Jack Bidgood

Thirdfort

Although we had raised funds before, the Fundraising Bootcamp came at exactly the right time for us. Having not raised Institutional Money we had no idea about how to best prepare for the process and in raising from VCs you only get one shot. So we wanted to make sure we pitched the absolute best possible version of TF and this took a monumental amount of work but invaluable guidance from Francois and the team. He’s helped us avoid the common pitfalls and his framework is delivered in a no BS, practical manner. I didn’t think i had the time to attend at first with everything on but each session got better and better and the outcome – $20m and 10x valuation on our prior raise was significantly improved by the guidance and advice of Francois. I’d highly recommend the bootcamp! 

Tamara Markotic

Apaleo

The Fundraising Bootcamp has been really amazing. It helped us simplify and crystallise our value proposition. It was super intense, but it’s an absolute must for anyone looking to raise a VC round.

Malthe Muff

Inniti

It was great to spend a week with the team at Fundraising Bootcamp. It was just what we needed to kickstart our fundraising process. After the course, we had our story in place and were ready to get started. We raised an oversubscribed seed round at a higher valuation than anticipated. Really great outcome from the Bootcamp I would recommend it to all founders!

Marco Aboav

Etna Research

Francois and Marcela put together a very pragmatic program if you are serious about fundraising. Highly recommended.

Brandon Keenen

Antstream Arcade

I wasn’t sure what I was getting into. I have been to many seminars and training sessions before and this was the most expensive one to date. It’s always tough to justify costs when trying to raise funds, but in this case it’s tough to justify not doing this course! I have been involved in fundraising before so I thought I knew things.

This course has leveled me up in a way that I don’t think would have ever happened. It was a truly invaluable experience. The feedback, the honesty, the relentless pursuit of perfection are things I will keep in my tool kit forever. This course will pay me dividends for the rest of my working life.

This course will deliver an incredible ROI. I cant believe how cheap the course actually is.

Dan Marcus

Ramp Software

Knowledge is power. Francois and Marcela are a never ending source of knowledge in the startup and VC world. This knowledge doesn’t just cover their own domain, they quickly understood our business, and were able to adapt their thinking to offer incredible value. was an eye opener and we learn a lot of things.

Josefien Groot

qlayers

Francois helped me in an amazing way by getting my message across clearly and creating a Wow factor on every slide of my deck. I am truly more ready for fundraising than I was before this program. It was time-consuming, but definitely worth it!

Jun Kamei

Amphibio

The bootcamp has been the most informative and helpful programme that I have ever been. Understanding the inner working of the VCs makes so much difference and the tailored approach was very appropriate for us!

Ben Thompson

Voice Simplified

By the end of the course you’re given the tools to understand investors and build a relationship with investors.

Ionut Anisia

Flow OS

From my perspective, this bootcamp was like a father that helps his child take off the training wheels from his bike. Before this programme, we had some sort of idea of how fundraising and VCs work (but we still had our training wheels on). Now, after completing it, we have the tools and means necessary to tackle and situation that might appear (training wheels off). Thank you for the help!

Aman Jindal

DeNoize

This is a no-BS Fundraising Bootcamp. During this one week program, not only did I broaden my understanding on VC’s mindset when it comes to startup investments, but more importantly, learned how to plan and execute a fundraising activity in a controlled and disciplined manner.  I can definitely recommend this bootcamp to other founders, even if you have raised multiple rounds before, you will still learn something new here!

Mohammed Alhamed

Awardee

Taking Fundraising Bootcamp is like hiring a private tour expert to take you through London versus searching for places using maps. They got the untold facts and specific details I bet you won’t find anywhere else.

Ian Henry

Bindy Street

I thought this might be useful, but it turned out to be essential.

Rebecca Bonnington

Tricres

I’m so pleased we hadn’t yet started raising investment before doing this programme.

Filip Špiranec

Hypefy

Bootcamp is only for the best startups that are funding their growth trough VC funding. If you want to save time, be well prepared and professional in your next funding round and stand out from the crowd, you should apply!

Pahini Pandya

Panakeia Technologies

Great refresher for fundraising!

Allan Hutcheon

Neatebox

Fundraising Bootcamp has been a fantastic resource and basis for our fundraising, going beyond the initial pitch and deep diving into the key details and information you need for success.

Sjoerd van Oort

Givt

Fundraising Bootcamp helped me realise I should avoid VC investment until I’m absolutely ready for it and have a very strong case for them to invest in. It helped me to understand how to play the game to get the best deal by the time I’m ready for it. 

Alan Timothy

Bubo.AI

Unlike anything else and much better, this was the real deal. I now feel that I understand what I need to do to get my next deal, I am in control.

Eser Torun

Everledger

I found the honest and open advice from Francois very helpful, it makes a huge difference to hear about his personal experience. Great content and great delivery!

Wim Kees Janssen

Syntho

Boosting your fundraising from raising to closing. 

Gavin Neate

Neatebox

I’ve realised that’s getting the right information is great but it is even better when it is delivered in an engaging and entertaining way.

They know how to get you involved.

