📅 Invite to Capital Networking Virtual Conference

Startups – find your match among 1000+ investors including Family Offices, Angels & VCs, Private Equity, and more at the Capital Networking Virtual Conference on the 24th and 25th of April.

Learn more about the sessions and speakers and register for free here!

📅 FUNDING HACKS: How to build an investor list, get intros, run a process, and close your round faster and easier

Join us Wednesday, April 16th at 9 am PST for our "Funding Hacks" talk led by Foundersuite’s CEO, Nathan Beckord, CFA. You don't want to miss it!

Topics include:

+How to build your ideal investor funnel

+How to get "warm intros" to every investor

+How you can use the "permission email" and investor updates to nurture investor relationships

+How to use a Virtual Data Room to get investors to signal their intent

+How to get momentum and "heat" going for your round, so you can close your round faster and with greater negotiating power

Register here and share this invite with a founder friend (they will thank you later), and bring all your pressing fundraising questions for Nathan!

📅 Fundraising In A Shifting Landscape (IRL event)

​We have been members of Founders Network (Fn) for many years, and this event brings together seasoned investors and ambitious founders for a one-day conf on Thursday, May 8th in San Francisco, California. This event will help attendees navigate the changing tides of fundraising.

Use discount code FRIENDOFNATHAN to get $150 off (open to tech founders and investors only)

Register here!

📚 Useful Reads

• The Ultimate List of 250 Questions VCs Ask Founders: Too many founders walk into investor meetings unprepared for the hard questions that will ultimately decide whether they get funded. The good news? Fundraising is a skill you can master. Practice your answers and crush your raise.

• State of Startup Compensation 2024: Everything you wanted to know about startup employees: hiring, firing, salary, equity, and much more in 34 charts.

• The growth of entrepreneurship is truly global. Here are Africa’s biggest startups based on valuation

• ¿Andas levantando capital? How To Find Funding In Latin America, From A LatAm Startup CEO

👨‍💼👩‍💼 New Investors Coming This Week!

Exciting news, after several months of deep research, our Data Team is uploading nearly 15,000 new investors as we speak.

Ping us if you’d like full details, but it’s a very diverse set, everything from New VC Funds (= fresh capital hungry for deals) to 2k Australian investors, 2.5k Canadian investors, LGBTQ friendly investors, 1.4k Climate Tech, 1.5k Corporate VC… and everything in between. Look for it inside Foundersuite.com later this week.

🎙️ Podcast of the Week - Securing Grant Funding

In this episode, Noah Helman of Industrial Microbes talks about fermentation technology and the science behind metabolic engineering, how he got his initial funding from government grants in Canada, tips and procedures for applying for grants from the DoD, NSF, SBIR and other agencies, lessons learned from his time in Y Combinator, advice for raising an equity round of capital and finding investors who "get it" (meaning science and biology) and much more.

Feedback? What do you want to see more of? Who should Nathan interview next? Email us at info@foundersuite.com

The Foundersuite Team