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We'll let you know in our first complimentary call if we are a good fit to partner with you and your startup. If not, we may be able to recommend you to those who are more appropriate to help. The purpose of this call is to be as helpful as possible and is not a sales call. We will share ideas, concepts, perspectives, and maybe books worth reading given where you are in your journey.
About
White-Glove Coaching, Connections, & Capital
We’ve helped startups raise millions from over 50 startups over the past couple of years.
Raise With Us meets you where you are in the startup or business journey. Whether that’s the seed, first, expansion, or bridge stage, we’ve worked with all types.
Raise With Us has developed accelerators that we call Centers of Excellences or (COEs) for specific areas in which startups struggle most. Some of these COEs include Funding Acceleration, Strategic Refresh, Sales and Business Development, among others.
Why Do It Alone When You Can Do It With Us?
There comes a time in every startups life that they ask themselves “how important is speed?”
Speed is the lifeblood of any organization whether startup or enterprise. Tapping into the experiences and networks of others who have either been down the path you are on or have guided others down similar paths will naturally accelerate your growth journey and that’s what we offer here at Raise With Us, speed.
Speed to faster capital
Speed to finding the right talent
Speed to pivot your strategy (if needed)
Speed to receive the right guidance that you need
Speed to improved sales and business development returns
Speed of finding the right investor, with the right experience, and passion
When you Raise With Us you’re not only tapping into the networks and the collective experiences of fundraising professionals but you’re also raising with some of the brightest minds in the industry. Part of the Raise With Us mission is to help match you with other like-minded fundraising and startup companies to meet your needs. If the immediate Raise With Us team doesn’t have the expertise or contacts that you need then we have it in our network.
You’re also raising your sales and business development game to help make you more attractive to not only investors but also more customers. With every startup that we work with we offer complimentary Objective and Key Result (OKR) consulting to ensure that we are aligned with you, your investors, and your customers.
Our team prides itself on delivering measurable value to accelerate achievement for our clients by providing the following:
Sales and Business Development strategies and tools
Lead lists to grow startup customer bases
Additional opportunity identification assessments
Objective and Key Result (OKRs) assessment reports and suggested customized OKRs
Executed Investment Documents
Introductions to the RIGHT investors including Family Offices, Venture Capital, Crowdfunding, Syndicates, and Angel Networks
How We Partner
The Process
There are three phases that you will go through when you partner with Raise With Us
(1) ALIGNMENT
We want to make sure that we are clear on our collective Objectives and Key Results for our partnership. This is also when we lay out the foundation for how we will operate together. Think of this as fueling your Rocketship.
(2) ADVISORY
This is when we coach you through the appropriate Center of Excellences that you desire. Do you want to accelerate your sales revenue? Do you have a pitch deck? Have you calculated your numbers so that investors will care? All of this hands-on work happens during this phase. Think of this as a Rocketship taking off where we are co-piloting the rocket with you.
(3) ACCELERATION
This is where we are making connections to investors, guiding you through the process, ensuring that you’re getting in front of the right investors, and ultimately closing your next round. At this stage, we’ve ‘taught you to fish’ and want to get out of the way. However, if you want us to stay on as part of the crew we can have that discussion. Think of this stage as you taking full control of the rocket while you raise you and your team to your next growth stage.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
What guarantees can you give me that your approach will work?
The goal is to create value in every interaction that we have with you with the hope being that what you learn from our team can be used in multiple ways and in multiple areas of your business for more than just fundraising so our fees will always be justified. Yet, given our experiences, it’s rare that the first attempt is the one that works. Rather, it’s an agile and iterative process that allows us to be creative in our approach to getting you around any roadblocks or potholes you’ll hit during your funding journey. What we can guarantee is that we only take on a small number of startups at a time. We do this to ensure you get our attention and white-glove treatment the whole way through.
Can you work on a fundraising commission instead of us paying a fee upfront?
That unfortunately is not possible. This requires certain financial licenses and is considered to be an investment brokerage-regulated activity. The other challenge that we’ve bumped into is that these ‘success fees’ can grow to be greater than anticipated and the amount that the startup will payout is significantly more than our fees. Rather, our specialty is preparing a startup to accelerate its ability to attain the funding that they need to write its next chapter.
Why do you ask for an application? Just take my money
In the early days, we engaged with startups that weren’t ready to work with a company like Raise With Us and the results were sub-par. We don’t like wasting your or our time and since we’ve required each startup to complete a simple questionnaire to help us determine if there is a good fit before engaging together contractually.
If we work together, how quickly can I expect to receive funding from an investor?
Each startup is unique as it relates to its stage. We’ve seen it take up to nine months to raise the first round. How quickly would you enter into a marriage? Taking on funding should be considered similar and not something to be rushed into. There is a courting process that we help facilitate which is critical to the success of the investor <> startup relationship. Additionally, if you aren’t a stable company that is seeking more scale and growth, we would suggest that we first work on the fundamentals before introducing you to the right investor. Sometimes you only have one shot and we want to make it count.
How long does our partnership last?
Our goal is to teach you to fish and then get out of the way. However, the longer that takes is usually how long we’ll partner together. That could be one month or a year if you feel appropriate. From our experience, it will take about two weeks of getting you set up in our systems and processes. The whole focus is for us to become an extension of your team and to do that we have to know you as well as you know yourselves. After about two weeks we should be able to provide a suggested timeline for our overall engagement. Yet, rest assured that you will receive tremendous value in the first month alone.
How much time does the startup need to set aside for Raise With Us?
We’ve found it best that we spend about 2-3 hours a week (give or take) on staying coordinated. We will look to become an extension of your team so having access to sales, strategy, marketing, and financial documentation will allow us to best represent you and provide the appropriate level of coaching.
What will this cost me?
We aren’t cheap. Most of the time when this becomes a sticking point it means we aren’t the right partner for you at this time. The deliverables include mobilization and timeline plan, strategy consultation, sales, and business development revenue acceleration, fundraising advisory, negotiation strategies, due diligence support, document feedback sessions, introductions to members of our personal investor networks, and managed investor outreach. However, we also don’t want to waste anyone’s time. Our monthly fee is $5,000.
Get In Touch
john at RaiseWithUs dot com
(848) 218-5581