Stanford GSB's Building Momentum session on diversity in venture fundraising: data on funding gaps plus firsthand founder and investor accounts.
Pairs the funding-gap data with practitioners describing what actually closes it.
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Backstage Capital's Arlan Hamilton on going from homeless to VC, her $5M crowdfunding raise for her own firm, and educating underestimated founders on how capital actually works.
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Startup Grind panel on overcoming bias while fundraising as an underrepresented founder, with firsthand accounts of coded feedback and the workarounds that got checks written.
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Canva co-founder Melanie Perkins recounts pitching for three years and being rejected by more than 100 investors before closing Canva's first round, including how she reworked the pitch around each objection. She details the kitesurfing-with-investors period in Silicon Valley and how rejection shaped the company's strategy.