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Lacher: Two-thirds of European founders reject US multi-stage seed term sheets
“I see, to be honest, two thirds of the founders at seed stage that have those term sheets, rather going for European seed fund setup, because they want to keep the A-Round open to choose from those funds.”
Lacher: La Famiglia's First Fund Achieved a 10x Return
“The fund is now at 10 times the money that we invested and it's doing well.”
Lacher: Visionaries Club sources 60%-70% of deal flow via WhatsApp groups
“So the way we source deals, I'd say some 60, 70% are through our founder networks that we typically were operated in WhatsApp groups and that's kind of how they share deals”
Lacher: 90% of companies in Europe are family businesses
“What we have in Europe is, 90% of our companies are family businesses.”
Lacher: La Famiglia Fund I Backed Deel, Personio, and Other Unicorns
“So we've invested in 30 companies. Many of them have turned unicorns or decacorns like Deal, Presonio, Shoko, Forto, where we've had the privilege to be seed investors.”
Lacher: Visionaries Club Scaled to $600M AUM in Three Years
“We've built Visionaries within three years, a great fund, now six hundred million under management”
Lacher: Visionaries aims for 5 to 10 seed deals per year
“We want to rather have maybe five to 10 investments a year in a seed fund, spending time with the founders and then just having maybe 40 deals and just knowing maybe the name of one or two founders.”
Lacher: BioNTech raised $130 million seed round led by Strüngmanns
“It was a hundred thirty million seed round led by the Strugmann brothers, who were basically farmer entrepreneurs.”
Lacher: Visionaries Club's LPs are exclusively unicorn founders and family business owners
“Look, I think the main difference, if you look at visionaries, is that on, on our investor side, we only have successful entrepreneurs. On the one hand side, we have 30 unicorn founders that have built great digital companies, like the founders of Miro, UiPath…”