i love listening to earnings cools. This is my new favorite thing, other than pocos its just straight off earning schools. People are more used like listening to the fact that founders don't necessarily come from ivy league backgrounds,. a, or are of a certain race. And i think it's your seeing your d like we did in series a. For our series a, we saw more representation in terms of the team structure - senior partner, principal and analyst. We defnlysaw more representation in the funds that we were talking to. I am one of the things that i also think, you know, even since we did y c, things have changed since
Amber Atherton is the founder and CEO of Zyper (YC W18).
Iba Masood is the cofounder and CEO of TARA (YC W15).
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
Y Combinator invests a small amount of money ($150k) in a large number of startups (recently 200), twice a year.
Learn more about YC and apply for funding here: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/
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Topics
00:00 - Intro
1:16 - Seed fundraising for Zyper and Tara
3:26 - Tara's pivot
4:31 - Series A fundraising for Zyper and Tara
18:11 - Evaluating investors
23:46 - Meeting with associates and partners
30:35 - Raising a Series A as a female founder
39:31 - Fundraising psychology
41:46 - What not to do when fundraising
45:01 - Talking to portfolio companies about investors
46:21 - What it's like to run a Series A stage company
1:00:41 - The most important piece of advice for fundraising