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Crafting The Perfect Fundraising Pitch: Essential Tips For Startup Founders

Inc42Inc42 · 1y ago
Crafting The Perfect Fundraising Pitch: Essential Tips For Startup Founders
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Choosing the right investors for a startup is crucial, and it begins with understanding their background and specialized areas. Startups in India are facing challenges in fundraising due to the funding winter, with a 40% dip in startup funding in 2023. Crafting a perfect pitch is essential, highlighting the market opportunity, a robust business model, and key metrics indicating growth potential. Investors also consider the team, prior entrepreneurial experience, and risk mitigation plans. Various funding options exist, such as venture capital, angel investment, and crowdfunding, each with its advantages. Finally, thorough research and a match between the investor's expertise and startup's goals are crucial when selecting the right investor.

How To Facilitate Fundraising For Your Startup Or Pre IPO Company

Inc42Inc42 · 1y ago
How To Facilitate Fundraising For Your Startup Or Pre IPO Company
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Fundraising for startups and pre-IPO companies involves identifying suitable funding sources and navigating the fundraising journey effectively. Startups can consider options like bootstrapping, friends and family, accelerators and incubators, angel investors, and venture capital. Pre-IPO companies may explore investment bankers, venture capitalists, investment banking platforms, merchant bankers, private equity firms, and strategic investors. It's essential to focus on strong business fundamentals and develop a clear fundraising strategy, pitch deck, and business plan to attract potential investors and secure funding. Fundraising is about more than just capital; it's about building relationships and positioning the company for long-term success.

Tata chose startups more on ‘intuition’, less on numbers

LivemintLivemint · 10m ago
Tata chose startups more on ‘intuition’, less on numbers
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- Ratan Tata created a pitch deck for entrepreneurs to tap investors within a month of joining Instagram in December 2019. - The 16-slide deck advised founders on elements such as the core problem, unique selling proposition, validation with data, competitive information, revenue model, and team details. - Getting funded by RNT Associates, Tata's personal investment vehicle, was considered a badge of credibility in the years between 2012 and 2016. - Despite his vast wealth, Tata made relatively small investments in startups, often relying on intuition rather than numbers when selecting investments. - Tata's advice to founders included thinking long-term, prioritizing the customer, and building lifetime relationships rather than focusing on single transactions. - Besides investing in startups, Tata also acted as an adviser to venture capital firms such as Chiratae Ventures, Jungle Ventures, and Kalaari Capital.

All In Capital launches The Elevator Pitch 2.0

EntrackrEntrackr · 1m ago
All In Capital launches The Elevator Pitch 2.0
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All In Capital launches The Elevator Pitch 2.0 Early-stage venture capital firm All In Capital has announced the second edition of The Elevator Pitch, a live startup pitch event focused on backing early-stage founders from across India. Elevator Pitch 2.0 is a sector-agnostic, one-minute live pitch event designed to provide visibility, capital access, and investor engagement to early-stage startups that typically fall outside mainstream venture networks. The initiative is specifically focused on founders from tier II and tier III cities and those without traditional startup credentials. In its first edition held in Delhi, the initiative received over 300 applications. Fifteen startups were selected to pitch live, and one company received direct investment. Among the selected startups in Delhi were from Bihar and Jodhpur. Launched by Aditya Singh, All In Capital builds a discovery and funding platform for underrepresented and high-potential founders at the earliest stages of company building. According to All In Capital, applicants can submit through a public application process. From there, 15 startups will be shortlisted based on founding team strength, product clarity, and early indicators of market potential. Selected startups will receive professional support to produce a one-minute pitch video, which will be evaluated by its team and presented during the live event. The final selected startups will receive investment and ongoing strategic support. All In Capital has committed a Rs 5 crore investment corpus specifically for startups selected through Elevator Pitch. The firm is also engaging with other investors to expand the initiative's reach and impact. The upcoming edition, scheduled for the end of July in Bengaluru, invites applications from founders currently raising capital at valuations under Rs 50 crore. The application deadline is July 10, 2025. All In Capital is currently deploying its second fund, continuing the momentum of its debut fund, which has backed over 50 startups across sectors such as fintech, SaaS, consumer, AI, healthcare, and deeptech, including Newme, Salty, Magma, and Piersight. The firm recently completed the first close of its second fund at Rs 85 crore.

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