Banking [on] the startups
A community where startups meet investors and financial service providers. Get financial solutions and expert advice to support your startup journey from start to IPO and beyond.
Why Startup Bank exists
We built Startup Bank because great ideas fail for one reason more often than any other: disconnection. The best founders lack warm access to capital, practical financial products, and the trusted advice that turns early momentum into lasting scale.
Startup Bank is not a financial services platform. It’s a community, a vibrant network of founders, investors, accelerators, corporates and financial partners. This is created for businesses to meet the right capital, the right experts and the right tools at the right time.
Startup Bank weekly webinar
Session: Investor Due Diligence: What VCs and PE Really Check
Series: Startup Bank Weekly Webinar (Tuesdays, 12:00–13:00)
Session length: 30 minutes (20’ interview + 10’ live Q&A)
Audience: South African founders, SMEs and financial-service partners
The session sets to walk the audience through the practical, item-by-item checklists that determine whether a deal advances, and how quickly. We’ll cover the essentials investors insist on: clean financial statements and forecasts, an accurate cap table, watertight legal documents, IP ownership and protection, operational controls, and credible commercial traction.
More than theory, the session shows founders how to pre-package these answers, organised folders, executable summaries, and one-page risk-and-mitigation notes, so routine questions become boxes ticked, not blockers. That preparation shortens timelines, reduces costly back-and-forth and helps founders move from term sheet to close with confidence.
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Our promise
Get practical finance, clear mentorship and real introductions, not generic products. We pair community and capability: events that build trust, banking rails that move money, and expert advice that sharpens decisions. Together, we help South African startups thrive, sustainably, compliantly and inclusively.