Sasa Pusnik

Finmesh

We are thankful and happy to attend the Bootcamp. I think we learned a lot and gained skills about how the VC world works and what is the investor approach to the investments and their founders. How founders should be prepared, and how to react in some situations that usually happen to founders to protect their interests. Now we need to put this knowledge and experience successfully into practice. 

Gary Swale

Inspirze

Simplify, simplify, simplify – moved from “corporate bullshit” to “aha, I get it” and met some great cohorts along the way. Francois and Marcela are fantastic – listened, advised, gave brutal assessments and helped me improve.

They know how to get you involved.

James Jackson

BUMPER

Incredibly useful sessions, really helped us streamline our investor deck and got us match-fit before we started pitching to VC’s.

Slobodan Jović

Selekcija

Fundraising Bootcamp is one of the most intensive workshops I have attended. But it was worth it. A combination of a lot of knowledge and experience of educators and first-hand information about the way investors think. Quite by accident, on the last day of the bootcamp, talking about the bootcamp to one of our big clients, they said that they are interested to invest in our company, and if that happens, I am sure we will be prepared for presentation and that just because of attending Bootcamp we will get between € 200,000 – € 500,000 more for the same share in the company…

Berislav Marszalek

Entrio

Fundraising bootcamp was one of the best and most hands-on educations I’ve ever been to. VC knowledge, presentation energy and business experience that Francois and Marcela deliver, are hard to match. If you plan to raise money for your startup, you don’t want to miss this one.

Anders Fridlund

Farmers First

Fundraising Bootcamp – a knowledge I should have had in the beginning of the journey.

Claire Rampen

Reath

Participating in the Tech Nation APAC Fundraising Bootcamp was a helpful exercise to focus our mind on our fundraising narrative, and supercharge our efforts to prepare for our fundraising journey. Meeting other entrepreneurs and hearing about their business models and pitch tactics was invaluable, and gave me so much more to think about, beyond fundraising!

Adam Hartmann

Eupry APS

Raising capital for great ideas is yet another problem that we, Startupers, convince ourselves we’ll figure along the way as all the other challenges we meet. I finally realized that this is a craft that has to be trained well. Thanks to Fundraising Bootcamp, Francois, and Marcela.

Henriette Kistrup

Cirqle

The Fundraising Bootcamp has helped us crystalise what services we are building and how we pitch more efficiently to investors. Also, the peer to peer element in the programme has been valuable and we will continue to use the network.

Patrik Persson

Pinteg

Very instrumental, touch and fun bootcamp that I will recommend to other Start Ups!

Christian Herschend Jacobsen

Eupry APS

To keep it short: An Awesome Program!

Danae Shell

Valla

Fundraising Bootcamp was incredible. I flew from Scotland to Croatia to do the course and it was absolutely worth it. The level of detail and insight totally exceeded my expectations, I would recommend this course to anyone looking to raise! My top tip: do the course before you think you need it, it will totally change the way you plan your next round!

Thuria Wenbar

e-Surgery

This was genuinely the best and most comprehensive fundraising program I have been on. So many people online run these programs but actually don’t have a clue what they’re talking about. This is hard facts, no bullshit, incredibly engaging, and shines a spotlight on all those areas in the knowledge matrix where you don’t know what you didn’t know.

Martin Kandus

Bite Me Nutrition

In the wild wild west of early stage startups loaded with false appearances, the bootcamp is a shot of authenticity you cannot afford to miss. No other words but paradigm-shifting. Forget the pitch deck, we completely reconstructed our outlook on the opportunity and the playing field we are in. True to form, the bootcamp uses a factual, direct, and almost raw, approach, which works wonders to progress over a period of (only) a few days. Make no mistake, it will break you down. It will break patterns of thinking. It will challenge your spirit, but it will patch you up again into a new and upgraded version, necessary to reach new heights. They say travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer. Well, add Fundraising Bootcamp to that list. 

Nils Lekeberg

Enjay Systems

Hey, start-up founder/executive, if you have to choose ONE workshop on how to improve your chances to take your idea all the way to become a successful company – choose THIS one.

Jack Gove

Sex Brand

It’s difficult to articulate how impressed I’ve been with the Bootcamp. The contents, the delivery & support and the outcomes have far exceeded my expectations. Joining the cohort is comfortably the best decision I’ve made for the business this year –  value offered by the programme far outweighs the cost of it. 

Martin Balaam

Pimberly

I’ve raised funding many times before both on public markets and private, over £100m, and I thought – “how much different would it be raising from VC’s?”. This bootcamp was invaluable: practical, personalised to you and yes, it is different!

Stefan Svedberg

Beammwave

We’re building the next generation of mobile antenna – it’s an extremely complex and advanced technical solution, hard to explain succinctly. The Bootcamp helped me crystallize the value and simplify the message so that it had a strong hook. I can say it worked: we received an incredible 100% hit rate from our 3-minute intros, giving me the meetings I needed. Result: I joined the Fundraising Bootcamp with a plan to raise €1.96mi. We ended up with €3.3mi. Can’t recommend this enough!

