Hall Martin , Founder and CEO at TEN Capital Network that raised over $900 million for its clients, in this episode talks about hiring fundraising advisors who can connect you to the right capital. We spoke about different regulations around fundraising and of course, about hiring experts for your fundraising round and whether it's worth it or not. Hall's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/halltmartin/ TEN Capital Network - connecting investors with startups: https://tencapital.group/
Alyona Mysko, CEO & Founder at Fuelfinance in this episode talks about the story of her company and the effects that the war has on it and its future plans. Hint: no giving up in sight and Fuelfinance is preparing to raise soon while expanding!
Sharmin Ali , Founder and CEO of Instoried tells her story of helping others write good stories. In this episode we go in-depth into the reasons why Instoried built all their tech in-house from scratch and how they use it as their competitive advantage to secure funding for the expansion. Sharmin's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharmin-ali-5b6b4237/ Instoried website: https://www.linkedin.com/company/instoried/ I forgot what else I wanted to include in the description so here is the link...
Russ Wilcox , Partner at PillarVC talks about his experience running startups himself. Throughout his career he raised 10 times and 3 times these were down-rounds. In this episode Russ explains what down-rounds are bad, how they happened to him and how he managed to survive and thrive! Russ' LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/russ-wilcox-2005/ Pillar VC's website: https://www.pillar.vc/ For people who want to understand how to get in touch with the right investor, a course developed by Fundra...
Koby Conrad, Head of Growth at Rupa Health and Founder of Channels of Growth talks about his experience building a company and pivoting 3 times. He also explains what growth management looks like and who should be dealing with that field. Koby's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kobyconrad/ Subscribe to Channels of Growth here: https://channelsofgrowth.substack.com/ Course on fundraising by Fundraising Radio team: https://fundraising-courses.com/ Rupa Health's site: https://www.rupahealth.co...
Jeremy Neilson, CEO and Co-Founder of Assure in this episode explains how SPVs work and what they are, how founders can use them to make their rounds easier and what are the expected costs of creating an SPV and syndicating your own round.
Nick Desai - Founder and CEO at HeyRenee in this episode talks about how he started 5 companies and how many of them actually made it. He also explains why he chose to raise money from VCs for all his companies and how that decision affected the business. HeyRenee site: https://www.heyrenee.co/ Nick's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickdesaiheal/ Can your investors fire me? Here is an episode of Fundraising Radio explaining this question: https://www.fundraisingradio.com/Jeb-Banner/ If yo...
Dylan Kendall - candidate for Los Angeles City Council District in 2022 and a Founder of a for-profit and non-profit in this episode shares her experience of being a founder in Los Angeles. She explains how did it happen that fundraising for a non-profit turned out to be easier than for a for-profit company and how she got into politics. Learn more about Dylan as a candidate here: https://dylankendall2022.com/ Relevan episode where Claudine Emeott explains how impact funds work: https://www.fund...
Jeb Banner , CEO and Co-Founder of Boardable explains how the governing boards really work and how founders can make sure that they don't get fired from the companies that they have started. He also spoke about the first steps that early stage founders should take to establish the board and explained the legal requirements around the board management. Jeb's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jebbanner/ Boardable: https://boardable.com/ Course by Fundraising Radio's team: https://www.fundraisi...
Anthony Zhang , Co-founder and CEO at Vinovest talks about how his company helps "regular" people invest in wine - an asset class that was previously only accessible to the wealthy people with free time on their hands. He also spoke about their most recent Series A and how they had to change their business model to close the round successfully. Anthony's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-zhang-988a2375/ Link to Vinovest that will get you 3 months of no management fees: https://vinove...
Jordi Hays, Co-Founder & CEO at Party Round in this episode talks about the legal side of fundraising and how it looks like now VS what it actually should be. We've also discussed the need for actual lawyers in some fundraising rounds and the importance of friends and family round in a life of a startup. Jordi's email for those who want to skip the line of over 30k users and use Party Round now: jordi@partyround.com Jordi's LinekedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordi-hays-559199113/ And of cour...
