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Both Things Can Be True: Bias and Bad Fundraising Advice

This is going to be BIG.

She was pitching for a pre-seed round of $400k. Founders hit the street with their pitch deck, some make it, and some don’t, but nearly all of them ascribe a lot more human influence over the process than there probably is. For all we know, white men make 99% of the pitches. I’m a female founder. I don’t have enough traction.

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After Investing $100 Million Into New VC Firms, Here’s What I Look For: Traditional But Better, or Different & Excellent.

Hunter Walk

When I’m scanning a pitch deck I’m basically looking to put it into one of two buckets – Traditional or Different. Could be pinning their thesis on a category of technology or type of founder that isn’t yet understood by the investment community. of them, often as their first or second largest investor.

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How to Get a CISO to Buy Your Product

Dream It

However, this means that a CISO sees a LOT of pitches in their role. Build credibility with peers The security community is a tight-knight one. Now you understand what the CISO is looking for and factors they are taking into consideration when they hear your pitch. When pitching to a CISO, preparation is key.

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Amira Yahyaoui wants Mos to be a ‘radical’ fintech startup

TechCrunch

Since its 2017 inception, Mos has opened access to a pool of over $160 billion in financial aid to the more than 400,000 students within its community. We don’t want to be elitist, we don’t want to do this for a very small category of people because we really want to become the incumbent bank in the U.S.,”

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Together raises $20M to build open source generative AI models

TechCrunch

There’s scores of competition, including incumbents like OpenAI and Anthropic. ” He has a point — insofar as incumbents are feeling the pressure, at least. The number of open source models both from community groups and large labs grows by the day , practically. billion in Q1 2023, with an additional $10.68

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Equal access to capital and entrepreneurship is the final civil rights movement

TechCrunch

But when going to pitch meetings and VC events, I got the same feeling that I would get when you go to a high-end country club or a luxury store on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. I was mostly pitching white male VCs. Thirty that I pitched were ethnic minorities and I received five term sheets, or a success rate of 17%.

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TechCrunch podcasts this week: Layoffs, the crypto downturn, investor offense and Columbus, Ohio

TechCrunch

There’s an audio-only version of TechCrunch Live hosted by Matt that features founders and investors discussing successful pitch decks. Natasha spent a good chunk of last week at the All Raise VC summit, an annual off-the-record event that brings together some of the best and brightest in the investment community.