CONNECTING GREAT ENTREPRENEURS WITH VISIONARY INVESTORS AND HELPING YOU SCALE UP FASTER
Early Stage Fundraising
Finwise is a specialist advisor for Tech Startups & Scaleups that are seeking to raise Seed to Round A Financing between 500K and 10m EUR.
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We gained a long experience on the investor-side and are all too familiar with the challenges of the startup-entrepreneur. Our mission is to connect both worlds. Due to our accurate selection process and the balancing of the interests of the parties involved we obtained a 90% success rate over the last 3 years in our transactions.
Take the Investability Test and find out! You will also receive a free copy of the “Perfect Pitch Formula”, our guidelines and best practices for your pitch deck. There are 38 quick questions. It takes just a few minutes to finish the test.
Are you a post-revenue startup? Multiples used in past startup deals in your industry and geography can give an indication of the value of your company.
THE TRUTH IS
Fundraising will never be quick and easy
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We believe that exclusive agreements are not necessary and not to the benefit of a startupCOMPETITIVE CONDITIONS
We can work with or without retainers.
OUR HAPPY CLIENTS
Early Stage Fundraising - Fractional C-level Services
Patrick Soetens
Managing Director/Founder
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Eddy Van Cutsem
Director – Ireland
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Jan Vorstermans
Associate Partner Benelux market
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Sam Hunt
Senior Consultant
CFO Services
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Koen De Lombaert - MD
Advisor
Koen De Lombaert is a Doctor of Medicine (MD) from KU Leuven and holds an MBA from John Hopkins University He is based in Silicon Valley since 2014 and is founder of StudyPages, a leading platform aimed at accelerating and improving clinical trials. He advises Finwise on MedTech, helps our clients with US market entry and the Silicon Valley ecosystem.
Bob Eck
Senior Consultant
Fractional CMO Services
Bob is a fractional CMO specialized in startups and scaleups. He was previously Managing Director at Saatchi & Saatchi, leading business units both in New York and London. As marketing consultant he has helped built business, brands and reputation for the past 12 years.
Matthias Isler
Senior Consultant
Fractional CTO Services
Matthias is a Swiss entrepreneur and CTO with more than 15 years of experience in software engineering. His focus is on digital business models, SaaS, web technologies, and cloud applications.
Early Stage Fundraising
PATRICK SOETENS
Managing Director/Founder
Patrick has more than 20 years experience in different senior roles within investment banking in different countries. He is a FinTech specialist and was previously founder/CEO of a Swiss online bank.
EDDY VAN CUTSEM
Director – Ireland
Eddy has as a depth of senior management experience gained in Ireland and Switzerland. Aside from Finwise he is also a Board Member at InsurTech Ireland.
JAN VORSTERMANS
Associate Partner Benelux market
Jan is a specialist in Digital Transformation and Technology and one of the most connected insiders on the Benelux startup market. He is the former COO of Telenet and is a manager of different early-stage funds.
SAM HUNT
Senior Consultant
CFO Services
Sam is a Chartered Accountant and has 14 years’ across functional experience in scaling and supporting technology companies; he has previously acted as CFO of two venture equity backed technology companies and has extensive experience in capital raising, business planning, financial modelling and refinancing.
KOEN DE LOMBAERT - MD
Advisor
Koen De Lombaert is a Doctor of Medicine (MD) from KU Leuven and holds an MBA from John Hopkins University He is based in Silicon Valley since 2014 and is founder of StudyPages, a leading platform aimed at accelerating and improving clinical trials. He advises Finwise on MedTech, helps our clients with US market entry and the Silicon Valley ecosystem.
Testimonials
We have worked with Finwise both for our seed and our Pre-Series A and we were very pleased with the smooth process and quality of the leads. Finwise brought in the right investors for us, ranging from angels, a VC and a Corp VC. We look forward to continuing our excellent relationship.
We worked with Finwise for our 15m£ Series A we closed in April 22 and have been pleased with the quality of investors they introduced to us, ranging from angels, angel investors and family offices, complementing our VCs
We worked with Finwise for the Seed Round we closed in 2020 and were very pleased with the quality of the investors they brought us and their support during the negotiations
We worked with Finwise for our 2m$ Pre-series A and were impressed with the quality of the potential investors (angels, family offices, VCs…) they brought us. They made a lot of effort in really understanding our business model and we also gained many valuable business relations
We worked with Finwise for our seed round and have been very pleased with the quality of potential investors they brought us. It resulted in closing a transaction with a Belgian private investor group which has operational expertise and synergies with our activity which is a real added value for our company
As far as your selection of projects is concerned, I think they each time have that ‘special touch’. Your feeling for this is extremely strong in that regard! (original in Dutch: Wat jouw selectie van projecten betreft, vind ik dat ze keer op keer toch wel een bijzondere ‘special touch’ hebben. Je aanvoelen hiervoor is in die optiek ontzettend sterk!)
I needed to free up some funds. As I know that early stage investments are traditionally very illiquid, I was pleasantly surprised that Finwise was able to find a buyer for a small angel investment in a Deep Tech scale-up I had made a few years ago