Do You Want to Do This or Not?

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Series a programme really, you know, honden on the fact that you should have your data rooms ready and preped so we did. And i think that was also what set us a series o companies apart from even other people that were raising is we really had or documentation in order that o was very organized. Like weak one that was our gall still took us 60 days. Teyo, organized your own soul. But ndsomhin also, d just want to say on the, like, transparency, th being telling the funds that you're speaking to as you're managing this pipe line.

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.

Learn more about YC and apply for funding here: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/

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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