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SeedBlink launches Funding Sprint program to empower pre-seed startups with essential business foundations and access funding
Bespoke support from pitch deck to capital: accelerating your path to financing
- Funding Sprint provides startups with essential tools, guidance, and the infrastructure to secure funding and grow their businesses.
- Benefit from SeedBlink’s extensive network and the expertise.
Bucharest, July 23, 2024 – SeedBlink, the equity and investment platform for European tech startups, is proud to announce the launch of its Funding Sprint program. This new initiative is designed to support pre-seed startups in building robust business foundations and securing the necessary funding to accelerate their growth and success.
The journey of transforming a tech-driven startup from a visionary idea into a successful business often hinges on securing crucial funding. Recognizing the unique challenges faced by founders, SeedBlink introduces Funding Sprint—a comprehensive, founder-friendly program aimed at providing startups with the tools, guidance, and connections they need to thrive. Unlike traditional accelerators, Funding Sprint offers a blend of preparation and direct funding, streamlining the fundraising process so that founders can concentrate on what they do best: growing their companies.
Funding Sprint stands out by helping startups choose the most effective financing routes. By defining compelling propositions that engage investors and refining pitches and materials to make startups shine, SeedBlink ensures that every founder is well-prepared to engage with potential backers. Strategic introductions to venture capitalists and angel investors through SeedBlink’s extensive network, which includes over 100,000 investors, further bolster the startups’ chances of success.
The program is divided into three phases, each meticulously crafted to address different stages of the fundraising journey.
In Phase I, the Starter Pack, startups begin with an equity and cap table analysis, gaining access to SeedBlink's Equity Starter plan for a year. This phase includes a thorough review of the pitch deck and consulting sessions to create a tailored fundraising roadmap. This phase sets the foundational elements required for effective fundraising.
Phase II, Assisted Readiness, is designed for startups ready to dive deeper into financial planning and deck optimization. Over the course of up to three months, weekly coaching sessions focus on enhancing the business model, refining financial forecasts, and setting realistic valuation expectations. This phase also includes access to a comprehensive database of venture capitalists and tailored proposals.
Phase III, Raising Capital, focuses on the execution of investment rounds. Startups can choose from various fundraising instruments, all leveraging SeedBlink’s infrastructure and operations. This phase also includes warm introductions to venture capitalists and business angels, guidance on maintaining good corporate governance, and a free upgrade to SeedBlink Equity Growth for one year.
"At SeedBlink, we understand the hurdles that tech-driven startups face in their quest for funding. Our goal with Funding Sprint is to simplify the fundraising process, making it as seamless and stress-free as possible. This allows founders to focus on scaling their companies and realizing their visions," said Ionuț Pătrăhău, Managing Partner and Financial Services at SeedBlink.
Tech startups interested in joining the program can fill out a form on SeedBlink to get started. While the initial payment for Phase I is mandatory, this ensures serious participation and commitment, paving the way for startups to unlock their full potential with expert guidance and proven strategies for securing essential funding.
About SeedBlink
SeedBlink is the all-in-one equity and investment platform that provides the infrastructure, financial services and network coverage for European tech companies and their stakeholders to access, manage and trade equity at every stage of growth.
With a comprehensive suite of products and services, SeedBlink streamlines investment processes and provides robust support throughout the equity lifecycle, from initial funding rounds through to mature investment opportunities and secondary markets.
More information at www.seedblink.com
PublishedJuly 23, 2024
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Tudor Goicea
Co-founder of Aqurate
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As a startup founder, I am happy to witness SeedBlink’s dedication to expanding their support for early-stage companies beyond funding, towards a healthy equity management via Nimity. A solution to help better navigate relations with stakeholders, employees and future investors is needed in Europe. Less admin work and bringing transparency to the cap table are immediate benefits I was able to test.
Delia Iliasa
Managing Partner
SanoPass
SeedBlink is a transparent solution that connects entrepreneurs with great business plans, with investors, at different stages in their development. It is a great tool for us, a democratization of access to funding, I would say.
