Early-Stage Fundraising
With a passion for empowering great businesses, I have a proven track record of raising over £500K in the past seven years through a variety of channels. Our expertise includes:
Winning prestigious grants such as those from Santander Universities competitions
Securing funding from Google for Startups
Attracting angel investments and venture capital through SEIS and EIS schemes
Running successful crowdfunding campaigns
Top Fundraising Moments
Kickstarter: Scarves & Sustainability
We kicked off our experience in fundraising with a crowdfunding campaign where 362 people backed up to build our first line of Scarves to wholesale.
Google Black Founder Fund
“SETsquared Exeter member OWNI, co-founded by repeat social entrepreneur Kalkidan Legesse, has secured $100,000 to scale its re-commerce as a service technology across the United Kingdom this year.”
Early Stage Capital
In 2022 we completed our first early stage fundraiser raising over £250K for our start up!