Equidam vs Manual Valuation: A Comparison of Startup Valuation Approaches
Valuing a startup remains one of the most challenging aspects of entrepreneurship and investment,…
Equidam vs Kaaria: Choosing the Best Startup Valuation Platform
Valuing a startup is a complex endeavor, blending quantitative financial projections with…
Why Startup Valuations Change Around the World
Early-stage founders often treat “country” as a paperwork detail: pick your HQ and you’re done. In…
How a Startup Valuation Can Boost Your Fundraising Success
Raising venture capital is notoriously difficult, especially for early-stage startups. Even in boom…
Gaming Studio Valuation: The Complete Guide for 2025
How to properly value gaming companies in an industry where hits can generate 100x returns but 90%…
Practical Valaution Frameworks for Emerging Managers
Launching a venture capital fund involves navigating complex legal documents, chief among them the…
Pre-Seed Startup Funding Probability: What Are Your Real Chances of Getting Funded?
Out of 100 companies that applied to angel groups in 2024, only 2 reached an investor's portfolio.…
International Valuation Differences: Why Geography Still Matters in Global Startup Markets
When WeTransfer raised €25 million at a €100 million valuation in 2015, industry observers noted…
Dilution 101: Calculation And Examples
What is dilution? TLDR: Dilution is the reduction in the ownership percentage in a certain…
Down Round Valuation: How to Survive and Protect Your Equity (2025)
Down rounds hit 22% of all VC deals in Q2 2024—down from a peak of 33% in Q1 2024, but still the…
How to Benchmark Startup Revenue and EBITDA Projections
Financial projections form the backbone of startup valuation. While qualitative methods like our…
How to Get a BSPCE Valuation for Your Startup’s Employee Share Plan
BSPCE (Bons de Souscription de Parts de Créateur d’Entreprise) are a special type of employee stock…
Startup Valuation Explained: Pre-Money vs Post-Money
One of the most fundamental yet confusing aspects of startup fundraising is understanding the…
How to Benchmark Your TAM and Build Investor Confidence in Your Market Size
The Role of TAM in Startup Fundraising For startups navigating a funding round, a well-defined and…
How to Categorise a Startup (for Valuation)
Categorisation poses a significant challenge in startup valuation, with investors and founders…
Startup Valuation Tools: Bridge the Gap Between Founders and Investors
Raising capital is a pivotal milestone for early-stage startups. Yet, one of the most challenging…
How to Use Comparables Effectively in Startup Valuation
In the context of startup valuation, "comparables" (often shortened to "comps") refer to companies…
How to Value Pre-Revenue Startups
One of the murkiest topics within the venture capital and startup ecosystem is the valuation of…
Startup Valuation: The Ultimate Guide for Founders
For many early-stage founders, the topic of startup valuation can feel like navigating a dense fog.…
Startup Valuation: The Ultimate Guide
Startup valuation underpins all startup fundraising activity, enabling novel propositions to be…
Why Fundraising and ESOP Valuations Are Different
When founders think about valuation, it’s often in the context of raising money — negotiating…
Startup Valuation Trends: AI and Mega-Funds [The Equidam Podcast – 15]
In this conversation, Daniel Faloppa and Dan Gray discuss the current state of the fundraising…
The Best Startups Are Valued, Not Priced
In the world of startup fundraising, the terms “valuation” and “price” are…
Price vs Value (Part 1): The Momentum Trap in VC
“You can value an asset, based upon its fundamentals (cash flows, growth and risk) or price…
Why Negotiating Price With Investors is a Trap
When raising venture capital, founders often get fixated on price—the final figure on the term…
How to Exit for $1B and Walk Away With Nothing
In startup fundraising, success stories dominate headlines. We hear about multi-million-dollar…
Making the Most of Investor Meetings
First Principles Fundraising #5 In our First Principles Fundraising series, we’ve already…
The State of European Tech, with Robin Wauters [The Equidam Podcast – 13]
In this conversation, Daniel Faloppa and Robin Wauters discuss the evolution of the European tech…
How to Run a Tight Fundraising Process
First Principles Fundraising #4 Over the course of this series, we’ve taken a first…
How To Choose the Right Investor
First Principles Fundraising #3 In our “First Principles Fundraising” series, we’ve…
Are You Investment Ready?