Ioan Iacob
Founder
FLOWX.AI
We really loved the SeedBlink journey. We reached our fundraising goal within hours of launching. About 100 investors joined our vision and invested almost $2 million in FLOWX.AI through the Private Deal Room. At the same time, working with SeedBlink to prepare for the funding round was an excellent exercise for our entire team, and we received and felt the support from the SeedBlink team members who took on an advisory role.
Dan Vidrașcu
CEO
VOXA
SeedBlink made the (investment) process run smoothly. We appreciate all the support SeedBlink's professional team has provided.
Tinu Bosinceanu
Founder and CEO
Upgrade Education
It's important to look for and choose a platform that you resonate with, that shares your mission with, a platform & its people with which you feel you can have good working relationships. we got an excellent relationship going forward; we talked a lot and we were in touch on a lot of matters and I think this was important. Having people who believe in your idea is of great help.
Kimmo Rytkönen
Founder and CEO
Income
Running the financing round was like any other fundraising; we had to be active in our community as well as in SeedBlink's investor community. After the launch, everything happened very quickly, and SeedBlink organized several pitch events for investors, which we found very useful for the round momentum.
Svilen Rangelov
Founder and CEO
Dronamics
We immediately clicked with the SeedBlink team as their fundraising expertise was immediately obvious and their no-nonsense approach really appealed to us. After all, fundraising is only a means to an end, and we liked how the SeedBlink team was really focusing on supporting us and on getting things done.
Mihai Darzan
Founder
Procesio
Our main expectation has been to raise the amount we were aiming for, and both rounds launched on Seedblink exceeded our targets, so we’re very happy with that! Even though the launched funding campaigns have been purely crowdfunding rounds, we are thrilled to actually receive extra support from some of the investors, who have chosen to get involved and help us generate product awareness, whenever they can.
Catalin Mester
Founder
Voxa
I am recommending SeedBlink without hesitation, to every founder that raises capital, especially early-stage tech startups. SeedBlink is a crowd investment platform that will also provide their startup with visibility, for Angels and VCs.
Dragoș Iliescu
Founder and CEO
Brio
In the early stages, we have been funded by several early (angel) investors, and one and a half year ago through an equity crowdfunding campaign on SeedBlink. Of course, this impacted our growth in many positive ways, partly due to the cash influx that, evidently, was sorely needed, but in a larger part due to the fact that our responsibility towards our shareholders has become more stringent and explicit, becoming embodied in our market approach.
Costin Tudor
Co-founder and CEO
Undelucram
Given the accelerated growth we observed at the end of last year and the beginning of 2021, we want a new capitalization, quickly. This is a bridge round that we will use for one year, and the advantages that SeedBlink offers are the speed at which we were able to list for financing and the experience that we gain as a result of this public listing, similar to a listing on the stock exchange.
Diwaker Singh
Co-Founder & CEO
Crikle
As a platform that only serves technology ventures, SeedBlink can connect the start-up with more than just money. SeedBlink investors are primarily technocrats who understand the objectives of the fundraising company and are also able to post-funding contribute with business opportunities. The minimum investment threshold, and technology focus, differentiates SeedBlink from other fundraising platforms. A perfect fit for a technology start-up seeking intelligent funding.
Florin Stoian
Co-Founder & CEO
Milluu
SeedBlink boosted our brand exposure and facilitated the financial support we were seeking. Having a campaign on the platform allowed us not only to meet a team of professionals - that guided and helped us prepare the necessary materials - but also opened doors for increasing our brand awareness and have discussions with VCs & angel investors we have never reached before. This campaign gave us the encouragement we needed to push the product further, while the record-breaking fundraising (only 2 hours from the launch of the campaign!) was a great confirmation that our product is needed in this market and that we should continue innovating.
Raluca Jianu
CEO & Co-founder
Epic Visits
SeedBlink has created a vital ecosystem for startups at the beginning of their journey by equipping entrepreneurs with expertise, encouraging honest and sometimes uncomfortable but necessary discussions about risks and vulnerabilities through a suite of tools, and facilitating connections with investors who share the founders' vision and can contribute to their success. I have greatly appreciated the constant support of Eric and the entire team at all stages of the campaign. Thank you so much!
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