Presentation for EYnovation webinar

1. Raising Capital During
#COVID19
The New Normal of Business Angel Investing
Sacha Vekeman
Founder 247Invest.Ventures

2. Co-founded and angel invested in following portfolio

3. Who has seen
this last month?
05.03.2020

4. Who remembers
this in 2008?

6. #COVID19
#Cash
“Make your business continue without Cash”
● One certainty = your business will have NO cash
● Stop paying, at all cost
● Rethink now or RIP
Why opportunity for seed investors?
● Valuations get disrupted 1/10
● Get rid of old money and no value
● Early mergers - group fast to get bigger

7. ● Printing free money
● Wannabe firemen
● Economy survival
Why opportunity for seed investors?
● Short term
● Risk reduction
● No strings attached
#COVID19
#Overheid
“Make your business lean into Overheid”

8. #COVID19
#Validate
“Put your business open to true Validation”
● Tell stories Belief?
● Find heroes Need?
● Do demos Value?
Why opportunity for seed investors?
● Validation = transparency
● Validation = customers
● Validation = learning
Do not pivot

9. ● Make your Team integratable (people buy people first)
● Make your Tech integratable (don’t reinvent the wheel, build a bike)
● Make your Tone integratable (open culture, transparency, positive drive)
Why opportunity for seed investors?
● Exit
● Merge
● Refurbish
#COVID19
#Integration
“Make your business integratable”

10. ● Build platform, commit to payout, not to product or pricing
● Build channels fast - go downstream fast
● Make cash go upstream - stay at source
Why opportunity for seed investors?
● Network (=access to value)
● International (=path to scale)
● Exclusivity (=be the only one or be first)
#COVID19
#Distribution
“Make your business distributable”

11. #COVID19
#19 Age of Maturity
● Social distancing & remote work - the new normal for many years to come
● Automate broken industries - don’t sit on a dead horse (and try to ride it)
● The green deal / digital transformation / decarbonization / healthcare AND SO
MUCH MORE HAPPENING RIGHT NOW
Why opportunity for seed investors?
● Experience - older - we have at least recovered from 1 black swan, maybe more
● Knowledge - wiser - access to expertise domains, e.g. funding, sectors, politics
● Entrepreneurs can NOT do it alone, you need partners ⇒ 247 INVEST
“You are a Startup and are out of your teenage
years, mature fast and adopt to the New Normal”

12. #COVID19 - Get immune for the right things...

13. So yes, we still
invest during
#COVID19

14. Stay Safe
Sacha Vekeman
https://247invest.ventures
sacha@247invest.ventures
+32 499504050