Funded - How They Raised Millions

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The tech media loves a splashy funding announcement - millions of dollars injected into a hot startup primed to become a unicorn. But what about the work behind those headlines? Host Jason Yeh, a former VC and venture-backed startup founder, talks with entrepreneurs about how they raised the capital to launch world-changing startups. Their conversations uncover incredible stories including cautionary tales, inspirational memories, and even some insightful tips. Keep up with us on social @fundedpod to learn more.

Episode Date
TBC102: A Tale of Two Investors
Nov 21, 2024
TBC101: The Importance of Jumping on Planes
Nov 14, 2024
TBC100: Likability vs. Brilliance
Oct 31, 2024
How Curtis Northcutt Closed a $25M Series A for Cleanlab (Curtis Northcutt / Cleanlab - Ep 51)
Oct 29, 2024
TBC99: How Anxiety Ruins Warm Intros
Oct 24, 2024
TBC98: GPs Have Trouble Raising Too
Oct 17, 2024
TBC97: How to Build Awareness as a Founder the Right Way
Oct 10, 2024
TBC96: How to Handle the Heat of an Investor Pitch
Oct 03, 2024
How Teasha Cable Closed a $1M Seed Round for CModel (Teasha Cable / CModel - Ep 50)
Oct 01, 2024
TBC95: Types & Motivations of Angel Investors
Sep 26, 2024
TBC94: Unpacking Uncapped SAFEs
Sep 19, 2024
TBC93: Valuations, SAFEs & Convertible Notes Explained
Sep 12, 2024
How Michael Diesu Closed a $2.5M Seed Round for Revenue Roll (Michael Diesu / Revenue Roll - Ep 49)
Sep 10, 2024
TBC92: Revisiting Post-Money vs Pre-Money Cap SAFEs
Sep 05, 2024
TBC91: Investor Lists & Launching a Fundraise (HOW TO)
Aug 29, 2024
How Christal Wang Closed a $2.2M Seed Round for Shimmer (Christal Wang / Shimmer - Ep 48)
Aug 27, 2024
TBC90: What Do Pre-Seed & Seed Rounds Look Like in This Market?
Aug 22, 2024
TBC89: Why You Need Deadlines for Your Raise
Aug 15, 2024
How Orri Bogdan Raised a $2M Seed Round for VAE Labs (Orri Bogdan / VAE Labs - Ep 47)
Aug 13, 2024
TBC88: How To Show VCs Traction
Aug 08, 2024
TBC87: Answering Founders Questions About The Fundraising Process
Aug 01, 2024
How Coco Brown Raised $2.5M in Venture Capital for Athena Alliance (Coco Brown / Athena Alliance - Ep 46)
Jul 30, 2024
TBC86: How Do I handle Inbound Interest From VCs?
Jul 25, 2024
TBC85: 5 Controversial Fundraising Ideas
Jul 18, 2024
How Brian Raymond Raised $65 Million in Funding for Unstructured IO (Brian Raymond / Unstructured IO - Ep 45)
Jul 16, 2024
TBC84: Why Smart People Struggle With Fundraising
Jul 11, 2024
TBC83: Answering Founders Questions About Pitch Decks
Jul 05, 2024
How Analisa Goodin Raised Over $31 Million in Funding for Catch+Release (Analisa Goodin / Catch+Release - Ep 44)
Jul 02, 2024
TBC82: Understanding VC Signals
Jun 27, 2024
TBC81: Answering Your Questions About Getting Passed On
Jun 20, 2024
The Story Behind Incognia's Pivot & How it Led Them to Raise $45.6M
Jun 18, 2024
