001 The winning strategies for fundraising in 2023 | Tekpon SaaS Roundtable

Connect with our guests 👇 Chris Saum: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-saum-84938047 Jonny Price: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonnyprice Thomas Smale: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomassmale Cenk Tukel: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cenktukel Horst Wenske: https://www.linkedin.com/in/horstwenske Sebastian Gabor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastiangabor Alexandru Stan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stanalexandru Tekpon is a SaaS marketplace born out of the genuine desire to help people change how they consume and purchase software products and services. Tekpon has behind a team of enthusiastic tech lovers whose main goal is to help users boost their lives and businesses with the right software. Connect with Tekpon ⚡ Website: https://tekpon.com SaaS Entrepreneurs & Startups: https://www.facebook.com/groups/tekpon Listen to the podcast 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0sf7X3sC8Pg8gzpphTYxgi Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tekpon-saas-podcast/id1637493062 The topics we've discussed 🕐 00:00 Intro 00:15 Chris Saum - Founderpath 01:08 Jonny Price - Wefunder 01:47 Thomas Smale - FE International 02:31 Cenk Tukel - Tukel INC Accounting 03:25 Alexandru Stan - Tekpon 03:42 Horst Wenske - Sciencia 04:30 Sebastian Gabor - Digitail 04:55 Sebastian, why did you raise an $11M series A? 06:05 Alex, you are now raising - what is your strategy? 08:16 As a bootstrapped founder, how would you plan to fundraise, Horst? 10:25 What types of founders are choosing revenue-based financing, Chris? 12:28 What types of founders are choosing to crowdfund, Jonny? 14:45 Mercury Bank raised through Wefunder 15:47 Thomas, what are buyers looking at when acquiring a SaaS company? 17:57 From a CFO perspective, what should founders consider before raising Cenk? 22:50 Many of you are also investing as angels, what are you looking at? 28:20 How was Founderpath impacted by the market? 30:10 How to fundraise as a US company with different subsidies in other regions 33:40 How can you manage multiple investors when you're crowdfunding? 36:25 How Horst is picking his angel investments 40:15 A historical moment of the VC rejection paradigm 46:20 Valuations are moving from revenue multipliers to EBITDA multipliers 48:25 I work in early-stage startups, what is EBITDA? :) 50:10 Will there be a new player in the market? 52:25 Outro