Flowlie is the first all-in-one Fundraising Hub for early stage founders to plan their rounds, prepare their outreach, discover new investors, create investment materials, and manage their fundraise.
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Huge gap in the market for a product like this. Standardizing the pitch/fundraise process will be beneficial for both founders in getting access to capital and investors in order to make better data driven decisions! Excited to see more.
@mshapiro123 Great points, Matt! Very much agree that there is a big optimization opportunity here and we hope that with the latest updates, we'll be able to address more and more of those needs.
@mark_bugas@caz_vlad@jeff_erickson2 Thank you Jeff! The team appreciates it. -- And thank you for noticing Startup Stack too: we are trying to spread the word and get this tool into the hands of more founders!
that's something really interesting and useful for startups (we are speaking about us too)
if I can give U an advice guys, it will be really helpful if you could provide help for startup to apply for government and private entities funds, as nowadays is full of agencies that they help startup in that, but most of the time they will take a high stake or charge too much for a startup stage
@gobinx_account Thank you! And that's a great idea! We can use the data founders already providing to help them to apply to grants directly. Similar to the auto-fill of VC website forms that was suggested earlier today. @mark_bugas
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@mike_arinarkin don't worry, just helping each other 😉.
hoping that all of us will succeed 🍀
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@mike_arinarkin in this case for our startup (and I think for many others) will be really helpful to facilitate our funds applying process in Singapore, as we are a Singaporean startup and here is one of the best hub in the world
@mike_arinarkin@gobinx_account we would love to help you out! Feel free to book a fundraising consultation through our website - available for the next few days!
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The biggest issues I find with fund raising, in order, are:
1. A complete disregard by funders to properly define what stage they will fund. For example, a pre-seed is just that, pre-seed. This has one interpretation - essentially paper napkin, pre-MVP, pre-revenue. I would expect some sort of traction such as customer surveys, use cases, financial and competitive landscape, etc. But in literal terms, BEFORE you plant a seed (the build process), you need dirt and water (funding). At seed stage, it's planted (built). Now you need to nurture it (mo' money). Following that are the alphabet rounds. This makes sense, right?
My point in all this is your platform should very clearly categorize/define rounds from the onset, or it's useless (for me at least). And for that, you'll need the magic wand because you'll have to find a method (a list of Q's for investors, I suppose) to determine who is what.
2. While investors typically ask for (if not require) "coachable" founders, the investor world needs coachable funders. I've come across just one funder who stated in a response, "we could be wrong". That's great - that one time. Funders have this belief that because they've read through a thousand pitch dicks, they've seen it all. They've seen a bunch. That's undeniable. And that becomes monotonous. The wall (actually, blinders) pop-ups even faster when the founder has erred, not lied, erred. Their attitude is, "we don't have time to correct a founder's mistake". I get it. But funders should know better - starting up a start-up is very, very difficult. If the premise of the start-up is worthwhile, then it's just as worthwhile to set aside this presumed error until there is clarity.
What I suggest here is develop and include a set of checks and balances questions for funders indicating if they have an internal method to avoid errors and false assumptions they make. If not, that to me is an indication they are not coachable (aka, willing to learn), thus won't be much of a partner later on.
The automation part of all this is, a couple of little boxes to tick off that both these issues have been addressed.
Hi Mark and team! Good luck with the launch.
Looks awesome. I love the possibility to book a free consultation regarding the fundraising! We'll definitely make use of it.
@assembletv Thanks a lot for all the feedback and review, Nate! So many things in stock for the next few months. Hope that next time you're raising we can deliver 10x the value we did the first time.
Wow! Its funny to think that there isnt already a platform that fixes or supports the fundraising stage for founders! I think its great that Flowlie exists! Its a platform thats going to help many founders
@annie_chopra Thank you, Annie! The fundraising space has been severely fragmented over the past years and we believe there is a great opportunity to bring a lot of these tools under one roof and leverage our big data expertise and the latest AI models to optimize as many workflows as possible.
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