14th April, 15.00 CET
Founders, face the truth: if you wish to be part of those final 10 companies pitching on stage, you're going to have get picked, and that requires you to know how to. Competion for the limellight (and our award) is always fierce, so don't go in on a hunch - go in to win it.
Spoiler: pitching your product doesn't work (doh!).
It is simple, but it isn't what you think.
The good news is: once you know, you can apply that knowledge to all competitions you enter. So come and learn, once and for all.
That's what this webinar is made for.
Francois is a seasoned tech entrepreneur, a 'fixer' and former fundraiser, and cofounder of Speed Ventures, a VC fund.
He's been a judge at most of Europe's startup pitch competitions for years, and continues to sponsor many.
That experience gave him many insights, which he's condensing into a short, sharp, one hour knowledge session.
7 startups, one IPO, one bankruptcy and everything in-between, he surely knows a lot of how to build and exit, the do's and the dont's.
Francois been mentoring startups for years, with an ability to be both very founder friendly and yet very direct. He's known for his no-BS and practical approach to most things.
His experience includes RealNetworks, Polycom, Symantec, The Cloud Wifi, and co-founding Speed Ventures, Europe’s first accelerator ($70m, 28 companies, 4 IPOs).
We'll analyse Q4/2025 data to give you a no-BS view of the Venture Capital landscape, including the biggest challenges in fundraising now.
Fundraising is full of traps and you can't afford to learn on the way. We'll cover the most common ones and how to avoid them.
What to expect from your round right now and what's different this time. The things you should do immediately, and which KPIs investors actually care about right now.
Ask us any fundraising or VC landscape question you have. We'll offer a safe and open space for founders to get the support they need to nail their fundraising round.
THE FUNDRAISING BOOTCAMP
The Fundraising Bootcamp is for you. It's an intensive (and intense!) investment preparation programme - you'll leave with a playbook that helps you prepare and execute each step of your fundraising process.
Seriously, the inside knowledge and experience we got here can't be emulated or gained on some get-rich-quick type of online 'courses' - it takes people with deep insight and rich experience (also experience in failing and making mistakes) to understand this world, and that's who Marcela and Francois are.
HIpEfy
Ljubljana cohort - May 2022
You are often told as a founder to beware of paid for services promising funding help. Fundraising Bootcamp is not that. It's THE coaching service you need to reach funding goals. To be honest it's priceless. Fundraising is no longer alien. I now know exactly what to do and have my messaging 100% right.
HUSMUS
Online Cohort - June 2022
This was the single most valuable fundraising training I’ve ever had. Despite having raised before, there was so much I learned here that has completely change the way I fundraise. I have the tools, templates and processes to now run the most effective fundraise possible for Vistalworks. I urge all founders to invest time in this programme before they start seriously fundraising.
VISTALWORKS
Tech Nation Cohort - Mar 2021