Funding rounds we have closed
In Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A/B. Full-process advisory: pitch story, investor list, warm intros, real-time call feedback, and hustle until close.
And what you can do to keep the lights on and pay your team's salaries.
The number one reason fundraises fail is the team. We can't change the team, but we can craft the story. A consistent, coherent narrative needs to be sold to VCs in 30 or 45 minute slots, and that's a craft to be mastered.
Setting the wrong ask and valuation can kill your round before it even starts. Existing VCs on your cap table will have diverging interests here, always looking to mark you up. We sanity-check the numbers so that you survive and thrive.
No one listens in to your intro calls as CEO. We do, so we can get into the feedback loop quickly and make adjustments for upcoming calls before you burn through the leads.
You need a clear competitive process with deadlines for VCs, out of which the best offers emerge. Letting reach-out drift without deadlines means you stay 'out in the market' too long, and VCs lose interest.
Most founders have 25 to 50 warm leads. VCs are constrained in how many intros they can make due to their portfolio. We make introductions across our network of 600+ investors, including personal calls on our behalf and direct email intros.
Series A and B companies need a proper data room with the right materials, in PDF and video format, explaining the hardest parts of your USP, patents, and tech stack. Technical DD requires a structured Q&A to handle incoming VC questionnaires.
These are our expertise areas, but we're open to any vertical with a strong founder and a real market.
Anything hardware based: industrial robotics, engineering, semiconductors, all the way to quantum computing. The world of atoms versus the world of bits.
LLMs are changing the world. We look at the full spectrum from Foundational Models, to Infrastructure and the Application Layer.
Fintech and crypto have been part of our background since 2013, when I personally invested in Bitcoin at 80 Euro/BTC as a student.
B2C, B2B, and exchanges. Food, talent, social, services. We love operators with subject matter expertise that bring a unique perspective to a new market. Agentic marketplaces are changing the game now.
70 to 80% gross margins, healthy MRR with an adequate burn rate, are always strong fundable candidates. Many of these businesses are bootstrapped and only need cash to grow faster.
The market for greentech has seen a wave of new Seed and Series A funds in the past 2 to 3 years. This is where Edgy currently has the strongest warm coverage, with around 200 VCs.
We look over your shoulder and tell you quickly whether we can help with your current fundraise, or whether the timing or fit isn't right.
We run a strategy session together and lay out the path to closing the round.
We share our investor list for the target audience and compare it with yours, so we can decide together whether to proceed to a collaboration.
We make sure you have a tight story for 30 or 45 minute slots, with enough time left for questions and clear next steps.
We tackle our warm candidates opportunistically, depending on where you already are with your own pipeline.
From here on we stay in contact daily through WhatsApp and calls, gathering feedback by listening in to your call recordings with VCs.
We adjust strategy where needed, provide VCs with everything they need on DD, and hustle together until the round is done.
This is a very common, narrow mindset world view held by certain VCs that is simply not true. Even the best founders -such as Richard Socher from Recursive SuperIntelligence- who ended up raising $650m in his Series A round at a $5Bn pre-money valuation -took on Edgy as advisor for the round. Ask yourself: Which rounds have those VCs or Angels ever done, who are giving you this advice?
Let's be honest: if you're not Mira Murati getting €2B thrown at you in Pre-Seed from a16z and Sequoia without a product, you need a serious VC network to close a round in under a month.
We bring both the process and the contacts that create urgency, aka FOMO on the VC side. That's the only way to get the best offers.
In the best case we get another 1 to 2 term sheets, which lets you negotiate up to 50% better valuation. In the worst case, we might bring your only term sheet — which means otherwise your round would have been dead.
Your VCs have a vested interest in marking you up for a better next-round valuation. When they reach out to colleagues, the receiving investor knows: this person is selling me their bag. So your board and existing investors will always be limited in how many intros they make on your behalf, in order to keep the balance with their colleagues.
An advisor doesn't have this problem. Our reach-out is genuine, based on long-standing connections. The other VCs know our only job is getting you funded or to an exit, that's the only way we make money. No hidden agenda, no favors to repay.
Congrats. But before celebrating:
1. Reach-out by analysts on LinkedIn doesn't mean much. High likelihood of market screening, low likelihood of real (partner-level) interest.
2. "We can follow" usually means there isn't enough conviction yet.
3. A lot of this interest is FOMO. Few funds will actually issue a term sheet at the end of the process.
4. Even if you get a TS yourself, we can usually get another 1 to 2, which lets you negotiate up to 50% better valuation.
5. In the worst case, we might bring your only term sheet.
Fundraising can be a lonely, excruciating, and risky process. It becomes your main job as CEO for weeks to months. If it fails, it's game over.
You need a co-pilot to spar with. I've got your back.
As a serial entrepreneur myself, I know the pain founders go through: the countless hours without knowing the outcome, the sacrifices in personal life and relationships, the constant pressure to build something great. If you have that fire, the chip on your shoulder, the desire to win — I'm happy to fight together with you, help you avoid the crucial mistakes, and crush the round.
For your VCs, a failure is part of their business model. They'll shrug it off and say 'next.' For you, this is your life's work. Not acceptable.
Tell us about your round. We'll tell you whether we can help.
