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Angel Investing Episodes

May 4, 2023

Selling early - 1st episode of the new season of Fundraising Radio!

For our long-standing followers asking if we haven't released any new episodes in the past 8 months because we died - no we haven't, still kicking it! This new season of Fundraising Radio will be still catered to our old …

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June 12, 2022

Hiring fundraising advisors. By Martin Hall, TEN Capital Network

Hall Martin , Founder and CEO at TEN Capital Network that raised over $900 million for its clients, in this episode talks about hiring fundraising advisors who can connect you to the right capital. We spoke about different re...

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May 12, 2022

Building EVERYTHING in-house and raising. By Sharmin Ali

Sharmin Ali , Founder and CEO of Instoried tells her story of helping others write good stories. In this episode we go in-depth into the reasons why Instoried built all their tech in-house from scratch and how they use it …

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April 18, 2022

20 Years in VC, unlocking growth and supporting startups, by Tae Hea …

Tae Hea Nahm , Managing Director and Co-Founder at Storm Ventures in this episode talks about his experience working as an attorney and helping startup founders raise money for their companies, and eventually starting a VC fu...

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April 1, 2022

The story of three pivots and growth management. By Koby Conrad from …

Koby Conrad, Head of Growth at Rupa Health and Founder of Channels of Growth talks about his experience building a company and pivoting 3 times. He also explains what growth management looks like and who should be dealing wit...

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March 8, 2022

Raise through an SPV-syndicated round. What does that mean? Jeremy Ne…

Jeremy Neilson, CEO and Co-Founder of Assure in this episode explains how SPVs work and what they are, how founders can use them to make their rounds easier and what are the expected costs of creating an SPV and syndicating …

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Feb. 5, 2022

How to invest in wine and how Vinovest itself raised money. By Anthon…

Anthony Zhang , Co-founder and CEO at Vinovest talks about how his company helps "regular" people invest in wine - an asset class that was previously only accessible to the wealthy people with free time on their hands. He als...

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Nov. 22, 2021

Charity fundraising and non-profits. By Amy Malin from Trueheart

Amy Malin , Co-Founder at Trueheart talks about how by making simple search requests you give money to non-profits instead of monopolistic corporate giants. We spoke about how fundraising for non-profits looks like and how is...

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Nov. 13, 2021

DocSend - how increasing prices increased conversions. By Russ Heddle…

Russ Heddleston, Co-Founder and CEO talks about the story of DocSend and how the decision to increase their prices led to an increased conversion rate for their customers and how exactly this magic worked. We've also discussed how DocSend became …

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Oct. 16, 2021

You don't want luck-based marketing - Karl Hughes about proper conten…

Karl Hughes, Founder and CEO at Draft.dev talks about content marketing, specifically focused on targeting developers. We discussed some strategies that can be applied and budget for good content marketing along with some use-cases.

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Oct. 6, 2021

2X valuation in 4 months - how and why? Kirk Marple about Unstruk Data

Kirk Marple , Founder and CEO at Unstruk Data talks about their fundraising round and how they doubled their valuation in less than 4 months. We also spoke about some useful techniques that can help founders fundraise. Kirk's...

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Sept. 19, 2021

Gathering feedback to build the company on - the story of Till Financ…

Taylor Burton, Co-Founder of Till Financial talks about the creation and fundraising of it and how they have gathered analyzed and later presented the feedback to the investors. Taylor also touched onto the major problems that they faced while building …

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Sept. 11, 2021

RSUs VS stock options - why do stock options suck so much? Explained …

Casey Fenton , co-founder at the legendary Couchsurfing and currently founder and CEO at Upstock.io talks about what RSUs are and how are they different from standard stock options. We also discussed why exactly Casey hates s...

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Sept. 4, 2021

Selling complex tech to investors and customers - how Daloopa made it…

Thomas Li, Co-Founder and CEO at Daloopa talks about explaining complicated tech in simple terms and selling it to investors and buyers. We also discussed deep tech in greater detail and who are the primary targets for fundraising in these …

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Aug. 22, 2021

Does a Stanford degree help while raising money for your company? By …

Andrew Milich , Co-Founder at Skiff talks about the importance of college education while building a company and raising funding. He also talked about how investors reacted to him as the first time founder and how it affected...

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