On: Y Combinator for Mittelstands?

[catchmeifyoucan]

This is solid, but my biggest question is how this fares different than something like Pipe. I saw it called out as an existing solution, but didn't find an advantage point speaking to it.

If you had the metrics, and could give up no equity, isn't that a better deal?

[thanedar → catchmeifyoucan]

There is an opportunity to invest in these businesses pre-revenue and even pre-product. Pipe doesn't do that.

TinySeed is probably the best example of a YC for Mittelstands now. I love what Einar is doing there and am trying to refine a model that works here.

Getting to enough revenue where they can be Pipe funded isn't trivial. We can be a bridge to those funding sources.