The Angel Nest

How Rooled Helps Startups Get to the “A” Round!

The best startups know what the customers want, but how do even the smartest CEOs know what investors want in order to finance the business?

Many startups find that their biggest challenge doesn’t come from customers, supply lines or technology. Often the toughest part of getting started is finding funding. That’s ironic because investment in startups skyrocketed in the years leading up to 2021, at its peak of $681 billion.

Things have gotten a lot tougher since then as many investors and VCs hold off on new investments or keep their powder dry and accessible in case one of their existing portfolio companies needs additional capital.

In this episode, we talk with Johnnie Walker, the co-founder of the outsourced accounting, CFO, and advisory services company Rooled, about raising the all-important “A” round of investing and how startups should prepare to meet the challenge.

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Rooled Is Showing Startups How to Extend the Runway

It's not as easy as it used to be for startups to find investors and the bar is higher to win them over.

 

2021 was the height of startup funding evaluations. Fast forward to today, though, and the landscape has changed dramatically. Valuations are down, so it's not a great time to raise money. But, if you have to, extending your runway may buy you time and also show your potential investors that you can weather the storm.

 

In this episode, we’ll discuss extending the runway and other possible avenues for funding your venture with Johnnie Walker, the co-founder of Rooled, an outsourced accounting, CFO and advisory services firm. Rooled  specializes in helping startups get their A round and scale their businesses.

Read more about Rooled at rooled.com.

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Rocket Money Helps Subscribers Manage Their Finances. Rooled Helped Rocket Money Manage Growth.

You don’t have to write checks to pay your bills anymore. But, tracking all the subscriptions, credit cards and automatic payments does get complicated.

In this episode of the Angel Nest podcast, we meet Haroon Mokhtarzada, founder of Rocket Money, whose millions of members save money managing their finances on his app. We also meet Johnnie Walker from Rooled, whose financial model helped the company track early adoption and grow.

We’ll discuss what has made Rocket Money take off so quickly and how the outsourced accounting and CFO firm Rooled helped them strategically manage finances to fuel hyper growth.

Check out the Rocket Money app at rocketmoney.com and learn about Rooled services at rooled.com.

And, be sure to visit the show archives at theangelnest.com to catch up any episodes you missed. 

The Real Future of AI from a Leading Silicon Valley VC who Uses Rooled to Keep Her Portfolio Companies on Track

What really is the future of Artificial Intelligence? In this episode of the Angel Nest podcast, we’re joined by a Silicon Valley VC who will talk about what companies she funds and why. And she'll discuss her partnership with an outsourced accounting and CFO firm that helps her portfolio companies attract capital and grow.

Today’s guests include Johnnie Walker of Rooled, the outsourced accounting, accounting and CFO service with California headquarters and clients throughout the country. His client, Jocelyn Goldfein, managing director of Zetta Venture Partners shares her expertise on the AI-startups with B2B business models that Zetta prefers to invest in.

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Vizbee Syncs Your Devices (even your TV). Here’s How Rooled Helped Secure the Financing They Needed to Succeed.

How do small startups attract the big partnerships they need to succeed?

In this episode, we talk with Darren Feher of Vizbee on how he bootstrapped his way to collaborations with Fortune 500 media companies and how his partnership with Johnnie Walker at Rooled helped him do it.

If you’ve ever wondered how the content from all your internet devices syncs up and even matches what you watch on smart TV, Darren can explain. His company’s software allows your mobile devices to sync seamlessly behind the scenes and even helps deliver the content that you actually want to see.

We’re also joined by Johnnie Walker, the co-founder of Rooled outsourced accounting and CFO advisory services. Johnnie and his team have been working with Darren from the beginning.

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Choosing not to do your own accounting can pay dividends for start-ups

You have to wear a lot of hats to succeed as a start-up CEO, but sometimes the most important decisions are what you choose not to do yourself. In this episode, David talks with Johnnie Walker, the co-founder of Rooled, an outsourced accounting, consulting and on-demand CFO service.

Rooled lets companies focus on their core mission and not their accounting on a daily basis. We’re also joined by his client Jimmy Chen from Propel, a for-profit, venture-backed, social impact business that is helping low-income Americans improve their finances with tech. Jimmy’s mission was born during his time at Blue Ridge Labs.

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How Raising Partners helped get Zero Petroleum off the Ground and into the Guinness Book of World Records

Raising Partners helps founders in the United Kingdom find financing from private investors and, so far, they’ve raised more than 60 million pounds for over 175 companies.

In this episode of the Angel Nest, we’ll speak with Raising Partners’ co-founder Helena Murphy and senior investment manager Alex Rowe about how they support startup founders.

We’ll also talk with one of their clients, Paddy Lowe. He’s the founder of Zero Petroleum. His company is making fossil-free fuels – synthesized by the recycling of water and atmospheric carbon dioxide. They’ve recently secured a Guinness World Record, in partnership with the Royal Air Force. It’s for the first flight ever to be powered entirely by synthetic aviation fuel.

Learn more about these firms and be sure to tune in for more episodes with great entrepreneurs and investors at theangelnest.com.

Reflect Ventures Invests in Markets Where the Smartphone Revolution is Still Just Getting Started

America has led the tech revolution, but now some smart investors are backing emerging market startups with similar models, huge addressable markets, and much less competition.

As high-tech ventures spread across the planet, Michael Friedman and Jor Law have discovered huge opportunities backing startups with similar business models to the giants except that they’re in emerging and frontier markets like Africa, Pakistan, and Morocco.

Imagine investing in a place that’s starting to adopt the smartphone but you already know what the smartphone revolution can bring.

Michael and Jor from Reflect Ventures are our guest for this episode of the Angel Nest Podcast. Learn more about their firm at reflectventures.com.

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Centers will Turn Gas-Guzzling Pickups into Smooth-Riding Electric Vehicles

We know the future of cars and trucks is electric, but what happens with all those other vehicles that are still running well?

There are 25 million half-ton pickup trucks on the road right now whose only problem is that they run on gasoline. Everyone has decided that, to save the planet, transportation vehicles need to go electric. But sending 25 million vehicles to the junkyard doesn’t seem very environmentally friendly or economical (especially for their owners).

Today, we meet Tom Storey and his EV startup Conversion Centers which aims to repurpose those gas-guzzling vehicles for a fraction of what they would cost to replace.

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Episode 18 - Here’s Why Veterans Make Great Entrepreneurs

It stands to reason that entrepreneurs with military backgrounds have many of the same qualities investors look for in founders. And yet, they are 30% less likely to find venture capital. 

In this episode of the Angel Nest podcast, we welcome Darren Burrell, of Veteran Ventures Capital. Darren served in the U.S. Air Force which gave him discipline, focus and mental agility – all skills he would later use to succeed in business. His fund, Veteran Ventures, invests exclusively in entrepreneurs with military background. That’s not only to support those that served but also because they have unique domain expertise. And, because Darren knows why veterans are a good bet.

Bill Reny, an U.S. Air Force vet and founder/CEO of SEE ID, also joins us. Veteran Ventured backed his company which provides real-time IOT asset tracking to government and private sector clients. Thanks in part to that funding and mentorship, SEE ID is seeing explosive growth. 

We’ll discuss how SEE ID and other veteran-led companies are turning their unique experiences into new business success.

You can learn more about Veteran Ventures at https://VeteranVentures.us. 
And, find SEE ID online at at https://seeidinc.com.

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