The Raise

Jade Ong is the co-founder of Elevate Money. A business that started out as 2 distinct businesses: AtlasTrend and Elevate Super. AtlasTrend allows users to access global stock markets and to easily invest in emerging trends such as big data, clean disruption and online shopping. Elevate Super allows Australians to invest their superannuation funds into companies that support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Both businesses are providing returns that are exceeding the market. Jade spent over a decade in some of the world's leading investment banks before turning her hand to building something that would make a real impact.

In this episode, you'll hear Jade share how she met her co-Founders; she breaks breaks down the elements in their pitch deck that helped them close their capital raise in record time and her thought process that helped her finally leave a well paying corporate job to start this impactful business.

Resources and links: 

• Jade Ong’s LinkedIn 
• AtlasTrend Website 
• Elevate Super Website 
• Lean in by Sheryl Sandberg  
• A life on our Planet by David Attenborough 
• Rubik’s Cube 
• Pitch Perfect Soundtrack | Spotify  
• High School Musical Soundtrack | Spotify 

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Claudia King is the CEO & Founder of Firmsy. Firmsy helps entrepreneurial law firms scale their businesses online through automation software and world class strategy coaching and support. A former tax lawyer, Claudia created New Zealand's first online legal service, Legal Beagle, before selling it for 7 figures.

In this episode, you'll hear Claudia share how a eulogy that she gave at her dad’s funeral led her to the first investors for Firmsy; how she answers sexist questions from prospective investors, and tips on how to deal with prospective investors pulling the rug at the last minute in a raise.

Resources and links:

• Savvy Lawyers FB Group
• Firmsy website
• Firmsy app
• Claudia’s Instagram
• Dan Martell’s SaaS Academy (one of Claudia’s mentors)
• Susan Hyatt (one of Claudia’s mentors)
• Rachel Rodgers (one of Claudia’s mentors)
• Chantal Hofstee (one of Claudia’s mentors)
• Deepwork (book) by Cal Newport
• Renew Your Mind (book) by Chantal Hofstee
• Leila Hermozi’s YouTube channel
• Shakti Mat
• Salmonella Dub’s Spotify

Connect:

• Raise capital for your startup quickly without spending hours in dead-end investor meetings with Term Sheet Guru. Register here for our free capital raising webinars. 

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Ben Burton is the CEO and Co-founder of prop-tech start-up Rental Heroes, an AI chatbot revolutionising the communication between tenants and property managers to get tenancy issues dealt with quickly and effectively.

Ben's years of experience in the corporate world, and passion for inventing, have been driving forces in the creation and growth of Rental Heroes. In this episode, Ben shares how they built out their list of potential investors; the successes he had cold calling potential investors and how bringing on a lead investor dramatically changed the course of Rental Heroes’ capital raise.

Resources and Links:

• Ben’s LinkedIn
• Rental Heroes’ Linktree
• Rental Heroes’ Website
• The Proptech Podcast with Kylie Davis | Spotify
• LinkedIn Premium
• ABC Radio

Connect:

• Raise capital for your startup quickly without spending hours in dead-end investor meetings with Term Sheet Guru. Register here for our free capital raising webinars. 

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Jessica Christiansen-Franks is the CEO and Co-founder of Neighbourlytics, a platform that provides data on the urban life of neighbourhoods. The platform analyses social data and turns it into valuable neighbourhood insights, answering questions such as “Which cafes are most popular?” or “Where are the hubs of activity on the weekend?”

In this episode, you'll hear how Jessica convinced her idol to become her Co-founder; how Neighbourlytics leveraged its accelerator programme to broaden its potential investor pool; and how to “hold the power” in investor meetings.

Resources and Links 

• Jessica Christiansen-Frank’s LinkedIn 
• Lucinda Hartley’s LinkedIn 
• Neighbourlytics Website 
• Audiobook - Phoenix Project | Audible  
• Podcast - 7AM Daily Podcast | Schwartz Media 

Connect:

• Raise capital for your startup quickly without spending hours in dead-end investor meetings with Term Sheet Guru. Register here for our free capital raising webinars. 

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Today on The Raise, we’re back with our intrepid entrepreneur Josh Rogers, Founder and CEO of Minterest, the DeFi lending protocol that is shaking up decentralised finance. In the previous 2 instalments, Josh shared how he built his team, how he found the right investors, plus he gave us a sprinkling of heartfelt insights into what it personally takes to be a successful founder of a start-up. 

In this third and final instalment, Josh shares the next part of his journey. It’s an extraordinary backstage pass into a unique fundraising methodology where, in a rapidly falling market, he was still able to deliver an incredibly successful result for his startup and it’s half a billion-dollar valuation.

Resources and links:

• Josh Rogers Twitter
• Josh Rogers LinkedIn
• Josh Rogers Telegram
• Minterest Telegram chat
• Telegram announcement channel
• Minterest Twitter
• Minterest
• Minterest LinkedIn
• Minterest email
• Minterest Fundraising Process Blog Post

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• Raise capital for your startup quickly without spending hours in dead-end investor meetings with Term Sheet Guru. Register here for our free capital raising webinars. 

