In this guest blog, Carine Schneider, President of Astrella, providers of leading cap table management software, gives a on understanding your cap table, and some of the key risks to avoid when it comes to share ownership.
Out investment series continues with an exploration of litigation funding, with a guest post from Sophie Liu at Axia Funding: AxiaFunder is an online litigation funding platform that connects investors with pre-vetted commercial litigation opportunities that we believe have the potential to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns.
We are specifically targeting cases on the lower end of the legal market which, in our view, has been underserved by existing funders. A few years ago when myself Katie and my sister Amanda learned about the sheer amount of waste produced by the fashion industry, we knew we had to do something about it. Raised remotely during the pandemic, we began bringing Pantee to life in late and after a year of research and product development we launched pre-orders on the crowdfunding platform, Kickstarter, in November One of the key steps for angels to assess investment opportunities is looking at metrics and benchmarking against other similar companies.
To be clear, every sector, and indeed every startup, will have different relevant metrics, but these should be of use as a starting point:. Antonis Argyros is the CEO of Vesquad, in this guest post he shares advice about getting Due Diligence right β from setting up processes and using relevant tools, to getting to know the founders. Vesquad support investors by enabling them to provide hands-on support to their portfolio companies through an integrated approach.
We expect to see the trend continue into , with both established investors and new investors joining the platform. Look after yourself to look after your startup read more. When we reflected on the year at the end of , a few things sprung out: the sheer chaos inflicted by the Coronavirus, or COVID, as we now call it.
