Berlin After the financing is before the financing: start-ups regularly need fresh money to finance their growth. But it wasn’t that easy in 2022, the financing market for founders collapsed drastically.
According to calculations by the data service provider Refinitiv for the Handelsblatt, venture capitalists invested around eight billion euros in German start-ups from January to November. In the entire previous year, the sum was almost twice as high.
A similarly low level as in 2022 is expected for 2023 – but the needs of start-ups will not simply disappear. What do investors advise founders so that they can still get financing? And which conditions should entrepreneurs under no circumstances agree to?
Below are seven tips from investors from the best-known German venture capitalists from Lakestar to Earlybird and other experts:
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The investors refers to the cash burn rate.
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