This document discusses opportunities for seed investors during the COVID-19 pandemic. It notes that valuations have been disrupted, allowing investors to get better deals and help businesses integrate, distribute their products more effectively, and validate their ideas. The pandemic has created a new normal where remote work will continue, certain industries need automating, and there are opportunities in healthcare, green technology, and more. Seed investors can provide experience, knowledge, and partnerships to help entrepreneurs mature their businesses and adapt to this changing environment.

1. Raising Capital During
#COVID19
The New Normal of Business Angel Investing
Sacha Vekeman
Founder 247Invest.Ventures

2. Co-founded and angel invested in following portfolio

3. Who has seen
this last month?
05.03.2020

4. Who remembers
this in 2008?

6. #COVID19
#Cash
“Make your business continue without Cash”
● One certainty = your business will have NO cash
● Stop paying, at all cost
● Rethink now or RIP
Why opportunity for seed investors?
● Valuations get disrupted 1/10
● Get rid of old money and no value
● Early mergers - group fast to get bigger

7. ● Printing free money
● Wannabe firemen
● Economy survival
Why opportunity for seed investors?
● Short term
● Risk reduction
● No strings attached
#COVID19
#Overheid
“Make your business lean into Overheid”

8. #COVID19
#Validate
“Put your business open to true Validation”
● Tell stories Belief?
● Find heroes Need?
● Do demos Value?
Why opportunity for seed investors?
● Validation = transparency
● Validation = customers
● Validation = learning
Do not pivot

9. ● Make your Team integratable (people buy people first)
● Make your Tech integratable (don’t reinvent the wheel, build a bike)
● Make your Tone integratable (open culture, transparency, positive drive)
Why opportunity for seed investors?
● Exit
● Merge
● Refurbish
#COVID19
#Integration
“Make your business integratable”

10. ● Build platform, commit to payout, not to product or pricing
● Build channels fast - go downstream fast
● Make cash go upstream - stay at source
Why opportunity for seed investors?
● Network (=access to value)
● International (=path to scale)
● Exclusivity (=be the only one or be first)
#COVID19
#Distribution
“Make your business distributable”

11. #COVID19
#19 Age of Maturity
● Social distancing & remote work - the new normal for many years to come
● Automate broken industries - don’t sit on a dead horse (and try to ride it)
● The green deal / digital transformation / decarbonization / healthcare AND SO
MUCH MORE HAPPENING RIGHT NOW
Why opportunity for seed investors?
● Experience - older - we have at least recovered from 1 black swan, maybe more
● Knowledge - wiser - access to expertise domains, e.g. funding, sectors, politics
● Entrepreneurs can NOT do it alone, you need partners ⇒ 247 INVEST
“You are a Startup and are out of your teenage
years, mature fast and adopt to the New Normal”

12. #COVID19 - Get immune for the right things...

13. So yes, we still
invest during
#COVID19

14. Stay Safe
Sacha Vekeman
https://247invest.ventures
sacha@247invest.ventures
+32 499504050