Bernardo Mendes Almeida

Growth Consulting For 100+ Businesses | Private Capital Advisory For Early/Mid Market Funds | CEO & Founder at Avalanche Capital

As an entrepreneur within the growth consulting and private capital advisory verticals, I have a passion for helping businesses scale and innovate in the digital economy. I have founded and still lead two successful ventures: Avalanche Consulting and Avalanche Capital.

Avalanche Consulting is a growth consulting firm that helps established service-based businesses to grow consistently and predictably by implementing infallible client acquisition infrastructures. We have partnered with over 100 businesses across various niches and geographies, delivering guaranteed results and exceptional value.

Avalanche Capital is a private capital advisory firm that offers a new and innovative fundraising methodology that minimises time commitment and costs, expedites fund allocation process, and builds an investor pool that aligns with the vision of early and mid-market funds. We leverage our marketing expertise, proprietary technology and vast network of investors to create a new type of investment vehicle that expands beyond the confines of traditional fundraising methodologies.

I have a strong educational background in business administration and management, with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Warwick Business School and a Fintech and Blockchain Programme from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. I also have a keen interest in emerging technologies, markets, and trends, and I enjoy learning and sharing my insights with others.

Founder & Managing Partner

Avalanche Capital offers a new and innovative fundraising methodology that minimises time commitment and costs, expedites fund allocation process and builds an investor pool that aligns with your vision.

As part of the Fundraisr launch today, we've added a new batch of investors:

- Family Offices;
- Angels/HNWIs;
- VCs.

Sector agnostic, and global.

So if you're raising, there's definitely something in there for you.

If you'd like to see a list fully tailored to your raise:

1. Comment "Fundraisr";
2. DM me.

I’ll send you a link to a €1 trial of Fundraisr (not available anywhere else).

On a mission to make fundraising smarter, faster and fairer | Founder & CEO @Fundraisr

Too many founders fail because they can’t get funded.

But that doesn’t have to be the case anymore.

For years, I’ve watched early and mid-market founders/fund managers grind through fundraising, either:

Manually researching investors, finding their contacts, writing personalised introductions;

Spending egregious amounts on middlemen that have little to no results to show for;

- Spamming their networks begging for a warm introduction.
- That is not the way to do it anymore.
- So we built Fundraisr.

A platform that allows founders and fund managers to manage their raises from strategy, to introductions, to pipeline management - all under one intuitive tool.

No gatekeepers, no predatory fees, no guesswork.

Fundraisr truly levels the playing field, and success now depends on execution, not connections.

If you’d like access to Fundraisr for €1:

1. Repost the trailer;
2. DM me.

I’ll send you a link to a trial of Fundraisr (not available anywhere else).

Raising capital should NOT be contingent on who you know.

Early and mid-market founders don’t lose because they lack relationships.

Stop optimising for coffee chats.

Run a real fundraising process.

The industry has been an "old boy's club" but that's all they are now. Old boys.

You can't expect to win in 2026 with 1986 processes.

“Your network is your net worth” is the industry’s biggest lie.

Networking-based fundraising in general is a lie.

That might be true if you’re Sam Altman.

But for early/mid-market funds and startups, networking is mostly a tax on your time.

“Let me introduce you to someone who might introduce you to someone else.”

It’s a bottleneck disguised as a strategy.

Late-stage companies can announce a raise and have investors line up.

But to get there, every company went through the phase where fundraising was manual, uncomfortable, and unforgiving.

The mistake is thinking networking is the shortcut.

It isn’t.

Last year my team and I spoke with 1,157 founders and fund managers looking to raise capital.

And their problems were almost always the same.

- They’ve exhausted their networks for introductions - with little to show for it.
- They’ve tried using middlemen - and weren’t happy with the results.
- They’ve attempted to raise in-house - and couldn’t get meaningful traction.

When you hear the same three problems more than a thousand times, you know for a fact your industry is seriously flawed.

Fundraising hasn’t failed because founders aren’t capable.

It failed because the process itself was never designed for early and mid-market companies.

And once you see that clearly, the solution isn’t more networking, better intros, or another intermediary.

It’s a different system altogether - one that gives founders direct access to investors, structured outreach, and full visibility over their raise.

Which - shameless plug - is precisely what we’ve developed at Fundraisr

Added a new batch of investors with dry powder to deploy in Q1 to the platform.

Called my CMO and asked for more demo calls this week.

Less than 24 hours later, my calendar is full and I can’t get any work done.

Thanks, Bruno.

How do you guarantee you'll secure investment in an unstable environment?

My team spent +100h answering this:

Over the last year, we’ve been embedded across $2B+ in active raises spanning 32 mandates - startups, funds, and everything in between.

That vantage point gives you a very different view of where capital is actually moving next.

