AIVA TECH co-founder Lucia Mari Sanguino details raising a $1.5M pre-seed: the funnel, the materials, investor objections, and how the round finally assembled.
Granular pre-seed case study from a non-famous founder — representative of most raises.
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A young founder gives a step-by-step retrospective of raising $5M: sourcing investors, sequencing meetings, creating urgency, and closing, with real artifacts from the raise.