The Ultimate Founders' Guide to Raising Your First Round of Venture Capital.

Led by an expert fundraiser and former venture capitalist, this course provides essential insights and strategies to help you secure your first round of funding with confidence.

Seed Round Success equips you with a proven process to secure multiple offers and attract the right investors. Learn the unwritten rules of fundraising, understand investor psychology, and gain an edge—whether you're raising an angel round, targeting family offices, or pursuing top-tier venture capital firms.

Course Overview

Comprehensive Fundraising Guidance:

Master each essential stage of the fundraising process, from preparation and planning to relationship-building and crafting the perfect seed stage pitch.
Create a competitive and momentum-driven fundraising strategy.
Become skilled at navigating complex investor terms and negotiating with confidence.

Insider Knowledge:

Benefit from my unique perspective as both a founder and venture capitalist.
Understand the investor mindset and gain deep insights into what drives their decisions at the seed stage.
Learn from my experience raising capital as a founder, participating in dozens of seed rounds as a VC partner, and advising startups as a business angel.

Practical Tools and Resources:

Access real-world examples, anecdotes, and insider tips from successful fundraises.
Utilize a wealth of materials, including an investor tracker, fundraising timeline, VC outreach templates, pitch deck examples, term sheet templates, cap table templates, and more.

Why Join Now?

Early Preparation: It's never too early to start preparing for your pre-seed or seed round. Fundraising, especially the preparation phase, takes time.
Expert Guidance: Join now and let me help you and your company ace your seed round with proven strategies and insider knowledge.

Don't miss out on the opportunity to set your startup on the path to success. Enroll in the Seed Round Success Masterclass today!

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Participants Love Seed Round Success

Wilhelm Hammes | Founder Planted.Green
Looking for a hands on and superb fundraising course? I looked at numerous fundraising courses in the past, and honestly, you only need Seed Round Success. This is also part of the reason we are 150% oversubscribed in our current round.
Christian Flodén| Founder in stealth mode
“I can't recommend this class enough! Thank you for creating The Art of Fundraising and for the invaluable strategy session with you. It's exactly what we need as we prepare for our fundraising journey in the coming months. The course is seven hours of pure magic. The ultimate fundraising guide... It can’t just cost €399.”
Tim Dettmann| Founder and CEO Beat81
“Our latest funding round would not have been possible without Axel's invaluable support.”

Erik Wikander Co-founder of Zupyak

"As a founder navigating the fundraising landscape, I highly the course. It gave me a systematic toolkit and approach to handle each step of the fundraising journey. It was also great hearing real life fundraising war stories. If you're serious about securing funding, this course is a must."
Shahin Baharan|Co-Founder and CEO Petli
“Axel really knows what makes VCs tick. It is amazing to have an insider’s view of how VCs think and make investment decisions. Without it, our round would not have been possible.”

Jakob Dworsky|Co-Founder ASKET
"Axel was instrumental in successfully launching our seed round. His advice and help was key to our ability to secure the necessary funding."
Axel Trolle-Henckel|Founder and CEO at Payerbee
"This is an excellent course that every early-stage founder should complete before embarking on their fundraising journey. Axel's extensive experience from both sides of the table provides deeply relevant insights. The concluding one-to-one coaching greatly helped me apply the course learnings to our specific fundraising case. The course offers outstanding value for the knowledge gained, which far outweighs the fee."

Arielle Kilroy | Co-Founder and CEO Dado
“I have gained repeated value from Axel’s understanding of how venture capitalists think, operate, and make decisions over the years. If you are a founder seeking to raise funds, he is a real asset”
Wilhelm Lundborg | Founder & CEO at Homer.co
"I highly recommend that all founders take this course before starting their fundraising efforts, like I did with Homer.co It’s an excellent program that thoroughly covers the entire fundraising process and is packed with actionable insights and effective tactics."