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Ben Botes | GP & 4x FounderThe intelligence layer that stops founders and investors from making expensive capital mistakes — from an active GP with four exits.
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Africa's Missing LP Class: What Fund Managers Can Learn From India
Africa's diaspora already sends tens of billions of pounds home every year. India offers a lesson in what changes when a country builds the financial machinery to turn that affinity into investable ca
On 22 August, the Reserve Bank of Indi...
What It Actually Takes to Get a Yes From an Investor
Fundraising looks like a numbers game. The evidence says it is a search problem before it is a persuasion problem, and most founders are running the search in the wrong place.
The entire apparatus of startup fundraising is built on an idea...
Why Investors Chase Some Founders and Price Others
The evidence you can't manufacture
The Raise Readiness Sprint — my half-day workshop — runs its next cohort on Friday 4 September. You score your own company on the evidence investors assemble before you pitch, map the gaps, and leave with...
The Deal Read — July 2026
Four rounds, decoded from both sides of the table
*The Raise Readiness Sprint — my half-day workshop — runs its next cohort on Friday 4 September. You score your own company on the evidence investors assemble before you pitch, map the gaps...
The Evidence Every Founder Should Collect Before They Raise
What serious investors need to see before the conversation becomes real.
The Raise Readiness Sprint — my half-day workshop — runs its next cohort on 4 September. You score your own company on the exact evidence investors assemble before yo...
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The edge that gets you to the right yes, faster. Ben Botes — active GP and four-time exited founder on how capital really moves and the calls founders get wrong.
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