A Checklist for My Friend Fundraising For A Seed Round

Parul Singh
The Startup
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7 min readAug 8, 2019

VCs invest in less than 1% of the companies they meet. Here’s how to beat the odds.

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I originally wrote this list as a checklist for a friend who is raising her first seed round. Fundraising is not easy, and I don’t want to give the impression the process can be gamed. But the fundraising process is also very constrained — the speed dating version of relationship building…

Parul Singh
The Startup

forever founder, early stage VC @initialized. lover of startups, UX+ product management