Sanjay Shah is the founder and CEO of Vistex which is an enterprise software company, providing solutions to drive customer growth and partner relations. The company was bootstrapped to $250 million in revenue without outside investment. Recently the company raised $65 million from Accel-KKR.
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He is a serial entrepreneur and the best-selling author of The Art of Startup Fundraising as well as Selling Your Startup. Vanity Fair, Entrepreneur Magazine, and GQ Magazine included him in the top 30 under 30 lists and TechCrunch featured Alejandro as one of the expats shaping NYC’s tech. He has been invited to the White House and US House of Representatives to consult on the fundraising landscape for entrepreneurs. He is also the host of the popular DealMakers podcast and has contributed over 300 articles on fundraising and M&A for Forbes.
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Raising capital from investors is an art and finding a good pitch deck template to guide you in the journey of putting together your materials is essential. Peter Thiel co-founded Paypal with Elon Musk and Max Levchin in 1998. They sold this company to eBay in a deal worth over $1B. He then founded several other ventures such as Palantir which has been included in the unicorn club (companies with over $1B in valuation).
Cabify has already raised over $400M in funding. Backing by notable institutional investors includes investments by Rakuten Capital and Seaya Ventures. Uber competitor Cabify is now one of the leading startups in Spain, with over 1,000 employees worldwide. This growth is largely thanks to the following pitch deck.
How do the different stages of startup fundraising work for entrepreneurs and their businesses? The big numbers thrown around in the media might make you think that one big fundraising campaign or two is enough finance your business idea for life. It doesn’t work like that. Startup funding in done through a series of stages of ‘rounds’. Each round typically targets a different type of investor, for different amounts of capital. Investors will have differing expectations of entrepreneurs and their startups at each stage. While there are always exceptions, these round often come 12 to 18 months apart.