Tips for investors and startups published in Q4 in 2014

Time flies when you’re building a company you believe in. 2014 was an important year for Leapfunder. We were able to develop our MVP software up into a mature commercial product. We completed the Startupbootcamp Amsterdam programme and were able to work with the investor community there to develop meaningful social networking features. Meanwhile, we...

At Leapfunder we want to foster communities. Both for startups and investors, both online and offline. Therefore we organised the very first Leapfunder investor gathering last Thursday December 11 to give Leapfunder investors the opportunity to meet each other. The goal: To take the online activity offline. 25 investors showed up for the event. During...

Did you know that will miss about 70% of the market if you are not doing any outbound sales (cold calling/emailing)? Too often sales is underrated for startups. Most of the startups rely on inbound sales, but in the B2B market, after the first round of early adopters dries out it gets a lot harder to...

Awesome startups are currently raising funding via Leapfunder and we wanted to take this opportunity to present their disrupting, amazing solutions. Each one of them is solving a pain, moving fast and breaking things, working day and night in order to offer their significant improvement to the world. What they have are amazing ideas, incredible...

This Friday 28 November, Startup Weekend Eindhoven is taking place. Bert-Jan Woertman, Marketing and Business development director at High Tech Campus, is one of it’s initiators of this event. We asked him about the event, it’s beginnings in Eindhoven and about his expectations for this Startup Weekend. We also took the opportunity to talk about High...

Wat doet Leapfunder precies? ‘Wij zijn een firma die de techniek, dus de software en contracten levert aan start-ups zodat die deze kunnen gebruiken voor het binnenhalen van investeerders. Ondernemers komen bij ons met een plan en schrijven een zogenaamd Informatie Memorandum. Hierin staat een duidelijke omschrijving van het businessplan. Geïnteresseerde beleggers kunnen zich op...

It is estimated that improvements in healthcare have increased life expectancy by about 13 years since the 1900s¹, not to mention their impact on relief of pain and disability. With an ageing population in Western countries and higher spending power of countries like India or China, global health care spending is expected to grow significantly...

In this blog post we decided to bring content forward from the “How to Raise Money” lecture by Marc Andreessen (VC) and Ron Conway (Angel Investor). We changed the focus to “How to Invest in Startups”. The aim is to provide the angel investors in Leapfunder’s user base with tips from experienced experts. Here it goes: What makes you invest in...

Startupbootcamp HighTechXL program in Eindhoven took off this week! Meet the 11 stars of their winter batch and let us convince you why it’s not enough to only keep an eye on the Amsterdam startups. Find out why you should make sure to save February 6th in your calendar, visit Eindhoven and attend the Startupbootcamp HighTechXL Demo Day! We had a...

Mark Lenssen is founder of Zorgfunders, an initiative for crowdfunding & networkfunding of healthcare institutions in the Netherlands. Zorgfunders is currently consulting Inspektor QLF, a company developing dental diagnostic devices,to raise convertible notes through the Leapfunder platform. We take the opportunity to interview Mark about this deal and his motivations for starting Zorgfunders. Interview with...

Often founders spent more time raising funding than they do on building their business. If they succeed, they have lost valuable time during which they could have grown their company. If they fail to raise investment, the whole company fails. We started Leapfunder with a goal to change that, startups no longer need to waste...

To take you back to the core of the pitch and introduce you to a valuable exercise “Peer Pitching”, we interviewed André Knol, Co-founder and CEO of Innoleaps where he supervises complex innovation programs and loves to realise breakthroughs in the field of strategy and new business. Peer Pitching with André Knol An exercise where we ask...

Lars Boelen’s perspective Early 2014 I tumbled into my first crowdfund campaign almost by accident. An anonymous tweet lured me to a crowdfund platform, pointing to an IT-startup looking to fund the development of a beta product into a sellable product. They said they were going to multiply my investment 300 times. I don’t do...

Maar al snel is er geld nodig. Wat is dan makkelijker dan nieuwe aandelen uitgeven? De vennootschap geeft aandelen uit, er komt geld binnen en het bedrijf kan verder. Maar tegen welke prijs geef je aandelen uit? Welke rechten krijgen de nieuwe aandeelhouders? Een aandelen transactie moet via een notaris verlopen. Zo heel eenvoudig is...

No financial instrument is perfect. Many early-stage startups are very happy with the convertible note as a financing instrument. Not having the valuation discussion with your investors is a huge plus and speeds up the whole process. Especially when the convertible notes are issued in a speedy automated process such as Leapfunder allows you to...