We’ve distilled those patterns into a 17-page 2026 Private Capital Outlook, covering:

- Where LP attention is concentrating (and where it’s quietly pulling back)
how allocation behaviour is shifting post-2024

- Which sectors are building momentum before it becomes obvious
what early and mid-market managers need to adapt to in 2026

This isn’t commentary.

It’s pattern recognition from live mandates, and we’re sharing it for a short window.

If you want access:

1.Comment “Outlook”
2. Send me a connection request

I’ll send it directly.

Fundraising is always an uphill battle for first-time founders.

Especially if you don’t come from an impressive network.

For decades, this left founders with two real options.

Option one: hire middlemen - placement agencies, advisors, investment banks…

- High retainers;
- Predatory fees;
- Little transparency;
- Subpar results.

Option two: try to do it yourself.

- Endless investor research;
- Manual outreach;
- Chasing replies;

Fundraising slowly takes over your calendar - and your focus drifts away from the business.

Neither option really works for early/mid market.

So to show you what the better alternative is, I recorded this video below, and how Fundraisr solves the problem.

And for the last time I'm offering access to Fundraisr for €1:

1. Comment "Fundraisr";
2. DM me.

I'll send you the signup link.

Mohan ‎Muthoo 💬 🇬🇧 🌍

Founder @ Spring Drive | Driving Growth for B2B SaaS/AI | Multi-Award Nominated | 4th Ever Official UK Clay Expert | 👉 springdrive.co

Hey there 👋 I'm the Founder at Spring Drive - we drive growth with GTM Engineering, AI & Outbound for B2B SaaS and AI companies.

This means:

- Running Scaled Outbound Campaigns (Email + LinkedIn) with GTM Engineered data
- PLG Self-Serve Motions to drive signs that turn to paying users
- Cold calling with GTM Engineered Signals and Intelligence

🛠️We've worked with B2B across industries, Y-Combinator backed startups, globally recognized SaaS brands featured in Forbes and the Apple Store, B2B ecommerce companies, and everything in between.

We have a ton of case studies and accolades, having been nominated twice for our work (Finalist in the Standout Use of AI category at the UK Digital Excellence Awards, and for the GTM10 Awards), plus been recognized as Official Expert Partners by numerous top companies in GTM and Outbound.

Head to 👉 springdrive.co ORDM me, I will reply 💬

Founder

Mohan ‎Muthoo 🇬🇧

We didn't turn off campaigns over the holidays.

It's a good thing because we still booked sales meetings.


For this client, we sent 6 sales meetings over that period (one booked on Boxing day).

But this Monday (5th), everyone came back and we started rocking again full swing.

5 meetings booked in 1 day for the same client.


Q1 started already, hope everyone's booking :)


If you'd like to apply for a pilot to work with Spring Drive, head to the website springdrive(.)co and book a call.

Mohan Muthoo

Founder @ Spring Drive | Outbound & GTM Engineering for B2B SaaS/AI | 4th Ever Official UK Clay Expert | 👉 springdrive.co

Irrelevant personalization works.

There's a few nonsense points on LinkedIn about personalization.


You've probably seen a lot of 'relevance' is what matters.

But this space moves quickly.

Relevance is actually tablestakes at this point.


The fact your personalization is relevant does not make it interesting.

yer dull m8.

This is why people who say 'irrelevant personalization' is bad actually don't understand what's happening.


Sales is about psychology.

The reason why irrelevant personalization is 'bad' is because of the way its been traditionally used.


Which is as a disguised opener to reveal a pitch.

It's inherently deceptive.


I can use a door to let someone in or shut someone out.

The door isn't the problem.


But irrelevant personalization, such as some cool things in their location, where they went to school, or maybe something from a photo on their socials...

Can actually be how you build repour where everyone else fails.

You just have to do it correctly, which means 2 things:


1. Structure - don't use it as a way to open a gate to a business offer. That's deceptive.

It should a BY THE WAY.


2. You need to get good at using tools like Clay and prompt engineering to make how you frame those statements genuinely authentic.


'Saw you went to Plymouth University that's so impressive!'

Wtf.

But, saying:

'Omg, I was at Plymouth uni in 2009, did you ever go to Portland's Pizzeria?? I was there every thursday lol'


Irrelevant personalization is HIGHLY effective, if you understand what it is, why it matters, and how to deploy it.


Don't believe all the structural guru stuff on LinkedIn.

Actually some of its good, but a lot of it is dated.

If you are thinking of getting Clay you can sign up using my link and get an Extra 3k credits.

completely forgot I had this lol.


here u go:

Open article: Clay | Go to market with unique data—and the ability to act on it by clay.com

Clay | Go to market with unique data—and the ability to act on it

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