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Raising Funding

  • Raising Funding
  • 8 min read

How to Raise VC Funding: 6 Key Strategies

Dipanwita Das, CEO and co-founder of Sorcero shares 6 key strategies for successfully navigating the hurdles of fundraising as a founder.

By Dipanwita Das, CEO and Co-Founder, Sorcero

  • Entrepreneurs
  • 5 min read

How To Conduct A Security Risk Analysis When Raising Capital For Your Business

Kiara Taylor, Finance and Technology Expert

  • Entrepreneurs
  • 6 min read

A Tech Entrepreneur’s Guide To Funding In A Boom

By Heriberto Diarte, Founder and Managing Partner, SE Ventures

  • Entrepreneurs
  • 5 min read

5 Signs Of Progress For Women Raising VC Funding

Doreen Bloch, CEO of Lucky Analytics and ELLEMENT

Stay up to date with recent funding rounds, acquisitions, and more with the Crunchbase Daily.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • 4 min read

4 Things Entrepreneurs Must Know In Today’s Environment

When the pandemic first halted travel and in-person meetings, many speculated how the venture capital industry would respond. While deals have been historically tied to face-to-face meetings, the industry quickly...

David Cheng, Principal at DCM

  • Investors
  • 5 min read

What You Need To Know About Negotiating A Venture Term Sheet

For any founder, whether a first-timer or a serial entrepreneur, it’s an exciting moment when you receive a term sheet from a venture capital fund for your company’s first preferred stock financing round.

Tim Poydenis, Partner in Goodwin’s Technology Companies Group

  • Entrepreneurs
  • 9 min read

SPACs 101 FAQ: A Primer On Today’s Hottest Exit Strategy

SPACs, shorthand for special purpose acquisition companies, have become this year’s most popular alternative option.

Nicolas Dumont, David Michaels, James Evans and Scott Behar

  • Raising Funding
  • 5 min read

Raising Funding Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

This unfamiliar landscape is paving the way for new opportunities to bridge emerging market gaps and serve as a catalyst for digital transformation at an unprecedented scale.

John Berkowitz, co-founder and CEO of OJO Labs

  • Raising Funding
  • 4 min read

How to Have Meaningful Investor Conversations During a Pandemic

Any entrepreneur can tell you that the process of pitching your startup to VC firms in order to land funding can be an overwhelming and intimidating process.

Zeb Evans, Founder & CEO of ClickUp

Stay up to date with recent funding rounds, acquisitions, and more with the Crunchbase Daily.

  • Raising Funding
  • 6 min read

Building a Zone of Trust Between Founder and Founding Investor

As we approach an election where we are being asked to vote on which leader we can trust more, I am struck by how trust is a key ingredient for success between a founder and an investor.

Navin Chaddha, Managing Director at Mayfield

  • Female Founders
  • 9 min read

Female Founded & Funded: A Conversation with Fuel Capital and Autumn Adeigbo

The Crunchbase “Female Founder Series,” is a series of stories, Q&As, and thought-leadership pieces from glass-ceiling-smashers who overcame the odds, raised funding, and are now leading successful companies. Every entrepreneur...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

  • Diversity
  • 3 min read

Crunchbase Data at Core of Inclusion Impact Index

Steve built your phone. Mark connects your friends. Larry runs your searches. Reed streams your shows. Jeff sells you everything. Jack lets you complain about it (and pay for coffee)....

Dr. Vivienne Ming, Founder of Socos Labs

  • Entrepreneurs
  • 5 min read

HealthTech for Pets: How Tara Zedayko is Blazing a Healthy New Trail for Four-Legged Friends

The Crunchbase “Female Founder Series,” is a series of stories, Q&As, and thought-leadership pieces from glass-ceiling-smashers who overcame the odds, raised funding, and are now leading successful companies. Tara and...

Dreamers & Doers, A Private Collective for Entrepreneurial Womxn

  • Entrepreneurs
  • 7 min read

Leveraging the Power of Content: How Kirsten Baumberger Helps Companies Tell Stories at Scale

Kirsten Baumberger, Founder and Director of Partnerships at minisocial.io, helps international brands tell their stories through scalable user generated content (UGC).  Growing up in a family of entrepreneurs, Kristen was...

Dreamers & Doers, A Private Collective for Entrepreneurial Womxn

  • Entrepreneurs
  • 4 min read

The Art of a Cold Email to a Venture Capitalist

Though the success rate on cold emails is low, it's not impossible to land a meeting with your target venture capitalist. Here's how.

Aaron Block, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of MetaProp

  • Entrepreneurs
  • 6 min read

The Little Engine That Will: How Bahiyah Yasmeen Robinson is Championing Diversity in VC Funding

Bahiyah Yasmeen Robinson, CEO of VC Include, is building the infrastructure for diversity in venture capital funding from the ground up. After seeing firsthand the difficulty of raising capital as...

Dreamers & Doers, A Private Collective for Entrepreneurial Womxn

  • Entrepreneurs
  • 2 min read

How to Tell Your Story to an Investor

A few weeks ago Jasmin Johnson, one of only a few Black female investors, tweeted:   As I read it, it resonated strongly. Storytelling is hard and, for many entrepreneurs,...

Keith Teare, U.S. Managing Partner at Accelerated Digital Ventures 

  • Entrepreneurs
  • 6 min read

Claroty Co-Founder Galina Antova: Challenging the Status Quo in B2B Tech

Following the release of our recent report, A Decade in Review: Funding to the Female Founders, Crunchbase is highlighting female founders who are paving the way for the next generation of...

Galina Antova, Co-founder and Chief Business Development Officer at Claroty

  • Entrepreneurs
  • 5 min read

Making an Impact During COVID-19: 3 Tips to Bring Investors on Board With Your Brand’s Big Mission

While the long term effects on startups from the COVID-19 pandemic is still to be seen, recent reports predict companies seeking seed-stage funding are likely to be hit hardest. Q1...

By Bryan Janeczko, Founder of Grō Academy

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