COACHINGS WITH
RUTH CREMER

For Investors, Star­tups and Organ­i­sa­tions

For Investors:

Need support?

Due Dili­gence and Busi­ness Plan eval­u­a­tions can be hard. I help you or your fund with the numbers crunching and related work. Think “Invest­ment Manager as a Service”.

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For Startups:

Investors in sight?

No matter if you need to prepare your pitch, your numbers or find and argue your eval­u­a­tion: I’m at your side. From last minute nego­ti­a­tion coaching to a complete investor prepa­ra­tion.

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For Organisations:

Define and coach

As a long-​time startup mentor, I’m happy to help new invest­ment and educa­tion programmes come to life. From building the busi­ness or organ­i­sa­tion to defining the content to being active as a speaker, with work­shops or group and single coach­ings.

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THE NUMBERS PERSON

Diploma in Math­e­matics – I’m offi­cially a nerd

THE (CAREER) BEGIN­NING

Researcher and Project Manager at an acad­e­m­ical insti­tute for Infor­ma­tion manage­ment – trying to start a serious career

OR IS THIS THE BEGIN­NING?

Starting as a free­lance consul­tant in public funding for star­tups and SME – the adven­ture begins

THE FIRST BIG STEP TOWARDS THE FUTURE

Foun­da­tion of the euworx UG – busi­ness is growing

CHANGE OF PERSPEC­TIVE

Invest­ment manager for IT star­tups at Europe’s most active seed investor – the dark side of the power calls

TAKE OFF

Rein­venting the eurworx UG as a consul­tancy for busi­ness models and finan­cial plan­ning, starting as a univer­sity lecturer for Digital Entre­pre­neur­ship and Entre­pre­neurial Finance as well as becoming the advisor of "Die Hoehle der Loewen" - back on my own, back to the acad­emic world and first time working for TV (and loving it!)

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For investors:

A math­e­mati­cian and expe­ri­enced invest­ment profes­sional can help you with the numbers crunching to make your invest­ment deci­sion.

Busi­ness Angels and private investors often have deep insights into a specific industry, but need support during the Due Dili­gence process with various other aspects such as eval­u­a­tion, cap table ques­tions and deeper busi­ness model eval­u­a­tions. The knowl­edge and expe­ri­ence of how early KPIs can be inter­preted and how they can predict poten­tial weak­nesses of a busi­ness can make the differ­ence, and save valu­able time and money. Larger investors and funds often struggle to fulfil all their tasks during peek times. Whether a startup’s finan­cial plan has to be eval­u­ated or a port­folio company needs help to prepare for the next fundraising: getting an expe­ri­enced profes­sional to quickly support the day-​to-day tasks can take substan­tial pres­sure off the core team and help to improve the quality of the invest­ment deci­sions and chances in fundraising processes.

Contact for Investors

Investor’s request

Ruth Cremer supports with almost every task around the invest­ment and Due Dili­gence Process or the startup prepa­ra­tion for further invest­ment rounds. Please let us know via the contact form which kind of support you are seeking.

FOR STARTUPS:

Benefit from years of expe­ri­ence with startup invest­ments: learn how investors think and how to nego­tiate with them

Active support with your Pitch, your finan­cial frame­work or when you are preparing for nego­ti­a­tions with investors: from the basics to real insider tips, which can make the differ­ence but are only known by profes­sionals in this field. We will find your custom package: no matter if you need an urgent last “spar­ring” before going into nego­ti­a­tions or a complete package to make your busi­ness investor-​ready. Startup-​Budget friendly: We have profound expe­ri­ence with public funding. The BAFA-​programme can save you half the costs, and Ruth Cremer is an expe­ri­ence coach for different programmes such as Hochschul-​Transfer NRW and EXIST (and others).

Contact for Star­tups

Startup’s request

Ruth Cremer supports with the content delivery and docu­ment creation in the busi­ness building and fundraising process: Pitch training, finan­cial plan­ning and KPI—frame­works are some of the topics requested most often. Please let us know via the contact form which kind of support you are seeking.

For Organisations:

Taking the chal­lenge of investing in and educating star­tups deserves the best support possible

Setting up a (corpo­rate) incu­bator, accel­er­ator or any other startup programme is a super chal­lenging task. Ruth Cremer has not only done this, but worked with so many star­tups and investors over the last 8 years, that coor­di­nating all tasks from applying for public funding to setting up a programme with the strongest content can be actively carried out or supported. From a full external project lead to the handing over of some single tasks, every degree of engage­ment is possible. Startup educa­tion programmes are hard to design and often get a lot of harsh critique anyway. Surround expe­ri­ence of working with over 1000 star­tups, being speaker, mentor, judge and consul­tant in such programmes, can make the differ­ence to “just another boring startup programme without effect”.

Contact for Organ­i­sa­tions

Organisation’s request

Ruth Cremer and Team support the shaping of a new startup invest­ment and/or educa­tion programme. Our work starts with the defi­n­i­tion of a model and goes up to active partic­i­pa­tion in the programme itself. Please let us know via the contact form which kind of support you are seeking.

Our customers

Projects and clients

As a speaker, moder­ator, project coor­di­nator or serial coach: Ruth Cremer works world­wide, in German and English. Although getting the numbers right is a core compe­tency, Star­tups who worked with her espe­cially honour her passion and posi­tive vibes.

.UQBATE

Ruth has been a coach in Deutsche Telekom’s 3- month corpo­rate entre­pre­neur­ship programme since 2017. As a part of this programme, she helped the partic­i­pants to find and opti­mise their busi­ness models, to iden­tify the right KPIs and to adapt them in an iter­a­tive way. Further­more, she helped them with their finan­cial plan­ning and the prepa­ra­tion for poten­tial investors. Her keynotes and work­shops about busi­ness model­ling and finan­cial plan­ning were then comple­mented with indi­vidual coaching sessions.

Die Höhle der Löwen

Since the 5th season, Ruth is the advisor of the German version of the TV show “Dragon’s Den”/“Shark Tank” (“Die Höhle der Löwen”) broad­casted on VOX. She is part of the selec­tion process and helps preparing the candi­dates for the show. Espe­cially the prepa­ra­tion for the ques­tions of the investors regarding key busi­ness numbers directly after the pitch is the focus. Only those who can score here will really have a chance to get an invest­ment.

NomadCruise X

Nomad­Cruise is a unique confer­ence for remote entre­pre­neurs and digital nomads, taking place on a cruise ship. For the 10th anniver­sary at the end of 2019, Ruth was a central part of the programme. Besides two speeches on the main stage about KPIs and Investor Pitches, she organ­ised the “Piranha Tank” - an on-​stage-show close to the famous TV show - chose and prepared the pitching teams for their moment on stage and moder­ated the show itself.