Premoney 28: SuperChef & Finpro
Turning chefs into creators👩🍳., and helping founders have clear projections! 📀
Welcome to week 28!! One day late, but that’s ok, right?! Another awesome update to share from a previously featured Premoney company. This will be the 7th month of Premoney coming to your inboxes, and it looks like we’re starting to see quite a bit of featured companies go move to the next step. Exciting!
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💰…a quick lookback: 1v1Me raises $2M
Company: 1V1Me
Update: I featured 1V1Me in November, when Anthony and his team were starting to think about raising. 1V1Me is a gaming company that enables gamers to make 1 on 1 bets against other gamers. This week, they announced that they raised $2M from On Deck, Erik Torenberg at Village Global and many others. Really excited
🚀 This weeks companies!
Company: SuperChef
Founders: Florent de Rocca-Serra & Alexandre Taisne
Source: Note that SuperChef was introduced to me through Erik Torenbergs On Deck Angel network, meaning it has been through deep due diligence and has passed a very high bar. This will likely be over subscribed.
Stage: Raising a $500k Preseed
Vertical: Food, Community
Business Model: Membership, Marketplace
1-liner: Building the Mobile Operating System for Food Creators, helping them turn audiences into customers
Description: We believe that Chefs are SuperHeroes. We believe that the table is the one and only social network.
Over the last 12 months, Hospitality had been turned upside down. Now is the time for Chefs, PastryChefs, Social Media Chefs, Bartenders, Sommelier, MaitreD to leverage their unique expertise and share it to the World.
We are helping top Food Creators build DTC initiatives with: Memberships, Online Events, IRL experiences , Foodlists etc...
In Food we Trust.
Fun Founder Question:
Question: “Pizza, or Pasta? “
Answer: “Both - try eating pasta on a pizza!”
Traction indicators:
1k MAU
$8K MRR
Company: Finpro Technology Inc.
Founder: Serge Amouzou
Founder Fun Facts: Serge speaks 5 languages (French, Ewe, English, German and Spanish).
Stage: Raising a $500k Preseed
Vertical: Analytics, Fintech, Data
Business Model: B2B, SaaS
1-liner: Finpro gives founders clear insight into their business.
Description: Our predictive-financial projection technology uses company data sources to give founders decision-ready data and actionable next steps for growth. Marketing, sales, product, and finance teams use our recommendations to excel at their job in collaboration with founders to achieve company objectives.
The reason why I’m passionate about Finprothis is that as an entrepreneur, I've spent hours in excel creating business models and it has been a tedious and time-consuming process when I could have spent the time building the actual business. I would have to spend hours explaining them to my teams and investors and I don’t want other entrepreneurs and people who create projections to have to go through the same thing. It was time for a software platform that could give clarity to any business in the shortest amount of time!
Note from the founder: “Investors should invest in my company because it addresses a $60 billion market and I forecast Finpro will be a $100 million ARR company in 5 "years.”
Traction indicators:
Launched February 2021
15 active, paying enterprise clients
$9k MRR
That’s all for this week!
See you next time,
Jake