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The 10 commandments of doing business in the US

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The 10 commandments of doing business in the US

Doing business in the US means adapting to the local culture. Here are 10 commandments you need to adopt to increase your chances of success: 1. If you’re on time, you’re already late. Punctuality is key to making a good impression, being late to meetings will be interpreted

A data-driven approach to an early US expansion

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A data-driven approach to an early US expansion

Newfund Capital invests and supports early stage France-based startups in their US expansion. We strongly believe that such an early international expansion comes with great benefits for the product, the team, the future financings, and finally the liquidity for all. Recently two of our landmark investments have made headlines, Aircall

Meet the latest French founder who moved to the US and raised $100M

Meet the latest French founder who moved to the US and raised $100M

It has been a big month for Newfund portfolio startup Nfinite. With our support, among others, the company just closed a $100 million Series B with New York City-based Insight Partners. This comes after the company closed a $15 million round of Series A funding in February when our US

Is Newfund useful?

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Is Newfund useful?

With a massive slowdown of our inbound deal flow due to Covid-19, we decided to pause proactive investments for two months (apart from committed term sheets & hand shakes) and ask ourselves how we could be more useful to our founders? Although this strategic evolution of being more than just a

Your Series A check sheet ✔️

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Your Series A check sheet ✔️

If you prefer to download directly the check sheet, download is here. Newfund recently announced its 3rd series A refinancing in a row over the last three months. First came FairMoney with Flourish Ventures & DST partners. Then Fairmarkit with Insight Partners. And a few weeks ago, came Young Alfred with

How to raise your Seed round in San Francisco (via Zoom) ?

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How to raise your Seed round in San Francisco (via Zoom) ?

Ever since Newfund Capital landed in the US in 2013 via a “flip” of one of its portfolio companies, its american-ess has progressively increased : 1/3 of our investments are state-side, 15% of our LPs live in the US, 25% of the Newfund team has an american training and we

Portfolio analysis in trying times

Portfolio analysis in trying times

With the Covid-19 crisis hitting all data points at full speed, valuations as of Dec 31st, 2019 became obsolete. We needed a new tool to assess the health of our portfolio for internal prioritization as well as LP reporting. In this article, we share our methodology as implemented at the

The reasons behind our investment in Fairmarkit

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The reasons behind our investment in Fairmarkit

Looking back on 2020, one of the accelerated changes driven by the pandemic was the transformation of supply chains. Companies that invested in procurement solutions such as Fairmarkit before the pandemic found themselves better prepared for the disruptions. Fairmarkit brings peace of mind to procurement teams when they’re trying

Do VCs really add value? — Founders say sometimes.

Do VCs really add value? — Founders say sometimes.

NOTE: If Hacker Noon & Medium allowed multiple authors, this post would carry 2 other important names. The study referenced below, its findings, and this writing is a joint effort by Carl Fritjofsson at Creandum and Owen Reynolds from University of Chicago. Any reference to this work should also include their