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Anastasia Green, managing partner of Burgundy Capital tells about fundraising through brokers and how to make sure that you comply with all the SEC regulations on securities offering. Link to Burgundy Capital webiste: https://www.burgundy.capital/ My humanIPO profile : https://humanipo.app/id/konstantin.dubovitskiy

How does fundraising work at later stages? How do you get to this late stage? What is coin-swap during an ICO? How did 1World Online survive the "Crypto Winter"? That and much more explained by Alex Fedoseev, founder and CEO at 1World Online. Offering of 1World Online on Republic, click on this sentence!! My humanIPO profile

In this episode our guest speaker is Christian Kameir, managing partner at Sustany Capital - blockchain focused VC. Today we are focusing on making the right pitch to the blockchain-focused investors, discussing why no "world currency" will be adopted in the near future and much more fun stuff. Link to the Sustany Capital's website: https://sustany.co/ Article that Christian wrote on HackerNoon My...

What is STO? What are pros and cons of fundraising through it? How to fund any startup through blockchain and how to grab the "lowest hanging fruit" in blockchain fundraising - all that and more explained by today's speaker - Alex Nascimento, Managing Director of 7CC Blockchain Investments. Download the book on STOs by Alex here: www. TheSTOfinancialRevolution.com Use this code to get it for free:...

2nd Educational episode on Fundraising Radio: a precise step-by-step guide on making sales through LinkedIn for b2b model by Yulia Shin - experienced saleswoman working for a tech focused company in Dubai. Important links mentioned in the episode: https://rocketreach.co https://www.zoominfo.com https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/booleanassistant/ hunter.io https://start.me/p/GE7Ebm/ssar?ref...

Peter Lee, founder and managing partner of Embark Ventures. Embark ventures focuses on investing in deep-tech and is located in Los Angeles, so in this episode we are really focusing on fundraising for startups working with deep-tech and steps that one should take if he or she decides to start a project in deep-tech. Check out the episode to find out more about deep-tech funding in SoCal and about...

Joe Magee, founder and CEO of RallyBound in this episode will tell his story of getting his company acquired for over $10 million. In our discussion we mainly focused on how to acquire large institutional customers, how to raise your first money, where to look for money and how to choose a new venture to work on after you sell your company. My humanIPO profile: https://humanipo.app/id/konstantin.d...

In this episode Sergey Gribov, partner of Flint Capital, shares his experience working in the investment field. In our discussion we focused on how to reach decision makers at big investment firms and how choose the right investor for your company. We also reviewed differences between early stage investors and later stage investors and how a late-stage investment firm can make multiple X return in...

In this episode, Stijn Vanorbeek, venture partner of K5 ventures and an angel investor tells about the best ways of raising money when working in hard tech field. Great advice and valuable feedback on the fundraising process for hard tech founders and investors.  Discovering the difference between angel investors and VC investors as Stijn has been both!

In this episode of Fundraising Radio, Dominique Wu, professional designer tells how she ran multiple crowdfunding campaigns - watched people become rich and watched people loosing thousands of dollars by making one poor decision. In this episode we talked about choosing the right agency to run your crowdfunding campaign, what steps you should take before starting crowdfunding campaign and what are...

In this episode of Fundraising Radio our guest speaker was Paran Sonthalia the co-founder and CEO of DeWaste, who raised $21,000 exclusively through grants. After realising that raising money at such an early stage will heavily dilute his and his co-founder's shares in the company, Paran decided to raise the pre-seed round exclusively through grants. And in this episode we will cover that. Website...

In this episode of Fundraising Radio, Anatoly Corp, CEO and co-founder of Fueltime tells about raising $170,000 for his startup through one angel investor and one accelerator.  In this episode we focused on: stages at which you should raise money for your startup, working on multiple projects at the same time, finding co-founders and finding connections in a new place.  Website of Fuelti...

In this episode of Fundraising Radio we had an unusual guest - Sophie Alcorn , a well known immigration lawyer in Silicon valley and Founding Partner & Certified Specialist Attorney in Immigration and Nationality Law. This episode focuses on how to move to the US if you are a startup founder or an investor, emphasizing the O-1 Visa and all the requirements for it. If you are a US citizen or ha...

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 these three and also shares his vision on why he thinks such programs make more sense for young startups...

In this episode of Fundraising Radio, Josh Schlisserman talked about how his fund – lvlup.vc is raising funds right now! In this episode you can learn about the difference between fundraising for a fund and for a startup (hint – your struggles are nothing compared to struggles of venture capitalists). If you want to raise money for your company, understanding struggles of investors is crucial...

In this episode of Fundraising Radio Andy Scherrer, the founder of Peanut Butter Ventures tells about his experience of raising money on Indiegogo and presenting his peanut butter at Shark Tank. Andy went over the budget that it took him to raise $140,000 on Indiegogo campaign and compared crowdfunding with regular fund raising from Angels and VCs. Quote of the day : if I found a good investor I d...

In this episode of Fundraising Radio, Ari Hirsch, founder of an LA based startup - InstaSteam shares his experience raising of raising funds for a physical product, working with Indiegogo and selling products through TV shows. He also explained what is the difference between advertising software vs advertising a physical product and how you should adjust to those differences. Quote of the day: be...

Partner or Ruvento Ventures tells about the investing cycle, structure of the Venture Capital firms and about the career growth within VC firm.

Importance of selling before building - founder of an LA venture studio explains why you should follow the lean startup model.

Managing partner of GVA.capital and Mindrock.capital tells about raising money in Silicon Valley and gives great tips on how to approach investors.

Co-founder and COO of Rooit tells about hardships of raising funds from the US investors by a foreign startup.

Co-fouder and CEO of Discotech tells about raising $1.6 million and about the importance of keeping current investors updated.

Co-founder of 6nomads tells about raising $100,000, how US investors view traction got abroad and shares low-budget growth hacks.

Co-founder of Marpl tells about raising $100,000 as a seed round and "reinventing a wheel".

Founder of WeStrive tells about raising $145,000, struggles with App Store and the importance of investing personal funds into your startup.