This week's Startup Index Newsletter highlights data from our new report "DocSend Startup Index: The High Stakes and Hard Work of the Seed Round".

Building a startup is hard, but it's even harder for underrepresented founders. Here are two stories, three resources, and our PDI metrics update.

Q&A with Caitlin Bolnick and Sheel Mohnot on the current investing climate, how to build trust with VCs, and examples of good Zoom pitches.

The second data report in our series highlights possible VC bias in how they view pitch decks depending on the gender of the founding team.

The first in a series of reports highlighting how key factors such as gender, diversity or geography can affect a team's fundraise.

Identifying at-risk clients is more important now than ever before, but doing this effectively isn't always that easy. Luckily, we can help.

This week, we released quarterly data based on the Pitch Deck Interest metrics that show venture capital investor interest and engagement in startup pitch decks were up 26% in the second quarter of 2020, compared to 2019.

Our Q&A with Sam Levan of MadKudu and how the fundraising marketplace is settling for the summer based on our key Pitch Deck Interest metrics.