Warm intros still open most doors. How to earn them, ask for them, and build the relationships that make investors take the meeting.
1h 0m
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.
Haus.com CEO Jonathan McNulty explains how the company raised a $7.13M seed round that included Tim Ferriss, covering how they built the investor list and landed non-traditional angels.
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.
7 min
Michael Seibel's practical guide to cold-emailing investors: structure, brevity, credibility signals, and real examples of what gets a reply.
30 min
TechCrunch session on building a later-stage investor network before you need it: mapping funds, nurturing relationships between rounds, and sequencing outreach.
8 min
Jason Calacanis explains how to cold-email angel investors in a way he'd actually answer, with the exact structure and signals he looks for.
49 min
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.
52 min
Stanford GSB's Building Momentum session on diversity in venture fundraising: data on funding gaps plus firsthand founder and investor accounts.