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edrone Fundraising (III)
🚀 Transaction summary VC equity round of $5M at a $30M valuation 📣 Transaction news LinkedIn | StartUpRise | EU-Startups 📅 Transaction announced January 2023 💰 VC investors INventures 🇵🇱 | Atmos Ventures 🇵🇱 | Müller Medien 🇩🇪 | Portfolion 🇭🇺 and a group of Business Angels 🏷️ Client bio edrone is a SaaS technology company selling eCommerce CRM solutions 🌐 Client details Website | Crunchbase | LinkedIn 🌍 Client location Poland 🇵🇱
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Annual Letter 2023/2024
Dear friends, If we were to summarise 2023 briefly, it would be less VC investment activity. The fundamentals of startup risk did not change in 2023. What changed was a reversal of national banks printing money and lending it out at zero interest rates. Two factors in particular contributed to a slowdown in startup investments. High valuations…
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A VC-Backed SaaS Company’s Debt Primer
Introduction This primer will guide you through the intricacies of raising debt as an early-stage cashflow-negative SaaS company backed by VC investors. It’s complex, but you’re expected to get the basics as a founder. That’s life for you. In short, two types of loans are available. Working capital loans As a SaaS company with a…
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What are the pros and cons for an early-stage company to work with a fractional CFO?
Unsurprisingly, early-stage companies need to be on top of their financials. Reasons for this include tax compliance, shareholder information rights, cash management, and business performance insights. The question is, what is the best approach to achieve this with limited resources? There are a few ways, and they can all be the right thing at the…
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News Flash – June 2023
It has been a busy first half of 2023 for VarsoGroup. We have participated in several equity and debt fundraising rounds. Mostly non-disclosed insider rounds. Here’s a summary of some of our learnings: 👉 Existing investors are willing to bridge to a cash flow positive plan, ideally within six to twelve months. This means reducing…
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Ecochain Technologies Fundraising
🚀 Transaction summary €3M in a VC equity and debt financing round 📣 Transaction news Silicon Canals | EU-Startups | LinkedIn 📅 Transaction announced June 2023 💰 VC investors Phase2.earth 🇳🇱 | Volta 🇳🇱 💰 Debt provider ABN AMRO 🇳🇱 🏷️ Client bio Ecochain Technologies is a climate tech startup that enables manufacturers to produce…