[Dublin] A Baseline x Seapoint Series: Fundraising

A monthly, off-the-record conversation about the reality of running a startup, the stuff you don't see on LinkedIn. What broke, what almost broke, what might still break.
Every month we pick a theme: burn rate anxiety, the hire you're not sure about, the board meeting you're dreading, fundraising when the market is cold, the competitor who just raised a bag of cash.
A space for founders to talk openly. You don't need to have answers, you don't even need to speak. But if you've been performing for investors, your board, and your team all week, this is the room to finally get a break.
This month: Fundraising
Sean Mullaney, CEO and founder of Seapoint, has raised £10m across his pre-seed and seed rounds — all of it pre-revenue and before launching the product out of beta. This month he sits down for an honest conversation about how it actually went.
We'll get into the challenges along the way, what went well and what didn't, and what he'd do differently next time. Expect real learnings, how the game changes from pre-seed to seed, and one every founder runs into: how to manage all the conflicting advice you get while raising.
Plus the practical stuff: how to run a raise like a system instead of a casual process, what a VC's silence actually means, how to keep going through a run of no's, and how one term sheet can flip the whole thing.
Come with whatever you're sitting with - a raise you're dreading, a round that's stalled, a number that's keeping you up. Ask as much or as little as you want. Nothing leaves the room.
About Seapoint
We're building the Financial OS for Startups. Connect your existing banks and automate payroll, invoices, treasury, and bookkeeping from one AI-native account — up and running in 10 minutes. Get started for free.
About Baseline
Baseline is a founder community and pre-seed fund, investing in breakout founders from Ireland and across Europe.

💡 This series is most suitable to founders who have raised or are planning to raise Venture Capital, an