5 Reasons Why Compliance Is Important For Every Startup

Compliance for startups means following all relevant laws, regulations, standards, and ethical principles to ensure the business operates legally and ethically, and protects itself from potential legal issues

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Structuring the Perfect Pitch

The perfect pitch really does exist but don’t think that you are going to walk in front of potential partners or investors and sway them in your direction without putting in the time to craft something truly remarkable. Here are 5 tips when structuring what could be the key to your business success. 

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6 Reasons Why Equity Management Is Essential For Startups

Managing the ownership structure of a startup is known as equity management and it encompasses a range of activities such as raising capital, issuing shares, and determining the value of the company.

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Managing share dilution as a first-time founder

A major concern for many first-time founders is share dilution, which is the reduction in the value of an individual's ownership stake in a company. Share dilution often occurs when a company raises capital through the issuance of new shares, which decreases the percentage of ownership that existing shareholders hold.

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Fundraising 101 for first-time founders

As a first-time founder, fundraising can be demoralizing, however, the task becomes an easy one to face when you select an appropriate approach to tackle it. In this article, we have outlined some fundraising tips that first-time founders can implement when trying to secure funding for their businesses. 

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What is scenario modeling?

Decision makers usually create hypothetical scenarios of events and then analyze the various outcomes of each scenario. Doing this helps the decision maker to have an overview of the likely impact of a course of action, the potential consequences, risks or rewards of taking an action and also help to plan for contingencies.

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5 Common Mistakes To Avoid When Issuing Stock Options

ESOPs are a great way to attract and retain the best talents in a startup at the earliest stages when the business is yet to be profitable or cannot effectively pay the talent standard rates. Though a great offer, it might become challenging in the long run if some costly mistakes aren't avoided.

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4 Tips for raising pre-seed funding

At the very early stage of a startup, funding is the most critical requirement for growth. Funding is needed to build, operate and scale the business from scratch. Without funding, the probability of a business moving from a product/service development phase to the market is highly unrealistic. In this article, we highlight four major tips every founder needs to know to raise pre-seed funding.

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Understanding Pre-Money Valuation

Investors usually want to know the value of a company before investing. For mature businesses, the business valuation usually details hard facts and figures that are driven by the stream of revenue of the businesses. The valuation calculation of pre-revenue businesses on the other hand is a bit challenging as there are no figures or data to back up.

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How to Raise Funds in 4 Easy Steps

Once your startup is investment-ready, the next item on your agenda is to begin the fundraising process. It’s often a challenging process and might yield positive or negative responses depending on the success of the strategy.

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How to draft an Investor Update

Investor updates are usually documents that help you communicate key business growth information needed to share to the investor at regular intervals to help solidify your business relationship, gain more trust from the investors and also help you attract potential investors in your company.

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How to choose the right investor for your startup

A wrong investor at the early stage of the business is most likely to have adverse effects on the growth of the business. As a founder, it’s important to leverage solid relationships and networks when selecting an early-stage investor in your company. 

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How To Sell Equity Responsibly

Startups usually raise equity capital through investors (angel investors) and venture capitalists. Once equity capital is raised, the ownership of the company becomes diluted. It's important that founders understand how to sell equity responsibly so that they do not mistakenly sell their entire company.

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6 Strategies To Hire & Retain Top Talent At A Growing Startup‍

Retaining employees at your early stages helps you save a lot of money and time that would have otherwise been spent on hiring. Asides from money and time, the inability to retain talents can often create a setback and also negatively affect the dynamic work relationship that already exists among the team. 

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Growth Tips For Early-Stage Startups

Investors are highly concerned about the potential for rapid growth and high-future earnings before investing; gathering sufficient insights from consumer interactions and using data to build and develop serves as a solid foundation for growth at this early stage. 

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What makes a startup investment-ready?

Investors are highly concerned about their return on investment (ROI) and as such a startup needs to have some items in check before proceeding to request an investment. Identifying the right investors, telling a convincing narrative and getting an investor to commit are among the top things that not just help a business scale in the long run but can also boost a founder's confidence. 

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Getting valuation right for African startups

Every now and then a founder will take to Twitter to ask about valuation resources for African startups. The concern is that the market considerations for Africa are so specific that methods which may be standard elsewhere may not be suitable. 

