Essential Fundraising Pitch Must-Haves for Angel Investors

Name: Essential Fundraising Pitch Must-Haves for Angel Investors
Uploaded: 2023-07-01 03:31:12
Description: When pitching to angel investors, it is important to address the problem you are solving, explain your solution and its advantages, highlight your exceptional team, demonstrate financial projections and customer traction, and provide details about the investment and exit strategy.

This article is a summary of a YouTube video "Angel Investors 🔥 Fundraising Pitch Must Haves" by Feel the Boot

TLDR When pitching to angel investors, it is important to address the problem you are solving, explain your solution and its advantages, highlight your exceptional team, demonstrate financial projections and customer traction, and provide details about the investment and exit strategy.

Key insights

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"These nine things comprise the core information. Angels want to know about your business before they commit to due diligence or even a follow-on meeting."
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Angel investors are interested in startups that are solving a problem that is causing significant disruption in an industry, rather than just a nice-to-have solution.
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"We need to know why is your solution better and in fact enough better that they're going to switch to go use it."
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Defensibility is crucial for long-term success, and having barriers to entry such as network effects, unique advantages, and enforceable intellectual property can help prevent competitors from copying your product.
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Having insider knowledge of the industry's problems and purchasing solutions increases the likelihood of success in that space.
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Show angel investors that you have a well-thought-out go-to-market plan with real insight into how you will succeed over competitors.
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Investors prioritize understanding the details of the investment, including the amount being raised, type of investment, valuation, and use of funds.
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Knowing the likely acquirers and the multiples they are seeing can greatly increase your chances of successful fundraising.

Timestamped Summary

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Angel investors want to see nine specific things in a pitch deck before committing to due diligence or a follow-on meeting, as blowing the pitch can result in no further steps.
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Investors want to know the problem you're solving for customers, the pain it causes, and if there are thought leaders in the space, followed by a concise explanation of your solution that relates back to the problem, without getting bogged down in unnecessary details, so they can envision customers using your product.
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Know your competition and explain why your solution is better, as simply listing features may not be enough to convince investors.
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Frame your product in terms of how it benefits the end user, explain its defensibility against competitors, and ensure your intellectual property is strong and enforceable.
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Highlight your exceptional team, their prior experience, track record of success, and strengths, as well as your passion, integrity, and clear plan for the business when pitching to angel investors, while also explaining your plan for making money, building a user base, demonstrating insight into your go-to-market strategy, addressing potential flaws in your business model, and focusing on the opportunity for your solution rather than the entire market.
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Include financial projections, avoid dilution, have a grand strategy, and show progress; also demonstrate customer traction to prove market traction.
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Investors want to know the details of your investment, including how much money you're raising, the type of investment, valuation, and how the funds will be used, as well as any previous rounds and notable investors involved.
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Knowing the exit strategy and active acquirers can increase funding chances, so share this video to build a supportive community.