Regardless of whether they encountered Zhang Xuhao in Hongshan Capital intentionally or unintentionally, Lin Yi soon found that he seemed to be in a lot of trouble.

In fact, it may be cold in the capital market is the scenario he envisioned at the beginning, after all, if he hadn't misled Liu Jianni at the beginning, casual takeaway network might not even be able to get the initial $1 million.

The reality, however, is a bit more grim.

Investors are not mysterious, and when it comes to the second round, they definitely don't look at the edge, but look at the data to make investment decisions.

Although Lin Yi's record of fighting Hungry during this period of time was blown out of the sky, the disadvantage in scale was enough to make investors hesitate.

After a few days of running, Lin Yi and Liu Jianni did not get a positive reply, which made Lin Yi not only start to doubt:

Could it be that I don't have the talent to fool investors?

For this reason, Lin Yi decided to call his senior sister together, he didn't let his senior sister out at first, not because he was afraid that she would steal his limelight, but because he was worried that he would be hungry and make some moves.

"Don't you have to worry about it now?" Senior sister asked before agreeing.

"Recently, the situation on both sides has been calm, and the battle line has not changed much. Now that Zhang Xuhao himself is looking for money from investors, what small actions can they make? ”

So now two-thirds of the trident of casual takeaway networks are running around for money, which can be described as the top priority.

Liu Jianni was quite surprised when she saw Li Moyan, she knew that this team was three people, and they had met together during the entrepreneurship competition.

However, since Lin Yi asked for $1 million in financing from her in March, Lin Yi has been in contact with her, so it is the first time that he has dealt directly with Li Moyan, a girl.

She didn't raise any objections, from taking one person to meet investors to taking two people to meet investors, professional venture capitalists will not pay casually because of their good looks.

If Liu Jianni knew that Lin Yi came to her senior sister for the metaphysical purpose of "can you change your luck", she would probably want to roll her eyes.

However, it seems that the senior sister has not brought any change to their difficult journey to find money, and after a few more days, the progress is still not smooth.

After the three of them went back, they discussed countermeasures, and Liu Jianni first asked: "How long can you support it with the current financial situation?" ”

During this time, although there were no new moves with Hungry, it was not peaceful, at least the tug-of-war between Jiangcheng, Yangcheng and Jinmen was still going on, and Shencheng was at the forefront.

Everyone is a grasshopper on a rope, and the senior sister did not hide it: "At the current rate of capital outflow, the funds will be exhausted by the end of June, unless the targeted measures of the present and hungry are abandoned." ”

"...... at the end of June"

Liu Jianni muttered to herself, and then summarized the current form of financing: "We have run down in the past few days, and the current situation is indeed not optimistic. ”

"In the current situation, according to my experience, the financing amount this time is more likely to fall between $3 million and $5 million."

"As for the hungry side, because they know that I am your investor, they will naturally guard against me, so I can't find any news, but they have raised the third round of financing this time, at least in the order of tens of millions of dollars."

This result is indeed heavy, Lin Yi repeated: "This means that it is very likely that the amount we get is only one-third of theirs, the same as in the last round, or less." ”

"You can understand it that way."

Jianni Liu is very confident in her own judgment, but she also has enough patience for the projects she supports with real money.

"If you want to get more money, there are only two options, one is to increase the company's valuation, and the other is to give up more equity."

"Your story doesn't seem to impress other investors in terms of valuation, they are unlikely to give your business model a higher valuation, and even lean more towards each other because of Eleme's scale advantage."

"As for equity, the range I just said is estimated according to the conventional financing model, if you are willing, it is possible that investors are willing to pay more money for this, but it is also possible that investors will feel that your situation is worrying and refuse to pay."

Jianni Liu previously exchanged $1 million for a 20% stake in Casual Takeaway, and the amount she said this time was also estimated according to this ratio.

Lin Yi and Senior Sister glanced at each other, they were definitely unwilling to go down this road, and Liu Jianni also said that it would be a blessing and a curse to do so.

Of course, Liu Jianni also understands the psychology of the two, she will not force them to make this kind of decision, but just change the topic and ask:

"Do you remember what you said when you came to me three months ago to talk about financing, can you go this way now?"

She asked Lin Yi, and the senior sister was surprised but didn't show anything unusual.

"It's not time yet."

Although the two of them behaved very tacitly and did not show their stuffing, listening to Lin Yi's unspoken appearance, Liu Jianni knew that the partners around him did not know about it.

She didn't say it on her own, but just reminded: "Now it's the most critical time for casual takeaway networks, Lin Yi, you have to plan early." ”

Other than that, she didn't say much, Lin Yi and Senior Sister left Liu Jianni, and Senior Sister didn't speak until she returned to school.

"Is there anything you want to tell me about what Liu Jianni said just now?"

Lin Yi didn't say it before, firstly, because it was not easy to explain, and secondly, he didn't want Senior Sister and Li Jianguo to have any other ideas.

Now is the time.

"It started at the end of last year, do you remember one day when we were in the school room, the captain called and said that there was a difficult guest who asked to see the boss? Then it was the guy I went to meet. ”

Senior Sister nodded.

She was very impressed by this incident, because soon after that, it happened that the captain lied about the military situation and made her mistakenly think that Lin Yi was hit by a car, and then she was dismissed because of it.

Lin Yi continued: "That person is Wang Huiwen of each regiment. ”

"Wang Huiwen?"

After starting a business, the senior sister has done her homework in private with the elders in the industry, even so, she only knows one Wang Xing per group.

Lin Yi explained: "He is Wang Xing's brother who was on the bunk bed when he was in college, which is similar to my relationship with Jianguo, you can understand it as the second-in-command of each regiment." ”

It's not necessarily accurate, but neither of them cares.

"I didn't talk to him for a few words that day, but if I'm not mistaken, he deliberately went to do industry research, and each group intends to enter the food delivery industry."

"I told Jane Liu the news and lied to her that each group might buy us, which was one of the reasons why she was willing to give us $1 million at the time."

Senior sister concluded: "So when Liu Jianni asked you just now, you just said something, in fact, each group did not plan to buy us? ”

"No, it's not."

Lin Yi said clearly: "I don't know if each group will come to buy us, but I can be 100% sure that each group will definitely enter the food delivery industry, maybe Wang Huiwen will talk to Zhang Xuhao in his office about the acquisition now." ”

The senior sister didn't ask him why he was so sure, but was more concerned about another question: "Then if each group is willing to buy anything, will you agree?" ”