001 The winning strategies for fundraising in 2023 | Tekpon SaaS Roundtable

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Chris Saum: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-saum-84938047

Jonny Price: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonnyprice

Thomas Smale: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomassmale

Cenk Tukel: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cenktukel

Horst Wenske: https://www.linkedin.com/in/horstwenske

Sebastian Gabor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastiangabor

Alexandru Stan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stanalexandru

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The topics we've discussed 🕐

00:00 Intro

00:15 Chris Saum - Founderpath

01:08 Jonny Price - Wefunder

01:47 Thomas Smale - FE International

02:31 Cenk Tukel - Tukel INC Accounting

03:25 Alexandru Stan - Tekpon

03:42 Horst Wenske - Sciencia

04:30 Sebastian Gabor - Digitail

04:55 Sebastian, why did you raise an $11M series A?

06:05 Alex, you are now raising - what is your strategy?

08:16 As a bootstrapped founder, how would you plan to fundraise, Horst?

10:25 What types of founders are choosing revenue-based financing, Chris?

12:28 What types of founders are choosing to crowdfund, Jonny?

14:45 Mercury Bank raised through Wefunder

15:47 Thomas, what are buyers looking at when acquiring a SaaS company?

17:57 From a CFO perspective, what should founders consider before raising Cenk?

22:50 Many of you are also investing as angels, what are you looking at?

28:20 How was Founderpath impacted by the market?

30:10 How to fundraise as a US company with different subsidies in other regions

33:40 How can you manage multiple investors when you're crowdfunding?

36:25 How Horst is picking his angel investments

40:15 A historical moment of the VC rejection paradigm

46:20 Valuations are moving from revenue multipliers to EBITDA multipliers

48:25 I work in early-stage startups, what is EBITDA? :)

50:10 Will there be a new player in the market?

52:25 Outro