I make Pre-Seed to Series B founders successfully fundraise by helping you build your fundraising operating system. | $350m+ raised with founders. | Follow me for tips on fundraising.

I have spent the last 10 years trying to find the "secret" sauce to making you fundraise for your company.

And you know what?

There's no secret. 

It’s just a matter of having: 

- The right preparation & processes
- A clear and concise narrative & storytelling
- Structured relationships built over a long period 

The real "secret", if there's any at all, is that you need to build a system around your fundraise to make sure you do the proper work.

A system means that allows you to: 

- Efficiently build the right relationships with investors and connectors
- Influence investors that YOU are a good bet
- Take them through your process in an efficient manner 

All the while keeping accountability of you doing the boring but important stuff.

During the $400m+ in venture funding I have been a part of, I was able to meet best-in-class  entrepreneurs. 

Some of these entrepreneurs have gone on to raise $100M+ in fundraising each. ​

All of them possessed operating systems for the fundraises. 

I’ve built such a system for fundraising founders. 

And I can help you build yours. 

But as with all things, getting started, maintaining consistency and keeping accountability is easier said than done.

The founders I have helped with their fundraises have gone on to raise $250M+. 

...And I'm doing all of this with a 100% MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE.

Now, are you serious about building fundraising for your startup? 

Let's make it happen.

(I CAN'T HELP YOU IF YOU HAVE ALREADY STARTED YOUR FUNDRAISE). 

👉🏼 Shoot me a DM, or head over to my featured section & check out our offer.

I'll see you at the top!

Gian Seehra

A paid “intro service” just cold-DM’d me… 


asking if I invest.

I don’t.

And a 10-second look at my profile makes that obvious.

You can see the message down below after I asked why they connected with me. 

This is why you should be careful paying for “VC intros”:

𝟭) 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝟱𝟬𝟬 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀

If they did, they wouldn’t be spraying DMs at random people.

𝟮) 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 “𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘀” 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗺 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱

You’re not getting "warm" relationships as much as they pretend. 

They will just spam you out in the hopes someone bites. 

𝟯) 𝗜𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴

Investors can smell mass outreach instantly.

Even if you get a call they will think you are desperate and think less of you. 

-

Think about it:

Someone paid this firm to “open doors”…
…and they’re knocking on mine.

So if you’re raising, do this instead:

1. Build a clean target list (100+ funds)
2. Get real warm paths (operators, founders, experts)
3. Send thoughtful, specific outreach
4. Give more than you take 
5. Only then ask for potential intros 

Stop paying for “intros.”

Because they don't work. 

Instead, pay with effort. With work. 
Just like the top 1% of founders do.

What do you think of "paid for" intros? 

P.S. Some paid for intros actually can work btw, but ~5% of the people doing it are like that. And you have no way of knowing who is good or bad. Most are spamming like this!

Failed 2 fundraises. Then raised $16M. Now I teach founders everything I wish I’d known. | Ex-Octopus Ventures VC | $250M+ raised with founders | DM “RAISE” to chat

In 2018, I met a seed-stage company that I was excited about. 

The founders had: 

1. Previously built an app with 1 million users
2. Now building a high potential company 
3. Already hired amazing people  

I was hooked with the new company's vision. 

And believed that they had the potential to be truly game-changing. 

In fact, I still do... 

On paper, everything looked great. 

They were:

• Experienced founders
• Building a great product
• Targeting a large market
• And a track record of growth

But then it all came crumbling down. 

Why? 

Because we never actually met the CEO... 

3 meetings down and he kept saying he was too busy. 

How could we invest into a company when we hadn’t even met the leader? 

We decided not to waste our time and rejected the company in the end. 

This is why its so important to make sure its always the CEO conducting the first few meetings. 

Even if you think someone else may be better at telling the story.

♻️ Repost is you think this can be helpful to other founders

-- 
P.S. Wondering if pictures like below are useful or not. Yay or nay on them? 

#entrepreneurship #startups #venturecapital

A “3-week raise” is real. It just starts 3 months earlier.

Because the “fast raise” isn't something that just 𝗽𝗼𝗼𝗳𝘀 out of thin air...

What it usually looks like in the wild:

1. Over 3–6 months, the market starts leaning in.
2. Multiple "random" signals to investors. 
3. Experts telling them you are one to watch. 
4. Other founders mentioning you. 
5. VCs starting to keep you on track. 

