Venture capital is how Facebook, Google, Amazon and most category defining technology companies got off the ground as startups. But raising money as an entrepreneur can seem like an intimidating, opaque, and unfair process. I explain the process of raising venture capital from the inside as a Silicon Valley VC investor.
0:00 Intro
1:19 When should you Raise Venture Capital?
4:09 Creating your Pitch Deck
5:57 Finding and Meeting Investors
7:51 Running your Fundraising Process with Investors
10:24 Negotiating your Term Sheet / Deal
11:18 Picking an Investor / Closing
Process for raising venture capital funding includes:
1.Create a pitch deck. Templates:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/yvpgix1v2ykdu2g/Nextview_startup_pitch_deck_template.pptx?dl=0
2.Make a target list of venture investors and get intros. Research tools:
https://www.crunchbase.com/
https://signal.nfx.com/
3.Manage your fundraising process. Template:
https://www.airtable.com/templates/entrepreneurship/expQrNqXl4bUBrb8B/fundraising-crm
4.Negotiating a deal – stay tuned for another video on this topic!
5.Picking an investor – stay tuned for another video on this topic!
See my video on fundraising terms in SAFEs, convertible notes, priced round term sheets: https://youtu.be/-jIn0PyR1R0
See my video on how to pitch in much more detail, along with an example pitch from YouTube’s first fundraising deck:
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