Company Information
Funding Inquiry
#### Company Information
- Company Name
- Sector/Industry
- Location
- Company Website
- Contact Name and Title
- Crunchbase profile URL
- AngelList profile URL
- How did you hear about Motivate?
- Please email your investor presentation (deck, exec summary, funding docs, etc.) or submit links to Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, etc below
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#### Company Description
- Briefly describe the Company and the problem you are solving:
- What is the general founding story?
- Founders' entrepreneurial history?
- B2B, B2C, Other?
- How do you generate revenue? Is it Transactional, Recurring, or Repeatable?
- Current Revenue?
- Current Monthly Burn (net of Revenue)?
- How much capital are you currently raising?
- Type (Equity, Note, SAFE) with terms (valuation, cap, liq pref, discount, interest):
- Round (Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A):
- If you have a lead investor for this round, please provide the name and contact information
- List your three biggest investors in this round and amounts
- List your three biggest investors in previous rounds and amounts
- Detail your Use of Funds from this raise
- How many months of runway will this round give you?
- When do you plan to raise the next round?
- If you have a product, summarize its state of development (alpha, beta, in market):
- Initial traction (in revenues, users, etc):
- Monthly growth rate of clients or users:
- Who are your primary competitors?
- What are the biggest challenges to the business?
- Size and composition of your Total Addressable Market (TAM):
- What is the size of Serviceable Addressable Market (SAM)? Please describe the inputs to this formula:
- What is the size of Serviceable Obtainable Market (SOM)? Please describe the inputs to this formula:
- Why is NOW the perfect time to launch this business?
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Personal Info
#### Contact Information
- First Name
- Last Name
#### Work History
- LinkedIn Profile URL
- Summary of your professional experience:
- What did you love and what did you hate about your past roles?
- What is/are your ultimate professional goal(s)?
- Describe your dream professional role:
- What excites you about the Head of Fund Ops role?
- What else are you into?
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#### Related Experience and Qualifications
- POSITION-RELATED EXPERIENCE:
- Create positive change and facilitate productivity with clear direction and accountability.
- Establish and maintain business operations for accuracy, productivity, and reliability; create and standardize SOPs across the business.
- Work with a third party fund administrator to ensure proper books and reporting.
- Manage SPV processes from start to finish.
- Refine and execute processes for investment closings, portfolio reporting, and quarterly LP reporting.
- Maintain internal financial models, update metrics, and forecast cash flows.
- Properly allocate and pay relevant bills/payables.
- Launch and optimize marketing efforts, including social media and website management. Help build and brand content for LinkedIn and website blog.
- Organize and secure all internal files and investment paperwork.
- Liaise with external accountant on Annual Audit for funds and SPVs.
- Maintain internal systems, including CRM, email marketing and portfolio model software.
- Create and help execute proper interviewing, hiring, onboarding, and offboarding policies.
- Assist with fundraising.
- PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS AND SUPERPOWERS:
- Extremely organized, high sense of prioritization and ownership. Able to juggle multiple projects while maintaining keen attention to detail.
- Solution-driven, moves things forward.
- High EQ, low ego. Earns trust quickly, a tactful communicator, and leads by example.
- Adaptable and comfortable with ambiguity. Self-starter.
- Good, positive energy. Likes to laugh.
- Willingness to jump in; no job too big or too small.
- Open, honest, & direct communication – able to communicate comfortably in 1-1, group, and written settings.
- Nimble: process-oriented, with the ability to take action to adapt to the situation.
- Curious, collaborative, confident, biased toward action, and acts and thinks like an owner.
- Legally permitted to work in the US.
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Functions
#### Functions at Motivate Ventures
- Close investments and managing the investment/company afterward (experience required)
- Perform market and financial diligence on investments
- Talent acquisition for portfolio companies
- Source companies to analyze for investment
- Manage day to day operations of the firm
- Investor relations (experience required)
- Fund administration (experience required)
- Manage events
- Thesis creation and research
- Content creation
- Social Media
- Web3 / Crypto advice
- Incubate a new venture (EIR)
- Run one of our companies (experience required)
- Helping anywhere and everywhere while you learn the ropes
#### Functions at our Companies
- Technology Leadership
- Web3 engineering
- Advanced Software engineering
- Entry Level Software Engineering
- UI/UX
- Design
- Managing tech hardware (devops)
- Financial Leadership
- Compliance
- Bookkeeping
- Operations Leadership
- Managing events
- Marketing Leadership
- Social Media
- Content creation
- Email marketing
- Customer acquisition
- Sales Leadership
- Enterprise Sales
- Middle Market Sales
- Entry Level Sales
- SaaS Sales
- Supporting customers
- Community building
- Partnerships
- Legal matters
- Helping anywhere and everywhere while you learn the ropes
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Conclusion
- Thank you for your time and we will promise to review each response. It may take us some time, so please be patient.