Duy Vo , Founder and CEO at Productfy talks about being a sole founder and yet having great Co-Founders (in a way) who have helped him lead the company to the success instead of selling early on. He also explains how Productfy works and how it can transform any organization into a complex financial organization in a span of a few weeks. Duy Vo's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/duybvo/ Productfy's site: https://www.productfy.io/ Course on fundraising for early stage startups: https://www.fu...
Alex Simon , CEO Co-Founder of Elude in this episode talks about the new strategies that modern founders can employ while fundraising for their startups. We also spoke about some key things that founders should have on hand before starting to raise and about other things that I forgot to write down. Alex' LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexnsimon/ Elude website: https://elude.co/ Episode with the founder of DocSend: https://www.fundraisingradio.com/Russ-Heddleston/ 70% off (for less than ...
Amy Malin , Co-Founder at Trueheart talks about how by making simple search requests you give money to non-profits instead of monopolistic corporate giants. We spoke about how fundraising for non-profits looks like and how is it different from fundraising for for-profit companies and how should one approach fundraising for such projects. Amy's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amymalin/ Trueheart - change the world with every search: https://trueheart.com/ SMB bonds that we've touched on dur...
Russ Heddleston, Co-Founder and CEO talks about the story of DocSend and how the decision to increase their prices led to an increased conversion rate for their customers and how exactly this magic worked. We've also discussed how DocSend became so essential for the startup founders and how was the product taking shape. In this episode Russ touched onto the acquisition of DocSend by Dropbox and explained how exactly they got to a $150 million acquisition with just $15 million raised.
Michel Tricot Co-Founder at Airbyte talks about raising capital for an open-source startup. We talked about how Airbyte plans to monetize and how they managed to get into Y-Combinator. We also touched onto the effect that a good background in a relevant field has on your fundraising efforts (spoiler: it makes fundraising too easy) Michel's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/micheltricot/ Airbyte's website: https://airbyte.io/ Link to our course on fundraising - The Science of Getting in front...
Karl Hughes, Founder and CEO at Draft.dev talks about content marketing, specifically focused on targeting developers. We discussed some strategies that can be applied and budget for good content marketing along with some use-cases.
Kirk Marple , Founder and CEO at Unstruk Data talks about their fundraising round and how they doubled their valuation in less than 4 months. We also spoke about some useful techniques that can help founders fundraise. Kirk's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirkmarple/ \ Unstruk Data: https://www.unstruk.com/
Paul Martino , founder at Bullpen capital talks about investing in founders who are "falling out of pattern", making post-seed investments and how such investments are different from bridge rounds. We also spoke about how founders should view such post-seed rounds and how to approach them. Paul's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pauljmartino/ Bullpen capital: https://bullpencap.com/ Work is still very much in progress, but you can preview the upcoming course on outreach to investors created...
Taylor Burton, Co-Founder of Till Financial talks about the creation and fundraising of it and how they have gathered analyzed and later presented the feedback to the investors. Taylor also touched onto the major problems that they faced while building the company and some mistakes they've made early on.
Casey Fenton , co-founder at the legendary Couchsurfing and currently founder and CEO at Upstock.io talks about what RSUs are and how are they different from standard stock options. We also discussed why exactly Casey hates stock options so much and what is so wrong about them. And of course we talked about Casey's experience with couchsurfing and its transition from a non-profit into a for-profit company. Upstock: https://www.upstock.io/ Casey's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caseyfenton...
Thomas Li, Co-Founder and CEO at Daloopa talks about explaining complicated tech in simple terms and selling it to investors and buyers. We also discussed deep tech in greater detail and who are the primary targets for fundraising in these cases. We also touched onto the importance of listening to your customers and how that can directly affect your fundraising process (great quote at the end of the episode).
Omry Ben David, General Partner at Viola Ventures talks about investing in Israel and Israeli founders all over the globe and why it seems to be working than most other demographics. We also discussed how does Viola Ventures work and why is it spread over 4 funds and how do they cooperate.
Andrew Milich , Co-Founder at Skiff talks about the importance of college education while building a company and raising funding. He also talked about how investors reacted to him as the first time founder and how it affected his fundraising efforts. Andrew's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amilich/ Skiff's website: https://www.skiff.org/ Skiff's Twitter: https://twitter.com/skiffprivacy
