Published in Blossom·Nov 22, 2021Crypto to the Moon!Announcing our largest ever investment into MoonPay Cryptocurrencies and digital assets hold the potential to completely transform how we create, measure, transfer and store value. …5 min read
Published in Blossom·Sep 17, 2020Can companies be “crisis proof”?Six months in — lessons learned from COVID. — Having lived through the fall-out of the last financial crisis, a key investment criteria for us at Blossom is investing in companies that we believe will be “recession proof”. However, when COVID hit, we realised that this criteria didn’t necessarily extend to being “corona proof”. It’s easy to understand the…6 min read
Published in Blossom·Apr 7, 2020Announcing Cultivate: Europe’s much-needed angel programFortune favours the bold: Why founders should be taking more risks, not less, in times of global crisis Markets across the globe have been declining at a rate not seen in decades. Companies have laid off entire workforces. Record numbers are flocking to welfare systems. To put the current crisis…Venture Capital3 min read
Published in Blossom·Jan 22, 2020The Power of Small NumbersWhat it means to invest with high conviction The strongest bond we share with the founders we partner with is that, like them, we’re also in the early days of building our business. …Venture Capital6 min read
Published in Blossom·Jun 19, 2019Redefining the European Series AToday our portfolio company Duffel announces a $21.5m Series A led by Benchmark, where we’ve doubled-down on our investment after leading their seed round last year. We usually don’t write stories behind funding announcements, but Duffel’s journey so encapsulates our mission and values at Blossom that we wanted to share…Venture Capital6 min read
Published in Blossom·Feb 26, 2019Blossom Capital & ‘High Conviction’ InvestingThe top tier Silicon Valley VC firms have always taken a distinctive ‘high conviction’ approach to investing. By that I mean they are thesis-driven and move fast, taking big risks on ambitious visions, and throw everything they have behind the teams they back. They lead rounds, and give entrepreneurs the…Startup4 min read
Published in Blossom·Aug 5, 2018What you need to raise a Series A (and why it isn’t 100k MRR)This article is based on my talk at SaaStr Europe on Series As for SaaS companies. What MRR do we need to hit to be Series A ready? It’s the inevitable question seed founders ask of Series A investors, but within the question itself are three myths: That there’s any…Saa S7 min read
Published in LocalGlobe Notes·Nov 15, 2016Echo: bringing the NHS into the 21st CenturyAs a VC, I live for the rare moment when an investment is so obvious that you’re ready to write the cheque on the spot. Which is what happened when I first met Sai and Stephen, co-founders of Echo. Even better was that I’d actually written the business plan for…Health3 min read
Published in LocalGlobe Notes·Oct 31, 2016Part 4 in From Seed to Series A: the Partner PresentationAs conversations with investors progress, it’s wise to ask what their decision making process is so you know a) what the expected timing is and b) whether you’re on track. That said, most VCs follow a similar process. Deal teams meet each Monday to review current investment opportunities in order…Venture Capital3 min read
Published in LocalGlobe Notes·Oct 10, 2016Part 3 in From Seed to Series A: The Deck, the Model and the AskWhen you’re ready to pitch investors, you need three things: a deck, a financial plan and an idea of how much you’re raising. Most of the time, the deck allows a potential investor the first meaningful insight into your company, beyond the product. Whether rightly or wrongly, lots of VCs…Startup2 min read