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This is the second instalment of a chat with Josh Rogers, the CEO and Founder of Minterest, one of the most innovative and exciting fintechs in crypto’s booming DeFi sector. 

Last time, we heard a remarkable account of how, after a personal legal dispute, Josh had to start again from scratch, building out Minterest. In this second instalment, Josh shares his views on getting the right investors and having them powerfully support his start-up, how understanding the “network effects” playbook is critical for any start-up to be successful, plus some heartfelt insight into what it personally takes to be a successful founder of a start-up.

Resources and links:

• Josh Rogers Twitter
• Josh Rogers LinkedIn
• Josh Rogers Telegram
• Minterest Telegram chat
• Telegram announcement channel
• Minterest Twitter
• Minterest
• Minterest LinkedIn
• Minterest email
• Minterest Fundraising Process Blog Post
• Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALS Lead and Win by Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
• Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky | YouTube
• Jabra Headphones
• Boris Brejcha | Spotify

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Josh Rogers is the CEO and Co-founder of Minterest, a blockchain-enabled, DeFi lending and borrowing protocol with the user at its core. In just 18 months it achieved in a bear market a valuation of half a billion US dollars, and it hasn’t even launched yet!

In the first of this special three part episode, you'll hear how Josh went from the depths of a legal stoush that abruptly killed his last start-up to raising $6.5M US dollars in 5 days for Minterest; how he built a team of industry heavyweights specifically to raise capital for Minterest; and why he moved to Estonia to do this.

Resources and links:

• Josh Rogers Twitter
• Josh Rogers LinkedIn
• Josh Rogers Telegram
• Minterest Telegram chat
• Telegram announcement channel
• Minterest Twitter
• Minterest
• Minterest LinkedIn
• Minterest email
• Josh’s blog on Minterest’s capital raising

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• Raise capital for your startup quickly without spending hours in dead-end investor meetings with Term Sheet Guru. Register here for our free capital raising webinars. 

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This is the conclusion of a 2-part conversation with James Behzadi, the CEO and Co-founder of Kintell, a digital platform that connects subject matter experts with learners across any topic for a video learning session. James is a wealth of knowledge and shares his learnings with great stories.  

In Part 1, James shared how he vetted his co-founder and how he decided that a SAFE note was the best fundraising option for Kintell. On this episode, James discusses the myth of start-up fundraising that is perpetuated in the media, and he shares the steps Kintell took to win over $500,000 in the much-coveted “Accelerating Commercialisation” grant and what to do when an investor does not want to invest in your start-up. 

Resources and links:

• Accelerating Commercialisation Grant

• Fantastic Fungi 
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book/movie
• Wu Tiao Ren | Spotify
• We Crashed | Spotify
• Reed Hastings: Building Netflix (by Matt Burgess)
• That will NEVER work (by Marc Randolph co-founder of Netflix)
• Shoe dog (the story of Nike) (by Phil Knight)
• Crossing the chasm (by Geoffrey Moore)
• Blitzscaling (by Reid Hoffman & Chris Yeh)
• Apple Airpods

Connect:

• Term Sheet Guru

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James Behzadi is the CEO and Co-founder of Kintell, a digital platform that connects subject matter experts with learners across any topic for a video learning session. On Kintell, you can learn anything: from start-up legal advice, to spirituality habits, hobbies and craft and everything in-between.

James is a mathematics whiz, an engineer and a data scientist. He spent over a decade in business and academia before starting Kintell. In part 1 of a 2 part series, you'll hear how James came to the decision to go into business with his life partner and how Kintell raised 7 figures using SAFE notes.

Resources and links:

• James Behzadi Linkedin
• Kintell
• Y Combinator SAFE

Connect:

• Raise capital for your startup quickly without spending hours in dead-end investor meetings with Term Sheet Guru. Register here for our free capital raising webinars. 

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Mike Erlin is the Co-founder and CEO of AbilityMap, a behavioural measurement and modelling platform that enables teams to drive productivity across their workforce. We've used AbilityMap in our business, and the tool allowed us to identify and recruit people who ended up being our best performers. 

In this episode, you'll hear how Mike, along with his Co-founder, Kevin Chandler, came up with the idea for AbilityMap; how they tackled the challenges to turn a side hustle into a full-time gig; and how they secured investors to back their early-stage start-up.

Resources and links:

• Ability Map
• Mike Erlin LinkedIn
• Recruitment tech can make hiring faster and cheaper….but is it better?
• Retain & Attract Top Talent During The Post-COVID Resignation Boom
• Do your team members possess the skills that drive remote working effectiveness?
• Articles from AbilityMap
• Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari 
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
• Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight
• Legacy: What the All Blacks Can Teach Us About the Business of Life by James Kerr
• My Octopus Teacher
• Audible subscription
• Hilltop Hoods

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• Raise capital for your startup quickly without spending hours in dead-end investor meetings with Term Sheet Guru. Register here for our free capital raising webinars.
  

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