Dropbox is announcing Dropbox for Startups, a program designed to empower founders with the tools they need to accomplish more with less.

In this blog, we explain what SAFE notes are, when (and why!) you should use them, and where to blend them into an end-to-end fundraising process using DocSend.

Every founder is bound to be turned down by multiple people, but that doesn’t mean their ideas aren’t great.

As pre-seed and seed rounds become increasingly competitive, busy VCs have even less time to look at every pitch deck sent their way. This means founders are under the gun to build engaging decks that quickly command attention from investors amid noisy, crowded markets.

While female and minority founders are getting more attention from VCs, they still don’t raise nearly as much as all-white male teams nor are they treated with the same scrutiny.

The fundraising blockers black female founders experience today are the same prejudices we’ve dealt with our whole lives. Most VCs assume we aren’t as intelligent as they are, or that we’re an investment risk.

Despite averaging 57 percent more investor meetings than their peers, black female founders raised less money than any other demographic in 2021—the only teams not to break the $1M mark in funding averages.

Pre-seed founders have to show a competitive edge. We dismantle the science behind building a successful pre-seed pitch deck and the make-or-break sections that go inside.