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Excited to announce our new Podcast on iTunes called "How I Raised It" where I interview startup founders who raised capital and "unpack" how they did it. Check it out on iTunes itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/… or Soundcloud soundcloud.com/user-2586856
Every founder has a template for asking for money.
Almost none have one for the email that keeps investors on their side when things go wrong: missed payroll, a down round, a co-founder leaving.
29 templates for every stage, including the hard ones: blog.foundersuite.com/29-inv…
2,500 investors researched. 300+ meetings booked. One oversubscribed seed round.
Sarah Lucena built MAPPA AI in San Francisco with zero existing network in the US, and treated fundraising as an execution problem, not a networking one.
Full story: blog.foundersuite.com/from-b…
135 AI prompts for every stage of raising capital.
Investor readiness scorecards. Pitch deck slide-by-slide reviews. Term sheet breakdowns in plain English. Cold outreach that gets replies.
Copy, paste, fill in your details: blog.foundersuite.com/135-cl…
They had a handshake deal to get acquired.
One phone call ended it.
The inside story of Gymtrack, connected fitness tech that raised well, nearly got acquired, and then didn't.
A European manufacturer wanted to invest, then wanted to buy the company outright. Term sheets signed. Engineers evaluating the product. Months of negotiation.
Then diligence got specific, and small technical gaps started to matter a lot.
"One call, and it was over."
The team rebuilt afterward. The new product was technically stronger and still didn't land, because it solved a real problem that wasn't urgent for customers.
Full story: blog.foundersuite.com/the-de…
Most city VC lists imply local focus.
Miami breaks that pattern. Alpha Wave Global backs SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI. Guild Capital spans the US, India, and emerging markets. Global funds that just happen to sit in Miami.
Full list of 19: blog.foundersuite.com/19-ven…
Most VC scenes chase trends. Seattle backs technical moats.
22 active funds, split across two lanes most "top VC" lists miss entirely: deep enterprise/AI, and a real life sciences cluster.
Full list: blog.foundersuite.com/22-ven…
The outcome of a fundraise is usually decided before it starts.
Andrew Ackerman has watched hundreds of startups raise. The founders who close smoothly are reading different signals than everyone else. 🧵
A pitch deck is a compressed version of the business. Every slide is a claim that has to hold up.
Market sizing kills more decks than bad ideas do. Investors want sanity, not sophistication: who buys, what they pay, how many exist.
Full breakdown: blog.foundersuite.com/how-gr…
Austin founders do not need to leave the city to build a full cap table.
17 active funds now cover pre-seed through growth, locally.
The full stage-by-stage breakdown: blog.foundersuite.com/17-act…
Same region. Four completely different founder mindsets.
1,000+ founders later, here's what Impacta VC's David Alvo learned about building across Latin America.
Mexico: fast traction, easy to mistake for product strength.
Colombia: a second generation building with real pattern recognition.
Argentina: instability forces global thinking early, and it becomes an edge.
Chile: strong infrastructure, sometimes narrower ambition.
The counterintuitive lesson: many LatAm founders would raise smarter by raising less.
Bigger rounds create pressure they can't always grow into.
Full breakdown: blog.foundersuite.com/how-to…
2017: Naveen Verma discovers a breakthrough in energy-efficient AI chips at his Princeton lab.
2022: EnCharge finally spins out and raises its Series A.
Five years of patience before a single VC check. Here's why that was the strategy, not the delay:
blog.foundersuite.com/from-a…
Join us IRL Oct 6 in SF for "The Brave New World of Startup Fundraising," our biggest @Techweek_ event of the year.
Panels with top VCs, moderated by our CEO @sailornathan. One Embarcadero, 32nd floor. Free, but space is limited (600+ applied for 150 spots last year). Link👇️
