From pitch deck to product readiness, early-stage founders have to navigate lots of uncertain variables when seeking investor funding. Youri Doeleman, Partner at global VC firm Antler, shares advice on how startup founders can position themselves to succeed on the fundraising trail.

People use different mediums to test their ideas or early stage products from Kickstarter to Product Hunt - but what about pre-company? Here's how and why Ryan Holmes is helping new ideas grow.

Even though Swell had introductions or inbound contacts with many firms from the beginning, their pitching strategy ended up being a bit counterintuitive. Here's how they crafted a narrative and landed their lead investor.

The pandemic won’t last forever, and weddings are poised to come roaring back, so we spent extra time on our deck to assure potential investors that the rebound is much sooner and more profitable than they thought.

It's a good time to see the resilience of founders and their abilities to pivot, weather the storm, or rethink how they’re doing things.

When COVID happened, it blew up our idea because people simply couldn’t meet up in person anymore. However, because I still believed in our mission and vision, We decided to pivot and turn our idea into a video-first community platform.

If it was not for DocSend, we wouldn’t have been able to complete our pre-seed raise in such a small time frame. Using specific links to track document analytics helped us focus our energy on reaching back out to the right investors who were actually interested.

Not only have we seen investors shift their focus toward greater efficiency, but a brighter spotlight has also been shone on the importance of high-quality, compelling pitch decks.