Sahil Verma’s Post

Most people don't know about this Govt Scheme! If you are building a food/agri allied startup, this Scheme can be extremely helpful for your startup! Raise Upto Rs. 25 Lakhs to kickstart your journey. There are over 10's of schemes that people can benefit from but very few people know of them. Also in the last few months of talking to over 100 founders across the country, I realised the gap of awareness on how to raise the 1st round and confusion around- Which investors are right for you? Which govt grant is relevant for you? Should 1 raise funds or remain bootstrapped? How to approach investors? How to make a pitch deck? What are the different rights in the termsheet and how can you negotiate better ? That's why to giveback to the startup ecosystem, I am launching a Live Masterclass for founders to help them learn everything about fundraising! Waitlist for serious founders is open! Only Limited Slots. Check the 1st comment to block your spot ! #startup #funding #mkpov #governmentgrant

Your startup may get rejected if you have the following yellow flag/s! 🤔 Hey Startups, Go through the attachment and verify your balance sheet before raising anything! It may not only halt current funding but also spread a wrong word around. Hope this helps. credit: Brian Stoffel #balancesheet #yellowflag #fundraising #startup #assets #liability

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What have we done in a year? A year of CLOSWAP and we have: 👕 hosted 8 in- person CLOSWAPs 👕 accommodated 10,000 attendees 👕 saved £50,000 for closwappers 👕 facilitated 2000 swaps 👕 saved 66kg of CO2 👕 saved 7M L of water 👕 allowed 266,000 extra wears for clothes We are looking forward to what's ahead and can't wait to have you on board for another year of #impact 😌 #impactinvesting #socialenterpriseuk #startup #impactstartup #socialimpact #startuplondon

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Some great data on the power of SAFEs in the early-stage VC market. Not only do they fast-track capital deployment by deferring an explicit valuation until later in the lifecycle, but they also facilitate a longer tail of small checks. Why? Because the "simple" part of the agreement means an investor doesn't have to hire and pay lawyers as much to review and redline. These fees can easily run into the five figures and become intractable for small investments. With a straightforward and ubiquitous agreement, these fees decrease quite a bit and more investors can participate.

Founders - here's how other US startup founders are constructing their SAFE rounds with different check sizes. 𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝘁 - 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗼𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸𝘀 𝗯𝘆 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸 𝗦𝗶𝘇𝗲 If you're raising less than $1 million on post-money SAFEs, more than 50% of your checks will be for less than $50K each. If you're raising a small "getting started" round of $250K or less, about a quarter of your checks will be for less than $10K. So - small checks matter! They can start the momentum for a strong round, and more importantly they often lead to introductions to the bigger angels or pre-seed institutional capital. 𝗕𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗼𝗺 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝘁 - 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗥𝗮𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸 𝗦𝗶𝘇𝗲 Of course, bigger checks take up proportionally more of the total dollars raised. But I was surprised at just how quickly the $100K and $250K checks came to dominate the distribution. In a raise of $500K-$999K, checks worth $250K or more made up over half of the total cash. Some thoughts: • Small checks remain crucial even into the traditional "seed" round fundraise sizes (anything over $1M).    • Big SAFE raises of $2.5M are far more common than they used to be and they are starting to function more like priced rounds (with a lead institutional check).    • Wild that there were 16,000 post-money SAFEs signed in the last 12 months for Carta companies - this part of the market has held up better than any other venture segment. Hope this data helps a founder out there think about their upcoming SAFE round more clearly! #cartadata #SAFEs #startups #founders #fundraising   __________ You can subscribe to our Data Minute newsletter (link in graphic) to join more than 22,000 startup-curious people receiving Carta data every week directly in their inboxes.