Haatch Monthly - May 2022 - Issue #5

Portfolio News & Updates

Online payment methods can be expensive for merchants, who have to pay between 2% and 8% of every sale to debit and credit card, e-wallet and BNPL facilitators. Much of this is often passed to consumers.

Hotel Tech Report’s accolade is a great achievement for our first year participating in the program and confirms our efforts are making positive impacts for our clients and motivates us to continue providing a revolutionary guest experience solution for resorts.

Fantastic Interview Interview with Francisco Baptista, Founder at Haatch portfolio company TeamSportz.

Market News & Insight

It takes a hard graft to get in front of leading VCs so if you're a founder raising in the next few months then this is a great opportunity and a much-needed initiative to level up the early-stage funding process.

From the Haatch Blog

Busy fools – the reason why you’re not growing profits – why pricing is key. One of the biggest challenges facing businesses as they ‘scale up’ to the next phase is learning how to sell to larger customers. 

Angel-led rounds or investment rounds with a high volume of angel participation are great cases for SPVs. In these instances, SPVs would be useful but many Founders know very little about them. I sat down with Haatch portfolio company, Odin to hear more about the benefits of setting up an SPV.

Fun & Interesting

Dan Rose @DanRose999

I was at Amzn early '00s when we lost 95% of our market cap. Later at FB I negotiated a down-round in '09, and then in '12 our stock dropped 50% post-IPO. I was on the board of a public company that went bankrupt (Borders) and a start-up that went under (Hello). Some lessons:

Encore

A great conversation between Jeremy Luzinda, Investment Associate at Haatch with Robert Pasco and Jamie Pursaill, Co-founders at Plend!