Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2012

These range from outbound materials, such as pitch emails and funding applications, to presentations of your venture in different forms for different purposes, to detailed back-up information that you will be asked to supply during due diligence. Your goal in all this is to try to find a lead investor.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

It’s the 33rd Demo Day of the well-known accelerator and holds the largest cohort yet. While the Demo Day for this year’s winter batch was held in a day, it’s two days for this summer batch. Lemonade Finance (Nigeria). Another digitizing-informal-retail-stores play, this time from Nigeria.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

million financing round. The startup doesn’t appear in our curated list because it deferred its Demo Day until this year’s winter batch, where up to 15 African startups have been selected by Y Combinator, according to some sources. We went into the informal sector and realized that the city had shut down every single informal retailer.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

To begin with, it is important to understand some basic facts about the world of entrepreneurial finance: There are many more entrepreneurs than there are investors, with the result that only one company out of every 400 that seeks venture funding actually receives it. from people and organizations that you didn’t even know existed.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

In this particular case I wasn’t convinced it was a good idea from the limited information I had. One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. The following is a short excerpt of what I said, “… being an entrepreneur is very unsexy.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

As a result founders often meet the wrong investors, waste time on those who ask for more information. Keeping it to 8–10 helps you manage the public information flow that will be broader if you see 20 firms and also help you prioritize resources. Any information that creates a compelling next meeting is worth doing.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

To this end, marketers develop creative ways to gather lists of, and information on, key contacts at these potential partners. They also build sales collateral, such as demo videos, pitch decks and one-pagers, to more effectively reach and build long-term relationships with these prospects. Forecasting.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Pry Financials wants to make startup finances approachable for its entire team, not just the people in charge of its accounting spreadsheets. Launched in March, Pry now has more than 200 customers and claims it has grown 35% month-over-month since YC’s Demo Day. The Y Combinator alum announced today it has raised $4.2

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

If you happen to need financing, on-the-spot lending platforms like Affirm, which recently debuted on NASDAQ and is currently valued at $26 billion, will extend that financing nearly instantaneously. Financing is complicated and offered by a bank through — gasp — an actual phone call. Photo via Balance. It raised $5.5

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Y Combinator

MAY 10, 2023

When things like fundraising, hiring, finances, etc. The commitment and finance pieces were important to me to be aligned on from the get-go. This was really helpful to accelerate a lot of the early-day information sharing that is so important. Curtis: The first startup I did, we didn't have this list of questions.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

As an early-stage entrepreneur, anchoring the fundraising around a specific time such as Techstars Demo Day or Y Combinator offers a chance to brand the fundraiser and create a lot of buzz around that time. Average check size and risk-adjusted check size offer information on how large of a check size the fund can invest in your business.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Rising property prices in cities, coupled with a lack of financing options, mean more people have to delay buying their first homes unless they have family support. Part of Y Combinator’s latest batch, Homebase was founded in 2019 to give prospective buyers in Vietnam an alternative to traditional financing.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2021

So, each quarter The Exchange spends time chatting with a host of CEOs and CFOs, trying to figure what’s going on so that we can relay the information to private companies. Next week is Y Combinator Demo Day week, so expect a lot of early-stage coverage on the blog. The global inequity in venture financing is staggering.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Mainly the demo day deck, the email deck and the meeting deck. Demo Day pitch. The conditions for a demo day pitch are pretty peculiar: You have the founder presenting, so the slides don’t need to be self-explanatory. Using a demo-day (non-self-explanatory) deck to send via email. Email deck. Product slide.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

million, including some financed by the founder and chief executive in the early years, across all funding rounds. The startup relays the engagement information to the partner brands which then further personalize their offerings to better serve the customers. The six-year-old startup has raised about $55.5 sales conversion,” he said.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Usually a Chief Information Officer or a Head of Engineering, depending on the organization, the economic buyer is a critical constituent you must win over. And a surefire way to win over your economic buyer? Leverage your investors/advisors to help uncover that inside baseball for you.

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Haystack

OCTOBER 23, 2018

A few years ago, during a YC cohort (before Demo Day), a few sources told me about a SaaS founder in the batch who was on a mission. I am not surprised that today, he is making a big announcement for the company’s new financing round — People.ai does, and you can find that information here and here.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Each founder wanted to invest in other companies during YC’s Demo Day. And what we’re trying to do with the fund is publish as much information as possible and keep performing at the 100 percentile and say this is still the best strategy and is very scalable.” The interesting bit? ” MAGIC Fund 1 was $1.5

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

However, historically most private equity professionals were former investment bankers and other finance professionals. Preqin (free demo). Grey House (free demo). Tatum Executive Services provides “CFOs, CIOs and senior finance professionals [to help] lead [companies] through any challenge”. Private Equity. Thomson One.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

For the early stage community, the amendments include a very useful provision that excludes “Demo Days” from being considered general solicitations provided certain conditions are met. The amendments retain the same “menu” of exemptions but make incremental improvements. Dror Futter is a partner in the Rimon, PC law firm.

