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Rishwie Cauvery, member of Pipeline Angels and a CTO at Time Study in this episode explains how Pipeline Angels work, how she personally invests and how she sources deals. We also cover the current situation on the market and discuss what should early stage founders do to raise money during COVID-19.

Pipeline Angels: https://pipelineangels.com/

Time Study: https://www.timestudy.co/

Episode on pitch events and networking during COVID-19 with Nick Adams from Differential Ventures: https://www.fundraisingradio.com/pitch-events-during-covid-19-importance-of-media-attention-and-investing-by-nick-adams-managing-partner-at-differential-ventures/

Marik Hazan, the Founder at Tabula Rasa Ventures explains what does it even mean to "invest in psychedelics" and how this can be done. If you are interested in investing in CBD and related fields or if you want to open a startup in this field, this episode is just perfect for you.

Tabula Rasa: https://tabularasa.ventures/

Psychedelics Industry Analysis: https://fraqtal.space/

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Roberto Machado the CEO at BetaBlocks and a member of Tech Coast Angels explains his vision of going through COVID and emerging as a stronger company while many of your competitors die. We also talked about Roberto's view on the pitch decks as he has seen over 4,000 of them and wanted to share his major takeaway from them.

Roberto Machado's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robmachadosf/

BetaBlocks: https://academy.betablocks.co/

Related episode on VCs behaviour during COVID: https://www.fundraisingradio.com/Vishal-Uttam/

Katelyn Johnson, the Principal at American Family Ventures talks about starting a business in capital-intensive and highly regulated fields like insure-tech. We discuss how these startups should fundraise and where should people, willing to work in those field start.

American Family Ventures: https://www.amfamventures.com/

Generator Accelerator: https://www.gener8tor.com/

Speaking of raising a lot of capital - interview with Adrian Druzgalski whose company raised over $107mil: https://www.fundraisingradio.com/1076-million-dollars-raised-the-role-of-a-cto-in-the-fundraising-process-by-adrian-druzgalski-co-founder-and-cto-at-radius-intelligence/

In this episode of Fundraising Radio Jad Esber, the Co-Founder at Koodos and a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard talks about the consumer internet, how fundraising in that space works and what founders in this field focus on.

Here are the links to some of the things mentioned in the episode:

Koodos Hiring a creative developer

Koodos: koodos.substack.com

Berkman Klein Community

Unshackled Fellows

Pear Fellows

In this episode of Fundraising Radio Todd Thompson the Co-Founder & CEO Carnot Compression goes over the 3 sources of capital that Carnot used to raise money. In this episode Todd compares Friends and Family, crowdfunding and grants as sources of capital for a startup.

Carnot Compression campaign on Startengine: https://www.startengine.com/carnot-compression

Grants 101 by the CEO of Opengrants.io - Sedale Turbovsky : https://www.fundraisingradio.com/grants-101-sedale-turbovsky-on-how-to-fundraise-through-grants-and-is-it-a-good-source-of-funding-during-the-crisis/

Equity Crowdfunding by the CEO of Republic - Chuck Pettid: https://www.fundraisingradio.com/ceo-of-republic-tells-about-equity-crowdfunding-how-does-it-work-who-should-consider-it-what-does-the-process-look-like-and-how-much-it-costs-by-chuck-pettid/

This is the 7th educational episode by Fundraising Radio and in this episode Kristina Subbotina, corporate and securities attorney at Ross Law Group explains what are the major mistakes that founders make while hiring new employes.

Video explanation that Kristina made specifically for this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LogLsQ-xky4

In this episode of Fundraising Radio, Jasmine Yu Zhang explained how Venture University works, how do they source deals and how their deal sourcing is different from other firms and individual angels. We also discussed the current situation and talked about fundraising during pandemic.

Venture University: https://www.venture.university/

SoGal Ventures: http://www.sogalventures.com/

In this episode of Fundraising Radio, Brandon Walker a Venture Fellow at Go Paladin explains how to construct your pitch deck, shares the major rule of it and then goes into details of the common mistakes he sees on the pitch decks of the founders he works with. We also discuss how much time should you spend on researching your competitors and how much should you know about the competitive landscape.

Brandon Walker's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/biomwalk/

Go Paladin: https://www.gopaladin.org/

In this episode of Fundraising Radio our guest speaker is Osayi Igharo, the Managing Parter at Ripple VC that focuses on investing in African startups. And Osayi explains why Africa is a good place to invest in, how can you do cross-border investing while living in the US and how funds are being raised for VCs.

Osayi's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osayiigharo/

Ripple VC: https://twitter.com/RippleVC