From Startup to Scale-up: The Good, The Bad and The Challenging
- By Yohann Merran
March 21st, 2025
Raising funds: How much is too much? What are VCs looking for?
There comes a point in a fundraising conversation when a VC can potentially tune out: the moment you reveal your burn rate and how much you are looking to raise, indicating you’re hoping to rais...
The Top Ten: Our Ultimate Reading List for Early Stage Startups
Finding your feet in the startup world is no easy task. However, getting to grips with all the tricks of the trade couldn’t be made easier with our list of go-to books. Here we present ou...
Taking fundraising into the digital era: 7 reasons to raise capital online
As the world continues to watch the events of COVID-19 unfold before their eyes, the confinement and lockdown measures have caused major disruption to many face-to-face businesses. However, for the en...
Survival of the fittest: The effects of COVID-19 on early-stage start-ups
As the world watches the events of COVID-19 unfold from the comfort of their homes, it is certainly not a comfortable time for many start-ups. With the demand for such companies dropping significantly...
How to raise funds for your next start-up
Back in 2008, an ambitious group of young entrepreneurs at the University of Cape Town set out on a mission to improve transport links for students. Fast forward ten years and the well-established, po...
What are the different stages of a startup fundraising?
Fundraising is a process of soliciting outside investors to finance your start-up or the development of a business. There are two distinct types of financing, which depends on the maturity of the com...
How to value a startup?
How does one calculate the value of a startup that has just launched? What is an investor looking when valuing a startup? We regularly hear about the debate between: 'valuation' AND 'funding'. How do...
How to perfectly pitch your startup and raise more funds?
First and foremost, your pitch should allow you to tell a story to your audience. Study the pitches of startups that inspire you: we recommend that you take inspiration from other startup...
What an entrepreneur should know when raising funds
Raising funds for your startup? The reality could be hard to accept for a young entrepreneur building his first business: it is today almost impossible to raise a large amount of money, based only on...
