Fund Raising a Seed Rownd?

We had a multipart safe note that we brought in strategics and angels early on, just to get the ball rolling. We started that process in february time frame. And sam gets the nitty gretty on this approach, ona the, i think, the funded podcast series with jason yag a. I meand you've raised a very large seed rownd by even even 20 21 standards. How far did you have to get along the way before raising the money?