Fundable vs Angels Partners: What Gets Investors to Actually Reply?
- By Yohann Merran
April 1st, 2026
Non-Dilutive Funding Options for Founders
Raising equity is not the only way to fund a startup, and for many founders it is not even the best first move. Every round you close at a low valuation trades a permanent slice of your company for ca...
Startup Grants UK: Complete 2026 Guide
Grants are the most overlooked source of startup funding in the UK. Unlike equity, a grant does not dilute your ownership, and unlike debt, most grants never have to be repaid. For founders building i...
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Raising a round is a sales process, and every sales process lives or dies by its pipeline. Yet most founders still run their raise out of a messy spreadsheet, a cluttered inbox and a memory that fails...
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Every founder who has run a raise knows the same truth: fundraising is a second full-time job stacked on top of building the company. So a reasonable question follows. Should you hand the process to s...
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Founders love outreach benchmarks and hate what they usually find: confident-sounding numbers with no source, no context, and no way to know whether they apply to a pre-seed SaaS founder in Berlin or ...
Financial Modeling for Non-Finance Founders
If the words "financial model" make you want to close the tab, you are the founder this guide was written for. Plenty of great companies are built by people who came from product, design, engineering,...
The Psychology of Cold Email in VC
A cold email to an investor is a strange piece of writing. In two hundred words, to a stranger, you are asking for their time, their money and their belief in something that barely exists yet. Most fo...
Subject Line Science: Investor Outreach
An investor decides whether to open your email in about the time it takes to blink. Before your traction, your team, or your beautifully crafted pitch gets a single second of attention, one line of te...
Top Family Office Investors Backing Startups in 2026
When founders search for the top family office investors backing startups, they usually want a list of names. The honest answer is more useful than a list: the family offices most worth your time are ...
Engineering Your Investor List: Data vs Reach
Every fundraise starts with a list. Before the pitch, before the sequence, before the first meeting, there is the question of who you are actually going to contact. Get the list right and everything d...