Those investors are watching (even if you don’t realize).

They’ve seen enough cycles to know the pattern:

Great founders execute… repeatedly… over time.

So by the time you “start the raise,” you’re not having to introducing yourself.

But instead just giving them a moment to act. 

RIGHT NOW. 

That’s where speed comes from:

𝗙𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆
You’ve been in their orbit long enough that they are starting to believe you can do it. 

𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝗳 𝗲𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
They've seen you execute so well they know this is the last chance to invest. 

𝗣𝗿𝗲-𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲
A few investors don’t want to “wait and see” anymore, so they try to get in early.

Then one thing happens that changes everything:

A credible investor moves first.
A first term sheet (or a clear lead signal) hits the table.

And now the dynamic flips:

Now you're "hot" and everyone wants in. 

That’s how a "3-week raise" actually happens:

Not from waking up one day and “running a process.”

But from months (sometimes years) of compounding execution + investor awareness. 

Things you need to be spending every day doing. 

Now if you want to learn what the 5 mistakes every founder makes thats making them fail their fundraises. 

Comment "MISTAKE" and i'll send it over.

My friend had the perfect CV, yet still got zero jobs. 

And it was due to 1 simple reason: 

My friend had everything going for him: 

1. Incredible track record 
2. High-level roles 
3. Clear results

So he assumed getting a job would be easy.

But after 6–7 months of applying online, he had 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨. 

He was burning time, burning savings, burning confidence. 

Why did this happen? 

Because he was applying 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘥. 

His resume got buried with 200+ others. 
All trying to do the exact same thing. 

Yet when he decided to get respected people to introduce him to hiring managers... 

Everything changed! 

And he was hired within a month. 

Does that sound familiar to you? 

Because founders do the same thing in fundraising. 

You are: 

1. Cold emailing decks
2. Spamming on linkedin dms
3. Submitting through portals…

And wondering why you’re not getting real meetings.

The truth is because its very much like hiring. 

If you aren't leveraging someone else's social capital via warm intros.

Then your pitch deck gets put at the bottom of the pile. 

So don't be like every founder. 

It's not going to work.

How are you making sure you get enough investor meetings? 

P.S. Wanna learn how to get 100+ warm intros consistently in your funding round? Then DM me "NETWORK" and I'll send you more info.

🎥 Gabriel Isserlis

Unlocking space for creativity: Founder/CEO of Tutti

My expertise lies at the intersection of creativity and technology, which has inspired 
1. Tutti: "AirBnB for creative spaces" (2018-2025)
2. SuperScout: "Your personal database of locations, supercharged with AI" (2024- )

(Side note: I won't accept connection requests unless you give me a compelling reason, or I've met you in person)

With degrees in film making and software development, as well as a decade of work in music, theatre, and photography, and years building tech startups, I have a unique set of insights. 

These have inspired creative technical solutions to problems I have experienced first hand in the creative industries, one of the fastest growing sectors that is already worth more than $3tr to humanity. 

Follow Tutti & SuperScout to see those ideas become a reality

www.tutti.space - www.superscout.ai

Follow me here to get honest stories, insights, and thoughts about the highs, lows, and in-betweens of building a startup: 

- It's not an easy or quick journey, but it's a bloody rewarding one. 

- You can't do it alone. If you think you can, you're kidding yourself. 

- You don't know what you don't know - you'll always be learning things you never knew you needed to know.

- Everything is about relationships. Start building them early and often. You never know who might be able to help you. 


Lastly, this is me behind the companies and experience: 
I love to: 
- Invent solutions
- Design product (UX - I'm great at functional, not so good at pretty)
- Support other founders (it's a bloody difficult journey)
- Inspire others
- Dream up & build the future!

Founder & CEO

I've never been more excited for the future of my company, and I've been building for many years! 

💸  Today we have more cash in the bank than at any point in the last 2 years! 
😇  We've just had 3 more customers invest because they loved the product so much as a client, they had to back us as investors too!
🤩 Tomorrow we have a call with a massively famous film location that got told 3 times in 48 hours that they should check us out! 

