Factors like team gender mix and geography can affect startup fundraising at the Pre-Seed stage. Russ Heddleston, CEO of DocSend, shares thoughts on recent fundraising trends and offers advice to Pre-Seed founders.

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I believe that capital will continue to flow, but the direction that flow takes is still uncertain. As many founders and angel investors know, there are exciting opportunities at the early stages without adequate capital allocators.

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.