Haje Jan Kamps
What happens when you feed a few thousand pitch decks to an AI, analyze them all, and figure out what the most common problems are for founders trying to raise early-stage funding? Well, I decided to find out.
A while back, I built a tool that would automatically analyze a...
Metafuels sets out to change the landscape of sustainable jet fuel, and has just picked up an $8 million suitcase from baggage carousel 3 at its local ZRH. Ahh, Zurich. The company is making the sky green — literally — with its new fuel, which it calls aerobrew. Sure,...
Using the right tool for the job can make life a lot easier, and fundraising is already hard enough without having to push that boulder uphill. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software isn’t just for managing customer relationships anymore. More and more startups are leveraging CRM systems to streamline their...
Thanksgiving is long behind us, so unless you’re already in due diligence with a VC, you may as well pack up your fundraising knapsack and chill out until the holidays are over.
But this is an opportunity, too. The quiet weeks ahead are the perfect time to polish your pitch...
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Borrowing has become more expensive, and profits are harder to come by, which means that 2023 has been a savage year in startup land. PitchBook data suggests that around 3,200 startups — representing a total...
The perils of premature complexity are huge administrative overhead and technical debt
I’m getting pretty frustrated with startups making things way more complex than they need to be. You wouldn’t believe how often I see pitch decks from companies that have more pricing tiers and business models than their customers...
AI is everywhere, and predictably, sales teams are among the early adopters. So I wasn’t surprised to see Scalestack raise $1 million to help make sales teams’ lives easier.
So, as we’ve done every week for the past 18 months or so (I can’t believe this is going to be...
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Hello, you scrumptious specimen of a human being. Have you looked yourself in the mirror and given yourself a high five today? No? Well, here’s your chance!
I’ve had a productive couple of weeks on the...
Everyone talks a good game, but fewer than 1% of founders mention ‘sustainability’ in their fundraising docs
When I talked to hundreds of founders at TechCrunch Disrupt this year, everybody seemed to be in a broad consensus that climate change is a bad thing. But still it seems like it...
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been working with some truly spectacular founders. One guy was a three-star general at one point. Another is in the U.S. because his research is so far ahead of the AI learning curve that the U.S. State Department issued him an O-1...
