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In this episode of Fundraising Radio Jamie Gull tells about his experience of building a startup in deep tech and going through YC. What are the major reasons one should join YC and what are its main benefits? All in this episode of Fundraising Radio with the CEO of Talyn Air, Jamie Gull.

Talyn Air website: https://www.talyn.co/

In this episode Michael Riemer, Managing General partner at New Urbana talks about investing in critical infrastructure and his path to the investment world. How should startups in urban tech raise money and how it should be done through a venture studio and much more in this episode with Michael Riemer.

New Urbana: https://newurbana.com/

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In this episode, Mark Rosner shares his experience in investing in startups, shares his insights into what the investor's expectations of the landscape are and how should founders approach fundraising during covid-19. 

Apply to Applied Revenue: http://apenu.com/

What is venture debt, what are its pros and cons? How to get funded through venture debt and how is it different from regular debt and venture funding. All these topics are covered in this epizode by Troy Zander, Partner at Barns & Thornburg.

Troy's LinkedIn

Troy's lawfirm's bio

My humanIPO profile: https://humanipo.app/id/konstantin.dubovitskiy

Founder of SchoolMint and Venture Partner at Runa Capital, Jinal Jhaveri shares his experience of selling his company. How do acquisitions work, how do you get a proposal and does it make sense to aim for an exit from day 1. Much more in this episode.

Runa Capital: https://runacap.com/

My humanIPO profile: https://humanipo.app/id/konstantin.dubovitskiy

Nick Adams, Managing Partner at Differential Ventures in this episode tells how pitch competitions work now, how to network during the lock-down and does it even make sense to attend such events. Should someone try to get on a popular show like Shark Tank and of course, how to reach out to investors. All above and much more in this episode!

Site of Differential Ventures: https://www.differential.vc/

My humanIPO profile: https://humanipo.app/id/konstantin.dubovitskiy

In this episode Zann Ali, investor at 2048 ventures and founding member at 1k Project, talks about fundraising for first time founders. We covered the topic of creating good pitch decks, reaching out to investors in a smart way and investing based on geographic location.

2048 Ventures: https://www.2048.vc/

1k Project: https://www.1kproject.org/

My humanIPO profile: https://humanipo.app/id/konstantin.dubovitskiy

In this episode Hugo Tilmouth shared his experience of raising over $4 million for ChargedUp. Where to find investors? Hugo's partner ran into someone who became their lead investor in a bar, but where should you go to search for investors? Did accelerator help to raise funding?

Lots of fun stuff in this episode, but also a lot of helpful resources:

SeedLegal: https://seedlegals.com/

Alternative to LegalSeed in the USA: https://www.rocketlawyer.com/ - for legals that you need on early stages. 

ChargedUp's website: https://chargedup.green/

My humanIPO profile: https://humanipo.app/id/konstantin.dubovitskiy

Want to compete with Facebook, Google or some other serious corporation? You should learn how to differentiate yourself and how to prove that you have identified the market segment that your competitor ignored. Listen to this episode to learn about how it should be done and how was it done by co-founder of b12 - Nitesh Banta, who managed to raise over $12 million.

b12 site: https://www.b12.io/

Stellar Capital: stellar.capital

My humanIPO profile: https://humanipo.app/id/konstantin.dubovitskiy

Fundraising through non-profits is possible. In this episode Shaun Randolph, founder of SoTech Ventures tells how it can be done and how this fundraising strategy works.

SoTech Ventures: https://www.sotechventures.com/

My humanIPO profile: https://humanipo.app/id/konstantin.dubovitskiy