Exit strategies: sell your startup company - M&A acquisitions
Guide for potential INVESTORS: An introduction to Investing in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Star...
Grants proposals for fundraising - tools, resources to help with grant proposals
Academic Research - AI powered tools for literature review, and grant proposals
NSF National Science Foundation - USA government organizatoin to promote progress of science
Crowdfunding - examples of companies using crowd funding
Y Combinator (YC) - investment, terms, conditions
Pipe - Miami based fin tech startup for Capital-as-a-Service
Capital-as-a-Service: Alternative models for funding early-stage startups
Edtech Investors - some leading VC and Angel investors focused on education technology
RSUs - Restricted Stock Units - Options, Vesting, Equity, and Funding Startups
Crowdfunding - rules, regulations
NYSE and other Public Stock Markets, Exchanges
SoftBank - Vision Fund
Platforms to find donations, sponsors, crowdfunding
Investing in Startups - Learn to be an Angel investor
Venture Capital: 2 and 20 model for VC funds - fee structure
It's easier for climate companies to get enough funding to get started. It's much harder once they need money to scale. (2024)
AI research startup Anthropic aims to raise as much as $5 billion over the next two years to take on rival OpenAI. (2023)
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Who would’ve thought that an entire swath of startups would spring up all because Instagram, TikTok and Twitter only let you link to one website in... (2022)
When capital becomes more expensive, how do you evaluate and decide on the best financing option for your company? (2022)
By following these startup equity best practices, founders and co-founders will establish a solid foundation to have a successful startup (2017)
With $200 million raised as part of its Series F round at a hefty $3.5 billion valuation, Handshake intends to disrupt LinkedIn to transform how pe... (2022)
We’re excited to announce that we’ve completed our community round, via Wefunder. In late July of 2021, we set aside ~$5M to allow our customers... (2022)
The Y Combinator Deal We have a standard deal for all our investments. We invest $500,000 in every company on standard terms. Our $500K inves... (2022)
We're excited to announce our new standard deal at Y Combinator. When a company is accepted into YC, we now invest a total of $500,000. (2022)
When the company went public this past week, ex-staffers learned something alarming: they were unable to sell the stock that they had waited years ... (2021)
I realized a long time ago that the VC’s customer is the founder/CEO/portfolio company and that our investors (called LPs in VC speak) are our “sha... (2021)
At least a dozen travel companies will have gone public via SPAC and IPO by the end of 2021, with more than that possible. Here's why. (2021)
We launched an abnormally fast source of emergency science funding during COVID-19. The results revealed flaws in current science funding models. (2021)
April 2021 Every year since 1982, Forbes magazine has published a list of the richest Americans. If we compare the 100 richest people in 1982 to... (2021)
Patreon has tripled its valuation to $4 billion in a $155 million funding round led by Tiger Global, the company confirmed to The Wall Street Journ... (2021)
Fast-growing fintech Pipe has raised another round of funding at a $2 billion valuation, just weeks after raising $50 million in growth funding, ac... (2021)
U.S. companies can now raise up to $5 million per year from unaccredited investors, a nearly fivefold bump from the previous $1.07 million limit. *... (2021)
A little over one year ago, Pipe raised a $6 million seed round led by Craft Ventures to help it pursue its mission of giving SaaS companies a fund... (2021)
Salesforce reported a $2.2 billion gain in 2020 from strategic investments, after the IPOs of Snowflake and nCino. (2021)
Money has flowed into the edtech sector over the last twelve months. Bumper funding rounds and freshly minted unicorns are grabbing headlines, but ... (2021)
EquityBee, a stock option marketplace startup, has raised $20 million in a Series A round of funding. Group 11 led the financing, which also includ... (2021)
The increasing use of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) has led to a good deal of confusion about their use and how similar they are to stock options. (2014)
Today, Reach Capital, the education technology VC firm I co-founded with Shauntel, Wayee & Esteban, launched our third fund. At $165 million, it’s ... (2021)
Even these days, in The Best of Times for SaaS, many founders are wary of Venture Capital. Aren't they just trying to buy shares too cheaply? Well... (2021)
For more than 100 years, companies have existed in a binary world, either private or public. Private companies have been highly restricted in how t... (2021)
December 2020 As I was deciding what to write about next, I was surprised to find that two separate essays I'd been planning to write were actua... (2021)
If your Seed stage startup has regularly been hitting milestones, you’ve likely begun thinking about your Series A. This financing round varies in ... (2021)
