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AfterRaise/Worked example

Worked example

How AfterRaise works when it is full.

Everything on this page is invented. These companies and these people do not exist. They are here so you can see the shape of the network before members fill it. Nothing on this page appears in the feed, the listings, search, or any count anywhere else on AfterRaise, and no real company is ever given words it did not say.

The real network is already running on public funding data: every disclosed round of $5M or more, updated daily, with a room for each company. What waits on members is everything a company or a person publishes: Moves in their own words, Opportunities, Insights and answers. That is what this example shows.

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Moves

What a company publishes when something changes.

MoveExpansionPreviewyesterday
Trellis Pay
Series B · London, UK · Fintech & Insurance
What happened

We are applying for UK authorisation.

Fourteen of our marketplace customers sell into the UK and currently route through a partner. We are applying to the FCA for our own authorisation so those flows come in-house.

What nextBuilding the UK compliance function, appointing a UK money laundering reporting officer, and standing up UK settlement rails.
Where you helpCompliance leadershipRegulatory advisoryUK banking partners
AdvisersPartnersTalentService providersRecruiters
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MoveExpansionPreview2 days ago
Northwind Analytics
Series B · New York, USA · Enterprise Software
What happened

We are opening our first US office, in New York.

Our four largest pipeline accounts are US insurers and every one of them has asked for a team in their timezone. We are opening in New York in October and building an enterprise sales organisation there over the next six months.

What nextHiring a Head of Enterprise Sales, two account executives and a solutions engineer. Setting up US employment, and getting our SOC 2 report accepted by carrier procurement teams.
Where you helpSenior sales rolesUS employment infrastructureCarrier partnershipsOffice requirements
TalentAdvisersPartnersRecruiters
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MoveProductPreview3 days ago
Sablefish Labs
Series B · San Francisco, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What happened

Enterprise tier ships with EU data residency.

Every deal above $100k this year has stalled on the same question, so we built the answer. Frankfurt and Dublin regions, customer-held keys, and an audit trail procurement teams actually accept.

What nextSolutions engineering to support it, and a security review programme we can put in front of enterprise buyers without a six-week delay.
Where you helpSolutions engineeringSecurity reviewCompliance tooling
TalentCustomersPartnersRecruitersMedia
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Opportunities

The work a Move creates, attached to the change that created it.

OpportunityADVISORYPreviewyesterday
Trellis Pay
London, UK · Mostly remote · Adviser

FCA authorisation adviser

Guide our UK authorisation application from gap analysis to submission, working alongside our German compliance team.

Who they wantYou have taken at least one EMI through FCA authorisation and can say what the reviewers actually ask for.
TalentPartnersAdvisersService providersRecruiters
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OpportunityJOBPreview2 days ago
Northwind Analytics
New York, USA · Hybrid, three days in office · Executive

Head of Enterprise Sales, US

Own the US launch from the first meeting to the first renewal. You will be our fourth person in New York and the first commercial one.

Who they wantTen years plus selling analytics into insurance carriers. You have opened a market before, not just grown one.
TalentAdvisersPartnersCustomersRecruitersMedia
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OpportunityPROJECTPreview2 days ago
Northwind Analytics
Remote · Remote · Specialist

US employment infrastructure setup

Stand up US payroll, benefits and contracts for an initial team of six, with a path to forty.

Who they wantA firm or an operator who has done this for a UK company entering the US in the last two years.
TalentAdvisersPartnersCustomersRecruitersMedia
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Insights

Specific knowledge from someone who has done it before.

InsightEMI authorisationPreviewyesterday
Tomas Lindqvist
Payments compliance. Ex-regulator, now on the other side.

What FCA reviewers actually ask an EU payments firm

Firms already regulated elsewhere in the EU tend to assume the application is a translation exercise. It is not. The three questions that consume the most time are always the same.

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InsightEU data residencyPreview2 days ago
Marcus Wei
Infrastructure engineering leader. Built two EU regions.

EU data residency is an organisational problem wearing an infrastructure costume

The infrastructure part takes about six weeks. Regions, key management, replication boundaries, all well-trodden.

Connected toSablefish Labs
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InsightUS market entryPreview3 days ago
Sarah Chen
Former SaaS COO. Four US market launches.

Three things companies underestimate before their first US hire

The first is timezone tax. A London team supporting a New York account executive loses about ninety minutes of every working day to the overlap, and that shows up as slow deal support long before anyone calls it a problem.

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Questions

A company asking the network before it commits.

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