Evaldas Girskus

Bedrokk

CEO & Founder

CBRX

GTM Advisor

Dena Startup Lab

GTM Mentor

Equipzilla

Trade Foresight™

SIZZL

Grape ID™

PlaySpark

Off U Go!

Advisory Board Member

Founders Sunday

Founded the global community “Founders Sunday”. 

It serves as a non-profit educational platform and support for founders in all continents of the world (1100 + start-ups/scale-ups) 

The community meets up every Friday at 1 pm CET on zoom for lively discussions related to the founder's journey (#founderscoffee☕️) 

For founders - By Founders 💡 

Co-founders/ founders: Ragnhild, Donnie, Sammy, Gunnvor and Håvard.

Co-Founder

Protecting Founder's Equity by Unlocking Revenue-Growth for Startups | Mitigating Investor Risk through Strategic Portfolio Support | Helped 300+ Founders Build Startups | 3 x Founder | Advisor | Board Member

We help founders turn their vision into reality. 

We are a team of founders and industry experts who understand the challenges startups face, and we'll teach you how to overcome them.

Here's how we can help:

Investors ↴

VC Funds, Family Offices, Syndicates and Angel Investors ↴

→ COMMERCIAL DUE DILLIGENCE 

Minimising VC fund Risk and Maximising Portfolio Value through Strategic Growth Support

Founders ↴

Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A ↴

→ CUSTOMISED GTM STRATEGY 

We do all the heavy lifting for you by putting together a Go-To-Market strategy that focuses on solving your immediate needs.

→ DONE WITH YOU (DWY) EXECUTION 

Teaching you the same thinking process, strategies, and skills that have helped us generate MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN ARR.

→ STARTUP GROWTH ACCELERATION 

Streamlining your startup's growth by avoiding critical mistakes, focusing on the right things, and doubling down on what works.

We helped scale and grow companies such as VireUp, Ethiack, Equipzilla, Next Retreat, Tradeforesight, Sizzl, CBRX, Playspark, and many other startups.

Shoot me a DM if you're building a B2C/B2B SaaS, Marketplace, Mobile App, or AI startup.

Are you ready?

www.bedrokk.com

FundingHero

Simplifying the startup fundraising process for technology startups

Founder

Connected Places Catapult

Providing programme mentorship for cohort members as a CFO and investment advice to raise external funding to scale up.

HS2 Accelerator Programmme Mentor: CFO & Funding Expert

FoAM Accelerator Programmme Mentor: CFO & Funding Expert

The Startup Fundraising MBA

Proud Author ✍️ of The Startup Fundraising MBA and creator of The 6 Pillars of Fundraising showing founders how to secure millions in funding from Idea stage to Series A. Available via Amazon.com

Author The Startup Fundraising MBA

Founder + Lightning

Creating and delivering the scale up strategy for ucreate to achieve their mission to build tech founders ideas into successful businesses, quicker, better, stronger.

CFO & Board advisor

Growthpreneur

Financial expertise guiding your scale up business success www.growthpreneur.co.uk

CFO & Founder

Aspiring Point Group

BrewBroker

Fourpure Brewing Co.

- Responsible for managing the commercial aspects at Fourpure. Covering areas such as pricing 
  strategy, cost control & optimisation, owner of contract services, investment appraisal, managing 
  planning for operations and general business guidance. 
- Providing M&A advisory and due diligence expertise
- Member of Senior Leadership team directing the business strategy and operations.

Commercial Director

Responsible for growing, developing and managing the finance function with FOURPURE BREWING whilst on its exciting journey with an absolutely brilliant team of people. Inspired by adventure.....

Finance Director

Six Degrees Group

Group Finance Director

Head of Finance Managed Data Services

Head of Commercial Pricing

I was recruited into an extremely fast paced and time constrained environment in a new position made to oversee the management accounts, forecasting and budgeting production. 

My immediate objective was to stabilise, motivate and develop the finance team following a very difficult merger (the business doubled to £55m T/O). 