When it comes to capital raising, entrepreneurs have been increasingly tapping their own crowds. We explore the types of crowdfunding and share tip... (2020)
Founders can raise $5 million through crowdfunding, up from $1.07 million, and certain demo day communications will not be deemed general solicitat... (2020)
NSF receives about 50,000 research proposals every year. The Foundation's mission is to promote the progress of science, but it's able to support o... (2022)
YouTube - Streamed April 22, 2020 The Black Swan Event: Funding in the time of Coronavirus with Mark Suster (2020)
Y Combinator CEO and Partner Michael Seibel on how to cold email investors. https://twitter.com/mwseibel Y Combinator invests a small amount of mon... (2019)
YC Partner and CFO Kirsty Nathoo shares the most common mistakes startups make with their finances and how they can prevent them. You can find the ... (2019)
YC Partner and GC Carolynn Levy details the basics of startup financing and how modern early stage rounds of financing are done using convertible s... (2019)
YC Continuity Partner Anu Hariharan breaks down the important metrics we look for when we’re evaluating a startup’s business model and common mista... (2019)
Startupfood Published on Jan 7, 2019 At The Family, we believe that anyone can become a great entrepreneur. DESCRIPTION The end of a year i... (2019)
Michael Seibel on pitching customers vs pitching investors. Michael is CEO and a Partner at YC. He was the co-founder and CEO of Justin.tv and Soci... (2019)
Y Combinator Published on Feb 27, 2019 Kevin Hale on how investors think about ideas. Kevin is Visiting Partner at YC. Prior YC Kevin was the ... (2019)
YC Partner Aaron Harris gives invaluable advice for how to most effectively and strategically meet with investors. (2018)
YC Partner Kirsty Nathoo gives the lowdown on several different ways to capitalize your company and how those impact founder equity and cap tables ... (2018)
YC Partner Geoff Ralston gives an introduction to the key concepts to keep in mind once you enter a fundraising process. Learn more at https://www.... (2018)
YC Partner Geoff Ralston talks to Cowboy Ventures Founder Aileen Lee. Transcript and additional content can be found here: See Min 26 - for VC ... (2018)
YC Partner Geoff Ralston talks to CoinList Co-Founder and President Andy Bromberg. Transcript and additional content are here: https://www.startups... (2018)
Stanford Graduate School of Business Published on Nov 13, 2017 During his View From The Top talk, Chamath Palihapitiya, founder and CEO of Soci... (2018)
Stanford, Published on Jun 8, 2017, Jess Lee (Partner at Sequoia Capital) and Aaron Harris (Partner at YC) discuss raising money as an early stage ... (2017)
from Google Developers conference: Google I/O 2011: How to Get Your Startup Idea Funded by Venture Capitalists. Uploaded on May 13, 2011 Don Dod... (2017)
Published on Apr 17, 2014 I have a great idea but need money to make it happen. How do I network with angel investors? Where do I make the connect... (2017)
Published on Feb 9, 2015 Hear Sam Altman speak about how to get funded by Y Combinator, the danger of some incubators, and other great startup adv... (2017)
Another route to the public markets is the direct listing, recently reinvented for tech companies (with Spotify and Slack so far). This episode of ... (2019)
Seed rounds and Series A are both part of the path for a startup’s success. However, even though these two types of fundraising are different, I se... (2019)
SoftBank changed course when it scaled back plans for an investment in WeWork from $16bn to $2bn. The FT’s Eric Platt spoke with US business editor... (2019)
Ryan Hoover is the founder of Product Hunt which was in the Summer 2014 YC batch and was acquired by AngelList. Dalton Caldwell is a Partner at YC ... (2019)
The lessons of blitzscaling to achieve market dominance are counterintuitive. The strategy requires a shift from the traditional thinking of growth... (2018)
Jesse Genet is Founder & CEO @ Lumi, the startup that has raised close to $10m from Homebrew, Forerunner, Spark Capital, Lowercase and more. (2018)
Max Tuchman is on a roll with Caribu, an app that lets parents and kids read together virtually. But can she convince investors that early success ... (2018)
NASDAQ CEO Adena Friedman runs one of the world’s largest financial services companies, including the NASDAQ stock exchange that’s home to more tha... (2017)
Ledgy makes your equity plans scalable, compliant in all countries, integrates with your existing systems and comes with enterprise-ready security ... (2021)
On Republic, anyone can invest in startups. Become an investor in cutting-edge private companies with as little as $10 ✅ (2021)
Buy Me A Coffee is the best way for creators and artists to accept one-off support and membership from their fans. (2020)
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We believe people of all different backgrounds should have the opportunity to participate, shape, and succeed in the founding, funding, and buildin... (2018)
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