Fundraising
Use of funds: how to show investors where the money goes
How to build the use of funds slide from the milestone backwards: a month-by-month hiring plan at Italian employer costs,…
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Fundraising
How to raise capital: rounds, investors, valuation and the documents that matter, with data from Europe and Latin America.
Fundraising
How to send your pitch deck to investors: email, PDF, follow-up
Which deck to send before the first meeting, PDF or DocSend link, a six-line email with an example, what VCs…
Fundraising
Investor readiness checklist: 20 things to fix before you raise
Twenty yes/no questions in five areas, from a cap table that matches the visura to code the company really owns,…
Fundraising
Questions investors ask in a first meeting, and how to answer
The questions you'll hear in a first meeting with a VC or a business angel, grouped by theme, what a…
Fundraising
TAM SAM SOM: how to size your market for a pitch deck
What TAM, SAM and SOM mean, why investors trust bottom-up maths, a worked example on Italian hotels built from ISTAT…
Fundraising
Startup one-pager: what to send investors before the deck
What a startup one-pager is and how it differs from a teaser, an executive summary and a deck. The nine…
Fundraising
Investor pipeline: run your fundraise like a sales funnel
A funding round behaves like a sales funnel. How to set up an investor pipeline: stages with exit criteria, the…
Fundraising
Burn rate and runway: how to calculate them, with an example
Gross and net burn, the runway formula, a worked example for an Italian startup (tredicesima and TFR included), Paul Graham's…
Fundraising
Venture debt in Italy: how it works, what it costs, who lends
What venture debt is, when it beats a bigger equity round, how a deal is built, a worked example of…
Fundraising
Startup accelerators in Italy and Europe: where to apply in 2026
Which accelerators an Italian founder should look at for 2026-27: CDP Venture Capital's network, B4i, PoliHub, Y Combinator, Techstars, Entrepreneur…
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