Guiding Early-Stage Founders Through The Next Big Leap
At Series B, the game changes: VCs stop asking "how fast can you grow?" and start asking "how efficiently can you scale?"
This blueprint arms you with the answers. From reducing CAC payback to building sustainable unit economics, from scaling teams without cultural collapse to choosing between US expansion and European dominance. Every framework comes from founders who've successfully raised in today's efficiency-focused market.
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Your guide to metrics, investor expectations & raising your Series B round.
“In the venture world, Series B represents a startup’s transition from potential to proven traction. It’s when you make the leap from promise to performance.”
Series B isn't about reaching €10M ARR anymore—it's about proving you can reach €100M ARR efficiently. This blueprint shows you exactly how.
Based on XAnge's 100+ portfolio companies, exclusive interviews with Series B founders, and insights from ecosystem partners who've guided dozens of successful rounds, we've identified what separates funded companies from the rest: controlled burn, predictable revenue, scalable operations, and defensible positioning.
This blueprint delivers:
✓ The CFO partnership model – Install financial discipline without sacrificing growth, including the exact hiring sequence, first 90-day priorities, and compensation benchmarks from 50+ European scale-ups
✓ Organizational design that actually scales – Navigate the 50-200 employee transformation with proven structures from portfolio companies that maintained culture and efficiency through hypergrowth
✓ The efficiency dashboard – Track the 12 metrics that Series B investors actually evaluate, not the 50 that create noise (including the burn multiple and NDR thresholds that get you to partner meetings)
✓ The international expansion decision matrix – Real case studies from portfolio companies' expansion attempts, including the costly mistakes 40% make in year one and the indicators that predict success
Stop guessing what Series B investors want. Start building what they actually fund.
Built from: Exclusive interviews with 20+ Series B founders, frameworks from XAnge's most successful scale-ups, and hard-won insights from operators who've navigated the €10M to €50M journey.
“In the trajectory of raising funds, from Seed to late stage, Series B is a shift from selling future success to selling numbers. From now on, those ‘numbers’ to be put forward have gone back to basics. They are the same numbers by which the CEO runs their business.”
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140 pages of insights from top European VCs & founders to help you raise your next round.
Earlier in Your Journey?
Get the foundations right first:
- The Seed Blueprint - Build what VCs actually fund (€0 to €1M ARR)
- The Series A Blueprint - Create your scaling engine (€1M to €10M ARR)
Each blueprint in the trilogy builds on the last. Start where you are.
Based on 100+ XAnge portfolio companies, dozens of founder interviews, proven operator playbooks, and exclusive ecosystem data. Real frameworks from real companies.
