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With our fund with promise two things:
\n1) access to capital
\n2) a founder community<\/p>\n

Last Friday it was time for our GEC Capital event, to bring together our community of (portfolio) founders and investors, and we had a blast!<\/p>\n

An intimate crowd of 120 (portfolio) founders, (international) VCs and angel investors met at the amazing Leeuwenbergh in Utrecht. The topic of this event was \u2018the art and pain of scaling. And that brought about a lot of great talks!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Keynote speaker Fouad Hamaidouch, founder of Restocks, shared with us very openly his amazing journey from first buying sneakers on Marktplaats, to scaling to hundreds of millions of platform revenue to bankruptcy, eventually. How did he manage to scale so rapidly? \u201cWhether you’re a team of 4 or 50, connection is the invisible thread that holds your company together during hypergrowth. Like a vine running through your entire business, it connects every dot.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

During fireside chats with \u2018lumberjack\u2019 Arj\u00e9 Cahn, Tamara Ciullo (Cariqa) and Jasper de Vries (Coolgradient) talked about scaling with impact. Most interesting question: When scaling, what broke first?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

And there was the investor panel with Thijs Dijkman (Peak), Sophie Heijenberg (No Such Ventures) and Jeroen Arts (Speedinvest) moderated by Ytsen van der Meer (Cottonwood Technology Fund). They discussed the challenging market conditions for fundraising, and how to deal with them as a founder.<\/p>\n

Thanks to everyone that attended and for being part of our community, hope you liked it \ud83d\ude42 See you next year?<\/p>\n

A big thanks to:
\n\ud83c\udfbb ConcertLab\u00a0for hosting us
\n\ud83d\udecb\ufe0f Reliving for the cool stage looks
\n\ud83d\udcf8 Smiler for the great pictures (download here<\/a>)
\n\ud83d\ude97 Slinger for the carpool app for attendees<\/p>\n

Thanks to our sponsors Google Cloud, Bluebird Recruitment, Marble Finance\u00a0and Osborne Clarke.<\/p>\n

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