How Deep Did You Go Into the Financials?

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We looked at a lot of other memos that we could find out there. So lit unt the youtube memmo, picked that up and then used that as a foundation to structure our own memo. We were just giving a high level, like, this revenue so far, and this is the market we're going after,. And how much we expect to grow er in the next kind of 12 months. But alverse, we then had a model to back that up that was significantly more in depth around the financials.

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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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