TVCLabs

Helping innovative tech-enabled African founders find the right partners & investors to fund & grow their startup, following their success every step of the way

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Revenue looks impressive.

Contribution margin tells the truth.

If you build or back startups, this distinction changes everything.
Read carefully. https://t.co/uXPcFNEIYV

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AI will not replace agencies.
It will expose the unprepared ones.

@TomiDee joins @vgafolabi at Markhack 5.0 for the unveiling of Ad-Agency GPT. Africa's first generative AI platform built for marketing and advertising agencies. https://t.co/aT586m33hD

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Most founders chase funding.
Few build the discipline that sustains it.

@TomiDee shares a hard truth about what actually builds enduring businesses. Watch closely. 👇

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“Track your journey, celebrate the little things, they are the signals that you are building something real” - @TomiDee

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Get access to your Digital Data Room here -https://t.co/UmuhhwIfD7

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If an investor asked for your numbers today,
Would you send a link or start searching your inbox?

Serious founders do not prepare after interest. They prepare before it.

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“Track your journey, celebrate the little things, they are the signals that you are building something real” - @TomiDee

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Diaspora capital is no longer a side conversation.

@TomiDee joins an exciting panel at SLDIC London.

When capital organises with purpose, ecosystems accelerate. Are you in the room?

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To every founder pausing to celebrate.
Every investor reflecting on what truly matters.
Every builder who knows that purpose runs deeper than profit.

Eid Mubarak from TVCLabs. 🌙

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Most founders chase the topline. Serious founders protect what remains after variable cost.

Are you building for traction or survivability?

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Most fundraising books teach you how to pitch.
Investment Worthy Startup teaches you how to be ready.
There is a difference. Serious investors feel it immediately.

Have you read it and what shifted for you after?

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Scaling before you answer these four questions is expensive.

Which one are you focused on right now?

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...right now?

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The strongest ventures we have backed share one trait.
They understood their unit economics early.

They knew which customers were profitable, which channels created pressure, which products carried leverage.

Clarity compounds. So does confusion.
Which do you have more of...

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If you do not know your contribution margin.
You do not know your business.

Strong margin means growth funds scale.
Weak margin means growth increases burn.

Which one are you scaling right now?

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Revenue tells you how much you sell.
Contribution margin tells you whether you should.

Are you tracking what each customer truly contributes or just counting how many you have?

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@TomiDee @okeyesse @Powerstove We are proud to back @Powerstove.
Clean energy. African hands. Global ambition.

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Behind every scaling startup is a founder humble enough to be coached.

@TomiDee with @okeyesse and the @Powerstove team.

What is the one thing a mentor said that changed how you build?

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Most founders know their margin.
Few have ever stress-tested it.

Here is the simple test serious founders run.

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Gross margin is not a number. It is a discipline.

If an investor recalculated yours independently, would the story stay the same?

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"Revenue tells me you can sell. Gross margin tells me your business can survive..."