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Omry Ben David, General Partner at Viola talks about investing in Israel and Israeli founders all over the globe and why it seems to be working than most other demographics. We also discussed how does Viola Ventures work and why is it spread over 4 funds and how do they cooperate. 

Omry's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/omry-ben-david-2436371/

Viola's site: https://www.viola-group.com/fund/violaventures/

Another episode of Fundraising Radio about Israeli founders: Why invest in Israel and how do Israeli founders expand to the US? By Cynthia Phitoussi

Andrew Milich, Co-Founder at Skiff talks about the importance of college education while building a company and raising funding. He also talked about how investors reacted to him as the first time founder and how it affected his fundraising efforts. 

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

Skiff's website: https://www.skiff.org/

Skiff's Twitter: https://twitter.com/skiffprivacy

Christopher Lustrino, Founder & CEO at KingsCrowd in this educational episode talks about equity crowdfunding, what are the major pitfalls in it and how to avoid them. He also gave a brief step-by-step guide on raising money through equity crwodfunding and shared some of the knowledge about the process that he gained while raising money for KingsCrowd.

Checklist:

1) Be prepared for the time frame: 4-12 weeks to go live on equity crowdfunding platform.

Christopher Lustrino, Founder & CEO at KingsCrowd talks about his experience raising 100% of the funding for his company online. We discussed what are the major pros and cons of equity crowdfunding and how he maneuvered through them. Crhistopher also spoke about the repeat investor and their importance in any type of fundraising process and he explained how to stay in touch with your existing investors to make sure the next round will be easier to raise.

Christopher's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrislustrino/

KingsCrowd site: https://kingscrowd.com/

Fundraising Radio episode on CAFE - alternative to the standard SAFEs: https://www.fundraisingradio.com/Thibauld-Favre/

Akeel Jabber, Investment director at Horizen Capital talks about rules of growing a SaaS business and later on selling it. He explained how Horizen Capital makes its investment decisions and how a startup founder can get closer to an acquisition.

Akeel's podcast - SaaS district: https://horizencapital.com/saas-podcast/

Akeel's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akeel-jabbar/

Akeel's twitter: https://twitter.com/AkeelJabber

Horizen Capital: https://horizencapital.com/

For A/B testing: https://vwo.com/

Tanvi Gupta, Founder and CEO at SwoonMe talks about how she left Facebook and stability that it provides in order to build her own company. We also spoke about building a startup in a crowded space (online dating) and how she managed to stand out from the crowd and get her pre-seed round oversubscribed. 

Tanvi's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanvigupta773/

SwoonMe website: https://www.swoonmedating.com/

If you are curious to hear more about online dating, the interview with an Ex-Tinder Chief Product Officer is here!

Hussein Kanji, co-founder at Hoxton Ventures who presents himself as an analyst on LinkedIn to avoid spam messages from dozens of founders (I just find it hilarious that those messages go so out of hand, this kind of measures have to be taken so decided to mention it here). We spoke about the way Hoxton got to such a high rate of IPOs per investment and how Hussein finds those companies. We also spoke about IPOs and some other good stuff. 

Hussein's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hkanji/

Hussein's Twitter: https://twitter.com/hkanji

Hoxton Ventures: https://www.hoxtonventures.com/

For our European listeners: Firstbase, where I work, can help you incorporate in the US fast and painlessly so check it out and use my code to get a discount - RADIO15

Billy Libby, Co-Founder & CEO at Upper90 talks about what the term "hybrid fund" implies and how is it different from a "regular" fund. We talked about who should try raising debt and how can a startup separate the part of their business that is safe and raise debt backed by that chunk of their business. We also discussed what kind of companies should really go after debt and how to do it.

Billy's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/billy-libby-76464b1/

Upper90: https://www.upper90.io/

QSBS - what is that? Here is the explanation: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/q/qsbs-qualified-small-business-stock.asp

We got to the 300th episode and decided to celebrate with a bit of extra fun for our listeners. This episode is about the mistakes that were made during the creation of this podcast - it includes the stories of the team and some random bloopers that were removed from the original episodes and saved "for later use" and the day for that "later use" came! We hope you enjoy:)

Here is the contact information of our key team members:

Elizaveta Belinskaya: email, LinkedIn.

Luis Bravo: email, LinkedIn

Konstantin Dubovitskiy: email, LinkedIn. 

Anthony Baker, Founder and CEO at Satellite VU talks about fundraising for his company that is about to launch multiple satellites into space. We spoke about testing out such a complicated idea with low budget and presenting it to investors in order to actually implement the idea. For founders in deep tech space this will be an extremely interesting episode about idea testing and implementation.

Anthony's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonybaker2/

Satellite VU: https://www.satellitevu.com/

An episode on how Corporate Venture Capital works: https://www.fundraisingradio.com/Mark-Crawford/ - it's a series of 4 episodes so be sure to check them all out!