Startup Funding

March 6, 2019

TEN Capital Network- Funding as a Service (FaaS)

As the business world moves to a service economy, everything becomes a service – even fundraising. Traditionally, those who start a business must raise their own funding. At later stages of the company, service firms provide investor relations programs but the cost is high and their services are targeted at investors in publicly traded stocks for the most part. The startup CEO, more than anyone needs support in finding investors, introducing the deal, and keeping the investor up to date with the progress. Closing the round is yet another challenge in chasing investors for signatures and checks. Brokers are often used at the Series B stage and later but rarely at the Seed and Series A stage as investors expect the startup CEO to lead the raise rather than outsource it entirely. TEN Capital innovates by providing “Funding as a Service” to early stage companies. We help the CEO raise funding by sourcing investors, making introductions, tracking interest, and following up with updates and investor documents. More specifically, TEN Capital provides: Warm introductions to investors Consistent update campaign to the prospective investors Coaching on terms sheets and due diligence documents Assistance in closing the investment – including chasing the investors for signatures and checks Tools including a data room Online and phone support for the duration of the campaign All for one monthly fee with no long term contract or backend fee. The CEO leads the fundraise but now has support for the difficult parts of the fundraise process – finding investors, making contact, following up, and closing the round. 

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Travis Farese 0f Real AI

Real AI is an Austin based commercial real estate acquisitions platform. They leverage big data and artificial intelligence (AI) to source, evaluate and close investment opportunities for their clients. In combination with their organizational specialization and team based approach, their technology enables account executives to cover 10X more territory remotely. Travis is a successful entrepreneur, multifamily investor and engineer. Travis understood that some of the best deals don’t ever make it to market. He believed that data science, digital technology and people could do a better job at uncovering this hidden value and built what he called his AI acquisitions machine. He soon found that others, many others, felt the same pain. Real AI was born. Recently, we welcomed Founder/CEO Travis Farese to join us on the  Investor Connect podcast to speak about his company and more about the landscape of AI in today’s real estate industry. Excerpts from the interview: The current state of AI for commercial real estate- AI machine learning is starting to be applied more to residential real estate. How much funding is being applied- big tech companies are pouring money into data science signals that there’s a big future in this particular field and it’s a distinct programming methodology. The major challenges being faced- the challenge really is access to data. So there is an interest in understanding how to build a predictive model around the estimated Cap-Ex required in an investment opportunity and automated type of way. Listen to the full episode with Travis Farese You can find Real AI at http://www.real-ai.co Travis can be reached on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/travis-farese-6b55468/    

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