Episodes 5
Avg. Duration 30m
Activity Highly Active
Since Jan 2026
Latest Episode Mar 2026

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Schedule
Monthly
Format
Episodic
Consistency
49%
Hosting
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About This Podcast

Welcome to Deal Makers (& Fakers), the podcast where fundraising gets real. No polished success stories. No fake LinkedIn wins. Just raw, unfiltered conversations with founders about the brutal truth of raising capital. Host Niclas Schlopsna, Partner at spectup, sits down with startup founders who've been through the fundraising trenches to reveal what actually happens behind closed doors, the mistakes, the rejections, the pivots, and the hard lessons that never make it to TechCrunch.

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Recent Episodes

The AWS Insider Who Saw a $500B Inefficiency

Mar 13, 2026 30m

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…

He Raised €2M at Just €70K ARR, Without Pitching a Single Investor

Feb 13, 2026 27m

€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…

He Raised €18.6M+ For A Deeptech Startup During Greeks Crisis

Jan 23, 2026 29m

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…

He Built A 24‑Person PropTech. 19% MoM. $0 VC Funding.

Jan 16, 2026 42m

🚀 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…

She Raised $1M Pre-Seed in Berlin — How Jessica Liew Did It

Jan 08, 2026 31m

🚀 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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