👀  Major clients in the industry are getting seriously blown away by our tech. 
😮  We're working on features literally never seen before in this industry (that will make a lot of people want to be part of the SuperScout network)
🎉  And importantly, our recurring revenue is growing! 

Talking of major clients, here's one to shout about: English Heritage has recently joined us! 

Below is a sneak peak of their SuperScout powered database, that we'll be launching soon!

Thank you for the ever ongoing support Dharmil Trivedi Alan Jay Bhaskar Zala Vidhi Bhatt Joseph Ferreira Campos Oliver Laurenson-Gore Alex Brooks Richard Williams-Bulkeley Gary Kinch Ruth Bryant Pippa Cawdron Dan Douglas Christina Pascoe and so many more its impossible to tag here!

Follow me if you want to be notified when that launches!

Empowering filmmakers with radically better software (SuperScout); Dad, Founder, Mentor, Cat Dad

I'm thrilled to share that Dharmil Trivedi has officially become co-founder of SuperScout. 

Honestly, from an internal perspective he's been a co-founder since SuperScout's inception. He built the initial prototype we took to Berlin Film Festival, and has been the mastermind of the tech since then. 

While I come up with the ideas of what to build and which product features to add, Dharmil is brilliant at turning my ideas into reality. 

I love working with Dharmil. We've been working together almost 6 years now and I've seen him step up and up into every single challenge I've thrown at him. 

And he is as dedicated to making SuperScout a success as I am (which is saying something). 

As I said, internally, he's been fulfilling the role of co-founder for years but as we're entering the most exciting period of the company yet, I just wanted to make it official publicly. 

We have some very exciting new partners coming on board right now and the future is looking very bright. 

Here's to the future Dharmil Trivedi!

Dealing with the emotions of founder life is bloody hard, but I'm now realising it's so much harder as a founder dad. 

Founder life really is an emotional rollercoaster. I heard this from other founders including Nick Telson-Sillett and Dan Murray when I was getting started. 

But I also experienced it early on: 
  📈 From closing big sales to losing big sales hours apart. 

  ™️ To almost getting a trademark but then being blocked by pre-Musk Twitter at the 11th hour (a story for another time). 

  💸 To closing my first big fundraise after months of work, and then the reality hitting me hours later that I had received hard-earned money from friends, family, and supporters around the world and that I needed to put it to good use, and that's when the real work had to start. 


So as a founder, I do my best to keep my emotions as level as possible for my team. Yes I try to celebrate the wins, but I don't go over the top for them because the higher I go the harder I fall. And I don't want my team to experience the rollercoaster that's inside me almost every day. 

But now, as a work at home dad, this is even tougher. My team and I are not on call 24/7. But I am around my son basically 24/7. I work from home most of the time. I travel with my wife and my son, so my wife can work. Since my son was born 13+ months ago, we've never been apart for more than 8 hours. 

The highs in the emotional rollercoaster are fine. He doesn't understand why I'm happy but he's happy that I am. It's the lows that are tough. Sometimes I lose a sale. Or have a particularly tough conversation. And then right after, it's my wife's time to work and my time to go on dad duty. 

I do my best to shield him from my negative emotion. And yet, I often need to process why I'm feeling the low. So I have to project this sense of joyfulness to him while also trying to process the negativity inside, and telling myself I can find time to process later once he's gone to bed (never works...) 

Fortunately my wife is amazing and helps me massively in all this - she's my biggest supporter and every time I have a low she reminds me how much I've achieved! 

But it's still a bloody tough balance, and I imagine only going to get tougher as my son understands more and more! Anyone else experience this? Got any tips? 

(I know this isn't exclusive to founders but I feel like it's amplified with the founder emotion rollercoaster) 

Photo of me dealing with the emotions of 8+ hours of trains in a day last week...

I received a wonderful email this week from a location manager in Spain! 

"I just discovered SuperScout & I honestly think it's the best tool of its kind that I've come across"

"I mainly wanted to write to congratulate you, as it really feels like a tool finally built by people who truly understand what is needed" 

This made me grin from ear to ear! 

While I ask people for critical feedback all the time, it is also wonderful to hear stuff like this! Means we're really on the right track!

I'm thrilled to be building a company slap bang in the middle of this awesome industry. 

We have so many exciting developments in the works and to hear last year was the biggest year ever (as an industry) makes me so excited for the future.

