Vejderkop: Metro Accelerator rejected QuickOrder due to broken cap table
Mads Vejderkop · QuickOrder Hits $4m In Under 18 Months Helping Restaurants Survive Pandemic · Oct 3, 2020 · at 14:58
Mads Vejderkop, co-founder and CEO of QuickOrder, describes how early toxic investment terms caused the startup to get turned down by accelerators.
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“So when Metro Accelerator came around a couple of years in, and wonders of us on we actually went to the selection day, but got turned down because of our cap table in the end and had to fix that.”
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