PinnedJonny PleininStartups & Venture CapitalPouch: How we got 5 offers on Dragons DenShort story:Aug 21, 20177Aug 21, 20177
Jonny PleinThe Full Story: Raising a £2m pre-seed for my Startup!My co-founders and I managed to raise a £2m pre-seed round for a business, with no revenue, no (live) product, and in the worst market for…Mar 27, 20231Mar 27, 20231
Jonny PleinPart 3 — The End: Turning a No into a Yes, overcommitments and closing the roundWhen we set out to fundraise we made a long list of investors and organized them into three categories, A, B and C:Mar 27, 2023Mar 27, 2023
Jonny PleinPart 2 — The Middle — VC wasteland and some serious progressLet me start this 2nd part by sharing some stats from our raise:Feb 23, 2023Feb 23, 2023
Jonny PleinRaising £2m pre-seed round for Kuai Commerce — Part 1My co-founders and I managed to raise a £2m pre-seed round for a business, with no revenue, no (live) product, and in the worst market for…Feb 14, 2023Feb 14, 2023
Jonny PleininStartups & Venture CapitalLessons as a second-time founder I wish I knew when I started out!I have been in the start-up game for 7 years now. With one exit to my name and now 12 months into my second startup, I have come across the…Dec 6, 20223Dec 6, 20223
Jonny PleinLessons on fundraising from an exited FounderI have had my head down recently, raising Kuai Commerce’s £2m seed round and signing up our first brand partners.Apr 14, 2022Apr 14, 2022
Jonny PleinWhat leaving the startup I founded taught me about identityI was fortunate enough to have gone through the “classic” startup founder journey at quite a young age. Between 2016 and 2019 I went…Jan 31, 2022Jan 31, 2022
Jonny PleininStartups & Venture Capital4 lessons learned from achieving (some) scale in a technology start-up!A key pivotal moment of my life, was a 15 minute slot on TV show called Dragons Den where my business partners and I pitched our business…Jan 6, 20181Jan 6, 20181
Jonny PleinWhat are the most awesome start-up products available right now?At Pouch we love innovation. Being innovative is one the core values of our business and it was our desire to be innovative and disrupt our…Nov 13, 2017Nov 13, 2017