Overvaluation, weak storytelling, misaligned targeting, and inefficient outreach Raising a Series A round is about more than demonstrating traction. Founders need to show investors that the company has the market opportunity, business model, team, and potential to scale. Yet four common mistakes can make the process harder than it needs to be. 1. Overvaluation An ambitious valuation can create unnecessary friction and limit the pool of interested investors. Valuation should reflect the...

“The industry spent a decade solving for the plug. The constraint was never the plug, it was the panel behind it.” For Sanjeev Singh, Founder and CEO of Elocity Technologies, that insight came from more than two decades working across technology and the energy sector. Before founding Elocity in Toronto in 2018, Sanjeev spent more than 18 years driving digital transformation across the energy industry and working on projects supporting the global energy transition. As a certified energy...

The EV charging market is becoming increasingly crowded, with companies taking very different approaches.