gonna be tough 
 D2C sector performance has been terrible 5-6 years in. every vc i meet nowadays says D2C investments underperform badly. 
  
 expect horrendous terms

Is it? D2C seems to be one area where VC community is bullish on, as per industry reports.  
  
 Whats the criteria for pre seed investment in D2C nowadays? Agree that with barriers to entry so low and ever increasing CAC, majority of companies have performed badly in recent times.

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DSG consumer partners, Titan, 100x.vc, sauce.vc

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I am starting a D2C lifestyle brand. Which are the preseed venture firms to approach for funding?

I am starting a D2C lifestyle brand. Which are the pre-seed venture firms to approach for funding?

Pre-seed VC Firms for D2C Brands

Pre-seed VC Firms for D2C Brands- Grapevine

Welcome to Personal Finance's Private Community

I am starting a D2C fashion brand. Haven't been able to arrange funds from any sources. 

In a way, it's a chicken and egg problem in market conditions like this. Funding ke liye traction chahiye and traction ke liye funding chahiye. 

Need 15 lacs to get things off the ground. Considering the minimum order requirements and marketing expense. 

Do you think it would be a good idea to do crowdfunding for my startup? Any help / insights would be highly appreciated 🙏

Crowdfunding for D2C Startup

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willl try my best to be honest, ask me anything

AMA - I work at a VC fund

Analyst

I want to get the list of well funded D2C brands specially in FMCG/Apparels/Cosmetics/Electronics. Is there any site/screener Preferably free, please let me know. Google isn't helping much, Its giving irrelevant information. Need this information for reaching out to their operations team.

How to get list of well funded D2C startup list?

Supply Chain Manager

I am looking for investment analyst/associate roles. I have 2.4 years of experience in growth and marketing in consumer tech and D2C. Passed out of Tier-1 college.

Any VC funds that are hiring for investment analyst/associate? (Preferably seed/series A funds)

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Hey everyone. 

Thought I could do an AMA. A bit about me - have 4 years of work experience and graduated from a non engineering college. Was at a startup before (from Series B to Series D) before becoming a VC

Personally look at consumer and B2B investments here 

Happy to answer any questions around life as a junior VC, startup ecosystem, career growth etc.

AMA: I work at a large VC Fund focusing on early stage investments

This is the biggest problem with VC ecosystem 4 yoe kids taking calls on experienced, hardworking founders. Dude first learn the game then invest , judge people playing the game. VCs know nothing about how to run startups. Unless they have been entrepreneurs themselves. IMO It's a colossal waste of talent to become a VC for young PPL.

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Investment Associate

I am building a D2C fashion brand and need to raise money (20 Lakhs) to get things off the ground. I am from Tier-I IIT and a single founder. 

I have been trying to approach investors through multiple mediums. Cold mailing / LinkedIn. But things haven't worked. 

College alumni also don't seem to respond, let alone give any warm intro. 

How should I go about the fund raising process?

Best ways to find angel investors

Biz dev role, full time engagement, equity. DTC exposure is must. 

Right now we are in product development & testing early pmf phase. 

Matching salary.

Product - A SAAS solution for non tech savvy DTC brands to reduce their ad spend upto 40% through influencer led sales. 

Problem - Indian D2C brands spend $7b every year on ad spend only to achieve < 2% retention and <2 ROAS. This is because there is no other way other than ad spend to acq. customers. 

Core team in place - 2 engineers, 1 COO, 1 CTO & 1 PM. Enough cash to survive till pre-seed and get to early pmf.

Raising pre-seed now to onboard 100 DTC brands. 

Founders: ex-Microsoft, Pixis, Swiggy, Zomato, Udaan, Rapido

Equity you get will yield following -

At the end of yr. 5:
Best case exit for you: ~7-9cr.
Avg case: 3-5cr.
Worst case: 60L-1cr. 

Along with equity from starting day. You will keep on getting more and more ESOP rewards linked to value creation (revenue, growth, unlocking  partnerships) or annual cash bonus (% of the value added).

Looking for a biz dev co-founder with DTC exposure

Is there any report/ resource on Indian D2C brands by funding, revenue and profit?

Indian D2C space

Product Manager

I want to find seed stage startups to join as a founding engineer. I want to take some risk while I can and try if I can get a good return.

How should I go about this? 

I have 7 years of experience. Building distributed systems, backend services with Go, Clojure, etc. I have some frontend experience as well with SvelteKit, Tailwind, etc. I also made a SaaS product recently and got around 10 small businesses as customers on subscription. The product itself got acquired for 5 figures USD after I ran it for 2 months

How to find seed stage startups?

Take a free subscription of crunchbase. Find startups funded in the last 2 years by good funds and cancel subscription. The founders are generally easy to cold call

Recommend startups in D2C that are doing well..and have a decent culture

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