First Principles Fundraising #2 In Part 1 of our First Principles Fundraising series, we examined…
Is Fundraising the Right Move for Your Startup?
First Principles Fundraising #1 For many founders, venture capital (VC) is often perceived as the…
The State of Funding in Southern Europe: Insights from Rome Startup Week 2024
At this year's Rome Startup Week, a notable panel titled "The State of Funding in Southern Europe"…
How to set your SAFE Cap
SAFEs (Simple Agreements for Future Equity), and other regional variants of the SAFE, have surged…
How to set your SAFE Discount
SAFEs (Simple Agreements for Future Equity), and other regional variants of the SAFE, have surged…
SAFE Caps & Discounts: Creating simpler and more transparent instruments [The Equidam Podcast – 10]
In this conversation, Daniel Faloppa and Dan discuss the evolution and complexities of SAFEs…
SAFE Caps and Discounts: Setting the right terms for your round
Increasingly, founders are turning to convertible instruments (40-95%, depending on round size)…
Building a Winning Data Room: Best Practices for Early-Stage Startups
For early-stage startups looking to onboard prospective investors, a well-organized data room is an…
Case Study: Spiro Carbon – Democratizing Carbon Credits
Spiro Carbon enables robust sustainability monitoring across the agricultural supply chain, making…
Estimating AI Startup Market Size for Effective Fundraising in 2024
At the heart of every conversation between AI startup founders and potential investors, lies a…
Beyond the Hype: Credible Valuation for AI Startups
Against the backdrop of a frosty market for startup fundraising, AI companies are raising large…
How to Calculate Startup Valuation: Step by Step
Valuing a startup can feel like plotting a course in the dark, as you try to reconcile significant…
A Manifesto for Effective Crowdfunding
Maximizing Value for Startups and Investors In recent years, crowdfunding has revolutionized the…
How to Raise Your First Round: A Step-by-Step Guide to Startup Fundraising Strategy
Fundraising for your startup is more than just a quest for capital; it’s about creating a…
The ROI of Venture Dollars, with Will Bricker of Hustle Fund [The Equidam Podcast – 6]
In this conversation, Will Bricker, a venture capitalist at Hustle Fund, shares insights into…
Fundraising in 2023: The ‘Dry Powder’ Conundrum
Since the start of the year, two main narratives have emerged in early stage investment: The first…
The State of Startup Valuation – February 2023 [The Equidam Podcast – 4]
In this episode, Dan and Daniel discuss the recent parameters update for the Equidem platform,…
The Drivers of Valuation in Venture Capital [The Equidam Podcast – 3]
In this episode of the Equidam podcast, Dan Gray and Daniel Faloppa delve into the complexities of…
The role of founder-led valuation in startup fundraising
For a long time, the standard has been for founders to let their lead investor worry about deal…
Startup Valuation – Everything We Know
In this post, we'll discuss everything that we have learned in the last 10 years performing startup…
Challenges for Venture Capital [The Equidam Podcast – 2]
In this episode of the Equidam podcast, Dan Gray and Daniel Filippo discuss the evolving landscape…
How to value your startup for a friends & family round
When we raised our first round of capital for Equidam, about a decade ago, we didn't know much of…
How much do UK startups raise?
The current fundraising environment There’s never been so much capital available for startups… and…
Fundraising Strategy: How Much and When to Raise
There’s no shortage of content covering startup fundraising advice, whether it’s solidifying your…
Case Study: Yotta Energy – Scaling Solar Power
Yotta Energy are creating more opportunities for solar power, with their end-to-end solution that…
VC Perspectives: The misconception about convertible loans
Convertible loans: a loan with interest (whether actually paid or accrued), in which the loan will…
Average Discount Rate For A Convertible Note
A few weeks ago, we built and released a convertible note calculator. It’s useful for making…
Business Angels or Venture Capital?