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David Teten VC

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

I’m surprised at how many funding pitches I get which lack some of the basic information which investors require before funding. I think this stems from two causes: 1) Lack of basic knowledge of the information investors require. 2) A desire to hide important information which you think might be perceived badly , e.g,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Founders : Alphas Sinja, Boya’s chief executive officer, has over eight years of experience in the banking and finance sectors. ” Founders : Tobi Ololade, the CEO, was the chief technological officer of TradeBuza, a data and API infrastructure for agriculture finance. Robert Nyangate is the company’s CTO.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

In this particular case I wasn’t convinced it was a good idea from the limited information I had. One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. The following is a short excerpt of what I said, “… being an entrepreneur is very unsexy.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

The idea was to invest $25,000 and take the startups through a three-month accelerator program culminating in a Demo Day. This informal approach is what Soyombo wants to make formal via a structured format where each individual or organisational LPs gets access to his deal flow simultaneously.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2022

The top 10 teams got monetary awards worth $10,000 to $120,000 on the demo day of KSGC 2021. While being part of KSGC 2021, XQuant signed an MoU with Yonsei University’s Graduate School of Environmental Finance for research on green digital finance and mutual information sharing. ” Srun said.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 6, 2016

This posts analyses US headquartered information technology companies which VC-led investment rounds, except for the $793M Series C in Magic Leap , which I excluded as an outlier. Without a fixed definition of a seed round, this number can move as the market includes a greater or lesser number of financings in this colloquial term.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 15, 2023

In early-stage VC especially, you get to talk to people at the cutting edge of every vertical in tech, be it finance, housing, healthcare, or education. Get as much information as you can from your target demographic on the problem you’re trying to solve: Is this an issue many of them face? How do they currently deal with it?

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 10, 2020

Clayton said that minority-owned small businesses employ more than eight million Americans, but face challenges in accessing bank loans and are more likely to see non-traditional financing. Demo days were also noted as an important opportunity for entrepreneurs without pre-existing funding networks.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 21, 2024

However, because of the additional information burden we almost lost a few larger, more sophisticated investors that did not want to be bothered for a relatively small investment.” Having a smooth process in place to establish relationships and share information is key. In the eyes of the SEC, you do not know your audience.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

Zoho has a pretty massive suite of over 55 cloud-based tools that span categories like sales, marketing, HR, finance, security, project management, and more (I'm getting dizzy). Zendesk, on the other hand, offers two tools: Zendesk for Service (for customer service) and Zendesk for Sales (its CRM). Take bots, for example.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

It’s day two of Y Combinator’s Demo Day, which means that the TechCrunch team has been looking at more than 400 startups over two days. Mosaic raised $25 million in Series B funding from Founders Fund to continue developing what the company calls a “strategic finance” category to get all departments within a company talking about finance.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

Whether you’re a whale, a degen or a new ape (or someone who’s interested, but has no idea what those terms mean), you’ll find information and opportunity at TC Sessions: Crypto. Amp up your exposure to the blockchain community and demo your crypto-related tech. Buy one before they’re gone, and you’ll save $200.

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

Whether you’re a whale, a degen or a new ape (or someone who’s interested, but has no idea what those terms mean), you’ll find information and opportunity at TC Sessions: Crypto. Amp up your exposure to the blockchain community and demo your crypto-related tech. Buy one before they’re gone, and you’ll save $200.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

I imagine everyone at this point has used a Zoom Webinar, so we don’t need a full demo, but just so you know, please use the chat to connect with your fellow attendees. And even the technical side of Stripe writes like, “These are our top six things that we feel like we have to get done, informed by the company goals.”

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The first attention we started getting was after we launched the company publicly at Demo on September 25th of this year. A number of VC’s stopped by our booth or watched our demo on the DEMO website and we had about 5 proactive inquiries. The first VC I met with came from attending DEMO. After Office 2.0

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

We can’t check out every investing outfit’s demo day. In 2020, Americans lost $415 billion to poor money management and thinking about finances causes anxiety for 60% of us. This is because only 17% of us are required to learn any personal finance in school. Parthean teaches personal finance to young professionals.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 2, 2013

As a startup with presumably constrained finances, the ideal first sales person produces predictable and consistent sales. Assume each sales call takes 45 minutes of time, 15 minutes of preparation/followup and each sale requires 3 calls (introduction, product demo and close) and voila - 60 leads. But not all leads convert.

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