TBC80: Why Monthly Investor Newsletters Might Be a Bad Idea for Founders
Jun 13, 2024
TBC: Is Silicon Valley Still the Place to Be for Startups? (TBC79)
Jun 06, 2024
The Story Behind Lex's $5.6M Seed Round (Jennifer Lewis / Lex - Ep 42)
Jun 04, 2024
TBC: How Much Should I Raise? (TBC78)
May 30, 2024
TBC: How I Work - For Easily Distracted Founders (TBC77)
May 23, 2024
The Journey of Ian Swanson Starting 3 Venture-Backed Successes (Ian Swanson / Protect AI)
May 21, 2024
TBC: Why Every Founder Needs Third-Party Feedback (TBC76)
May 16, 2024
TBC: Pro Tip for VC's - The Personal Newsletter (TBC75)
May 09, 2024
How Nancy Xu Raised $10M for Moonhub (Nancy Xu / Moonhub - Ep 40)
May 07, 2024
TBC: How & Why to Get a Technical Co-founder (TBC74)
May 02, 2024
TBC: Addressing Competition With Investors (TBC73)
Apr 25, 2024
The Story Behind SGNL Raising $22M in 2 Years (Scott Kriz / SGNL - Ep 39)
Apr 23, 2024
TBC: Understanding VC Firms to Send the Right Signals (TBC72)
Apr 18, 2024
TBC: Dilution 101 For Founders (TBC71)
Apr 11, 2024
The Story Behind Purple Metrics Closing Their $1.2M Pre-Seed Round (Guta Tolmasquim / Purple Metrics - Ep 38)
Apr 09, 2024
TBC: Why the Pre-Seed Round Was Created... and How It's Changed (TBC70)
Apr 04, 2024
TBC: Taking Advice From Charlie Munger (TBC69)
Mar 28, 2024
The Story Behind Atlys Raising $16.3M in Venture Capital (Mohak Nahta / Atlys - Ep 37)
Mar 26, 2024
TBC: Should You Announce Your Fundraise? Pros vs Cons. (TBC68)
Mar 21, 2024
TBC: The 7 Forms of Support You Need to Fundraise (TBC67)
Mar 14, 2024
Betting on Yourself: The Journey to Closing a $7.6M Seed Round (Stacy Edgar / Venteur - Ep 36)
Mar 12, 2024
TBC: Lead vs. Co-Lead Investors (TBC66)
Mar 07, 2024
TBC: Pattern Recognition (TBC65)
Feb 29, 2024
Builder Turned Fundraiser: Tractian's $45M Series B (Igor Marinelli / Tractian - Ep 35)
Feb 27, 2024
TBC: The Use of Funds Slide (TBC64)
Feb 22, 2024
TBC: The Secret Value of the Email Appendix (TBC63)
Feb 15, 2024
Trailblazing the VC Industry (Joanna Strober / Midi Health - Ep 34)
Feb 13, 2024
TBC: 3 Tips for Choosing Service Providers (TBC62)
Feb 08, 2024
TBC: What's the Deal With Thesis-Driven Firms? (TBC61)
Feb 01, 2024
Paying the Peter Thiel Price (Dylan Beynon / Mindbloom - Ep 33)
Jan 30, 2024
TBC: Bouncing Back After Failure (TBC60)
Jan 25, 2024
TBC: Creating a Story That Can Be Shared (TBC59)
Jan 18, 2024
A Wyoming Success Story ( Heather Shoemaker / Language I/O - Ep 32)
Jan 16, 2024
TBC: Should Founders Try Again With Investors Who've Passed? (TBC58)
Jan 11, 2024
TBC: Don't Fall Into The Builder's Trap (TBC57)
Jan 04, 2024
Fundraising EQUALS Hard Work (Bobby Pinero / Levels - Ep 31)
Jan 02, 2024
TBC: The Similarities Between Real Estate and Fundraising (TBC56)
Dec 28, 2023
TBC: The Need For Support in Fundraising (TBC55)
Dec 21, 2023
TBC: CEOs Should Always Be the Ones to Pitch (TBC54)
Dec 14, 2023
TBC: Explaining "The Money Round" (TBC53)