Magnus Meyer Harrison

Twisted Leaf

This week has been a cathartic experience; to work at such a high level, feel the hosts and cohorts passion, curiosity and dedication has been a game changer at just the right time

Gunnlaugur Erlendsson

ENSO

Hands down, the best course you can take in preparing your company for a proper funding round.

Radu Negulescu

Flow OS

Before doing the Fundraising Bootcamp, we “invested” months in learning from open sources & preparing our roadshow, but we failed big time. Although we had amazing reactions about the product and our start-up in general, we lacked one crucial element to close a good deal: VC knowledge – how their minds work, what they are exactly after, the most common traps a start-up could enter, and how to assess them.

For us at FlowOS, this was the most important takeaway from the program, but the entire curricula is extremely practical. The group feedback sessions on our pitch deck: also GOLD.

I totally recommend Fundraising Bootcamp. For first-time fundraisers, it is a must. A crucial time-saver. My only regret is that I didn’t know about it before my first raising roadshow.

Andrew Martyn

Your.Rentals

The Fundraising Bootcamp hit the mark – providing actionable learnings about different funding sources, which investors are right for our company and how to manage the process to succeed in closing funding – from honing the pitch to how to score meetings with investors.

Lyla Maria Kok

Nanny Nina

The Bootcamp is intense, but I would say essential to do as a Founder considering to go fundraising. The training is super practical, and highly efficient. You learn the basics and handy tips and tricks on how to become successful in raising funds. Would highly recommend it. 

Sjtepan Zelić

Hypefy

The inside knowledge and experience we got here can’t be emulated or gained on some get-rich-quick type of online ‘courses‘ , – it takes people with deep insight and rich experience (also experience in failing and making mistakes) to understand that world, and that’s who Marcela and Francois are.

Sebastien Charles

PosterLab

Want to increase your chance to raise money? Follow the Bootcamp.

Cris Anton

MeetinVR

It was a really fantastic experience to be part of the Bootcamp. I admit I’m extremely exhausted; when Francois said it would be intense, he really meant it. You know, there’s a lot of things you can learn from books but the knowledge Francois has gathered through years of experience and shared with us is where the value really is.

Marija Dimitrijević

DWELT

If you want to fundraise, I advise you, do not do it before you hear what Francois and Marcela have to say and teach. You truly don’t know how much you actually don’t know!

Vanja Samuelsson

Qoitech

I thought this was going to be all about pitch training. I was really pleasantly surprised and it’s all about investor readiness, which is exactly what everybody needs.

Brian Allen

Vaarst

The processes and tools that we learned how to use via Francois and his team, were instrumental in helping us raise our £15m Series B.  This course is highly recommended. 

Filip Filipov

ATKAIROS

The program is an intense warm up for what is about to hit any founder considering fundraising in the future. It is also a good test to see if your story matches your product and whether you can deliver it succinctly, with clarity and passion. I think this should be a ‘required course’ for anyone going into startup land. Two thumbs up.

Stepan Dobrovolskiy

Mashroom

The Fundraising Bootcamp was an eye opener and we learned a lot. Forget what you think you know and just be open to accept new information.

Lars-Thorsten Sudmann

Bloola

The highlights video is really good but it catches less than 50% of the true value of the work we did together and my real impressions of the programme. I wish I had known of this programme before – this could have saved me a year of work!

Schehrezade Davidson

Tricerion

If you think you know about fundraising, you don’t. Stop and take this course. Francois and Marcela will lead you through the highs and lows that all entrepreneurs face and the information and tools that they provide are invaluable. Fundraising involves grit and determination. This course is the Bootcamp you have been looking for – saddle up!

Hao Zheng

RoboK

The sessions were extremely practical and I see big improvement in my pitch in a very short period of time!

David Holden-White

techspert.io

Fantastic experience. The programme is a really impactful way to skill up and improve your pitch going into fundraising.

William Shucksmith

BUMPER

Super engaging, informative and a must for those raising finance in the VC world. Great work Francois and Marcela

Howard Thompson

Everledger

Great course with excellent insights into the VC World, expertly presented and facilitated.

Nigel Bridges

Beacon

An excellent event, looking into the minds of the VC world and being better prepared for it. Thank you.

Barry Leaper

Libereat

The program exceeded my expectation. I am much better equipped to deal with investors than I was a few weeks ago

Kaare Beck-Fischer

Maguru

I had raised €4m before the programme but I still got tons of actionable advice and insights into the world of VC’s that it would have taken me years to assemble on my own.

Anders Schening

Life Finder

The Bootcamp will give you a whole new understanding of how VC think and act. And you will get unique insights and tools for your fundraising process.

Tine Arentsen Willumsen

Above and Beyond

Getting insights about the global fundraising landscape as well as the mindset of VCs are extremely valuable – and so is meeting other fellow Founders with high ambitions!

Adam Shaw

Scribestar

The Fundraising Bootcamp kicked away the trees and made me realise my wood was a forest. Helped me to see the parts of my pitch that mattered most and how to get those across in the way that VCs want it.

Pavel Baskakov

Big Night

Fundraising Bootcamp has already helped turbo charge our fundraising efforts and will no doubt continue to inspire us as we begin our process.