Angel investors are individual investors who provide capital to early stage startups in exchange…
Fundraising: A Treasure Map
When it comes to fundraising, entrepreneurs are like knights on a quest to find the Holy Grail.…
Milestones To Raise Series A In 2017
Do you prefer to listen to podcasts? Listen to the audio here Any metric of VC activity has…
Convertible Debt vs Equity Financing
Do you prefer podcasts? Listen to the audio here. You have probably heard of the concept of…
Planning and Timing Fundraising
Fundraising is an activity that requires considerable time and effort and, as founders, we often…
Convertible Debt: risks and terms to be aware of
Do you prefer podcasts? You can listen to it here. Gianluca Valentini, co-founder of Equidam,…
What to offer to investors?
Do you prefer podcasts? Listen to the audio here Entrepreneurs who are in the process of raising…
Raising seed capital
Do you prefer podcasts? You can listen to it here. Entrepreneurs who are in the process of…
How To Rock Your Crowdfunding Campaign
This infographic originally apparead on Vound Software Blog How to rock your crowdfunding campaign?…
How Do Convertible Notes Work [Infographic]
After discussing how to price convertible notes, we realised that there is a simpler way to explain…
7 Sources That Give Away The Secret Behind Convertible Notes
Are you issuing a convertible note? Do you want to know the ins and outs of this financing tool?…
Practical Advice On Convertible Notes
Are you issuing a convertible note? Are you doing it to avoid the headaches of setting a…
Flexibility in Startup Financing: Alternative options
There are several ways to accept external funds from investors. Debt is strict and it doesn’t…
4 Reasons why Cash is King or Why You Should Care About Your Burn Rate
Cash is important for survival. The burn rate (how fast you 'burn' the cash in your business) is…
Investment paid in services. What’s the value?
Investors often own different complementary businesses. Some of these businesses may be focused on…
An Angel Investor And Economist On Dilution
There are two statements in general you can hear out there related to dilution: Future rounds are…
Small Business Funding Series: Hybrid Financing
After discussing crowdfunding, equity and debt financing throughout the month of February, let's…
Small Business Funding Series: Equity Financing
At Equidam, our goal is to provide small business owners the tools to manage their business easily…
Small Business Funding Series: Debt Financing
Last week we looked at Small Business Funding and talked about the ins and outs of Equity…
Crowdfunding Campaign: How to stand out from the crowd
Crowdfunding is becoming an increasingly popular way of financing businesses. Nowadays, the world…
Small Business Funding Series: Crowdfunding
This is already the third episode of our Small Business Funding series. Earlier, we talked about…
10 Ways to Finance your Business
You've got a clear business idea but your pockets are empty. That's okay! As the old saying goes,…
Alternative Finance in Europe
What hides behind the term alternative finance? Centre for Alternative Finance of Cambridge Judge…
Equity or debt? The Startup Case
Well, it’s time to get out of the office and find out someone willing to put some money in your…
Doing Business Financing the Right Way
Do you know anybody who has ever said: "No thanks, I don't need more money for my business"?…
Infographic: SaaS Companies Fundraising Uncovered
After illustrating the best places in the world to build up your tech startup, we decided to pay…
Startup Projections, How to Start
As founders and entrepreneurs, we are not only asked to run our team and our business at maximum…
How Australia Simplified Valuation For ESOPs
In February, Deloitte published a paper highlighting the new mindset of the Australian tax…
How to Spot an Investor: In the form of an Angel or your Mom
It's been some time since we've touched on the sources of startup financing - where it comes from…
5 Financing Mistakes to Avoid
Today, we will continue our journey called Financing. This really can be a considered an authentic…
Bootstrapping vs Investments
As an entrepreneur struggling to find an answer to this question, you probably found plenty of…
The Startup Financing Cycle
This article is a sort of an introduction to the startup financing problem. It originated from a…