AtVenture DealFlow
AtVenture DealFlow
Podcast Description
Welcome to the AtVenture DealFlow Podcast, the podcast where we talk to founders who are actively fundraising! This podcast is designed to showcase curated deal flow for investors. In each episode, we bring you directly in touch with promising startups seeking funding, focusing on transparency, sectors, funding needs, and investor interests. Our mission is to streamline deal flow and connect investors with the right founders quickly and efficiently. See you at the next great deal!
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on startup fundraising, investment strategies, and industry insights, with episodes highlighting sectors like MedTech and HealthTech. For example, the episode featuring Dieuwertje Drexhage discusses Layco Medical Devices and their innovative approach to sustainable medical equipment, illustrating how startups can leverage environmental concerns to attract funding.
AtVenture Dealflow brings you conversations with Europe’s fundraising founders and the investors who back them.
Every week, host Laurie Lancee talks to ambitious startup founders who are raising capital and the angels, VCs, and ecosystem builders who support them.
You’ll hear honest fundraising stories, insider investor perspectives, and lessons on:
– Pitching and fundraising strategies
– What investors look for in early-stage startups
– Building diverse and inclusive companies
– Europe’s evolving startup & investment landscape
👉 Join the community at atventureplatform.com and see you at the next great deal!
Episode 10 – Fundraising Founder: Caroline Lakshmanan, Cloud Closet
In this episode of AtVenture Dealflow, host Laurie Lancee speaks with Caroline Lakshmanan – co-Founder and CEO of Cloud Closet
Cloud Closet is a fashion tech startup building a dedicated social platform for getting dressed.
Instead of search or purchase history, Cloud Closet starts from outfit history and real community input to help people discover, plan and shop fashion in a more human and sustainable way.
In this episode, Caroline explains why fashion is one of the biggest conversation topics on social media, yet still lacks a platform designed specifically for the act of getting dressed.
Key Metrics: Cloud Closet
- Sector: Fashion Tech / Consumer Tech / Social Commerce
- Business Model: B2C platform with affiliate commerce, resale and rental integrations
- Founded: 2023 (HQ US, Global company)
- Team: Founder-led team with background in fashion, tech and community building
- Traction: 5,000+ outfit uploads within months of MVP launch, strong daily power users, high qualitative community engagement
- Round: Raising $700k pre-seed
- Use of funds: Product development, hiring a CTO, scaling community growth and go-to-market
- Market: Fashion is the second most talked-about topic on social media globally, yet lacks a dedicated platform for getting dressed
- Impact: Enabling more conscious fashion consumption by starting from outfit reuse, community insight and human taste over algorithms
🎧 Listen to the full episode of AtVenture DealFlow to learn how Cloud Closet is building the social platform fashion has been missing and why community-driven consumer platforms still represent a major opportunity.
More: www.atventureplatform.com
See you at the next great deal.
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