How VCs Think About European Startups with Sramana Mitra

Case Studies of Investors (Venture Capitalists and Angels) in Europe on Venture Capital Fundraising

Created by: Sramana Mitra
Founder and CEO of One Million by One Million / 1Mby1M

What Will I Learn?

• Through in-depth interviews with prominent investors, learn what investors think about European startups.
• What is investor-entrepreneur fit and how to look for it before you start looking for funding.
• Why 99% of entrepreneurs who seek funding get rejected by VCs.
• Why traditional VCs only invest in hyper growth startups.
• What the key considerations are for investors when they evaluate startups.
• How entrepreneurs can position themselves for success while building a startup.
• What the common mistakes are that entrepreneurs make when pitching their startups to VCs.
• The fastest way to find the relevant sources of funding when building a startup in Europe.

Requirements

• The only requirement for this course is an open mind and a willingness to learn.

Target audience

• Ambitious entrepreneurs who want to pursue ideas for which they have both passion and expertise.
• Engineers who want to turn their tech knowledge into multi-million dollar revenue businesses by becoming startup founders rather than remain employees.
• Aspiring European founders who want to increase their chances of getting accepted into top startup accelerators such as Y Combinator, Techstars, and 500 Startups.
• Any entrepreneur who wants to learn from successful entrepreneurs who have done it before and from investors who have supported them.
• Professors who are teaching technology entrepreneurship courses in Europe.