Start-Up Update: The Elektor Investment Program

摘要

As a start-up or scale-up, there comes a time when bootstrapping is no longer an option. If you are lucky, you already have some paying customers, but you will need money to take your business to the next level. Maybe you need to hire a team, enter new markets, or extend your development. The most likely step is to talk with investors. As a founder, you might ask yourself: Am I ready to pitch to them? Is my business plan and pitch deck ready? Will investors take me seriously? Members of the Elektor Investment Program team will guide you through this venture. We can help with your business plan, assist you in preparing your pitch deck, and match you with investors from our network. If you simply send your pitch deck to investors and hope for the best, you could get declined for any number of reasons. Perhaps you contact the wrong investor. Or maybe your pitch deck lacks important information. One thing is for sure: you need to make the most of your pitch opportunities. So, why did we set up the Elektor Investment Program? We’ve been running start-up competitions for a few years [2], and we’ve been interacting with many promising start-ups all along the way. Developing a program to further help start-ups find funding and partners was a logical next step.