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Due diligence in fundraising: types and documents
The due diligence process as part of the fundraising process involves potential investors screening the company for opportunities and risks. To make the process as efficient as possible, it is important for founding teams to have all relevant documents and...
How do I found a startup?
How do I found a startup? Consultant Konstantin Lotter spoke with Pauline Brinkmann from Zaster Magazine about this question. In addition to tips on founding a company, avoidable mistakes during the founding process and later fundraising, Konstatin Lotter gives important...
What is a Venture Capital Company?
Fundraising poses a major challenge for every company. Young companies in particular usually have to overcome some obstacles before finding a suitable financing partner. Financing through debt capital is often difficult for early-stage companies...
Working Capital Management - Part 3/3: Value levers in Working Capital
Active working capital management secures liquidity through the effective use of available funds and offers great opportunities to leverage existing value. In a three-part blog series, we show how capital commitment and cash turnover...
Working Capital Management - Part 2/3: Value levers in Working Capital
Active working capital management secures liquidity by effectively using available funds and offers great opportunities to leverage existing value. In a three-part blog series, we show how capital commitment and cash turnover...
Working Capital Management - Part 1/3: Value levers in Working Capital
Active working capital management secures liquidity by effectively using available funds and offers great opportunities to leverage existing value. In a three-part blog series, we show how capital commitment and cash turnover...
Venture Mate Podcast with Lasse Hüttebreucker
Our founder and consultant Lasse Hüttebreuckerwas asked in the Venture Mate Podcast format of the Venture Capital Club Cologne Munich (VCC: CM) of the HHL...
What to include in a Term Sheet
Once the approach has been successfully completed, negotiations must begin and key rights and obligations must be contractually fixed in a term sheet. Before comprehensive due diligence, however, there is an asymmetry of information to the disadvantage of investors....
How to actively plan the exit scenario as a founder in order to take advantage of tax privileges
Already at the time of founding a company, it is possible to design the corporate structure in such a way that tax privileges for proceeds from the sale of shares or profit distributions can be used in the future. In this way, the founder...
What venture capitalists look for in a start-up
Before founders get in touch with Venture Capital funds (VCs), they have to understand what they depend their investment decisions on and how they can find and convince the right investors. As an institutional investor, a VC is interested in a...
Interview with the founders of Trustventure - CFO-As-A-Service
"A trustful and successful cooperation between founders and investors is the basis for the growth of a venture capital financed company. To this end, it is of utmost importance to identify and actively reduce information asymmetries...
