Timestamps

00:00 Intros

02:35 How Hyperjob leveraged personal networks for fundraising

03:55 How WasteHero built the investor target list

07:25 The first investor meeting

10:20 Derisking the investment

14:00 How to make the No's hurt less

17:50 Nurturing long-term investor relationships

22:10 Investor targeting by geography

23:30 What makes an investor say Yes

28:05 Fundraising at different stages, what's different and what's the same

About Janis Kreilis

- CEO & Co-founder at Hyperjob (Antler alum)

- Serial entrepreneur (YourMove, tella)

- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kreilis/

About Hussam Mansour

- CEO & Founder at WasteHero (InnoFounder Batch of September 2018)

- Serial entrepreneur (Nicetrends, Rose Essence)

- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hussam-ma...

About Suhas Ghante

- 2x 500 Startups alum, 3x COO, and 4x advisor to high-growth startups

- Early executive at Innovaccer ($3.2B valuation)

- Former advisor at Shef (YC W19 $74M Series B)

- 8 years in Silicon Valley

- Featured mentor at Swissnex, Spain Tech Center, Founder Institute

- Currently COO at ChatWith.io and Partner at SVethos

- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suhasghante/

About BADideas.fund:

BADideas.fund is an early stage angel syndicate, led by helpful founders & operators, that provides €50K-€200K funding for CEE startups. Since launching at TechChill '22, we have invested over €1M, and our global member pool keeps growing, spanning 150+ members from 16 countries and counting.

Our members are founders and operators, who’ve been building such companies as Vimeo ($450M funding), Printify ($54M), Pandadoc ($51M), Pipedrive ($90M), Bolt ($1.3B funding), Apollo ($151M), Bird ($783M funding), Shopify ($122M), Whimsical ($30M), Lokalise ($56M), Deel ($679M), Printful ($130M), Twilio ($614M), Veriff ($192.3M), Wise ($1.3B raised), Interactio ($30M raised), Vinted ($562.3M), NordVPN ($100M), Hubspot ($100.5M).