Raising investment during the pandemic

When Selin Yigitbasi-Ducker began looking for investment back in November 2019, she had no idea that a global pandemic would tip the odds heavily against her.

And yet, despite challenging economic conditions, she raised 150% of the investment she needed to develop her social-environmental impact collaboration platform.

In this episode of The Growth Podcast with Emmie Faust, I’m interviewing Selin on this very topic. How did she go about raising investment during a pandemic? We talk about her decisions, her tenacity, and how she secured £225,000 in funding in March 2020.

Topics include:

The self-set milestones she wanted to hit before seeking external funding, and what finally prompted her to apply for investment
Her complete investment journey connecting through networks, sharing her pitch deck and meeting with potential investors
How Selin dealt with having more investment offered than she originally asked for (£150,000)
How she found and secured the help of multiple Advisors and the benefits they brought
The role accelerator networks played and how Selin connected with them
How to raise funding at the most unlikely of times
What she will spend the investment money on, and what she wants the funding to achieve
And her advice for founders just getting started (a warning about perfectionism)