How I Raised It - The podcast where we interview startup founders who raised capital.

Produced by Foundersuite.com, "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders who have raised capital. This episode is with Allie Magyar of Hubb.me. Hubb makes an online platform for event and conference management. The Company recently raised a $6.3 million Series B led by Five Elms Capital. Oregon Venture Fund and Elevate Capital participated. In this episode, Allie talks about the Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver WA funding scenes, the difference between raising private equity vs. venture capital, build-vs.-buy decisions and when to acquire competitors, the Elevate Inclusion Summit, and much more. For more info about the Elevate Summit and venture capital for female entrepreneurs, visit https://blog.hubb.me/allie-talks-venture-capital-for-female-entrepreneurs and catch Allie's talk at https://hubb-1.wistia.com/medias/yuhk64n7ft

Produced by Foundersuite.com, "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders who have raised capital. This episode is with Aaron Schwartz of Passport Shipping (www.passportshipping.com), a provider of international shipping services designed for eCommerce companies. The Company recently raised $3 million of seed funding from Precursor Ventures, Resolute Ventures and Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt. Sophia Amoruso (GirlBoss) and April Underwood (Slack) also participated in the round. In this episode, Aaron talks about creating an "asset light" business in the shipping world, how he built investor relationships well in advance of raising capital, the advantages of having a diverse cap table, the terms he uses when putting together an Advisory Board, and much more.

Produced by Foundersuite.com, "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders who have raised capital. This episode is with Andrew Parker of Papa (www.joinpapa.com), an elderly care management platform that connects college students to senior citizens - aka "grandkids on demand." Papa raised capital in Florida before going through Y Combinator. More recently the Company raised $2.4 million of venture funding in a deal led by Initialized Capital Management with participation from Sound Ventures (founded by Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary). In this episode, Andrew talks about the Miami startup scene, tips and "hacks" for getting into Y Combinator, the importance of a time constraint when fundraising, getting the most out of mentors, what to put in your investor newsletter, and more.

Produced by Foundersuite.com, "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders who have raised capital. This episode is with Steve Glenn of Plant Prefab (www.plantprefab.com) which makes custom homes that are built using off-site production in a fast, economical, and eco-friendly way. Plant Prefab raised capital from Twitter co-founder Ev William's Obvious Ventures and the Amazon Alexa Fund, among others. In this (short) episode, Steve talks about where he came up with the idea for Plant Prefab and raising capital from strategic investors.

Produced by Foundersuite.com, "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders who have raised capital. This episode is with Hjalmar Nordegren, CEO of Karma.life based in Stockholm, Sweden. Karma makes an online platform that enables grocery stores, restaurants and cafes to minimize their food waste by selling their excess food to customers at a discount. The Company recently raised a $12 million Series A from Kinnevik, Electrolux, e.ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners. In this episode, Hjalmar talks about raising capital in Europe, how founders should never stop fundraising (i.e. nurturing leads in between rounds), the Swedish startup scene, how European founders who want to pitch Silicon Valley can "be more American" :) and much more.

Produced by Foundersuite.com, "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders who have raised capital. This episode is with Matthew Klein, CEO of Backbone PLM (www.backboneplm.com). Backbone makes software that helps consumer goods companies manage complex design and product development processes. The Company recently raised raised $8 million of Series A2 venture funding led by Signal Peak Ventures with participation from Grotech Ventures, Spider Capital, Novel TMT Ventures, Beanstalk Ventures, Brainchild Holdings and Peterson Ventures. In this episode, Matthew talks about how to use the "pre-emptive round strategy" to get a deal done quickly, what to focus on in your pitch deck, raising capital from investors who are also customers, the Boulder CO startup scene, and much more.

Produced by Foundersuite.com, "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders who have raised capital. This episode is with Pat Larsen, CEO of ZenLedger.io. ZenLedger makes tax and accounting software for cryptocurrency investors and CPAs. The Company recently raised $1.5 million from Vestigo Ventures and Castle Island Ventures. In this episode, Pat talks about providing "picks and shovels" to the crypto space, building software for a highly dynamic and changing market, lessons he learned from his time as a helicopter mission pilot, taking time to grow into the founder role, tips for military veterans transitioning into the startup world, and more.

Produced by Foundersuite.com, "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders who have raised capital. This episode is with Angela Hood, CEO of ThisWay Global, maker of a platform that uses machine learning and matching algorithms for candidate hiring. In this episode, Angela talks about selling her '67 Mustang to fund her startup, how to hustle at TechCrunch Disrupt, raising capital from the Central Texas Angel Network, leveraging advisors, and more.

Produced by Foundersuite.com, "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders who have raised capital. This episode is with Maria Chatzou, CEO of Lifebit.ai. Lifebit is developing an intelligent genomic platform designed for biodata analysis. The Company went through Techstars then raised GBP 2.25 million of seed funding led by Connect Ventures and Pentech Ventures. Beacon Capital, Tiny VC and London Co-Investment Fund also participated in the round. In this episode, Maria talks about raising venture capital in the UK, the London genomics scene, her "3 phase" approach to fundraising, what it really takes in terms of time commitment and hustle, tips for closing the round and much more.

Produced by Foundersuite.com, "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders who have raised capital. This episode is with Rand Fishkin, CEO of SparkToro. SparkToro raised $1,299,500 from 35 individual, accredited investors. Previously, Rand ran Moz, which raised $29.1 million across multiple rounds. In this episode, Rand talks about the binary nature of the venture capital model, his search for alternative funding structures, raising a party round from numerous angels, preserving optionality, why "unsexy" markets are appealing to him, and much more. Please be sure to also check out his blog post which includes open-source investment docs: https://sparktoro.com/blog/raised-a-very-unusual-round-of-funding-were-open-sourcing-our-docs/ ...and his new book called "Lost & Founder": https://sparktoro.com/book