Hosted by Niclas Schlopsna · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 12 episodes
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Deal Makers (& Fakers) is my podcast where fundraising gets real. No polished success stories. No fake LinkedIn wins. dealmakersandfakers.substack.com
Niclas Schlopsna hosts Deal Makers (& Fakers) Podcast, a business show with 12 episodes published.
In this episode of Deal Makers, Niclas Schlopsna sits down with Vlad Sarca, Managing Partner at Sparking Capital, to unlock the raw, behind-the-scenes mechanics of early-stage venture capital. What actually goes through
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The wellness industry is growing rapidly, with unique sensory innovations now leading the way in sleep health. In this episode, Niclas Schlöpsna, Managing Partner at spectup, sits down with Dr. Emanuela Maggioni, CEO of
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In this exclusive trailer for Episode 10 of Deal Makers (& Fakers), Niclas Schlöpsna, Managing Partner at spectup, sits down with Dr. Emanuela Maggioni, the founder of Hynt Labs. Dr. Emanuela Maggioni reveals how she is
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Raising millions at record speed is often portrayed as luck, but for serial founders, it’s a calculated play of leverage, unit economics, and deep-tech infrastructure. In this episode of Deal Makers (& Fakers), Niclas Sc
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🚀 Episode 8 of Deal Makers (& Fakers) - with Armon Sharei, Founder of Portal Bio and SQZ Biotech. Biotech startup IPO success and raising $400M in venture capital is a dream for many founders, but what happens after you
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€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 (& Fakers). He walked me through
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He had just 3 paying customers. It looked like a product that wasn’t working. Then one startup pivot flipped everything. Full startup fundraising story of raising capital drops soon. This is honestly the startup advice t
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Aquablu Aquablu CEO Marnix Stokvis reveals his startup fundraising journey of raising capital without venture capital firms. Startup advice every entrepreneur needs. One cold message. To Frans van Houten, former CEO of a
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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 everything I had seen
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€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+ companies across Madrid
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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 the US instead. In th
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🚀 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 raised from a family off
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🚀 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 this episode, we go deep
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Deal Makers (& Fakers) Podcast is hosted by Niclas Schlopsna. The show is categorised under business (entrepreneurship) and has published 12 episodes.
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