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In this episode of Fundraising Radio, Mark Crawford - Venture Capital Investor at Stanley Ventures and Intel Capital will explain how does Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) work and how is it different from a Venture Capital (VC). Lots of insights into this question by an experienced investor who was on both sides of it - the VC and CVC. In this episode we also discussed the government-sponsored venture capital funds, specifically Invest Nebraska Corporation, how it invests and who should consider it.

Stanley Ventures: https://www.stanleyventures.com/

In this educational episode Nathan Beckord, the founder and CEO of Foundersuite explains how his software can be used by founders to accelerate and make their fundraising easier.

Foundersuite: https://foundersuite.com/

This episode is NOT sponsored by Foundersuite and was chosen purely as an example of software exploitation for fundraising. 

In this episode of Fundraising Radio the guest speaker is Nathan Beckord, the co-founder and CEO of Foundersuite - the tool that helps founders fundraise. And in this episode Nathan explains the major strategies used to fundraising, how much time should you use making a research on investors, how big should the lists be and much more.

StrictlyVC: https://www.strictlyvc.com/

Foundersuite: https://foundersuite.com/

In this episode of Fundraising Radio the guest speaker is Christian Pankovcin, analyst at 13 Ventures and he explains how much more useful a connection to an analyst can be rather than to a managing partner. We also touched onto the deal flow and deal sourcing of 13 Ventures and New York Angels.

Christian's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-t-pankovcin-757905137/

In this episode of Fundraising Radio the guest speaker is Erik de Stefanis - analyst at Interlace Ventures. And he explains the role of an analyst in a venture fund and how startup founders can use analysts to get to the managers of the fund. This episode is mainly about going through a less traditional way of reaching out to funds.

Erik's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikdestefanis/

Tristan Pollock built and sold two companies - SocialEarth and Storefront and in this episode we focus on this - how to approach fundraising, how to get first contacts, how the life in the accelerator looks like and what happens after the demo day. Because Tristan was also a partner of 500 Startups for a few years, we touched onto that subject as well.

HumanIPO where I bought Tristan's Time: https://humanipo.app/featured

Tristan's Twitter: https://twitter.com/writerpollock?lang=en

Tristan's Medium: https://medium.com/@tristanpollock

Tristan's Blog on 500 startups: https://500.co/blog/author/tristanpollock/

In this episode of Fundraising Radio the guest speaker is Mitzi Krockover, managing director, Co-Chair of the Health Sector Committee and the Founding Member of Golden Seeds' Arizona chapter. And in this episode we are primarily focused on discussing the work of the Golden Seeds - angel group that primarily invests in female-founded startups. We also touched onto the differences between the different chapters of Golden Seeds and about differences in different regions of the US in terms of fundraising for startups.

Golden Seeds: https://goldenseeds.com/

In this episode of Fundraising Radio our guest speaker is the Founder of 33 Capital, Stacey Feinberg and a Managing Director at Golden Seeds and she explained what are the major mistakes that she sees on the pitch decks and during the in-person presentations. She also talked about reaching out to investors and her personal investing preferences.

Golden Seeds: https://goldenseeds.com/

Invest in your host through an IPO: https://humanipo.app/id/konstantin.dubovitskiy

In this episode of Fundraising Radio, Gay Gaddis the founder of T3 explained how she ran a company for 30 years until acquisition without raising any money. As bootstrapping becomes more and more popular during COVID-19 this episode could be very helpful to many founders who are considering this alternative to the standard Silicon Valley path.

Gay's book on building your path to success: https://www.amazon.com/Cowgirl-Power-Kick-Business-Life/dp/1478948213

Invest in your host through an IPO: https://humanipo.app/id/konstantin.dubovitskiy

In this episode of Fundraising Radio Anton Fedorov, Investment Director at Flashpoint Venture Capital explained why Israel is such a popular place for venture investing in Europe and also talked about non-US based companies making 50%+ of their revenue from the US customers. This episode will be interesting for anyone who plans to work with the US and raise money there eventually.

Flashpoint Venture Capital: https://flashpointvc.com/

Invest in your host through an IPO: https://humanipo.app/id/konstantin.dubovitskiy