Wayflyer’s Post

🚀How to boost your cash flow! 💰 Funds tied up in inventory? Wayflyers financing helps bridge cash flow gaps, so you can keep stock moving and sales growing without the debt hassle. Quick, flexible, and no equity. #wayflyer #WorkingCapital #ecommerce

Wayflyer isn’t the secret to success…but it’s helped thousands of brands get there. 🚀 - Every day I speak to founders who hear the word funding or finance and put up a wall. I get it. I have been in their shoes. "We don't need funding - Self funded" "Of course, we have plans to grow - we will use our own funding"  To be an e-comm giant "bootstrapped" is to be the fastest man on earth once every 4 years. Not impossible. 🏃♂️➡️ Take brands like Oodie, True Classics, and Kekoa. You see incredible success now, but each of them used Wayflyer to leapfrog their growth and seize their opportunity. Our customer success team is one of the busiest in Wayflyer. Customers use us as funding partners to help the business grow yearly.  If you’ve got momentum, let’s talk about how Wayflyer can help you scale it. Better to have a funding partner and not need it than to need it and not have it. 💡 #Wayflyer #Ecommerce #Financing #RevenueBased #BusinessGrowth #FundingSolutions #Q4

Over the past year, we’ve gotten a lot of founders asking us who is still investing in consumer at the earliest stages. To make things easier, we put together a curated list of early-stage investors focused on consumer tech, marketplaces, prosumer tools, subscription models, and CPG/eCommerce. As navigating which VCs are still dedicated to backing consumer companies has gotten tougher, we hope this can be a helpful resource to founders. Let us know who we’re missing for V2: https://lnkd.in/deGq-2aQ

Excited to launch Capital Max, a major upgrade to our Capital product. I promise that I didn’t bribe anyone for this name! That being said, I’m afraid the finmid team will have to come up with Capital AI as well now to make things even for Alexander Talkanitsa. Whatever it takes to drive product innovation, I guess. On a more serious note, our Capital product has been key in meeting financing needs of thousands of merchants on platforms like Wolt, Just Eat Takeaway.com or Your.Rentals with an average NPS of over 80. With Capital Max, we now offer the best of both worlds for our platform partners to better support their merchants: 1. Pre-approved limits based on existing sales data for seamless funding access 2. Increased limits for merchants who connect additional data sources, such as bank accounts and financial documents Learn more about the update in our announcement – link in comments.

Facing the challenge of rapid growth post-transition from B2B to D2C, Spongellé urgently needed funding to sustain momentum. Traditional banks fell short, posing a threat to their expansion plans. Turning to Wayflyer, Spongellé secured crucial funding within 24 hours, allowing them to focus on growth without financial constraints. The results? Spongellé experienced accelerated growth, optimized inventory management, and fulfilled wholesale orders seamlessly. Our partnership not only addressed funding concerns but also empowered Spongellé to seize new opportunities, marking a significant milestone in their journey. #WinWithWayflyer

The second day at SaaSBoomi ended with a wonderful evening at Lightspeed with Dev Khare and Ajeet Singh (Thoughtspot). Three things that stuck with me: 1. Don’t Shy Away from Big Markets: Even if giants dominate, there are pain points waiting for innovative solutions. 2. Transform Services into Products: Converting low-velocity services into high-velocity products can revolutionize efficiency and scalability. 3. Think Big: Capturing just 1% of a large market can be more impactful than owning 100% of a small one. ✌

If dark store quick commerce delivery models are difficult to get to profitable unit economics, why did soooo many VC firms invest? • They got caught up in pandemic hype • They did not do their due dil • They do not understand grocery • They have bought into the SoftBank Vision Fund view of the world that you need massive investment to win • They were betting on making money from M&A consolidation rather than funding the business through to profitability • They are not as smart as we might think Any of the above Do you agree, or not?

Brands a lot of the time, don’t realise but actually one of their greatest challenges is understanding what's happening with their finances, how they're going to scenario plan etc. Often brand people focus on the product and don't necessarily realise that actually the finance part is crucial. When we first started out as Bolt Digital (before rebranding to DTC Live), what made us  different from other agencies, is we essentially built P&Ls and started showing brands how their cash was moving about. 

We have got some spreadsheets that we're  pretty proud of, however, a financial tool you should definitely look at is Viable.

Techopedia reveals the 11 hottest upcoming IPOs in 2024 🔥 Take a look: ➡️ SHEIN, the fashion retailer eyeing a US listing. ➡️ Stripe, the fintech giant transforming payments. ➡️ Databricks, a leader in data and AI. ➡️ Fanatics, a major player in licensed sports merchandise. ➡️ Chime Financial, a neobank revolutionizing personal finance. ➡️ Klarna, a global payments solution provider. ➡️ StubHub, a marketplace for event tickets. ➡️ Panera Brands, Inc., including Panera Bread and Caribou Coffee. ➡️ SKIMS, the shapewear brand by Kim Kardashian. ➡️ Liquid Death, the canned water company. ➡️ Applied Nutrition, a premium supplements brand. Investors should keep a close eye on these companies, as they could experience tremendous growth over the next few years. #ipo #ipos #recentipos #ipomarket

Is owning a category still the name of the game in Fintech? With over 3000 brands in the UK alone, standing out is crucial. But what does it take to dominate your niche? Here are some quick insights from my experience in scaling some of the hottest Unicorns in Europe 🦄 Does your product really solve the problem it aims to solve? Are you willing to put in the work to fill the gaps? Your customers need an elite experience every time they engage with your brand. ✅️ Passion fuels success. When founders love and understand the power of their brand, they attract like-minded clients who resonate with their vision, and colleagues are inspired to be innovative.🔥 Be provocative (that time Kanye West made sense) Don't blend in—stand out! Allow your marketing and PR teams to set you apart from the crowd. Sometimes, Fintech brands look and sound way to similar. 💥 Marketing budgets are under threat. The solution isn't to slash the budget but to fully integrate your marketing teams—brand, content, PR, and performance—and invest in those channels that are performing well for your brand. 🌎 Growth is possible, even during a recession; if your top competitors pull back on marketing and PR for the next 18 months, the category could be yours to take. 🥇💰📈 Would you add anything? #CategoryOwnership #MarketingInsights #FintechPR #Brand #Fintech