Are You Getting Into a Hot Deal With Female Partners?

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Ander: You can't use, you know, being female or minority as a crutch. There are great organizations like all rays pushing to have more female partners and entrepaers. Ander: Funds should be able to talk to the partner at the fund that understands their business. It should really just be fundamentally about a axbees in the sex,. dan and but ok si, we're all of your em.

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.

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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