Are You Taking a Meeting With a Principal or Associate?

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i think the most important thing is to meet with senior associates that have influence. And how you can figure that out is really just go on to their lincton and see how long have theye been at the firm? Are they some one who's really an analyst, but has the associate title? Because sometimes you can have inflated titled at v c firms. In our case, what happened was, a some of our early a from from those three funds, a one of them. The first meeting itself, pretty much, they had like four people there, and it ended ut being a lunch meeting.

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.

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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