The Founder Initiative

192 Episodes

1. [$5M Raised] Power Through Funding Doubt: Black Founder Success, Devo Harris, Founder of Adventr

   Published: 7/25/2023
2. MARL Accelerator's GP: Integrity, Due Diligence, and Early-Stage Investing

   Published: 6/22/2023
3. 1# Correlation to Startup Success: $340M AUM, Clear Ventures's GP, Rajeev Madhavan (2x founder)

   Published: 6/13/2023
4. [$9.9M Raised] Do you have a moat? Answering VC's, funding 101: David Fink, CEO Postie

   Published: 5/23/2023
5. [$29M raised] Getting Sequoia to Invest In Your Seed; Brian, CEO of Doppler

   Published: 5/9/2023
6. Inside the Mind of a Solo Capitalist; Itamar Novick, Managing Partner of Recursive Ventures

   Published: 5/2/2023
7. Investor in Gusto & Robinhood; Chamaeleon's Managing Partner, Nuno G. Pedro; how VCs evaluate founders, DD process unpacked, and pitching without slides

   Published: 3/30/2023
8. Founder Market Fit - what are investors actually looking for? VC, Emma Silverman, from TMV shares her perspective

   Published: 3/21/2023
9. Sequoia & Kleiner invested pre-product; Shane Curran, Founder of Evervault shares what he did

   Published: 3/14/2023
10. [$0-IPO] Braze's Founder, Mark Ghermezian; now running m]x[v Capital; how to evaluate early stage founders

    Published: 3/7/2023
11. 4 weeks of runway to $48M total raised; how did Therma's founders, Manik Suri and Lucas Tepman do it?

    Published: 2/28/2023
12. [Seed Investor in Paypal & Co-Founder of Eventbrite] Kevin Hartz, GP at A* Capital; what does he look for in a founding team?

    Published: 2/14/2023
13. Tesla of Motorcycles? - Oben's Founder, Madhumita Agrawal; funding a hardware startup in a recession

    Published: 2/13/2023
14. TechCrunch Disrupt Winner: Minerva Lithium's Founder, Sheeba Dawood; how did they win?

    Published: 2/7/2023
15. [$1.3B AUM] Crosslink Capital's Tobias Nilsson-Roos: how to nail your first meeting with a VC

    Published: 1/27/2023
16. VamosVentures's Principal, Ashley Aydin: breaking imposter syndrome during a pitch, LatinX investment trends, & Miga Health investment reasoning

    Published: 1/24/2023
17. [$600+ AUM] M13's Anna Barber; why multiples ACTUALLY went down & how to shift your funding strategy

    Published: 1/17/2023
18. [$10M Seed] Using a white paper to oversubscribe your round; Dan Bladen, Founder of Kadence

    Published: 1/5/2023
19. Angular Ventures's, David Peterson: 3 things VCs look for what YOU might not have in your deck?

    Published: 12/13/2022
20. GTMfund's Scott Barker; nail these 4 things if you want a chance of raising in this environment

    Published: 12/8/2022