Seed Fundraising

Stripe Atlas’ guide to pitching your early-stage startup to investors, customers, and employees. “We’ve worked with Y Combinator to update this ... (2018)

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)

YCombinator, Introduction Startup companies need to purchase equipment, rent offices, and hire staff. More importantly, they need to grow. In almo... (2017)

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)

YCombinator, Paul Graham essay "Venture funding works like gears. A typical startup goes through several rounds of funding, and at each round yo... (2017)

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)

AVC, Fred Wilson, 2011: "I spent some time yesterday talking to an entrepreneur about this topic and I thought I'd share what I told him with every... (2017)

Raising capital is really difficult, no matter what anyone says about the influx of early-stage dollars into the startup eco-system. I know very st... (2018)

I’m often asked by founders what milestones they need to get to in order to raise an institutional Seed round or Series A and what size do those ro... (2017)

Thinking startup? David S. Rose's rapid-fire TED U talk on pitching to a venture capitalist tells you the 10 things you need to know about yourself... (2017)

Sequoia Capital guide: You can find our guide to pitching below (with a few refinements from years of use). (2017)

AVC, Fred Wilson blog, 2017: “And that would be the end of equity compensation in startups as we know it. If this provision becomes law, startu... (2017)

Crunchbase News, 2017: “Public market investors have the luxury of being able to make, invest, and move their money anywhere they’d like. But the ... (2017)

GitHub lemonade-stand - A handy guide to financial support for open source "I do open source work, how do I find funding?" Below I've lis... (2017)

Crunchbase: "Let’s say you randomly selected 1000 seed-stage startups based in the United States. How many of those would go on to raise a Series A... (2017)

This startup stuff is an emotional roller coaster. “I’ve learned. I say “no” to associates. They—along with most VCs—waste founder time. And it’... (2017)

Kathryn Minshew, the cofounder and CEO of The Muse, kept getting rejected by investors until she figured out how to make her pitch more appealing. (2018)

A couple of days ago, I closed a little over $2M in a seed funding round for Seed&Spark. I’m supposed to send a press release to, like, Techcrunch ... (2018)

At V1, we have had the privilege to sit on many of our portfolio companies’ boards from (pre-)seed to Series B (and beyond). We have seen these com... (2018)

100% of founders agree: raising money is a frustrating, tedious, unpredictable process. The only upside are the memories made in comically bad VC m... (2019)

Q: Why would an investor invest in a pre-revenue company? This is an important question to understand. If you don’t understand it, it’s hard to und... (2019)