
What Is Venture Capital 101
Friends That Invest
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How to Raise Money for a Startup
There are five different stages or you could think of like five different Pokemon evolutions for VC and they're all different ways of raising money. The first pre seed stage is we don't actually go to a VC. We raise money from family or friends or micro VCs little VCs. Then there's the seed stage where you might again raise money, but it's from angel investors or small VCs. You've got the series A stage which are bigger VCs series B stage, which is late stage VCs. So these VCs give you money, but kind of knowing that sooner or later your company is going to IPO or you're going to sell it off.
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