Dec 07, 2023
TBC: Preparing For a Pitch Competition (TBC52)
Nov 30, 2023
TBC: Data Rooms - What You Need to Know (TBC51)
Nov 27, 2023
TBC: Pitching VCs Through a Screen (TBC50)
Nov 16, 2023
TBC: Launch Before You're Ready (TBC49)
Nov 09, 2023
TBC: How to Grow Your Network FAST (TBC48)
Nov 02, 2023
TBC: Importance of CRM Systems When Fundraising (TBC47)
Oct 26, 2023
TBC: Pre-seed vs. Seed - What's the difference? (TBC46)
Oct 19, 2023
TBC: How to Handle Investor Rejection (TBC45)
Oct 12, 2023
TBC: Preparing to Fundraise in a Down Market (TBC44)
Oct 05, 2023
TBC: Build Your Reputation First (TBC43)
Sep 28, 2023
Down by 20? Down But Not Out... (Tiffany Kelly / Curastory - Ep 30)
Sep 26, 2023
TBC: Insights From My Trip to Brazil (TBC42)
Sep 21, 2023
TBC: Work / Life Balance (TBC41)
Sep 14, 2023
Becoming the Pepsi to Indeed's Coke (Lucas Martinez / Talent.com - Ep 29)
Sep 12, 2023
TBC: The Role of Emotions in Pitching (TBC40)
Sep 07, 2023
TBC: What VCs Are Saying About AI Investing (TBC39)
Aug 31, 2023
Thriving With or Without Funding (Andrew Gazdecki / Acquire.com - Ep 28)
Aug 29, 2023
TBC: Intros & Forwardable Emails (TBC38)
Aug 24, 2023
TBC: Side Letter Warning (TBC37)
Aug 17, 2023
The Hustlers Journey (Thomas McLeod / Arkive - Ep 27)
Aug 15, 2023
TBC: Putting Project Management First (TBC36)
Aug 10, 2023
TBC: What Comes First - Calm Confidence or Investor Interest? (TBC35)
Aug 03, 2023
Breaking the Status Quo (Lolita Taub / Ganas Ventures - Ep 26)
Aug 01, 2023
TBC: Post Money Cap Safes have Anti-Dilution! (TBC34)
Jan 31, 2023
TBC: Post Money Caps vs. Pre-money Caps (an explainer) (TBC33)
Jan 24, 2023
TBC: Vulnerability in Fundraising (TBC32)
Jan 17, 2023
TBC: The Rollercoaster of Fundraising (TBC31)
Jan 10, 2023
TBC: Deck-Building: Note Cards (TBC30)
Jan 03, 2023
TBC: Chase or Be Chased? (TBC29)
Dec 27, 2022
Money Baggage in Fundraising (Shiloh Johnson / ComplYant - Ep25)
Dec 22, 2022
TBC: Rest (TBC28)
Dec 20, 2022
TBC: How VCs are trained (TBC27)
Dec 15, 2022
TBC: The ability to be great is everywhere but resources are not (TBC25)
Dec 13, 2022
TBC: Decks as Appetizers (TBC26)
Dec 13, 2022
A Bubble valuation that's not so inflated? (Bubble / Emmanuel Straschnov - Ep24)
Dec 01, 2022
TBC: The Importance And Fragility Of Credibility (TBC24)
Nov 29, 2022
TBC: Explaining "this isn't venture-backable" (TBC23)
Nov 22, 2022
Being The Pattern (Stax / Suneera Madhani - Ep23)
Nov 17, 2022
TBC: Why in-person meetings are so valuable (TBC22)
Nov 15, 2022
TBC: Eisenhower Matrix And Health Insurance (TBC21)
Nov 08, 2022
The Times They Are A-Changin (Flow Club / Ricky Yean - Ep 22)
Nov 03, 2022
TBC: VC Anxiety - Why am I seeing this deal? (TBC20)
Nov 01, 2022
TBC: The dirty secret of thesis-driven firms (TBC19)
Oct 20, 2022
Finding The ‘Right’ Problem (Othership / Robbie Bent - Ep21)
Oct 20, 2022
TBC: Pitch The Circle (TBC18)
Oct 20, 2022
Diverse Female Founders (Special Funded Ep)
