- Foundersuite - The code METZ40 offers a 40% off discount on Foundersuite.
If you’re a total completist, here are all of the fundraising training videos. All of the videos below contain links to a list of 2,500 VCs who don’t require warm intros, as well as 200 questions to get you prepared for your fundraising meetings.
- The 7-Step Process To Run Outstanding VC Meetings
- How To Build A Killer Pitch Deck For Raising Venture
- How To Build “Calendar Density” When Fundraising
- How To Use FOMO (fear of missing out) To Raise Venture Capital Fast
- How to Raise For Your Startup (w/Jason Calacanis) - He’s the author of “Angel”, which is the book that initially got me into angel investing. The first 4-5 episodes of his podcast are critical listening if you want to understand how angel investors think.
- Foundersuite’s Fundraising Hacks Webinar: How To Build & Run An Investor Pipeline To Raise Capital
- A VC Fund For Woman-Led Startups - This one’s an interview with Jesse Draper from Halogen Ventures ($50M fund)
- He Raised $40M from VCs [Airbnb & Lime Founders] - How He Did It (Swimply Founder)
- How I Raised It w/Phil Libin [Evernote Founder] from Mmhmm - I worked closely with Phil in 2007. He’s a master of storytelling, and also a former VC (General Catalyst). Go to the section at about 7:50 to learn about pitching on Zoom versus in-person. Great stuff.
- How To Build Your Founder Network - w/Suman Siva of Marco Experiences
- How To Raise A Seed Round - Elizabeth Yin, Hustle Fund
- 4 Quick Resources on Corp Dev for Founders (article that I wrote about 2 years ago)
- How To Buy a Startup - Joel Holland
- How to get into Y Combinator with a Hardware Setup - David Rabie
- How To Run Effective Design Sprints with John Zeratsky of Venture Capital Fund Character
- Tips for FOUNDER DATING + Raising Seed From Strategic Angels: Justine Palefsky & Tas Amina / Kindred
- Term Sheets And Fundraising Advice for Euro Founders - Jonathan Hollis of Mountside Ventures
- Game Theory Applied To Fundraising: How Nhon Ma of AI Tutoring Platform Numerade Raised $26M in VC
- Pitching a Vision: How To Raise Capital When You Don't Yet Have Product - Paxton Maeder of York of Alife
- The Secret To Getting In Front Of Angel Investor Groups - from Garin Toren of Ping
- Startup Advisor Brett Fox On Top Mistakes Startup Founders Make
- How To Raise A New VC FUND from a FUND-OF-FUNDS Investor - Michael Kim of Cendana Capital
- He Tapped The Black Angel Network To Raise Seed Capital (En Route To A $10 Million Series A)
- He Raised a $335M SERIES D For A CIRCULAR ECONOMY Startup - Thibaud Hug De Larauze of Back Market
More Fundraising Resources:
- Audio-Only versions of all of the videos above
- FounderSuite’s Blog
- This contains lots more interviews with funded founders (e.g. Indiegogo’s Slava Rubin) plus lots of tactical stuff (like, how to build an investor pipeline)
- FounderSuite’s Medium Page
This article’s a bit unrelated, but it’s helpful if you’ve ever thought of raising a VC fund, or want to know how a newer VC thinks. It’s an interview with former NEA investor Ben Narasin. He now runs a VC firm called Tenacity and does excellent interviews.