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About Gian:
Over my career, I have been a part of $300m+ in venture capital fundraising from pre-seed to series B companies.
I was able to see best-in-class pitch decks and entrepreneurs presenting to me.
Some of these entrepreneurs have gone on to raise $100m+ in fundraising each.
Then, in 2020, I burnt out and decided to leave my VC job.
However, during my time as a VC I realised something...
Investors back founders not companies. People invest into people.
Yet, founders don't know how to show they are investable.
And in the pursuit of checklist ticking "what investors look for", they fail at the most important one:
How to make investor's want to fund YOU as a founder.
That's why I started my boutique advisory firm: to help founders inspire investors by making themselves investable.
My background:
Co-founder of Pebble Labs and Trait Biosciences (raised $16m)
Investor at Octopus Ventures where I oversaw over $200m+ in funding:
Led investments into:
→ AllPlants, 2018: £7.5m Series A ($58m raised total)
→ Skin+Me, 2019: £8m Seed
→ Quit Genius, 2020: $12m Series A ($80m raised total)
Follow-on investments into:
→ Patch Plants, 2019: £2.7m bridge round
→ Elvie, 2019: $42m raise with IPGL ($55m raised total)
→ Depop, 2019: $62m raise with General Atlantic (Exited to Etsy for $1.6bn)
→ Big Health, 2020: $32m raise with Gilde Health ($55m raised total)
And I now run a 1:1 coaching service to maximize your fundraising.
And the founders I work with have gone on to raise c.$100m in the last year.