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Honey, I shrunk the term sheet!

For French readers : in the US most seed investments are now on SAFEs (West Coast) and convertible notes (East Coast). When it’s an equity round, the term sheet mostly follows the US National VC Association (NVCA) template.As an early-stage fund, we…
Anne-Sophie Nedellec
Fundraising Advice

How to raise your Seed round in San Francisco if you're an international startup (via Zoom) ?

Ever since Newfund Capital landed in the US in 2013 via a “flip” of one of its portfolio companies, its american-ess has progressively increased : 1/3 of our investments are state-side, 15% of our LPs live in the US, 25% of the Newfund team has an…
Augustin Sayer
Startup Tips

Predictive Churn Indicator

Not all revenue is equal. Figuring out how strong yours is remains key for the future of your business, especially in a post-covid world and the likely crisis.Typical result for the “cigarette analysis”.When facing troubles, most entrepreneurs (me…
Operating Team
Newfund

Is Newfund useful?

With a massive slowdown of our inbound deal flow due to Covid-19, we decided to pause proactive investments for two months (apart from committed term sheets & hand shakes) and ask ourselves how we could be more useful to our founders?55% of total…
Operating Team
Newfund

Portfolio analysis in trying times

With the Covid-19 crisis hitting all data points at full speed, valuations as of Dec 31st, 2019 became obsolete. We needed a new tool to assess the health of our portfolio for internal prioritization as well as LP reporting. In this article, we…
François Véron
Fundraising Advice

Business Angels or Seed Funds?

I must hear it every day. Should you raise your seed round with a few Business Angels (BAs) or should you raise with a Venture Capital Seed fund?I am obviously biased since I work for a VC fund, but I once raised money from Business Angels as an…
Augustin Sayer
Startup Tips

The Don’ts of Starting a Start-Up

Do, do, do, but how about a dose of don’t, don’t, don’t?Don’t partner with associates without a shareholders’ agreement!You might be best friends now, but don’t tomorrow decide on something you could put in writing today.Don’t give equity to someone…
Augustin Sayer
Fundraising Advice

How to write the best pitch deck?

Pitch decks are all very different. They are customized for the fundraising round, the industry, the country, the experience of the entrepreneurs.This is the pitch deck, slide by slide, 9 slides long, to unite us all! [If you don’t care about the…
Anne-Sophie Nedellec
Fundraising Advice

Your Series A check sheet ✔️

If you prefer to download directly the check sheet, download is here.Newfund recently announced its 3rd series A refinancing in a row over the last three months. First came FairMoney with Flourish Ventures & DST partners. Then Fairmarkit with…
Augustin Sayer
Fundraising Advice

Ultimate 2020 VC Guide for your fundraising in France!

[If you came for the maps of the French ecosystem, just scroll below — last updated Nov. 14th, 2019⚙️ NEW: Excel download here]In order to help entrepreneurs target the right funds and avoid wasting time reaching out to the wrong funds, we have…
Augustin Sayer
Investments

Our investment in Zinier, AI-Driven Automation for Modern Enterprise

Our investment in Zinier, AI-Driven Automation for Modern EnterpriseIn 1950, pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing proposed a test to see if computers could pass for humans. Adapted from a Victorian-era contest called the imitation game, the…
Henri Deshays
Startup Tips

Should you ask for equity 📈?

You just got that job at the startup you’ve always dreamt of and you’re wondering if you should ask for equity as part of compensation? Drawing from my time as an entrepreneur, my discussions with the 70+ hires then, and most recently as VC @…
Augustin Sayer
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