Raising money to build a startup is a huge challenge. To be able to raise any money at all, you must first understand how investors think. We have developed the following courses catering to entrepreneurs in different stages of their entrepreneurial journey.
>>>During this week’s roundtable, we had extensive discussions about the realities of pre-seed funding. If you’re in the market for such investment, please review.
Tesser Payments
As for the entrepreneur pitches, up first we had Geetha Panchapakesan from Mountain View, California pitch Tesser Payments, a concept-stage FinTech venture.
Water Current Power
Then we had Michael O’Malley from New Bedford, Massachusetts pitch a hydro-energy idea.
You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:
Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, and Board Member Raju Reddy discusses his AI investment thesis.
>>>Anupam Rastogi, Managing Partner at Emergent Ventures, discusses his firm’s AI investment thesis.
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Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, and Board Member Raju Reddy discusses his AI investment thesis.
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Will you be seeking investor introductions for your startup in 2025?
Top VC funds operate in the 98% rejection rate zone.
Let’s avoid the pitfalls of wasting time and money without achieving results.
If you are looking for investor introductions, you have to be READY.
Please post this on your wall in 2025:
“Startups: Do NOT Go to VCs as Beggars. Go as Kings.”
This is the 1Mby1M mantra and it works.
Over 99% of founders chase funding before they are fundable.
As you know, I categorically support bootstrapped entrepreneurs.
There are numerous startups now that have achieved some revenue without any external funding.
However, it has taken time. Sometimes, it has taken 5-7 years to get there.
VCs, however, are looking for velocity.
Their goal is to achieve $100M in 5-7 years.
Gus Tai, Investor, Board Member and Retired General Partner at Trinity Ventures, discusses AI in Healthcare startups. Fascinating, comprehensive discussion with concrete pointers.
>>>Gus Tai, Investor, Board Member and Retired General Partner at Trinity Ventures, discusses ideas and opportunities in Education with an AI-augmented framework.
>>>Mo Islam, Partner at Threshold Ventures. discusses his firm’s AI investment thesis. We had an excellent discussion on AI-enabled drug discovery, AI-enabled medical imaging, etc.
>>>Krishnakumar Natarajan, Co-founder at Mela Ventures, discusses his firm’s AI investment thesis.
>>>Daniel Cohen, General Partner at Viola Ventures, discusses his firm’s AI Investment thesis. If you have been following this series, you know that it has yielded a lot of insights.
>>>Benjamin Narasin, Founder and General Partner at Tenacity Venture Capital, discusses his AI investment point of view.
>>>Venktesh Shukla, Founder and Managing Partner at Monta Vista Capital, discusses why he wants to see Human-in-the-Loop Generative AI startups. We’re hearing this a lot right now.
>>>At a recent roundtable, we had Gus Tai, Investor, Board Member and Retired General Partner at Trinity Ventures discuss the implications of human-centric AI, white spaces, comparables, and more.
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