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Venture Capital Episodes

May 31, 2020

How scouts work, how is fundraising for females different and where t…

In this episode, Kim Patel angel investor and scout at Female Funded Club (https://www.femalefoundedclub.com/) in this episode talks about the work of scouts, how founders should reach out to scouts and where should female founders start in their fundraising process. Touched onto many interesting t…

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May 29, 2020

Industrial customer acquisition with no sales team, how channel partn…

Sam Nagar, founder and CEO at Pixeom acquired by Siemens in this episode of Fundraising Radio tells how his company acquired very first large customers, how he managed to grow the company with no VC or angel funding and how he retained largest part of the share of the company even after raising $15…

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May 27, 2020

$107.6 million raised - the role of a CTO in the fundraising process …

In this episode of Fundraising Radio Adrian Druzgalski, co-founder and CTO at Radius Intelligence that raised $107.6 million and survived the 2008 financial crisis tells about the role of a CTO in the fundraising process of the startup, explains how he thinks founders should deal with the financial…

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May 17, 2020

Venture Partner at NexGen Venture Partners, Craig Kaplan talks about …

In this episode of Fundraising Radio, Craig Kaplan, Venture Partner at NexGen Venture Partners explains the importance of initial sales, explains how to speed up the process and how to make sure you don't get stuck in awfully long sales cycles which bankrupted many startups. And of course, we talke…

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May 6, 2020

Theory VS practice. Venture partner at Syndicate 708 Margeaux Sulliva…

In this episode the practical knowledge meets the theoretical knowledge. This episode of Fundraising Radio is unique because we had two speakers at once talking about one subject from two different perspectives. The major topic for this episode was due-diligence from a theoretical and practical sta…

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May 5, 2020

Early stage investing with Doug Lorenzen Partner at Moore Venture Par…

In this episode our guest speaker is Doug Lorenzen Partner at Moore Venture Partners, talking about fundraising for funds, applying to government support during covid-19 and using virtual lawyers as an alternative to hiring a full-time lawyer.

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April 30, 2020

Pitch events during COVID-19, importance of media attention and inves…

Nick Adams, Managing Partner at Differential Ventures in this episode tells how pitch competitions work now, how to network during the lock-down and does it even make sense to attend such events. Should someone try to get on a popular show like Shark Tank and of course, how to reach out to investor…

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April 28, 2020

First time founders - how should they raise? Zann Ali, investor at 20…

In this episode Zann Ali, investor at 2048 ventures and founding member at 1k Project, talks about fundraising for first time founders. We covered the topic of creating good pitch decks, reaching out to investors in a smart way and investing based on geographic location.

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April 27, 2020

Finding lead investor in a bar - Hugo Tilmouth, founder and CEO of Ch…

In this episode Hugo Tilmouth shared his experience of raising over $4 million for ChargedUp. Where to find investors? Hugo's partner ran into someone who became their lead investor in a bar, but where should you go to search for investors? Did accelerator help to raise funding?

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April 26, 2020

CEO of b12: Nitesh Banta on how to differentiate yourself from compet…

Want to compete with Facebook, Google or some other serious corporation? You should learn how to differentiate yourself and how to prove that you have identified the market segment that your competitor ignored. Listen to this episode to learn about how it should be done and how was it done by co-fo…

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April 23, 2020

$30 millions through ICO - how it worked out and how do angels invest…

In this episode, Sami Rusani, the chief revenue officer at ShipChain shares his experience on securing funding through an ICO and doing angel investments. Tons of great insights in this episode!

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April 16, 2020

What is momentum investing and how it works, by Gerard Casale.

Gerard Casale, founder and managing director of TYLT ventures with over 25 years of legal practice experience and years of investing experience tells about the legal aspects of building a startup, motivating the team through stock options, investing in startups and much more.

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April 15, 2020

Managing Partner at Unicorn Venture Partners - Jonathan Hung on inves…

In this episode of Fundraising Radio, Jonathan Hung, managing partner at Unicorn Venture Partners and experienced entrepreneur tells about fundraising during COVID-19, raising money from professionals of your field instead of VC, alternative capital to VC and angel funding and much more.

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April 9, 2020

Hiring someone to help you with fundraising? Make sure you do it righ…

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.

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April 7, 2020

Raising $26 million - how do you get to this stage, how do ICOs work …

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.

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