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Startup Fundraising Playbook — The one-stop-shop for early-stage fundraising research
The Startup Fundraising Playbook bundles fundraising trends, bias, and do’s and don’ts in early-stage fundraising into a guide for founders raising capital from Pre-Seed to Series A. Dig into these insights and research to optimize your process & VC outreach.
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Hey PH friends!
I've raised roughly ~$16m over the last 10 years and two startups. This was only possible because of advice from my peers and mentors. Excited to give back to founders by aggregating DocSend’s 2021 fundraising research into a playbook founders can use to benchmark and optimize their strategy.
With that, we launched The Startup Fundraising Playbook! 🎉
Based on DocSend’s years of fundraising research from pre-seed to Series A, we’ve gathered all of it into a one-stop-shop for startup fundraising. Here’s what it is and why founders should bookmark it to use when fundraising:
🤷♂️ What: The Startup Fundraising Playbook bundles fundraising trends, bias, and do’s and don’ts in early-stage fundraising into a guide for founders raising capital.
🤔 Why: Our research demystifies the startup fundraising process and answers many questions founders have about raising $$.
✅ How: Our research combines survey data (from founders like you) on elements like demographic trends and investor outreach strategies with proprietary data from DocSend’s platform that reveals how founders structure their pitch decks and how investors read them.
Founders use our research as a way to benchmark and develop their fundraising strategy. For each funding stage, founders can learn:
• How many investors to contact
• How many meetings to have
• Which pitch deck slides matter most
• Benchmarks for fundraising timelines
💰 Raising capital now or planning to soon? Dig into the Startup Fundraising Playbook to optimize your process and outreach.
📚 Bookmark our research and use it to benchmark your fundraising strategy.
👉 Get the research here: https://www.docsend.com/index/st...
🚀 Happy fundraising! Leave a comment or reach out on Twitter @rheddleston if you have any questions or feedback
@rheddleston Hi Russ,
Thanks for this research and detailed material. This is very useful, especially from a person who has proven it in practice.
I look forward to news about your successes and wish you good luck.
@tylerhappinin It's been really fun to create as a team with the goal of helping founders. Thanks for your thoughts!
Thanks for this @rheddleston coming from a person who has proven it in practice is sooo valuable!
@rheddleston @carol_leal Hi Carol - great to hear you've gone through this process and find our research valuable. Thanks!
Love how this bundles fundraising trends, bias, and do’s and don’ts in early-stage fundraising into a guide for founders raising capital!
Wow - this is great
@matthew_browne1 have you seen this!
This will be massively useful for us!
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