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Investors, particularly VCs, are terrible about letting you know what they are thinking. Even when they eventually invest, they often take their time, waiting on other investors to commit before committing themselves. And they are not going to invest, they pretty much ghost you.
What you don’t get is clarity about what they like and don’t like. So you cannot adjust and improve your chances with new investors. What startups need is an inside perspective on the clear dos and don’ts when pitching investors.
As both a startup founder and venture investor, with 25 years experience in the industry, Derek can point out in your pitch where you might be turning-off investors and what are the things you should be emphasizing more. What you present is key and how – the manner, tempo and tone – are crucial to success.
Whether you are an early-stage company, looking for pre-seed or seed funding, have not raised private funding before, or have some experience raising capital but are interested in American perspective for your next round, Derek would be happy to spend up to an hour with you evaluating and advising.
Derek is a resident of betahaus, and available via the meeting link.
Derek founded his first company – a Yahoo clone for Latin America – while he was in law school in the mid-1990s. After it was acquired, he went corporate, building Internet services for an American satellite TV company and content for an interactive TV service. He then founded an Internet broadcasting service for European football in North America, with full Bundesliga, Eredivisie, and Ligue 1 rosters, 12 English Premier League teams including Liverpool and Arsenal, and Champions League and UEFA Cup matches.
After exiting, he changed to be an investor, founding venture capital funds in Latin America and San Diego, California. His current project here in Berlin is XTR Capital, which invests in pre-seed and seed level startups in DACH, Scandinavia, the Baltics and the Netherlands. Their industries and verticals include AI applications, tools and infrastructure, Fintech/Regtech/Compliance, and Defense.
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