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Turning the fundraising model on its head: an interview with Focal

Focal

Focal

Focal est un hub de levées de fonds en early-stage pour les startups et les gestionnaires de fonds, accélérant le processus et conduisant à de meilleurs résultats.

Focal organise la plus grande journée de démonstration pour les startups en Europe. Chaque événement reçoit plus de 2 000 candidatures de startups et est suivi par des milliers de grands investisseurs en capital-risque et de business angels, ce qui génère un énorme FOMO et un intérêt de la part des investisseurs pour les cycles de financement des startups.

Après le succès de son modèle de démarrage, et après avoir constaté à quel point il est difficile pour les General Partners (GPs) de lever des fonds dans le contexte actuel, Focal a récemment lancé Deploy, qui permet aux GPs de présenter leur prochain fonds à un réseau de plus de 100 Limited Partners (LPs) potentiels.

  • HQ location

    Londres

  • Asset Under Management

    940K€

  • Principal stage

    Pré-seed, Seed, Série A

  • Known investments

    10

  • Known exits

    1

  • Date of establishment

    January 2020

  • Date of last investment

    1 May 2023

  • Effective

    4

Success stories
  • Target ticket

    30K-150K€

  • Duration of investment

    7 à 10 ans

Stage(s) searched
  • Pré-seed
  • Seed
  • Série A
Sector(s) searched
  • Adtech
  • Autres
  • Beautytech
  • Civictech / govtech
  • Cybersecurité
  • E-commerce
  • Energie
  • Foodtech / winetech
  • Greentech
  • Retail
  • Rh / management
  • Santé
  • Services
Geographic Location(s) searched
  • Monde entier
Support offered
  • Autres

Team

Taos Edmondson

Taos Edmondson

Cofondateur
Hector Mason

Hector Mason

Cofondateur
Jack Richardson

Jack Richardson

Principal
Issie James

Issie James

Operations Lead

Fundraising history

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Sector
Date raised
Total investment
Series
 

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Focal continues its journey to become the central data exchange for startups and VCs

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News par David Johnson

Collaboration over competition: Focal's leading startup Demo Day returns

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One pitch, thousands of investors: Focal, the leading startup demo day, is back News par David Johnson

One pitch, thousands of investors: Focal, the leading startup demo day, is back

Focal’s flagship Demo Day returns for its 9th edition. With Issie James taking the helm for what promises to be the biggest and best yet! The application window opens 8th April and closes at 9am BST on 24th April, ahead of Demo Day on 16th May. Focal welcomes applications from pre-seed to Series A startups based anywhere in the world and raising now or in the near future. It takes 5 minutes and you’ll get your pitch in front of 250 leading VC funds just by applying!

Turning the fundraising model on its head: an interview with Focal Portfolio par Jamie Walker

Turning the fundraising model on its head: an interview with Focal

Focal wants to change the way that founders and investors fundraise. Jamie Walker met Taos Edmondson and Hector Mason, cofounders of Focal, and Focal's Principal, Jack Richardson, to speak about their plans to make the fundraising process work better, ahead of their upcoming demo day.