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In this episode of Fundraising Radio, Jim Connor the member of Sand Hill Angels and an Executive Producer at Game Changers Silicon Valley, explains how to find the right investors, how to reach out to them and how to give a great pitch (and how to prepare one!) Sand Hill Angels: https://www.sandhillangels.com/

In this episode of Fundraising Radio, Vivin Hegde the Director at Hilti Tech Office explains how Hilti CVC department makes its decisions, what metrics they use and what do they like to invest in. Hilti Group: https://careers.hilti.com/en

In this episode of Fundraising Radio Landon Ainge, the Managing Director at Assure Syndicates explains how he helps startups to raise money without charing any fees or even taking any equity. He explains how the syndication process works and what he gets out of it. Article by Landon on Assure Syndicates: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/introducing-assure-syndicates-landon-ainge/?trackingId=0kCMulCP...

In this episode of Fundraising Radio, Grant Van Cleve an ex-President at Tech Coast Angels at Orange County and a current member of Board of Governors of Tech Coast Angels as well as an angel investor and a Managing Partner at Hangar 75 explains the current landscape of investment field from the investor's perspective. He also explains where should founders head to get funded. Hangar 75: https://w...

In this episode of Fundraising Radio, Vishal Uttam Founder and Managing Partner at Veloquence Capital explains why is it a good time for fundraising now and how VCs behave. He also explains how Veloquence Capital invests and how their approach to investing changed after the COVID-19 breakout. Vishal's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishal-uttam-5517a0114/ Veloquence Capital's site: https://...

In this episode of Fundraising Radio, Tina Tosukhowong the Senior Director at GC International explains how their investment strategies work and how their approach of looking at the companies is different from a VC's approach. We also discussed how founders can improve their chances of getting funded by a corporate venture capital and how to get in touch with them. GC International's website: http...

In this episode of Fundraising Radio, Gianluca Guerra the CEO at Virgilius Wealth explains how he connects corporations to young startups and how this process works. He also talks about the multistage fundraising process and how it can be done in an efficient way. If you have some questions, reach out to Gianluca Guerra via LinkedIn (link below). Gianluca's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gi...

In this episode of Fundraising Radio, Mark Crawford - Venture Capital Investor at Stanley Ventures and Intel Capital will explain how does Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) work and how is it different from a Venture Capital (VC). Lots of insights into this question by an experienced investor who was on both sides of it - the VC and CVC. In this episode we also discussed the government-sponsored ven...

In this educational episode Nathan Beckord, the founder and CEO of Foundersuite explains how his software can be used by founders to accelerate and make their fundraising easier. Foundersuite: https://foundersuite.com/ This episode is NOT sponsored by Foundersuite and was chosen purely as an example of software exploitation for fundraising. 

In this episode of Fundraising Radio the guest speaker is Nathan Beckord, the co-founder and CEO of Foundersuite - the tool that helps founders fundraise. And in this episode Nathan explains the major strategies used to fundraising, how much time should you use making a research on investors, how big should the lists be and much more. StrictlyVC: https://www.strictlyvc.com/ Foundersuite: https://f...

In this episode of Fundraising Radio the guest speaker is Christian Pankovcin, analyst at 13 Ventures and he explains how much more useful a connection to an analyst can be rather than to a managing partner. We also touched onto the deal flow and deal sourcing of 13 Ventures and New York Angels. Christian's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-t-pankovcin-757905137/

In this episode of Fundraising Radio the guest speaker is Erik de Stefanis - analyst at Interlace Ventures. And he explains the role of an analyst in a venture fund and how startup founders can use analysts to get to the managers of the fund. This episode is mainly about going through a less traditional way of reaching out to funds. Erik's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikdestefanis/

Tristan Pollock built and sold two companies - SocialEarth and Storefront and in this episode we focus on this - how to approach fundraising, how to get first contacts, how the life in the accelerator looks like and what happens after the demo day. Because Tristan was also a partner of 500 Startups for a few years, we touched onto that subject as well. HumanIPO where I bought Tristan's Time: https...

