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Episodes

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 10, 2020

Grants 101: Sedale Turbovsky on how to fundraise through grants and i…

Founder and CEO of Opengrants Sedale Turbovsky in this episode tells about raising money through grants. Who should look into funding through grants, what sorts of startups are eligible for grants and what should you look out for while applying for grant funding or receiving it.

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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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April 7, 2020

How to raise capital for blockchain projects: Christian Kameir Managi…

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.

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April 7, 2020

Funding through blockchain: STOs explained by Alex Nascimento, Managi…

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.

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April 7, 2020

LinkedIn sales: step-by-step guide on making sales through LinkedIn b…

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.

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March 27, 2020

Fundraising in deep-tech - Peter Lee on funding startups in deep-tech…

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 pr…

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March 21, 2020

Getting acquired for over $10 million - Joe Magee on how to build a s…

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 vent…

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March 18, 2020

$150 million under management: Sergey Gribov on how big funds invest …

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 i…

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March 7, 2020

How to raise money in Hard Tech sphere? Venture Partner of K5 venture…

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 …

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March 1, 2020

What is Fundraising Radio? Trailer episode.

If you have any questions, suggestions or want to join the private group - text Konstantin Dubovitskiy on LinkedIn.

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Feb. 26, 2020

Raising $3.5 million by creating viral campaign and wasting $10,000 o…

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…

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Feb. 15, 2020

Don't want to dilute your share in the company? Raise through grants …

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…

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Feb. 9, 2020

CEO of Fueltime on "easy fundraising" through angel and accelerator.

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. 

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Feb. 2, 2020

Immigration law for startup founders and investors. Want to get a gre…

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 i…

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Jan. 20, 2020

Got no traction yet? CEO of Airdas will tell you what steps to take t…

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 the…

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Jan. 11, 2020

How do VC firms raise money? Managing partner of lvlup Ventures will …

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 capitalist…

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Jan. 3, 2020

Peanut butter pump raising $140,000 on Indiegogo and airing on Shark …

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 crowdfun…

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Dec. 27, 2019

Founder of InstaSteam talks about how he raised over $100,000 for a p…

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…

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Dec. 22, 2019

Partner or Ruvento Ventures tells about the investing cycle, structur…

Partner or Ruvento Ventures tells about the investing cycle, structure of the Venture Capital firms and about the career growth within VC firm. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fundraising-radio/message

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Dec. 13, 2019

Importance of selling before building - founder of an LA venture stud…

Importance of selling before building - founder of an LA venture studio explains why you should follow the lean startup model. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fundraising-radio/message

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Dec. 7, 2019

Managing partner of GVA.capital and Mindrock.capital tells about rais…

Managing partner of GVA.capital and Mindrock.capital tells about raising money in Silicon Valley and gives great tips on how to approach investors. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fundraising-radio/message

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Nov. 30, 2019

Co-founder and COO of Rooit tells about hardships of raising funds fr…

Co-founder and COO of Rooit tells about hardships of raising funds from the US investors by a foreign startup. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fundraising-radio/message

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