I was required to review the complex business model for all current accounting practices and make the team work smarter, provide more accurate, relevant information and develop the bespoke IT system to deliver better reporting outputs.

Chief Accountant

With 2 exits & over 20 acquisitions I'm an experienced CFO, Angel investor & Founder of Tech platform FundingHero.co.uk 

My focus is on helping Tech Startups raising funding from Initial Seed to Series A. 

My Angel investments are into a Venture Builder & Studio which has a portfolio of over 20+ startups and most recently into a data driven AI matchmaking platform for early stage venture funds.

I provide advice for advisor equity to early stage companies, my value & experience helps founders;

- Stop them burning huge sums of money by avoiding hugely costly mistakes early on.
- Define a powerful commercial strategy that lets then get to revenue quickly and be more investable
- Create realistic financial models that make sense and get founders funded
- Help them understand how to build a company towards an exit with a real strategic focus 
  
My platform & consultancy FundingHero.co.uk focuses on simplifying the startup fundraising process. 

My career has been focused on delivering shareholder value in high growth platforms. 

Founder + Lightning:	Successfully raising £2.4m in Angel & Venture debt for growth
Fourpure Brewing Co:. 	Exit to Multi national trade, rapid growth & high exit revenue multiple.
Six Degrees Group. 	Buy & Build, 15 acquisitions. Sold to PE, double digit EBITDA exit. 

I enjoy playing a strategic role in the business towards engineering an exit whilst being very hands on running the day to day to ensure the team is aligned and all working towards creating a highly scalable & valuable business. 

My strengths are in financial modelling & commercial strategy, coupled with understanding the reality of how businesses operate and scale. This enables me to quickly show a range of scenarios so founders can make informed decisions to execute their businesses plans successfully.   

Over 20+ years experience covering;

- Fundraising equity & debt
- Strategic exits to PE & Trade 
- Execute high organic growth strategies
- 20+ Acquisitions & mergers from DD to Integration
- IT systems design & Integration
- Finance function build & centralisation
- Business restructuring
- Financial modelling & analysis

Jim Shirley

🚨 Before You Pitch to a Single VC… Ask Yourself One Question

“Am I actually raising the right type of money?”

I see this every week…

A brilliant founder and early traction but stuck in a 6–12 month grind because they chased VCs before they understood what VCs are built to fund.

And the cost isn’t just frustration.

It’s lost time, lost momentum, and missed opportunities to grow while you were stuck in inbox purgatory.

Here’s the reality nobody tells founders early enough:

💡 VCs don’t fund just potential. 

They are looking for the best of the best of the best 😎

They are looking for that select few that sit in the 0.5% of companies they chose to back. 

If your stage, revenue model, team, market size or traction don’t match the VC template, it doesn’t matter how good the pitch deck looks.
You're simply in the wrong queue. 😩

But once you understand the VC mindset, what they prioritise, how they filter deals, and what signals matter,  the whole fundraising journey becomes 10x clearer and the type of money suitable for you.

That’s exactly why we’re running this session 👇

📢 Inside the VC Mindset: Raising Smarter, Raising Bigger

Free webinar — still time to register

📅 Wednesday 26 November 2025
⏰ 12.30pm – 1.30pm
🎤 Speakers:
• Jim Shirley, FundingHero  
• Lewis Stringer, British Business Bank
• Hannah Tapsell Chapman - Mercia Ventures, Mercia Ventures
🔗 Register here: https://lnkd.in/eWAVtDqS

We’ll break down:

👉 How VCs assess a deal in the first 3 minutes
👉 What they look for that angels may not
👉 The real signals behind traction and team
👉 How due diligence actually works at the institutional level
👉 What founders must do 3–6 months BEFORE raising

If you’re building something innovation-led and raising £500k–£3m, you cannot afford to guess this stuff.

Spend one hour now 🎯
Save six months later. 💪

#Startups #Founders #fundraising #venture capital #vc #tech

Author ✍️ The Startup Fundraising MBA | Helping Founders Successfully Fundraise & Scale | Founder FundingHero.co.uk

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