In this episode of Fundraising Radio the guest speaker is Mitzi Krockover, managing director, Co-Chair of the Health Sector Committee and the Founding Member of Golden Seeds' Arizona chapter. And in this episode we are primarily focused on discussing the work of the Golden Seeds - angel group that primarily invests in female-founded startups. We also touched onto the differences between the differ...

In this episode of Fundraising Radio our guest speaker is the Founder of 33 Capital, Stacey Feinberg and a Managing Director at Golden Seeds and she explained what are the major mistakes that she sees on the pitch decks and during the in-person presentations. She also talked about reaching out to investors and her personal investing preferences. Golden Seeds: https://goldenseeds.com/ Invest in you...

In this episode of Fundraising Radio, Gay Gaddis the founder of T3 explained how she ran a company for 30 years until acquisition without raising any money. As bootstrapping becomes more and more popular during COVID-19 this episode could be very helpful to many founders who are considering this alternative to the standard Silicon Valley path. Gay's book on building your path to success: https://w...

In this episode of Fundraising Radio Anton Fedorov, Investment Director at Flashpoint Venture Capital explained why Israel is such a popular place for venture investing in Europe and also talked about non-US based companies making 50%+ of their revenue from the US customers. This episode will be interesting for anyone who plans to work with the US and raise money there eventually. Flashpoint Ventu...

In this episode we talked about two major subjects: growing your network once you move to a new city/country and how to find new partnerships and the second topic being the fundraising itself. Zenetta Burger explains what she does as a scout for Mucker Capital and how scouts work and can be helpful for startup founders.  Mucker Capital: https://www.mucker.com/ Social Venture Partners: https:/...

In this episode of Fundraising Radio our guest speaker is Chuck Pettid, the CEO, Republic Crowdfunding Platform - one of the largest equity crowdfunding platforms in the US. And he explains how equity crowdfunding works, who should consider it, how is it different from regular crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo. We also talked about the most fundable types of project that should...

This episode of Fundraising Radio is very educational and our speaker is Zane Witherspoon, co-founder and CTO at Dispatch acquired by Perlin. And in this episode Zane shares the lessons he learned from raising during the times when there was a hype around crypto and what was his major takeaway from that fundraising (spoiler: raise as much as you can while there is hype to extend your runway). He a...

In this episode, Wendy Ryan Managing Director at Golden Seeds explains how GS works, what do they invest in and how to improve the chances of getting funded by an angel group. We also spent some time talking about free resources available to startup founders and Wendy named a lot of them, but here are the major ones: Golden Seeds office hours (free help from expert angel investors): https://golden...

In this episode of Fundraising Radio, Nicola Mattina co-founder and CEO of Stamplay tells about how he raised nearly $1 million in funding from across the world and how his company got acquired by Apple. In this episode we talk a lot about choosing the right physical location for fundraising - different cities focus on different fields in the startup industry and in this episode Nicola explains ho...

In this episode of Fundraising Radio we had two guest speakers - Filipp Chebotarev and Polina Chebotareva telling about the differences between the current crisis and the crisis of 2008 and how investing during these times works. We've touched onto multiple subjects, including - how to evaluate your startup, pitching to investors and much more. Polina Chebotareva: https://www.linkedin.com/in/polin...

In this episode of Fundraising Radio Andrew Ly, Founder and CEO at ticktBox explains how he managed to acquire a large customer early on and what effects it had on his company. We also talk about the acquisition of tickBox by ScreenEngine and about acquisitions in general - who should expect them, who should expect an acquisition and what happens after your startup gets acquired. ticktBox's websit...

In this episode of Fundraising Radio, Jessica Li, investor at Soma Capital talks about fundraising at the earliest stages, how to reach out to the right person and how to establish that connection with the point of contact at a fund. This episode is full of insights into fundraising from VCs at an early stage. Highly recommend all early entrepreneurs going through Soma Capital's program: https://f...