Let's not sugar-coat it: for many founders, VC fundraising can be a bit of a black box. Do I need a co-founder? Can I apply without a referral? How much runway should I have?
Let's not sugar-coat it: for many founders, VC fundraising can be a bit of a black box. Do I need a co-founder? Can I apply without a referral? How much runway should I have?
How much money should I raise? What percentage of the company should I give away? What company valuation should I use?
Incredible Health CEO & Co-Founder Iman Abuzeid breaks down the complicated (and often convoluted) process of fundraising and makes public her lessons for the Founder community on what it ...
Many new founders are laser-focused on raising money and meeting with as many VCs as possible, the problem is, they often burn through a…
There are a lot of common factors that go into valuation methods for startups, but it all comes down to management, the idea, the industry and the economy.
Therefore, in many valuation methods for early or seed stage companies, the starting point for determining the valuation of seed stage ventures is that of comparable deals. It uses the ...
Want to know the biggest challenge Satya and I faced when announcing Homebrew’s third fund? How to describe the moment in time we seek to invest. “Early stage” has been coopted by…
To cure our curiosity (and hopefully yours), we’re taking a deeper look at the country with a snapshot of its VC scene.
Raising growth financing is very different from closing your early funding rounds. Here are 7 things you will absolutely want to show investors.
Startup Track: Day #1 Startup Track: Day #2 Two years later VC Track: Day #1 VC Track: Day #2 Two years later Startup or VC firm? Startups, on the other hand, are in general faster-changing ...
“So why do you like fundraising so much now?” It was a dreary day, and I was catching up over coffee with a friend of mine whom I hadn’t seen in a couple of years. And we were talking …
On the second day of SaaStock, we are transforming the Traction Stage into Rocket Fuel. Devoted to the topic of funding, Rocket Fuel is a one-day track featuring some of Europe’s leading ...
We sit down with Anna Garcia, Partner at Runway Venture Partners, an early stage fund focused on making investments in companies that are post seed and post product-market fit, often ...
During the Founder Institute's Founder Lab program, FI Graduates learned tips and tactics for securing a lead investor. In this blog post, we outline some of th