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Fundraising Intensive Sprint

1 day online | 20 Founders only | 24th of March

Give us one day.
Just one.

Be honest: are you doing what every other founder does, but expect different results?

Still believe in the web's same-old advice?

Still believe in pitch decks? 

Face the facts: if you don't have a solid, detailed, funding process, you're about to get played, gamed. Happens to most founders, every day.

Don't be the next one - stop guessing, stop believing the online BS, come and get the hard facts, learn, then go raise like the pros do - and like 400+ other founders have before you.

If you're lost as to how to build and run your funding process efficiently, this is for you. 

400+ companies did before you
and raised €810m+ successfully. Join them.

Stop the guesswork,
raise like pros do


Online. Small group, highest impact.

Our new Intensive Sprint blends a focused, one-day live online workshop with an optional three-day hands-on execution phase.

Designed for busy professionals, the format pairs expert-led masterclasses and actionable templates with guided practice, coaching and accountability sessions during the execution days to ensure ideas turn into measurable results.

Compact yet comprehensive, it’s built to accelerate skill application and drive tangible impact from day one.

We cap it at 20 founders max. Deliberately.

Because this isn't a lecture. It's a two way conversation, and conversations don't work with 200 people.

You interrupt, you dig in, you bring your specific challenges and situation into it.


Stop believing theories. Do what actually works.

Personal opinions with no data to show, 'gurus' with no track record, thinkers and bloggers with no field experience. Stop.

We do the opposite: no opinions, just hard facts, sourced data, numbers and what actually works, in the real world. You can then make your own, informed, opinion and build a solid plan. 

It's harsh, fast-paced, no emotions or sugar-coating, challenges your thinking, and may be brutal at times. But ours really, really works.

 


Short, sharp and brutally honest.

By 6pm, you'll understand:

> the actual business of VC (without the BS)
> how you get played / gamed all the time
> term sheet clauses that destroy you, and how to negotiate them out
> how to keep control of your deal dynamics, disclosures, timings
> how good, pro investors actually decide (spoiler: not what they say in podcasts), their unspoken rejection and signals, how to avoid them
> why pitch decks don't matter much
> how to make analysts work FOR you, not against you
> zombie funds - most funds you know are about to die but don't tell you; learn how to spot them & stop wasting your time
> how many investors you need for your round
> where to find them, how to get introduced, why cold emails work, why most automation fails you

One packed day. Buckle up

hard facts & insider knowledge, then the actionable blueprint to build your fundraising process

KNOWLEDGE

  • VC's new reality check: funds are dying, learn why, how to spot the zombies, how to avoid them
  • The business of VC decoded:  how/when/who makes money
  • Who does what inside a fund, who to approach
  • Can you speak GP-LP-IRR-TVPI-DPI-Hurdle?
  • Dilution mechanics
  • Nasty term sheet tricks that leave founders with nothing at exit
  • What's actually different at Seed, A, and B (expectations, meetings, documents)
  • Why a process is critical
  • How to set yours up
  • Set up a realistic timeline, or they will
  • Calendar: timings & seasonalities
  • How to share it publicly, why
  • The 5 mandatory steps to close your round
  • The VC rejection map, spoken and unspoken signals
  • PR hype vs. active funds
  • Why most founders fail their raises
  • Common traps & how to avoid them
  • Dilution mechanics
  • Nasty term sheet tricks that leave founders with nothing at exit
  • What's actually different at Seed, A, and B (expectations, meetings, documents)

ACTION

  • Common founder mistakes & misconceptions
  • Where to source investor data
  • Building your target list
  • Investors aren’t equal: how to assess & rank them
  • Critical checks and due diligence
  • How to get introduced to investors
  • How to cold-email investors successfully
  • The VC rejection map, spoken and unspoken signals
  • Spot & nuke time wasters
  • What qualification questions to ask pre- and during meetings
  • Follow-up process: do you automate?
  • How to handle inbound requests

  • How to pass pre-meeting qualifying calls

  • Setting goals for each investor meeting

  • How to spot when you're being played, used, or lied to
  • Meeting went great, now what?
  • Internal VC processes post meetings
  • Term sheet death traps and how to negotiate your way out
  • Europe vs. US funding process: differences, pros & cons, expectation clash
  • How to run a mixed EU / US process
  • Why and how to prioritise investors smartly
  • Making analysts work for you on the inside

Not another BS "webinar"

our 1 day programme 

12 founders in a room
You interrupt. You ask. You challenge.
Bring your deck, your past failures, your investor list. Work through your specific challenge(s).
The truths investors never disclose publicly
How to's, names, tactics. Actions, not words.

