Not all money is equal. These videos cover how to research investors, read a firm's real incentives, and figure out who is genuinely likely to fund you.
26 min
YC partners share real investor horror stories from their founder days and from companies they've advised: exploding term sheets, tranched deals gone wrong, investors behaving badly after wiring, and how founders should protect themselves.
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 11m
A longevity startup founder explains to TWiST why they raised in Japan instead of Silicon Valley: investor appetite differences, valuation trade-offs, and cross-border round mechanics.
56 min
Chemistry's Mark Goldberg (ex-Index) on why decision-making is broken inside large VC firms: politics, consensus damage, and what that means for founders pitching them.
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.
1 min
Marc Andreessen explains in two minutes what a16z actually looks for in startups and why strength of insight beats polish.
1h 3m
Hustle Fund's Elizabeth Yin on her high-volume portfolio strategy, how tiny first checks change the founder-VC dynamic, and her outlook on seed fundraising.
1h 11m
Freestyle's Jenny Lefcourt on making non-consensus bets, avoiding hype-driven investing, and what founders misread about how seed VCs form conviction.
1h 4m
Mercury CEO Immad Akhund on launching a $26M fund, what he learned angel investing in 350+ startups, and what founder behaviors predict successful raises.
3 min
Michael Seibel explains why fundraising works differently in Silicon Valley than everywhere else: risk appetite, check-writing speed, and what that means for founders elsewhere.
Jason Lemkin's fundraising workshop on what it takes to get funded now: real conversion rates from pitch to check, and what SaaS metrics clear the bar.
30 min
TechCrunch session on building a later-stage investor network before you need it: mapping funds, nurturing relationships between rounds, and sequencing outreach.
2 min
Mark Suster on qualifying which VCs are actually right for your startup: stage fit, check size, partner-level fit, and portfolio conflicts.
21 min
Edith Yeung on fundraising globally: how investor expectations differ across the US, China, and Southeast Asia, and how founders should adapt the pitch per market.
23 min
Web Summit panel on finding the right VC match: founders and investors debate how much fit matters versus just taking the money.
1h 7m
YC co-founder Jessica Livingston on entrepreneurship through the venture lens: stories from early YC batches, what founders misread about investors, and how the best founders handled early fundraising.