Once an investor leans in, diligence begins. These videos explain what gets checked, how to prepare a data room, and how founders should diligence investors right back.
25 min
ICEYE co-founder Rafal Modrzewski on raising for a satellite company in Europe: convincing investors to fund hardware with long timelines, and how each round's story evolved.
1h 28m
Sequoia's Julien Bek takes 20VC inside the firm's investment committee: how the SpaceX and Citadel deals actually went down, how memos are argued, and what kills deals at partnership.
6 min
Stanford GSB professor Ilya Strebulaev summarizes his large-scale research on how venture capitalists actually make decisions: what they weight (team vs market vs product), how many deals they screen, and how valuations are really set.
1h 20m
VenCap's David Clark shares 32 years of fund-of-funds data: how few companies drive all venture returns, and what that power law means for how VCs must behave with founders.
59 min
YC's Carolynn Levy (inventor of the SAFE) and Kirsty Nathoo teach investor-school mechanics: instruments, rights, and what founders and angels each misunderstand about early-stage paperwork.
58 min
Aaron Harris's deep guide to raising a Series A: metrics thresholds, building investor relationships pre-raise, running the process, and partner-meeting dynamics.
Point Nine's Christoph Janz presents the five metrics that matter when raising a SaaS Series A and B, with the benchmark ranges his fund actually uses.
23 min
SaaStr session on the risky business of Series B: why it's the hardest round, what growth-stage investors diligence, and the trap of a too-high Series A price.
55 min
TechCrunch Live pairs a founder with the VC who led their Series A to reconstruct the deal: first contact, diligence, the partner meeting, and the close.
28 min
Flagship's David Berry on fundraising for deep tech: milestone-based financing, syndicate construction, and communicating scientific risk to generalist investors.