Oct 07, 2022
TBC: Cold Intros vs. Warm Intros (TBC17)
May 04, 2022
TBC: The most famous pass ever (TBC16)
May 02, 2022
TBC: Rounds are going CRAZY fast... (TBC15)
Apr 29, 2022
TBC: Narrative strategies and why they're important (TBC14)
Apr 27, 2022
TBC: You should share your wins (TBC13)
Apr 25, 2022
TBC: FOMO - a helluva drug (TBC12)
Apr 22, 2022
TBC: The mistake of over-targeting investors (TBC11)
Apr 20, 2022
TBC: Red Flag - solution looking for problems (TBC10)
Apr 18, 2022
TBC: Warm up meetings with investors (TBC09)
Apr 15, 2022
TBC: The different roles at a VC (TBC08)
Apr 13, 2022
TBC: Fundraising like a salesperson (TBC07)
Apr 11, 2022
TBC: The benefits of intense fundraise prep (TBC06)
Apr 08, 2022
TBC: Should I stage my VC convos in tiers? (TBC05)
Apr 06, 2022
TBC: Who should set valuation? (TBC04)
Apr 04, 2022
TBC: Why you should learn investor language (TBC03)
Apr 01, 2022
TBC: A thought on decks and appendices (TBC02)
Mar 30, 2022
TBC: Don't Be A Science Project (TBC01)
Mar 28, 2022
TRAILER: What is The Backchannel (TBC)
Mar 26, 2022
Announcement: What's New?
Mar 24, 2022
Fundraising Holiday Blues (Grapevine / Emily Rasmussen - Ep20)
Dec 08, 2021
If at First You Don't Succeed (Humming Homes / Adeel Malick - Ep19)
Nov 23, 2021
The Culture of Preemptive Rounds (Neuro-ID / Jack Alton - Ep18)
Nov 09, 2021
Catching a Steady Wave 🏄 (SteadyMD / Guy Friedman - Ep17)
Oct 27, 2021
The Secret Science of Fundraising (REMIX: Levels / Sam Corcos - Ep16)
Oct 13, 2021
The Foreign Language of Fundraising (Cobli / Parker Treacy - Ep15)
Sep 21, 2021
Learning the Fundraising Dance (Nude Barre / Erin Carpenter - Ep14)
Sep 07, 2021
Investor Psychology 101 (Givingli / Nicole Emrani Green - Ep13)
Aug 24, 2021
Stayin' Alive 🎶(Omaze / Matt Pohlson - Ep12)
Aug 10, 2021
Networking hard or hardly networking? (HMBradley / Zach Bruhnke - Ep11)
Jul 27, 2021
Good fundraising for a “good business” (ChargerHelp! / Kameale Terry - Ep09)
Jul 27, 2021
From YC darling to fundraising powerhouse (Vanta / Christina Cacioppo - Ep10)
Jul 27, 2021
Funded Season 2 Trailer
Jul 16, 2021
Acting like a master fundraiser (Yac / Justin Mitchell - Ep08)
Feb 16, 2021
Confidence is KEY...I think? (Sora / Laura Del Beccaro - Ep07)
Feb 02, 2021
F&F Round: 2020 Funding Trends with Russ Heddleston of DocSend (FF01)
Jan 21, 2021
The Secret Science of Fundraising (Part 2 of 2 - Levels / Sam Corcos - Ep06)
Jan 19, 2021
The Secret Science of Fundraising (Part 1 of 2 - Levels / Sam Corcos - Ep05)
Jan 05, 2021
From rags to riches (Goodfair / Topper Luciani - Ep04 )
Dec 22, 2020
A different type of funding and a different type of "no" (Bite / Lindsay McCormick - Ep03)
Dec 08, 2020
Sex sells, but does it raise money? (Coral / Isharna Walsh - Ep02 )
Dec 08, 2020
How to tell a story worth $140 million dollars (Zumper / Anthemos Georgiades Ep01)
Dec 08, 2020
Coming Soon: Funded
Oct 15, 2020