Date: 15.01.2026 (2026-01-15)
Jack McGuiness (15.01.2026) Context: • https://www.linkedin.com/in/j-mcguinness/ • LND based • VC at HV Capital - Associate (seems higher up - a couple years of experience) • Finance Background • His outreach: • Hi Maximilian, I'm getting in touch from HV Capital where I help lead our early stage fintech investments across Europe. Came across your profile and would love to learn more about what your building next - let me know if there's a time that might suit for a brief chat to get introduced. • Last post is about Din Tai Fung
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• Notes:
• Fintech, B2B SaaS, AI -> mostly Fintech
• Pre-Seed to Pre-IPO (9th generation of funds)
• He is in early stage
• 500k to 10Mio
• Growth: 10 to 60 Mio (Series B)
• He works with partner in MUC (Amini or sth)
• 23 investors MUC, LND, BER
• They look at many companies in the space -> Cpoint, Light (Atomico), GoDutch -> scaling issues
• They had issues on GTM
• Why do they have problems scaling up to mid market
• Rillet: AI native ERP -> closing books faster -> scale above 50 employee costumers -> CACs is higher
• Also outside of home country
• Business Angel vs. VC? for market access?
• Angels are very helpful - more than VCs
• Professionalised GTM motion post PMF -> connect to the right people (intro to their fintech companies)
• What would they want to see for funding? What is a typical ticket size?
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• Raising in Europe vs. USA?
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• His feedback from VC perspective
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• BA vs. VC: if we go to AP/AR
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• Strong thesis on work tools
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• What does he think about our direction?
• How much could they support with market access?