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July 9, 2020

Fundraising for Biotech during coronavirus - how should founders use …

In this episode of Fundraising Radio, Jason Scharf the Associate Director at Illumina and a Co-Fund Manager at San Diego Angel Conference explains how biotech and life-science startups should adapt to the current situation and use it to their advantage and how should other founders make sure they a…

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May 9, 2020

Venture studios - how do they work? By Jake Hurwitz, founder and CEO …

In this episode we go into the topic of the venture studios - how does the model work, how is it different from accelerators, who should go through venture studio and what the the pros and cons. Everything in this episode with Jake Hurwitz - founder and CEO at Parallel Ventures.

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May 4, 2020

Why YC? Jamie Gull on fundraising after graduating from Y Combinator …

In this episode of Fundraising Radio Jamie Gull tells about his experience of building a startup in deep tech and going through YC. What are the major reasons one should join YC and what are its main benefits? All in this episode of Fundraising Radio with the CEO of Talyn Air, Jamie Gull.

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May 3, 2020

Critical infrastructure investing - how it works and how it should be…

In this episode Michael Riemer, Managing General partner at New Urbana talks about investing in critical infrastructure and his path to the investment world. How should startups in urban tech raise money and how it should be done through a venture studio and much more in this episode with Michael R…

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April 22, 2020

Expert Dojo's founder - Brian Mac Mahon tells about investing in LA.

Brian Mac Mahon - founder and CEO of Expert Dojo tells about investing in early stage startups. In this episode he also compares startup founders to Vikings and it's really fun to listen to:)

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April 20, 2020

Clean tech fundraising - Taj Ahmad-Eldridge partner at Babylonian Ven…

In this episode Taj Ahmad-Eldridge, managing partner at Babylonian Ventures and a senior investment director at LACI tells about fundraising for a startup in clean tech field. This episode is full of great resources and here is the list of resources for fundraising in clean tech:

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Jan. 20, 2020

Got no traction yet? CEO of Airdas will tell you what steps to take t…

In this episode of Fundraising Radio our speaker was Farmon Akmalov, co-founder and CEO of a Latvian company - Airdas, who recently moved to the US and now is growing his startup here. He went through incubator, pre-accelerator and accelerator and in this episode explains the difference between the…

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Dec. 13, 2019

Importance of selling before building - founder of an LA venture stud…

Importance of selling before building - founder of an LA venture studio explains why you should follow the lean startup model. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fundraising-radio/message

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Oct. 21, 2019

Co-founder of One Dollar Capital tells what are the investors mainly …

Co-founder of One Dollar Capital tells what are the investors mainly looking at in the startups. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fundraising-radio/message

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Sept. 16, 2019

Founder of Openland tells about his journey through Y-combinator and …

Founder of Openland shares his story of fundraising while going through YC. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fundraising-radio/message

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