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Julien Fissette

Investor Profile by Roundtable — Find your next investors with Roundtable

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Once you decide to raise funds, you’ll spend weeks looking for Business Angels. Now with Investor Profiles, you can directly see if you fit their investment thesis. Even better, we’ve created a list of top BAs on Folk, the CRM we used to raise our own seed.
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Julien Fissette
👋 Hi founders and makers! With Roundtable, we’re building the marketplace and financial infrastructure to help structure investments in startups. With more than 300M€ of startup investments going through the platform in 2 years, we think we’re decently connected to Business Angels. And yet, when we raised our seed round last year, we spent ages finding BAs, curating them, finding that some were not investing at the time, etc. We ended up raising 3M€ with amazing BAs which we love dearly <3, but I can assure you we had better things to do like, you know, running our business. That’s why we’ve: 1️⃣ built Investor Profiles allowing our users to showcase their investment thesis, portfolio of investment, and explain what they look for in startups, 2️⃣ aggregated the top profiles in an Investor Database, and 3️⃣ partnered with our friends at Folk to host it. They’ve built a great CRM which we used for our own seed round. FYI, we’ve talked to and excluded several Business Angels who told us they were not currently investing. If there’s a household name you cannot find here, it may be because they opted out for now. 👉 Founders, have a look, and I hope you’ll save time preparing your next round! It’s your most precious asset 🙂 👉 Investors, if you’re interested in being listed: create your Profile page and contact us! *⭐️ This database is of course biased towards our existing user base. If there is a country you would like us to research and add, don’t hesitate to share it in the comments!* **LINKS👇** Create your Profile page on app.roundtable.eu Access the database on roundtable.eu/investor-database
Joseph Abraham
@julien_fissette Congratulations on the launch! Wishing you a journey full of achievements and success. What’s one piece of advice you’d give to other creators?
Julien Fissette
Hi @kjosephabraham, to take the time to prepare it well! The product, the assets, explain to your community how they can help you on D Day, all that takes a lot of time and effort. But definitely worth it!
Tyrone Robb
The concept it really cool. Forgive my ignorance, but would I need to be incorporated in France or Luxembourg to sign up and use it as a founder? Also what is the average raise for people in this position?
Evan Testa
Hi Tyrone, No we are supporting founders all over the world ! Just we are mainly having European LPs for now
Alexis Guinebretière
@ty_robb Thanks Tyrone, feel free to reach out if you're interested in leveraging Roundtable for your round!
André J
Would be great to have a column to see number of invests / latest invest date. To filter out inactive lurkers 😅
Alexis Guinebretière
@sentry_co thank you for the feedback! We personally hand-picked the investors in this list and reached out to each one of them to ensure they were currently actively investing :)
André J
@alexis_guinebretiere Yeah but that changes with the winds over time. It might be hard to track, but with crunchbase etc it's possible. Ive seen VC platforms track this. It's one of the strongest indicators TBH. Okay this VC invested 8 times in the last 2 months. Great cadence. Worth approaching etc. If a VC did only 2 invests in the last year. Then maybe not spend too much time etc.
Julien Fissette
@sentry_co great feedback! We will think how to best incorporate it in a v2 🙏
Alex Dulub
Hi Julien, this sounds like a fantastic tool for founders! Streamlining the process of finding the right investors is a real game-changer. How often do you update the Investor Database to ensure it stays current?
Julien Fissette
@alex_dulub we plan on updating it every few months for now, and over time integrate it in the broader Roundtable product to have live information :)
Tony Han
We need more transparency in the world of private equity fundraise - this is another great step towards it! After hearing so much more about poor VC experiences, this quality database is much needed. Did you curate this by emailing these VCs? Congrats on the launch @julien_fissette and team!
Julien Fissette
@tonyhanded great question! The end product contains between 50 and 100 Business Angels (BAs) per country. The idea was to have a mix of “veterans” and promising new BAs, as well as a mix of men and women BAs. But how did we get there? We started with existing lists, which gave us a few thousand names. We then narrowed them down with the help of a few top angels from our network in each target country. What we basically asked them was : “who would you follow without thinking if they invited you to a deal?” That’s why we’ve only included in the list countries where we have a geographical footprint. Finally, we tried to contact everyone to check if they were still actively investing at the moment. This is why some household names may be missing: they told us they didn’t want to be listed, or were not currently investing.
Tony Han
@julien_fissette - thanks for sharing! Great idea leveraging top angels to refine the list. And love the mix/diversity here!
Andreas Sohns
This looks amazing! Find the right investors is always a headache, so Roundtable's Investor Profiles and database are a fantastic.
Christophe Pasquier
This is so good, I would have pid big bucks for this in our first rounds! Really amazing to open this, great job Roundtable team!
Evan Testa
Thanks Christophe
Jean de Rauglaudre
Delighting product! They make Angel investing possible. Also very helpful for projects looking for smart money. Recommend it blindly
Evan Testa
Thank Jean
Matty Reed
@jordan_dominguez have a peek at this tool! Might be able to bolster our TimeAlign pre-seed. Im curious if this is more than just an aggregated CRM? Does it include email contacts?
Enis Erdem Yurdatapan
Good analysis on the real problem and effective solution. Congrats! I've already registered the platform with an investor profile.
Chandula Perera
This is great! Out of curiosity, from the investments so far, how many founders got funding by reaching out to Investors, and how many investors reached out to founders? is there a percentage you could share?
Wilson Ler
Very cool! Will give this platform a shot as we're kickstarting our fundraising. Congratulations on the launch!
Julien Fissette
@ler_ws thanks Wilson! Don’t hesitate to reach out via DM if you need any help! And good luck with the fundraising!
Jed Ng
Congrats @evan_testa @julien_fissette on the relaunch. Absolutely must-have resource for angel community and getting early stage venture deals done!
Thibaud Lebastard
Great product! Do you streamline SPV admin creation with the French greffe? It's a nightmare to incorporate and modify French entities? It can save me a lot of time creating SC and SAS in France.
Matthieu Vaxelaire
This is BIG ! Super useful for us at eFounders ! Thanks Roundtable team!
Evan Testa
Happy to support you as much as we can !
Salar Davari
Good luck with your great tool! This is a real time savor.
MariKat
a great tool with Folk, I know exactly who I will recommend your platform to ! keep up the good work !
Evan Testa
Thanks Marikat
Jehan Oré
Amazing product that help both investors & founders keeping a clean captable, with an easy to manage SPV.
Evan Testa
Thanks Jehan !
Anthony Losso
Great tool to use when raising funds!
Julien Fissette
@tony_ls big thanks! Are you a maker or an investor?
Evan Testa
Thanks Anthony
Cassandra
This is really helpful!!! I like how it gathers those vital resources for people on both sides. Congratulations on your launch!
Evan Testa
Thanks Cassandra
Alexis Guinebretière
@cassandra11, Thank you for the feedback! And feel free to share the Investor Database with founders around you 😉