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In this episode we talked about two major subjects: growing your network once you move to a new city/country and how to find new partnerships and the second topic being the fundraising itself. Zenetta Burger explains what she does as a scout for Mucker Capital and how scouts work and can be helpful for startup founders. 

Mucker Capital: https://www.mucker.com/

Social Venture Partners: https://www.socialventurepartners.org/

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In this episode of Fundraising Radio our guest speaker is Chuck Pettid, the CEO, Republic Crowdfunding Platform - one of the largest equity crowdfunding platforms in the US. And he explains how equity crowdfunding works, who should consider it, how is it different from regular crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo. We also talked about the most fundable types of project that should go for equity crowdfunding and at the end of the episode Chuck went over the application process of Republic Crowdfunding Platform.

Republic, invest as little as $10 in private startups: https://republic.co/

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This episode of Fundraising Radio is very educational and our speaker is Zane Witherspoon, co-founder and CTO at Dispatch acquired by Perlin. And in this episode Zane shares the lessons he learned from raising during the times when there was a hype around crypto and what was his major takeaway from that fundraising (spoiler: raise as much as you can while there is hype to extend your runway). He also talks about the acquisition that Dispatch went through and why it wasn't a great success.

Zane's linkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zanewithspoon/

In this episode, Wendy Ryan Managing Director at Golden Seeds explains how GS works, what do they invest in and how to improve the chances of getting funded by an angel group. We also spent some time talking about free resources available to startup founders and Wendy named a lot of them, but here are the major ones:

In this episode of Fundraising Radio, Nicola Mattina co-founder and CEO of Stamplay tells about how he raised nearly $1 million in funding from across the world and how his company got acquired by Apple. In this episode we talk a lot about choosing the right physical location for fundraising - different cities focus on different fields in the startup industry and in this episode Nicola explains how to choose the right place for your fundraising.

Series about mistakes in pitches: https://www.hustlefund.vc/blog/

Instathings: https://www.instathings.io/

In this episode of Fundraising Radio we had two guest speakers - Filipp Chebotarev and Polina Chebotareva telling about the differences between the current crisis and the crisis of 2008 and how investing during these times works. We've touched onto multiple subjects, including - how to evaluate your startup, pitching to investors and much more.

Polina Chebotareva: https://www.linkedin.com/in/polina-chebotareva-aa44966b/

Filipp Chebotarev: https://www.linkedin.com/in/filipp-chebotarev-385a472a/

Cambridge SPG: http://www.cambridgespg.com/

In this episode of Fundraising Radio Andrew Ly, Founder and CEO at ticktBox explains how he managed to acquire a large customer early on and what effects it had on his company. We also talk about the acquisition of tickBox by ScreenEngine and about acquisitions in general - who should expect them, who should expect an acquisition and what happens after your startup gets acquired.

ticktBox's website: https://www.ticktbox.com/

In this episode of Fundraising Radio, Jessica Li, investor at Soma Capital talks about fundraising at the earliest stages, how to reach out to the right person and how to establish that connection with the point of contact at a fund. This episode is full of insights into fundraising from VCs at an early stage.

Highly recommend all early entrepreneurs going through Soma Capital's program: https://fellowship.somacap.com/

In this episode of Fundraising Radio Wally Wang an Angel Investor, Limited Partner at OSS Capital and a Managing Partner at Scale Asia Ventures (sav.vc) tells about the current market situation from the multiple viewpoints that his experience gives him. We covered several different topics the most important being - Wally's recommendations for startup founders to act soon as the fund managers will have to deploy loads of cash that they have been storing for months.

You can reach Wally Wang at: [email protected]

In this episode Emilie Mazzacurati, founder and CEO of Four Twenty Seven talks about working with strategic investors, what are the major benefits of strategic investors and what are the common pitfalls. Emilie also explains how to reach out to early stage investors if you don't have a large network and were to start your fundraising process. Also we talked about the acquisition of Four Twenty Seven by Moody's.

Four Twenty Seven: http://427mt.com/

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