Funding Friday 🤑 – How to convince investors when you’re pre-revenue?
'Traction' is the magic word for many VCs. No traction - no funding. But maybe you need funding to build traction? If you are in this catch 22 situation, trust [...]
Funding Friday 🤑 – Who should ‘pay’ for the employee option pool?
In many cases, an investor makes it a condition of their investment that an employee participation plan, also known as ESOP or option pool, be established or an existing plan [...]
GEC Capital: how we deal with risk
Investing in startups is obviously risky. With Golden Egg Check Capital we aim to mitigate these risks in a number of ways with our investment strategy. In this way we [...]
Funding Friday 🤑 – Founder question: is a participating liqpref acceptable?
Liquidation preferences (aka liqprefs) entitle the investor to recuperate the amount of their original investment before any of the sale proceeds are distribute to other shareholders. This is meant for [...]
Groei terug in investeringen in Nederlandse startups
Golden Egg Check heeft samen met Dealroom en de partners van het Quarterly Startup Report consortium becijfert hoeveel er in het eerste kwartaal in Nederlandse startup en scale-ups is geïnvesteerd. Wij [...]
Two portfolio companies are ‘B2B SaaS companies to watch in 2024’
Which companies are set to add to the B2B SaaS sector's clout in the coming years? Investors from Peak, Frontline Ventures, CapitalT and Visionaries Club share the non-portfolio startups on [...]
Funding Friday 🤑 – Founder question: should I raise a convertible loan or a priced round?
Recently I spoke to two founders that are in the process of raising an investment. They were in doubt if they should prefer a CLA or equity round. Since I [...]
GEC Capital co-invests in RUNNR.ai for the future of AI in hospitality!
We're proud to announce that Runnr.ai has successfully secured €1 million in funding led by Arched Capital and joined by angel investors Roland Zeller (ex-GetYourGuide), Marnix van der Ploeg (ex-Booking.com) [...]
€620 miljoen geïnvesteerd in Nederlandse startups in Q4 2023
Golden Egg Check heeft samen met Dealroom en de partners van het Quarterly Startup Report consortium becijfert hoeveel er in 2023 in Nederlandse startup en scale-ups is geïnvesteerd. De belangrijkste [...]
GEC Capital haalt nieuw kapitaal op en vervijfvoudigt in omvang
Amersfoort, 17 januari 2024 Golden Egg Check heeft bekendgemaakt dat hun venture capital fonds 2,5 miljoen euro heeft opgehaald bij investeerders. Met dit fonds, GEC Capital I, wil Golden Egg [...]
