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Founder emails

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Application received (founder):

Dear _______,

We have received your funding application, and our team will process this in appx. 7-10 days. If you have any more Qs/material to send, please submit to info@horizan.vc.

Thanks,

HVC Squad

⁠

TO DO

Email to book interview #1 (founder):

Dear ______,

After analysing your material, we’ve decided that we’d like to chat with you to understand you and your business a little more. Please book a meeting through this link

here⁠

. If none of these times work, please email us at

info@horizan.vc⁠

and we’ll try to arrange something.

Best,

HVC Squad

Email to alert founder on follow up analysis (founder):

Dear ______,

Thank you for taking the time to chat with us. We’ll be reviewing your answers to our questions, along with the info you’ve already submitted in your application, and get back to you within appx. 3 days. As mentioned, please shoot us an email at

info@horizan.vc⁠

if you have any more Qs.

Best,

HVC Squad

Email to book interview #2 (founder):

Dear ______,

After analysing your material, we’ve decided that we’d like to have a second interview with you to delve deeper into the tech and some other aspects of your application. Please book a meeting through this link

here⁠

. If none of these times work, please email us at

info@horizan.vc⁠

and we’ll try to arrange something.

Best,

HVC Squad

Email to have founder go through Stepex DD: (founder):

Dear ______,

After analysing your material, we’ve decided that, subject to you passing our DD, we’d like to onboard you and fund ____K! The combination of the viability of your idea, the potential of the founder/founding team, and pretotyped consumer demand sold us.

Our DD is run by Stepex, so if you can fill out the information in this link

here⁠

, they will take care of this part of the DD. This is to ensure that if your business fails before qualifying round, you will have the ability to repay back our Future Earnings Agreement via your <future> full-time job. Let us know if you have any more questions at info@horizan.vc!

Best,

HVC Squad

Email to have founder sign docs (founder):

Dear ______,

Congrats for passing Stepex DD! We’re nearly done here. The second to last step (before we fund you) is to sign both the FEA (which should be emailed to you via Stepex) and our ASA attached here ____________. As usual, let us know if you have any more questions at info@horizan.vc!

Best,

HVC Squad

Email to welcome founder to Horizan and onboard founder to Slack (founder):

Dear ______,

The money is now in the bank! Congrats- welcome to HVC Squad. Here’s a few things to get you started with us:

Join our slack channel

here⁠

Link to our HVC Course

here⁠

Book intro chat with us

here⁠

As usual, let us know if you have any more questions at info@horizan.vc! (Or Slack haha).

Best,

HVC Squad

Email to reject founder (generic) (founder):

Dear ______,

Thank you for taking the time to go through our application process. Unfortunately, we are not able to offer you funding at this time. A more specific feedback email will be given detailing the reasons why we rejected your business idea, and hopefully you’ll be able to take this feedback and either prove us wrong or improve your value proposition.

If you have any questions, please email info@horizan.vc.

Best,

HVC Squad

Email template to reject founder (specific) (founder):

Dear ______,

After carefully analysing your business, we’ve chosen not to onboard you at this time. Here are the reasons: -

If you have any questions, please email info@horizan.vc.

Best,

HVC Squad

Investor emails

Application received (investor):

You have a new application from ______

Name

Startup Name

Linkedin Profile

UK/EU Citizen or Permanent Resident?

Amount? (10,15,20K)

What’s the problem you are trying to solve? How is this being solved?

What is your personal experience with this problem?

Why is this possible now and not before? Did something recently change?

Will the business be subject to any regulation now or in future?

Can you either upload a lean canvas (idea stage) or deck (pre seed)?

Lean Canvas Template:

https://businessmodelanalyst.com/downloads/lean-canvas-template/⁠

⁠

How will this substantially better than the incumbents?

What market are you in and can you find research that estimates the current market size and growth rate for the next 3+ years?

Customer skin in the game is important to us. Therefore how many points, of one (or more) of the following do you have:

validated email sign ups (1 point per email)

validated phone number (10 points per phone number)

time commitment (1 point per min of demo)

click on fake payment button (1 point per click)

cash deposit (1 point per $ for waiting list)

placed pre-order (1 point per $ for pre-order)

Email to alert investor of how much time there is left to analyse (investor):

You have ______ days to analyse _________. If you haven’t already, put in comments as soon as possible!

Email to alert investors of who submitted what (investor):

__________ made some changes to __________. Please check Blueocean to find out more.

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