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Why raise is joining the open cap table coalition

Raise is thrilled to join the Open Cap Table Coalition as a new member alongside industry leaders like Carta, Pulley, LTSE, and Shareworks, with global law firms like Gunderson, Cooley, and Gunderson. Together, we’re building the world’s first open-source Github for equity and ownership data. Our shared goal is to enable any Pan-African startup to move between cap table software systems and build a single source of truth for you and your shareholders' ownership.

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3 Steps to exit and sell your African startup 💰

Startup teams and investors work really hard, they sacrifice everything. At some point, everyone needs to be rewarded for that hard work and luckily, an exit and sale of a company creates that opportunity.

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Digitizing your Fundraising through the Raise deal room

Fundraising for your startup in Africa is not easy, but like anything - it is a process. There are ways you can leverage your data and the Raise platform to close your deal 2x faster! Here are three easy steps.

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3 Reasons: Flipping from Africa to Delaware (and when not to)

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Raise joined the latest 500 Startups batch 🔥 🎉🚀

We’re super happy to finally announce that we joined 500 Startups’ latest batch to power the next phase of Raise’s growth 🎉 Thank you. You're the best customers & community that any startup could ask for. Celebrate this milestone with us and read more about what this means for you in this blog post 💙

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Bitcoin and Crypto Regulation in Africa

We’ll be clear. Crypto is just a form of advanced financial technology. From that perspective, it’s pretty clear to us that the future of finance for Africans will be built using cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies. For that reason, we all need to rally behind creating positive regulations to enable it to grow. The good news: it’s happening. The bad news: it’s not happening fast enough.

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Announcing Our Partnership with Adili 🎉

We’re delighted to announce our partnership with the legal giants Adili Corporate Services, an affiliate of Anjarwalla & Khanna | ALN, Africa’s largest law firm 🎉 Together, we will be launching new products to simplify corporate compliance, equity, and documentation for thousands of clients across Africa.

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Discover: Fingo Africa's Success Story

‘’The reason we have stuck with the platform and I actually don’t ever see us going anywhere else is because of the value of expertise. You can get any platform as a service to put your documents but I kind of see the Raise mission which is not only providing a platform but also users are able to interact with it and get a wholesome service which includes education as well consultation.’’ 

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Discover: Startuplist Africa's success story

‘’Raise was the first platform that made me understand the whole fundraising process and I love the fact that it is an African company serving the African market. What Raise does is awesome and the platform is well thought out, with a hardworking team.’’

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{Free Workshop} Fundraising in Africa: Valuation, Diligence, and Equity

Running a start-up in Africa can be challenging, it’s no surprise that African founders make an effort to tackle potential obstacles that could hinder the progress of their business before it matures. One of these obstacles is start-up funding and a big solution to this problem is fundraising the right way.

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🚀Claim your pre-money valuation today !

A big thank you to our earliest adopters for working with us to build out our platform -the future of fundraising and equity in Africa 🎉! For that, we are grateful for your time and success stories. As a token of our appreciation, we’re offering you to get your startup’s pre-money valuation delivered directly into your Raise account.

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Fundraising remotely: What COVID-19 means for startup fundraising in Africa

Have you ever considered that there is no post-COVID-19 world? That this is now the new normal? If it is, that means that fundraising remotely with virtual data rooms and electronic cap tables.

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Join our beta program and get free access to an end-to-end fundraising platform!

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Understanding stock options for employees in African tech

We're here to turn stock options into cash for your employees across African tech💰

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Understanding shares in startups

We all love a fluffy and sugary cake. And shares are like cake. Except, you can turn that cake into cash. So, if you like cake and money, keep reading 🎂💰

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What's a cap table?

A cap table is a record of who owns what in a company. It is a core database of the most important part of your startup: share ownership.

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Building strong corporate governance in your startup

Corporate governance is about transparency. The stronger the corporate governance, the more ready you are for growth.

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Raising money in Africa with SAFEs and Convertible Notes

Convertible notes are actually pretty simple to understand. They’re hard to get right. And to explain, we thought we’d tell a story that we see very often.

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Raising money in Africa with term sheets

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Building a valuation for African startups

Creating a financial value for your startup is really important since it will determine most things about your startup: your share price, number of shares and growth trajectories.

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Understanding dilution for African founders

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The difference between Pre and Post-Money SAFEs

SAFEs can be confusing. Let's clear them up.

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