Former Y Combinator partner who wrote and taught YC's fundraising curriculum.
Distilled from YC's Series A program data: how A rounds actually happen, why 'we'll preempt you' conversations mislead founders, benchmark metrics, and running a deliberate A process instead of drifting into one.
YC partner Aaron Harris's operational seed-raising manual: preparing materials, building the target list, running meetings in a compressed window, and closing with SAFEs.
YC's Aaron Harris on how to get meetings with investors and run them: intro paths, meeting stagecraft, reading interest honestly, and converting interest into checks.
Aaron Harris's deep guide to raising a Series A: metrics thresholds, building investor relationships pre-raise, running the process, and partner-meeting dynamics.
Aaron Harris on fundraising in the AI era: how AI company valuations diverge from SaaS norms, what investors currently over- and under-weight, and process implications.