Calm/Storm’s Post

We are excited to put out another update of our Baltic Startup Funding Report, prepared again together with our friends from FIRSTPICK. The only place you can get real data on real funding round transactions that have taken place at the early stage. The last year has been tough but this report also has positive news, that growth rounds are back, with Lithuania performing strongly also. More reasons to believe that the Baltic states are the #NextStartupNations. 💪 🇱🇹 🇪🇪 🇱🇻

Please check out the Baltic Startup Funding Report by Change Ventures and FIRSTPICK There are some really interesting highlights. For example, more than half of all pre-seed rounds were closed without having any revenues, reflecting the increasing readiness of pre-seed investors to back pre-revenue companies 💪 . #startups #investing #angelinvestors

Great start of Founded at #startupfestival with introductions of Future Tech Ventures and many other great startups in the North of the Netherlands. Looking forward to Gijsbert Koren his #stewardownership talk and investor meetings later today. Let’s go 🚀

Curious about startup trends across the Southeast? Check out BIP Ventures’ 2024 State of Startups(SM) in the Southeast report, with state-by-state insights on investment trends, top industries, and more here: https://lnkd.in/ebvDrq_D Dive into the data to see how each state ranks! Here’s a snapshot of Georgia’s venture deal activity. Thank you, BIP Ventures, for this valuable resource.

We are so excited about the success of Ben York and Christian B., the founders of Genetica, and Triet Nguyen, the principal at Render Capital. They found each other using our platform so that led to an investment. See their story of how it happened below. Please like and share to support us and spread the word. Thank you! #vc #funding #dealflow #fundrasing #venturecapital #startups #startup #founder #founders #raisingcapital

Tanuj Choudhry, Co-founder & COO of HomeLane, believes that startups become sustainable over time, given how challenging it is for a startup to survive. "When you’re early in the journey, you tend to be underconfident. As you grow, you become sharper about what you’re truly bringing to the table and what investors should see in you," he said during a panel titled ‘Startup to Impact: Building Sustainable Ventures’ at #TechSparks2024.

🔥Meet your next portfolio company in Copenhagen On November 13!🔥 Only two weeks to go before Innofounder Investor Day. This is your last chance to join 100 other attending investors. We have a few spots remaining, so hurry up and secure yours. We (Innofounder) present 26 of our top startups – active and alumni – on stage in Copenhagen for Innofounder Investor Day. ⚡ The startups are building in a range of verticals (both software and hardware) and are raising pre-seed and seed rounds. 🤖🍁 It will be an afternoon of sharp pitches and intense networking. 🤝🍻 We are happy to announce that all early local VCs are joining along with the most prominent angels, and international investors. Besides the investors mentioned in my last post, we are happy to welcome good people from Giant Ventures Emblem Ada Ventures People Ventures Nordic Secondary Fund Antler Underground Ventures The Footprint Firm (fund) Accelerace Clim8 Ventures Rockstart Planetary Impact Ventures, and more. 💸 🌍 If you want to secure a spot – and you’re an active angel, VC, or similar – request an invite by sending me a DM or an email at: christoffer(a)innofounder.dk 📩

When I talked to Julia Gudish Krieger recently, she said one of the recent trends in VC that had jumped out to her the most was the rise in seed extensions—and, in particular, seed extensions raised by companies with impressive metrics and lofty valuations. “There’s a little bit of a shift there,” Julia told me. “Companies that had significant growth in the last 12 months but had raised at those heightened valuations (in 2021 and early 2022) are not doing down rounds. They’re doing seed extensions.” Here's some more data to support that trend, from my colleague Peter Walker and his look at Carta's initial startup fundraising data from Q1: For now, the median valuation for seed-stage companies raising a bridge round in Q1 was $20.7 million, the highest it's been so far this decade. Like Julia said: Even for seed startups with "heightened valuations," raising an extension instead a new priced round is an increasingly popular option.

As the CEO of ClimateHaven and venture partner for Connecticut Innovations’ $100M ClimateTech Fund, Ryan Dings is well aware that successful startups aren’t built overnight, but are the result of a series of smaller wins along the way. Milestone plans are pivotal in shaping how companies raise capital and scale, but are too often overlooked in pitches and presentations. In the latest edition of The Startup Playbook, Ryan shares his insights on creating fundraising plans driven by each meaningful step on the path towards building a successful company from the ground up. Ready to start your journey? To learn more, click the link below to check out the newest edition of The Startup Playbook, No. 15: Milestones. https://lnkd.in/exzqMACu

At Good Capital, we review ~2,000 startups annually, narrowing down to 7-8 high-conviction investments. Here's how our tech-driven process works. From AI-powered triage to weekly Capital Huddles, we've built a robust system to identify and nurture the most promising startups. Our process combines cutting-edge technology with human expertise, ensuring we make informed decisions at every stage. Swipe through to see how we turn the startup firehose into a curated stream of high-potential investments and check out the detailed breakdown here: https://lnkd.in/gW-5heh4