£2,500

once, for life. no small print, no gimmicks.

others

 500 people on Zoom
You listen. No interactions
 Generic examples
 Marketing-safe "content" (platitudes)
No hard facts, no numbers
No actionable plan

FREE

you are the product

We are the UK+EU's
top performing funding system

See what makes us so different


Most fundraising programmes focus on same-old, same-old theory and generic "best practices" - all of which you can find for free on chatGPT and... fail founders. 

We use no theory - only experience, hard facts and sourced data, then focus on what actually works in the real world. Simple, really. No more  guessing or "well, in theory this should happen next".

Instead of teaching founders what should happen, we prepare them for what does happen: the uncertainty, investor dynamics, difficult conversations, and the right, timely, strategic decisions that bring clarity, confidence, and control.

 
 
 

Unprepared, you get played


Successful fundraising has nothing to do with a pitch deck, or your salesmanship. It starts with preparation.

In this Bootcamp, you’ll learn why most founders underestimate this phase, and fail as a direct result.

We'll show you what “investor-ready” actually means, and how the right groundwork can dramatically change the closing speed and controls.  

Don't pitch investors, trigger them


Founders are told to pitch, sell, convince, push... terrible advice, investors hate being hard-sold to.

Most founders struggle to communicate their story, and end up with a product-first pitch that distances investors.

We'll show how your job is to turn complexity into a simple, powerful, curiosity-triggering message. How to use clarity, simplicity, believable outcomes and investor-relevant data points.

Understand what investors seek. Then simplify and crystallise what makes you the fund returner, how it could happen, why you, why now. Present how, in their own words, they would introduce you to another investor. The good, the bad, the ugly, the risks, the upside, the challenges ahead, the accelerators, the size of your opportunity if it works out... etc.

 

Pricing

early-bird rates available
UK VAT added if/when applicable

1 Day Intensive Sprint
£
2,500
Everything you need to build
Insights and insider knowledge
We teach you the process
You build it yourself
3-day execution programme
£
7,500
We build it for you
We build your entire process
Messaging, positioning, doc stack, investor database, approach techniques, deal closing psychology tricks and much more
Your own, customised, funding system and playbook for you to raise funds again, free

early bird pricing valid until 3rd of March
use "earlybird20" at checkout for a -20% discount

Part 2

3-day intensive execution programme

learning is great. building it all with us, for you, is even better

Get it done

No more learning, time to act

Let's build your customised funding process together.

We write, build, code and iterate it all with you until perfect: your positioning, messaging, investor triggers, document release schedule, build your investor pack, your perfect-match investor target list, approach emails, introduction requests and a lot more.

Every session is practical and immersive, focused on real decisions, real documents, and real execution.

By the end, you leave with a complete, ready-to-use fundraising playbook, process, information pack and the tools you need to close your round.

Possibly the best 3 day investment for your founder career.

> your investor pack
> your new live pitch, with/out deck
> what's in it for investors? analysis
> your financial storyline
> how to present your team
> drive investor meetings & outcomes
> control your process timeline & calendar
> deal dynamics & closing psychology
> 1:1 advisory each day
> advanced data research
> using AI & our tech tools
> assess & rank investors
> much more...

Your fundraising pro

François Mazoudier

7x entrepreneur, then $70m VC fund cofounder, then investment banker who helped founders raise and exit - all three sides of the negotiation table. 

Discovered the uncomfortable truth: the systems and processes used by pros are never taught to founders. Result? Founders today aren’t any better off than 20 years ago, and still get played, gamed.

Trained 442 founders to date. Approaching €1B raised collectively. 92% success rate in year one.

"learn how the game is played and you can win it. every time."

Europe's number one fundraising programme 

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