Fundraising

Biotech • Budgeting & Planning

Financial Model Template

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How To Raise Seed Funding Guide

Russ Wilcox Partner at Pillar VC

Featured • Guide • Tech • Fundraising

Can I Negotiate My VC Term Sheet?

Jamie Goldstein Partner at Pillar

Featured • Guide • Fundraising • Term Sheets

Guide: How to Raise a Series A

Russ Wilcox Partner at Pillar VC

Featured • Guide • Fundraising

Developing a Pitch Deck

13 founder questions

Fundraising & Negotiating Term Sheets

34 founder questions

How to Raise Seed Funding

21 founder questions

How VC Firms Work

9 founder questions

Investor Outreach

12 founder questions

Navigating Investor Meetings

29 founder questions

Should Raise Money From VCs?

10 founder questions

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How should I protect my intellectual property when talking to investors?

Sofia Elizondo Co-founder and COO at Brightseed

Biotech • Fundraising

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How should I approach bootstrapping a biotech?

Reshma Shetty Co-founder and COO at Ginkgo Bioworks

Biotech • Fundraising

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How much money should I raise?

Reshma Shetty Co-founder and COO at Ginkgo Bioworks

Biotech • Fundraising

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How should I navigate fundraising as a mom?

Jasmin Hume Founder and CEO at Shiru

Biotech • Fundraising

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Who should I choose to be on my board of directors?

Emily Leproust CEO at Twist Bioscience

Biotech • Advisors & Board of Directors

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What questions should I be prepared to answer in the university licensing process?

Alan Gordon Director of Business Development at Harvard University

Tech • Fundraising

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How can I create an awesome pitch deck?

Andrew Lau CEO at Jellyfish

Tech • Fundraising

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Do VC firms focus on specific stages of funding?

Katie Mulligan Director of Platform at Pillar VC

Parker McKee Senior Associate at Pillar

How long will my relationship with a VC last?

Sarah Hodges Partner at Pillar VC

Do VCs offer resources in addition to capital?

Fundraising • Starting a Company

How do I find VC firms?

Katie Mulligan Director of Platform at Pillar VC

Parker McKee Senior Associate at Pillar

How do I capture an investor's interest with a cold outreach email?

Jamie Goldstein Partner at Pillar

How do the motivations of my investors differ?

Katie Mulligan Director of Platform at Pillar VC

Do VC firms specialize in industries?

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Pipe

Pipe transforms recurring revenue into up-front capital for growth without dilution or restrictive debt.

Saluda Grade

Saluda Grade delivers institutional knowledge and capital resources to the Alternative Lending real estate sector. Our core mission is to identify Regional Private Lenders and create growth through investment and strategic partnerships.

Trinity Capital

High-growth venture capital-backed companies turn to Trinity Capital (Trinity) as a preferred option for venture debt and equipment financing to fuel their growth and extend their runway. Since 2007, Trinity has worked closely with leading venture capital firms and their respective portfolio companies to offer valuable support, enhanced flexibility and competitive venture debt financing solutions to customers with distinctive needs.

GMO Payment Gateway

GMO Payment Gateway is a subsidiary of GMO Internet Group, the largest online payments company in Japan and is publicly traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The US direct lending business was launched in July 2018 and provides debt financing to early stage fintech startups in the US using GMO PG’s corporate balance sheet. They offer multiple approaches to debt financing, including promissory notes, term loans, facility loans, and off balance sheet financing.

Intelispark

InteliSpark, LLC is a hands-on business development consulting firm specializing in securing non-dilutive funding for start-ups through the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR), Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR), and other government research funding programs. We work with start-ups, universities, venture capital firms and economic development programs to match small innovative companies and technologies with funding opportunities. Using our proven track record of creating winning SBIR/STTR proposals, we turn those opportunities into realities.

Biotech • Finance & Accounting

David Ephron

David Ephron helps companies win R&D contracts from federal and state agencies to develop advanced technologies. His proposals have secured over $350M in non-dilutive funding for clients that span a diverse range of industries and technology areas — including solar energy, biofuels, semiconductors, electronics / optoelectronics, biotechnology, software, telecommunications, novel materials, medical diagnostics and therapeutics, and many others. Clients range in size from new startups to Fortune 500 companies. Most engagements evolve into long-term relationships based on trust and success.

Biotech • Finance & Accounting

Jameson and Company

Jameson is an accounting firm that specializes in working with government agencies, such as the NIH-National Institutes of Health, DOD-Department of Defense, DOE-Department of Energy and NSF-National Science Foundation. They can help with making sure you are compliant with Federal Acquisition Regulations for awards like the SBIR/STTR Phase II, BARDA, BAA, R01, U01, IDIQ, and ARPA-E.

Biotech • Finance & Accounting

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Carta

carta.com

Carta was founded in 2012 to help private companies manage their cap table by eliminating spreadsheets and paper certificates. They've since expanded to valuations, compliance, investors services, and tools and services for public companies. See here for one pager.

Expensify

expensify.com

Expensify is a software company that develops an expense management system for personal and business use. It. is super easy to use, and makes expenses less work.

Stripe

stripe.com

Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for online businesses of all sizes.

Quick Books

quickbooks.intuit.com

Accounting software. Connect your bank account to automatically import and categorize transactions. Sync with popular apps and easily snap photos of your receipts to store them with QuickBooks .

Bookkeeping • Budgeting & Planning

Pilot

pilot.com

Pilot offers bookkeeping, tax, and CFO services for growing businesses. Your favorite tools integrate with Pilot so that everything is kept effortlessly up to date, including Stripe, Quickbooks, Square, Shopify, Gusto, Expensify, Bill.com, and others.

Digits

digits.com

Drag & drop reports builder. Generate and send beautiful interactive reports in one click.

Accountants • Budgeting & Planning

Bill.com

bill.com

Bill.com is a provider of cloud-based software that helps automate back-office financial operations.