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Fundraise with up4d
Years of experience in matching investors to ventures, diligent work, and knowing what investors desire, will help you to succeed.
Money never sleeps
Let’s rock fundraising!
56+
Ventures
24+
Countries
30'000+
Addressable Investors
WHY UP4D-INVESTOR SEARCH?
WE ARE
10 years of experience and exchanges with investors.
Advantages
Benefit from a global and well-
developed venture community.
sustainibility
Ensure and improve your venture team maturity.
We’re not
Local or industry-focused investor brokers
Investor Search as a Service
Take a seat on your exciting journey to find a perfect investor or venture.
How does the investor search work?
Your venture team and up4d are a dream team to fundraise your venture further
Pre – and Due Diligence
Many deals will fail on this phase, why?
Insufficient due diligence preparations. This is avoidable!
Development of the Investor backlog
Daily we will approach 15 hand selected investors through LinkedIn.
Onboarding and Kick-off
Onboarding on the up4d
collaboration environment
and goal definition.
Onboarding of investors
Hurray you made it!
Onboard-now your new investor accurately to your venture.
Schedule meetings with investors
Through the daily, investor approaches we develop and schedule first and follow-up exchanges with potential investors for you.
Pitch-Set
A situation-appropriate investor documentation is essential. The venture’s documentation, is an
expression of your maturity level
The Importance of Terminology
Start-up?
Start-ups are defined as ventures that are in the product development phase until they enter the market.
They can be pre- or post-revenue.
Scale-up?
Ventures that have successfully entered the market (revenues are greater than expenses) are referred to as scaleups.
Break-even and positive EBITDA are now being targeted.
Young Established?
“Young Established Companies” are companies that regularly generate annual profit (EBITDA).
Scaling the company and expanding are now the next agenda items.
Due Diligence Ready?
“Due Diligence Ready” is a state in which a venture has already obtained and prepared all necessary information to pass an investor due diligence successfully.
Venture?
Startups, scaleups and young established companies are referred to as ventures.
These projects are mostly characterized by uncertainty and the risk of failure.
Elevator Pitch?
An elevator pitch should provide potential investors with the necessary insights and attract their attention.
It should not exceed a reading time of one minute.
WHERE, UP4D EMPOWERS INVESTORS AND VENTURES?
up4d offers acceleration services for investors and ventures, and these are the regions where we have our strongest network.
Let’s start now
Initially
- Let’s know each other’s
- Goal definition
- Handshake
Onboarding
- Onboarding call
- Kick-off call
- Launch the work
Work on progress
- Weekly meetings
- Monthly retrospectives
- Continuous improvements
Social Media Recommendations
Nhu Duong Tan
Senior Software Engineer at
NTUC Enterprise Cooperative Limited
Thommy and I worked together for more than three years in PHP software projects we using Scrum methodology with our customers. Thommy's solid knowledge and experiences in Scrum methodology, it was helpful for us to manage projects simple and in the right direction always we achieved the customer goals. The collaboration was always a pleasure because he is a person with professional skills of leader ship, management and team support he always was able to provide a motivating team spirit. For this reasons, I would love to work with him again. Thank you Thommy for the great time. I am looking forward to next mutual future.
Quoc Truong LE
Software Architect, Technical Team Leader, SCRUM Master, SCJP,
Honours BSc, MSc
I got the chance to start a collaboration with Thommy in 2014 when i joined BBV Vietnam. I would say for us was the respectfully collabortion allways a great pleasure and for the future, I will enjoy our wonderful friendship. Thommy is a very professional person in all business and (intercultural) collaboration aspects, my own learning profit is big, he guides me and my team always save through all project bottlenecks. I appreciated that he is sharing his knowledge on a simple and comprehensible way, personally I learned a lot from his experiences and achievements. I recommend Thommy's consultancy and assistance for sophisticated project matters to achieve speed and effectiveness. Now... explore by yourself, you will find an excellent guidance, especially for your early stage of projects or a startup. Last but not least ... whenever you will visit him on his Ho Chi Minh City office, sure you will undergo a great hospitality, potentially a city exploring with his Motorbike and enjoy Vietnamese food which he loves so much...
Sandro Sanapo
CEO der IIC Invest &
Insurance Company AG
I know Thommy now almost 3 decades, he is distinguished in particular that he follows the set goals unswervingly and achieved them. I do know, he do not makes half measures and of all what he tackles even enthusiastic. His late high level education in business economic and project management does support all of the required software development tasks very well. He is in full bloom in his activity and does makes an important and indispensable contribution to the development of our digital world.
Sophie Prange
Freelance Content Marketing and
Project Manager
Ich schätze Thommy sehr – zum einen für sein Wissen in Sachen Startup Strategieentwicklung, Investorensuche und Business Development, aber auch für seine Besonnenheit als Team Leader, die zielorientiere, agile Arbeitsmethodik sowie die Kommunikation auf Augenhöhe. In den mittlerweile 2 Jahren unserer Zusammenarbeit, wovon ich 5 Monate im Praktikum in Vietnam war und seitdem freiberuflich mit Thommy arbeite, durfte ich unfassbar viel von ihm lernen und dank dem entgegengebrachten Vertrauen früh zum Gelingen verschiedenster spannender Projekte beitragen.
