Why you should spend time with investors (even when you're not fundraising)

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Series A activity: Week of April 8, 2024 open.substack.com/pub/magid/p/se…

What's at the core of a great pitch?
How to tell stories so investors will listen.

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BIG ENTERPRET LAUNCH DAY! 🚀🙏

We are thrilled to launch, Wisdom, Enterpret Copilot for customer insights.

Wisdom can scour your entire customer feedback dataset—sales calls, support tickets, surveys, social media, reviews, Slack messages, and Snowflake tables—and convert

We crunched the numbers on fundraising in Q1.

Notable to see that a16z and General Catalyst are the most active at both A and B amongst well known firms. Good signal to founders.

Q1 '24 Fundraising Roundup:

open.substack.com/pub/magid/p/q1…

This is the most important post I have made since October 7.

Even if I was given all the time in the world, I could not do what Amit Soussana has just done. she has just come forth and told the world, in her own voice, how she was abducted by Hamas terrorists in Gaza.

'Ms.

NYC, now and then.

#photography made with #Leica

Series A activity: Week of March 18, 2024

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Send your metrics to the Hotline and we'll tell you if you're on track for an A: signal.me/#eu/fdy5h1miMi…

Do your metrics matter? open.substack.com/pub/magid/p/do…

Series A activity: Week of March 11, 2024 open.substack.com/pub/magid/p/se…

Do you know your numbers?

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Series A activity: Week of March 4, 2024

In which we see a $448M Series A.

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Am I ready to raise an A?

Next chapter of the guide is up:

open.substack.com/pub/magid/p/am…

Fun questions so far from the Fundraising Hotline:

1. How to negotiate an accelerator offer
2. How to price a hardtech seed
3. How investors think about moats

This is fun.

signal.me/#eu/fdy5h1miMi…

Series B Activity & Fundraising Hotline: February 2024

Plenty of Bs to go around in February.

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Series A activity: Week of Feb 26, 2024 open.substack.com/pub/magid/p/se…

Here's an experiment: a fundraising hotline on Signal. Feel free to stay anonymous. I'll do my best to answer any question about raising from VCs.

signal.me/#eu/fdy5h1miMi…

Inspired by the fact that I frequently get texts from founders I don't know with fundraising questions.