In case you hadn't heard, the British Film Institute (BFI) revealed a £6.8 billion film and high-end TV production spend in the UK in 2025!

💥 High-end TV accounted for the majority of spend, contributing £4 billion (59%), up 17% on 2024

💥 Feature film production delivered £2.8 billion (41%), up 31% on 2024 - the highest annual spend on record

💥 Inward investment films and HETV combined generated £5.8 billion, representing 85% of total production spend and reinforcing the UK’s global reputation as a world-leading centre for international film and TV production

There continues to be strong international confidence in the UK screen industries, and we're proud to be a part of it alongside our national and regional partners 🤝

📸 Universal

British Film Commission

#filmandtv #ukfilm

One way we've caught some attention in our industry, is speed! 

Speed of communication
& Speed of development 

Our customers are used to updates happening once a year and customer service being over email and taking days if not weeks to get a response. 


That's not how we do things!!!
 
If they're happy with it, I ask customers to message me over whatsapp - I just find it so much faster for quick asks & questions. 

And I try to get everyone to tell me when they're having frustrations with SuperScout: If something doesn't work how they want or expect; or if they expect it to do something it doesn't. 

And when possible we build small things fast. In this age of AI I don't just take feedback and assign to my team... I build what I can myself (and my team check my work haha) 


Yesterday I got a feature request from Pippa Cawdron: can we have the the M25 ringroad around London in SuperScout as a boundary that everyone can access?

Last night after my day of meetings was done, I worked with Claude Code to build a boundary of that (couldn't find off the shelf data in the right format). 

Then I used Cursor to implement it into our existing code base. 

This morning, my team pushed it with a load of other updates. And what was an idea yesterday, was a fully functioning feature today. 

Our customers have time and again said how they're loving the speed we operate at. As our processes improve, we're only going to speed up!!!

🏛️ George Devey designed the house to look like it evolved over centuries, not built all at once; red brick base, half-timbered upper floors - more informal English country house, not stately home.

Ascott House and Gardens is a 4,400-acre Rothschild estate near Leighton Buzzard, given to the National Trust in 1947:

🎨 The ground-floor rooms showcase artwork from Gainsborough, Reynolds, Stubbs, in addition to Chinese ceramics dating to Han Dynasty 
🏗️ 3,500 acres of working farmland, 290 acres of woodland & 78 kilometres of hedgerows 
🏏 A First-class cricket pitch with Victorian pavilion dating back to the early 1900’s
🚛 Large areas for unit bases and temporary film lots (subject to planning) 
🚗 Private roads throughout the estate 
📺 Perfect for period dramas, contemporary rural stories & sports films.

The 30-acre gardens include a topiary sundial made entirely from box and yew. Interior features include trompe-l'oeil dining room walls and hand-stencilled wallpaper in the hall. The estate's 78 kilometers of hedgerows, 290 acres of woodland, and private roads provide infrastructure for base camps, multiple units, and extended schedules across varied terrain.

Get in touch with Buckinghamshire Film Office to learn more about shooting here. https://lnkd.in/ezSubQNP 

#FilmLocation #PeriodDrama #Buckinghamshire #UKFilming #LocationScouting #CountryEstate #HeritageLocation #ProductionLife

🏛️ Rafael Viñoly turned the traditional white cube gallery inside-out. This golden crescent houses a 2,000-year-old Roman mosaic and won Museum of the Year 2021.

This location in Colchester was designed by Rafael Viñoly:

✨ TECU Gold cladding applied by hand (copper-aluminum alloy)
🎬 3,200 square meters of curved gallery spaces
🎥 180-seat tiered cinema with 6-meter screen
📺 Works for contemporary settings, sci-fi, architectural features, exhibition/museum scenes

The concrete raft foundation sits on protected archaeological land with a no-dig policy preserving Roman remains beneath. The mosaic from AD 200 was unearthed here in 1923, and a first-century Roman wall is visible from the galleries. The 140-meter curved wall was clad by a team of 20 plumbers working by hand. Located fifty minutes from London Liverpool Street.

Get in touch with Essex Film Office ( Gary Kinch ) to learn more about shooting here. https://lnkd.in/ew9N5iwh 

#FilmLocation #ContemporaryArchitecture #Essex #UKFilming

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