How to Email Series a Investors

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If you're lucky enough to have a bunch of angel investors, use them to introduce you to the series A investors that they know. If you're not in that situation, don't worry. Investors are excited about founders and think building big things will make them lots of money. You can kind of employ the same strategy that I talked about for seed, but do a little,. There's more information to research about the investors.

Aaron Harris is a Partner at YC and before that he cofounded Tutorspree.

He’s on Twitter @harris.

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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00:00 - Intro

00:42 - Seed fundraising process

3:32 - Emailing investors

9:32 - Parallelized fundraising process

12:17 - Meeting with investors

14:17 - Overcapitalization

17:07 - Communicating your plan to investors

19:02 - Evaluating investors

22:57 - Fundraising process for a Series A company

27:02 - Meeting Series A investors

28:57 - Post-Demo Day psychology