Ashley Ryder’s Post

Rather than doing a demo day we decided to go back to the basics. The purpose of these events is to generate meaningful connections between founders and potential investors. Relationships take time, and the traditional demo-day format makes it hard to actually create any of those connections. Rather than doing a demo-day at the end of a program, we decided to do a lower stakes investor preview. We're on day one of a three city tour to introduce founders to some of the best early-stage investors across the top three venture capital cities in the world. We kicked things off in Boston before hopping on the train to do it again in NYC and then again later this week in SF. Across five events we'll connect with 120+ early-stage investors and angels and 200+ community connectors in each major metro. Will it work? I think it already has.

🚀 Fundraising Journey Update: Day 35 🚀 As we continue to navigate through the thrilling yet challenging world of fundraising, I wanted to share a quick update and seek your valuable insights! 🌟 Here’s where we stand: Total Investor Meetings: 30 💼 🤝 20 through introductions from our incredible current investor group. 💪 10 from my own relentless efforts. Outreach Efforts: Reached out to 989 East Coast VCs ➡️ 6 meetings (Success Rate: 0.61%) Reached out to 1005 West Coast VCs ➡️ 4 meetings (Success Rate: 0.40%) Exciting News: 🎉 Just got accepted into the LBAN/Latino Business Action Network Accelerator! Expecting VC intros in June. 🛫 Heading to SXSW to connect with VCs and founders. Seeking Advice: I’m all ears for any suggestions or strategies to boost our meeting numbers. How can we make our outreach more effective? Have you had similar experiences or know tactics that worked wonders for you? Let's share and grow together! 🌱

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Applications to 757 Accelerate close in 10 days! Here's what you'll gain by applying: ✅ $20,000 in non-dilutive funding ✅ Enhanced focus on investor readiness. ✅ Two lead mentors (Investor and Operations) ✅ Investor Roadshow ✅ And much more... Apply now and become part of a vibrant community shaping the future of innovative founders. 🔗: https://ow.ly/X1v550R5Fez Let's accelerate your journey to success! 🚀 #757Accelerate #StartupOpportunity #EntrepreneurialJourney #757Collab

A founder's ability to hone in on their ICP and build value and solve a problem for a very specific customer segment is crucial. 🎯 One insight I took away from Parker Gilbert's journey building his company Numeric is not only their ability to do this effectively, but to elect to work with a focused customer segment where the value of the partnership compounds over time (i.e go-to-market, integration). 🥞 For Numeric that's incredible finance customers and partners like Mercury, Plaid, Wealthfront, Betterment. 💜 Not to mention the traction that led to raising their $10M round from top firms like Founders Fund, Menlo Ventures, and 8VC. 💸 🚀 🎙 🎙 Check out the entire interview with Parker here: https://bit.ly/numeric-br

Great to attend the #ReversePitch event in Leeds last night as part of UK Tech Week, where three investors from YFM Equity Partners, Par Equity and Lifted Ventures pitched to a room of fundraising tech founders. A few discussion points that stood out: 1) Human Dynamics: The importance of aligning angel investors/VCs with founders, balancing personal interactions with both the trend towards 'platformification', and the need to respect the time of founders. 2) Female Founders: The need to boost investment in female-led startups, who often exit faster and undervalue their expertise, affecting funding opportunities. 3) Regional Disparities: The challenges faced by Northern England founders in securing equity funding from angels and VCs compared to their London counterparts. Thanks to KPMG for hosting and to all of the speakers. 

Applications to 757 Accelerate close in 10 days! Here's what you'll gain by applying: ✅ $20,000 in non-dilutive funding ✅ Enhanced focus on investor readiness. ✅ Two lead mentors (Investor and Operations) ✅ Investor Roadshow ✅ And much more... Apply now and become part of a vibrant community shaping the future of innovative founders. 🔗: https://ow.ly/X1v550R5Fez Let's accelerate your journey to success! 🚀 #757Accelerate #StartupOpportunity #EntrepreneurialJourney #757Collab

The application stats for OnePitch VC have been published. Articulating the team/problem fit, and traction achieved have been the weakest elements of the pitches so far (on average). Is this a surprise to investors? What makes good team and traction slides???

📣 Attention founders! We're thrilled to share that registrations are now LIVE for VC Open Office Hours happening June 4-7 during TechWeek! Sign-up here: https://lnkd.in/e9fesX-Q Dozens of NYC investors are offering 20-minute meetings with founders with no strings attached. Simply enter your startup's sector and the sign-up page will serve you any VCs with matching interests. You can secure up to four meetings directly on the platform without ever needing a warm intro. Feedback from founders on our last round of these: - "Had some really great meetings, would definitely do again!" - "Very effective way of meeting investors and getting direct feedback. " - "The 4 calls I had were some of the most relevant people I have met." This initiative is made possible thanks to our partners at Withum and Johnson & Oshan Law. J&O Law has interviewed leading VCs in New York to gather insights on optimizing meetings with them, check out the trailer below and all the full interviews on our site. https://lnkd.in/e9fesX-Q #nyctech #nycstartupcommunity #vcopenofficehours Charlie O'Donnell

Applications to 757 Accelerate close in 10 days! Here's what you'll gain by applying: ✅ $20,000 in non-dilutive funding ✅ Enhanced focus on investor readiness. ✅ Two lead mentors (Investor and Operations) ✅ Investor Roadshow ✅ And much more... Apply now and become part of a vibrant community shaping the future of innovative founders. 🔗: https://ow.ly/X1v550R5Fez Let's accelerate your journey to success! 🚀 #757Accelerate #StartupOpportunity #EntrepreneurialJourney #757Collab