EAH Slack Wrap-Up - 15 April 2024

Hey Community 👋

Hey @here!

It's been a while since our last update so here are the latest EAH news! 🗞️

💰️ EAH Raise update 💰️

So this is something happening in the background that doesn't impact most of you but it is taking a lot of the focus and time for @Ben Swanson and myself

We are making some good progress, with amazing support from investors within the EAH community at the core boosting our efforts

It's also looking quite positive as far as conversations with external investors so nothing is guaranteed yet but hopefully we are on the right track and not far off from completing it

Once that is sorted expect some big changes, all for the best as we have more resources at our disposal to continue our mission to bring better innovation to the Accounting Tech space!

 🎬️Special webinar 🎬️

Relating to the above, as you may have seen we did a special webinar last week about "Unlocking Investment Opportunities in Accounting Tech"

Thanks to the amazing @Aly Garrett @Jason Robinson Future Advisory and @Alastair at flinder who took part! 🙌

Our target audience was prospective investors but I have a feeling everyone here would find it interesting!

So here is the link, and obviously if you know potential investors who might find it interesting feel free to share it with them

🚀Upcoming startup cohort 🚀

While the raise is a distraction to actively look for new startups we are still getting a continuous flow of startups to evaluate, largely thanks to amazing referrals from you guys!

We now have two new startups in the final stages, so expect a new cohort later this week or early next week!

🏗️Ongoing startup work🏗️

I'm conscious it might seem quiet with some of our more long-term projects so I thought it would be good to provide a very brief overview for everyone:

1. Seb (new GL project)

• Been doing a lot of work in the background on a proof of concept

• Currently focused on doing an initial raise

• Will update as progress is made in coming months! Looks exciting!

2. Tax Torch

• Finished a small round of conversation with some of you last month

• Product development happening in the background

• They have been focused on some grant competitions as well

3. FourFourFive

• Finished a small round of conversation with some of you last month

• Product development happening in the background

4. Formulr

• Doing some testing with some of you at the moment

• Product development happening in the background

5. Goti (new potential long-term addition)

• Just finished their program

• Putting the tech team together to action all the insight

• Seems keen to continue to work with EAH so expect a beta testing program in the coming months

🇬🇧 Accountex 🇬🇧

For all of the #uk-adopters going to Accountex have fun!

We know of a few startups we are having some initial conversations going there so I trust if you come across them you put in a good word about EAH!

📌 Top Threads

Finishing with just some top conversations in the last few weeks:

• Launch of 'The Circle' by Sidgrove teaser- @Dave Sellick 👏

• Fixed fees debate- @Richie Lennon

• Operations Managers- @Richie Lennon

• Appraisal and review system- @Dan Crowther

• Managing pipeline- @Pamela phillips

• Xero & Deputy- @Jeremy Wotton

• Engagement letter- @Ellie Dignam

🔚 That's it! Guess there was more to update than I initially anticipated 😅

Thanks everyone! 🙏

Cheers, Yohan

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