Schari Akef
Schimmelexpertere | Horizontal- und Vertikalabdichtung
Druckwassersanierung | Die Zukunft nachhaltig sanieren!
Ich war schon zweimal für mein Startup im Think Tank bei up4distribution in Vietnam, die Zeit war jedesmal sehr hilfreich und hat uns in der Anfangsphase unterstützt um in unserem Startup - Vorhaben schnell Klarheit, Sicherheit und Durchblick in der
Strategiefindung zu gewinnen. Im weiteren beziehen wir seit einem Jahr vor allem für unsere Business Development Aufgaben remote Dienstleistungen von up4distribution, welche uns den gewünschten Speed in der Kundengewinnung und Geschäftsausbau bringt. Alles in allem, die Zusammenarbeit mit Thommy ist professionell, wertvoll und Budget gerecht für unser Startup. Sehr gerne empfehle ich die Zusammenarbeit mit Thommy und dem ganzen up4distribution Team an Startupmanager.
Stefan Sollberger
CEO Sollberger KMU Treuhand / Investor / Unternehmensberatung
Dual Klinik Konzept Burnout Radiologie
I recommend Thomas Kistler as an innovative entrepreneur. He's very focused and is working goal orientated in order to achieve his targets. His support to Sollberger KMU Treuhand is highly appreciated and the exchange of business ideas and visions is seen as big asset in our partnership.
Andre Nordlohne
Mehr Zeit durch digitales Dokumentenmanagement - ohne
tiefes IT-Wissen oder
Ihr Kerngeschäft zu vernachlässigen
At the moment I'm building up my company "Nordlohne Verbund". While I was in Vietnam to connect with business partners, I got in touch with up4distribution because it was suggested to me. Beeing there I've gained knowledge regarding to pitching, business development and strategy identification. For those reasons I've taken part at the think tank offering for more than one week. I've learned a lot in this short time period. Now I feel prepared to launch my company
Petra Baumann-Paulus
Inhaberin und Geschäftsführerin
House of Jobs AG
Ich arbeite seit Jahren in verschiedensten Projekten mit Thomas Kistler zusammen. Die Zusammenarbeit ist jederzeit bereichernd und äusserst professionell. Seine Dienstleistungen sind hervorragend, durchdacht und gewinnbringend. Herzlichen Dank Thommy! Petra Baumann, GL, House of Jobs AG
Andrew Lawrence
Founder and Strategy Manager XR communication solutions across all businessa reas
Although we did not work together, I am very thankful for Thommies tips and tricks to finding an investor. It was of much use and has proven essential in my successful search for an investor. Thommy is a very open, generous individual who really has the customer a heart. I can only recommend that if you have a clear and good business plan, to talk with Thommy, and let him help you create your pitches.
Denisa Furnica
Head of Website, Portals &
E-Commerce at ti&m
Thomas and I worked together for two years, time in which we setup and built a solid and successful collaboration. He gave me full support in navigating the administrative aspects and made sure all questions were answered. Thomas has provided invaluable help in building a knowledgeable team and efficient processes. He is very attentive to the business needs and he accommodates all the requests in a flexible and reliable way. I recommend Thomas for his effectiveness and his win-win approach, which ensure the success of any cooperation and I would be happy to work again with him in the future.
Mukesh Kumar
Business Developer | Product Management | Project & Program Management | Innovation Management | Business Development & Strategies | Business Consulting | Fund Raising
Thommy has perfect & rich knowledge base for the people who want to excel in their startup business, the explanation and the points need to take care from idea generation to market launch were amazing and I learned a lot from him in such a short span of time. Thanks a lot for your guidance and valuable time. I wish you very best of luck and please keep spreading the valuable knowledge which you are holding!
Duy Nguyen
Technical Architect
I have been working with Thommy for almost three years at bbv Software Services AG in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, he was my Deputy Managing Director. I always appreciate his knowledge and advice on the Agile project management, Thommy has helped us very well on both customer and internal negotiations with his excellent leadership management experiences through all project phases. I recommend Thommy for sophisticated software development projects, he will lead your project and team in a spirit of responsibility, success and friendship. Thanks Thommy, for the wonderful and friendly collaboration.
Cuong (Tony) Nguyen
Digital Marketing Coordinator | Data Analyst
Thommy is one of the most valuable people I have ever worked with. His hands-on strategy to social business development, agile project management, business development, design thinking and powerful personality gained him the respect of the staff. His performance at up4distribution GmbH was golden. Working at up4distribution GmbH is most challenging, and he battled the impediments. I would like to think about everything I learned about startups, business architecture, startup acceleration I learned from him. He learns quickly and I would have no doubt in working with Thommy once again in the future.
