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S1E7 €75 MRR and 3 Customers, and then Figma Pivoted Him to €1.2M.
€75 MRR, 3 paying customers and 15,000 signups going nowhere. Then a startup pivot changed everything.I sat down with Florian, co-founder of Weavely, on the latest episode of Deal Makers (&…
S1E7 Building with 3 customers changed everything
€75 MRR. 3 paying customers. A product that wasn't working. Then one startup pivot flipped everything. Full startup fundraising story of raising capital drops soon. Startup advice every entrepreneur…
S1E6 A Cold DM that Booked the Ex-Philips CEO
One cold DM changed everything.Marnix Stokvis messaged Frans van Houten—former CEO of a $20B company. Most founders wouldn't dare. But Marnix took the risk, and it transformed his startup.$8.19…
S1E6 He Turned Tap Water Into $8.19M
"What Nespresso did for coffee, we're doing for water."Two university students. €7M raised. Zero traditional VCs.Marnix Stokvis and Marc van Zuylen, co-founders of Aquablu, built an Amsterdam-based…
S1E5 The AWS Insider Who Saw a $500B Inefficiency
He spent 7 years at AWS and then left to build a cloud computing startup.This week I sat with James Marks, and he shared his startup fundraising journey, and the playbook was quite the opposite of…
S1E4 He Raised €2M at Just €70K ARR, Without Pitching a Single Investor
2M raised at €70K ARR. Only 25 customers. And he never pitched a single investor.Juanjo Mestre, CEO & Co-Founder of Dcycle, built one of Europe's fastest-growing ESG platforms. Now serving 2,000+…
S1E3 He Raised €18.6M+ For A Deeptech Startup During Greeks Crisis
He raised millions for deeptech hardware in the middle of a Greek financial crisis.Greece's 10-year bonds were above 18%, investors wanted software-only, and everyone told him to leave and build in…
S1E2 He Built A 24‑Person PropTech. 19% MoM. $0 VC Funding.
🚀 Episode 2 of Deal Makers (& Fakers) — with Lars Eickhoff, Co-Founder of DeepImmo, a Munich-based PropTech startup that took a radically different route to funding. Instead of chasing VCs, Lars…
S1E1 She Raised $1M Pre-Seed in Berlin — How Jessica Liew Did It
🚀 Episode 1 of Deal Makers (& Fakers) — with Jessica Liew (Berlin-based founder of Intriq), the AI platform helping consultants move faster by automating up to 87% of manual consulting work.In…
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Deal Makers (& Fakers) has published 9 episodes since January 2026, covering topics in Business, Investing.
Deal Makers (& Fakers) is currently highly active with new episodes every few days. Average episode length is 34m.
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