#14 GKC | 🤝 What To Expect From My Investors?

Exclusive Insights by Impact Investors and Founders who’ve raised from VCs and grants

Nelson Ng
October 07, 2024 • Est. Reading Time: 7 minutes

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Happy Monday! Finally got some relaxing vacation time last week. Back in action 💪

Welcome 18 new impact founders to our community! DO GOOD, BE GOOD together.

This week, we’ve some GOOD stuff on:

Watch the full one hour recording: https://youtu.be/DlzFN7RLOP0

Last Friday, we organized our Impact Learning Circle #2 to discuss about investor relations management pre & post investments!

Thank you Regina, John, and Pawel for the incredible insights and real stories!

Here are some learnings from the session for those who couldn’t attend the event:

Warm referral = effective way to meet investors
→ reach out to your angel investors, friends who work in VCs, or even other founders who’ve raised external capital
Build relationships with investors even before your fundraise
→ investing requires trust, and trust requires time to build. Allocate time to meet investors with genuine intention even before you need to fundraise
Follow up with updates
→ after an investor meeting, follow up with what you promised. Share regular company updates with them so they can track your journey

Communicate your ups & downs to investors
→ If you have good progress, celebrate with your investors. if you struggle with bad progress, TELL your investors (you should do it even so!)
Set realistic milestones for your company
→ Founders tend to over-promise and under-deliver as they think they should impress the investors. Quite the opposite, investors prefer realistic-promise and over-deliver founders
Be clear with your impact metrics (both quantitative & qualitative)
→ Investors want to see the impact created and growth. Hence, be very clear and honest with your numbers (quantitative) and stories (qualitative, usually case studies)

Hope this is helpful! :)

Feel free to reach out via LinkedIn or email if you have more questions.

P.S. Stay tuned to our next Impact Learning Circle by the end of each month.

P.P.S. Here’s the video recording for those who interested in the whole session.

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🙋‍♀️ Dawn Tan | Head, Asia Centre of Changemakers @ Wealth Management Institute

🙋‍♀️ Edward Yee | Co-founder @ Givfunds

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Case Studies of Successful Fundraising - how impact startups raised from various types of impact funding (link)

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