Hi friend!
We've had a crazy past few weeks. Now I need your help (see fundraising). And if you're in London, come to our party.
- Tutti, particularly in how our tech supports cash-strapped schools, was highlighted by The Guardian this week, giving us a nice strong backlink which should boost our already strong domain authority (51 acc to AHRefs).
- We had our biggest on-site payment ever, thanks to someone at Monday,com to one of our software pilot testers. There was 0 customer support involvement because our tech just worked: quick enquiry, fast responses on both sides, SMS notifications, multiple payments across the booking. This one single booking paid for ALL our Google ad spend this month.
- While the platform is running itself (mostly), all my focus has been on fundraising!
Fundraising
This is the toughest environment anyone has seen for fundraising in ages (acc to everyone), so I need your help. We've got some early interest in the round, but there's over 200 angels or possible angels I still want to talk to.
- If you're connected to any of those people and are happy to make an intro, please add your name to the “who can intro” column (email Gabriel for the list)
- If you think there's anyone who should be on this list who isn't, please add them to the bottom of the sheet.
- IF you're happy to intro, I can send you a forwardable.
Thank you already to the people who have already made various intros for me: Ha, Maty, Mara, Rahel, Murray, Emma, David, Anthony, Dan, Kate, Umber, Steve, Gareth, Babita, Jessica, Calin, Simon, Tom, Justin, Christine, Alan
And thank you to those of you who have really helped me with the pitch: Mal, Haz, Dan, Dominic, Adam, Ruben
Early interest: Our main focus is angels & syndicates; we're not actively targeting funds but if there are any that are a perfect fit for us and genuinely invest at pre-seed we're not against chatting.
- £100k in soft angel commitments
- £250k+ from a fund IF another VC fund comes in
- £100k from an angel fund - working on getting them across the line.