The good, the bad, and ugly reality of fundraising: Jan Löwer on what the polished press releases leave out

In this episode, Jan Löwer, Co-founder and CEO of deeplify, talks with Daniel Dippold about the unfiltered reality of pre-seed fundraising that never makes it to LinkedIn. Jan is one of the rare founders who successfully transitioned a service business into a product company – but the fundraise that followed was anything but smooth.

2 months after joining EWOR, his CTO became seriously ill and left overnight, forcing Jan back into engineering himself and bringing sales to a complete standstill. Four weeks of back-to-back investor meetings passed before he realised a single framing error had been making the market sound 80 times smaller than it was. Then, in the final week of signing, one investor dropped out having misread the term sheet for months. Jan tells the full story in this episode, every messy step of it.