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Daniel Faber, CEO at Orbitfab explains why he decided to go into the space field, what is happening there right now and what is more importantly - how to raise money in the field that is very capital-intense? We spoke about what it takes to get to such a complicated space and what Daniel's advice would be here for aspiring founders going into this industry.

Daniel's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielfaber/

Orbitfab: https://www.orbitfab.space/

Space Ventures: https://spaceventuresinvestors.com/

Mark Stokes CEO and Co-Founder at Magdrive, a company that is developing a plasma thruster for the new space age talks about raising money for such complicated projects, what it takes to get into the space startup field, what are the major pitfalls in the space startup world and how to avoid them. The next episode about fundraising in the deep-tech/hard-tech field is coming up Friday.

Mark's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markyasustokes/

Magdrive: https://www.magdrivespace.com/

More episodes on Deep-tech: https://www.fundraisingradio.com/category/deep-tech/

Andrew Gluck, General Partner at irrvrntVC talks about how startup founders should choose investors for every stage of fundraising that they go through. We also talked about what qualities should founders look for in VCs and why is it important.

irrvrntVC: https://www.irrvrnt.com/

Andrew's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/azg/

Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/home

Stiven Rodríguez, Co-founder and COO at Heru talks about how they managed to raise such a large pre-seed round, why they decided to satart a company in Mexico instead of the US and how his work at Uber helped him. We also talked about how they pivoted after going to YC and how they have gone through 371 ideas choosing the best one. Covered the offline promotion of Heru and how does it work.

Stiven's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stiven-rodr%C3%ADguez-s%C3%A1nchez-b65958101/

Heru: https://somosheru.com/#/home

Adam Jackson, Founder & CEO at Braintrust talks about how he managed to close a round during the covid and how different it was from the "normal" fundraisings. We spoke about early stage fundraising VS raising for Series A+ and much more.

Adam's linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajackson/

Braintrust: https://www.usebraintrust.com/

McKeever (Mac) Conwell, Managing Director at RareBreed Ventures talks about investing in minorities through the RareBreed Ventures fund and also talks about what major metrics he personally looks at when reviewing a startup.

Mac's Twitter: https://twitter.com/MacConwell

RareBreed Ventures: https://www.rarebreed.vc/

Abboud Chaballout, Co-Founder at Diagnoss talks about working in a heavily regulated field and what it takes to get into healthcare space. We also talked about fundraising for Diagnoss and how he approached it during the pandemic.

Abboud's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abboud-chaballout-207484a/

Diagnoss: https://www.diagnoss.com/

Taylor Nieman, Co-Founder and CEO at Toucan talks about raising money from investors who previously rejected her. We spoke how to maintain good relationship with investors and how that can lead to an investment from someone who previously rejected you.

Taylor's Twitter: https://twitter.com/taylor_nieman?lang=en

https://salesql.com/ - tool to find emails of leads.

Toucan: https://jointoucan.com/

Amy Cheetham, principal at Costanoa Ventures talks about investing in Fintech during the pandemic (and post-pandemic) and how founders in these fields should work with investors at times like this.

Amy's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-cheetham-61835127/

Amy's Twitter: https://twitter.com/amyecheetham?lang=en

Costanoa Ventures: https://www.costanoavc.com/

P.S. Happy New Year! The next episode will be released only on January 4th. 

Martijn De Wever, CEO & Founder of Force Over Mass and Floww, talks about using (and building) referral networks and getting warm introductions to investors you've never met before. Martijn also talks about his experience of raising money during COVID and his advice to founders who want to raise money soon.

Martijn's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martijndewever/

Floww: https://www.floww.io/products/

Force Over Mass: http://www.fomcap.com/