The Process of Raising a Series a Lottery

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We raised four million then. And we were just charging forwad with the product, like timing first t market. We'd started having conversations at the end of last year around just raising a likee was more rapid than i thought it was going to be. I think something we did that was really good though, was writing that an memo. What was my investment memmo? Rough, rough tums. So ya, ya, com'tle wee got iat, no, tooking a.

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