get us to MVP2 to accelerate the development of our MVP and make it even stronger (i.e. SaMD)? D) If C), what gaps or risks should we address at this stage to better de-risk our solution for VCs?
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Find more from the Health Forum here:?
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?? Friday Ag/Foodtech Founder
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New founders incoming next week!
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Find more from the Ag/Food Forum here:?
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?? Friday Deeptech Founder
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Founder name:?Alex Georges | linkedin.com/in/alexander-georges
* Company: AetherLab | https://aetherlab.co
* Tagline: Bringing AI guardrails, trust, clarity, and control to the AI revolution
* Sector: AI | SaaS | Risk Management
* Stage: $3M seed raise
Ask: Understanding shifting investment hypotheses
Question: How frequently do investor hypotheses and expectations shift for different funding stages (pre-seed, seed, Series A, etc.)? Have you seen noticeable changes in what’s considered “investable” or “attractive” even quarter to quarter?
My current approach has been to look at what’s happened over the past few quarters, but even that seems outdated. The only way I’ve been able to stay up to date is by having direct conversations with VCs. Would love to hear how others navigate these shifts or stay ahead of the curve.
Additional Info: * Pitch Deck: https://docsend.com/view/8wdw5dkc5i7jqzqk
Find more from the Deeptech Forum here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/CuJ74uVi546H8cLJNNZ3Sg
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Jock & the team
Author | Keynote Speaker| Editor Web3 & Metaverse, Frontiers in Blockchain | Women Investors in Deep Tech| Web3.0 Leader of the Year Eurasia 2023 | Top 10 Thought Leader Blockchain, MedTech, Sustainability
5 天前Very excited to see the Web3 Founders and projects !! Congratulations @JockFairweather ?? and Michael Cotton ! Standing by to help !