Funding Friday 🤑 – how do co-investor dynamics work?
Sometimes you need more than one investor. Maybe your round size is too much for an investor's appetite, or maybe you want to have different investors on board for complementary [...]
Funding Friday 🤑 – What to ask an investor during a first call?
My favourite question to ask founders during a first introductory call is: what were the pivotal moments in your startup journey so far, and how did you deal with them? [...]
GEC Capital raises €5M to become the most active VC fund in the Netherlands
Golden Egg Check has announced that their venture capital fund has raised 5 million euros from investors. With this fund, GEC Capital I, Golden Egg Check aims to make a [...]
Investment growth in Dutch startups not yet sustained
What’s happening?! The growth of investments in Dutch startups is not continuing. After a strong first quarter, investments in Dutch startups have declined compared to Q1. 'Only' €440M was invested [...]
VC Internship at Golden Egg Check
We are hiring! At Golden Egg Check, we support entrepreneurs from the early stages. We help them to become investor-ready, secure venture capital funding, and we co-invest in them with [...]
ClimateTech startup Cawa raises €500k for transparent carbon credit infrastructure
Amsterdam, June 2024 - Cawa, an API infrastructure enabling carbon accounting and ESG platforms to sell transparent, high-quality carbon credits, has raised 500K in a new funding round. The round [...]
Funding Friday 🤑 – How to fundraise during summer time?
We're one week away from the longest day of the year, which also means that soon you will received a lot of out-of-office replies when you approach VCs. Summer just [...]
GEC Capital invests in Haaven, together with Speedinvest, to reinvent the way we build homes
Haaven, a startup streamlining the complex homebuilding industry, has secured €1.1 million in a pre-seed round led by Speedinvest, paving the way for expansion in Italy and The Netherlands. The [...]
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 [...]
