Attracting technical co-founders early on, raising from a corporate VC and how technical founders influence the fundraising - by Ahmad Abdulkader.

In this episode by Fundraising Radio, our guest speaker is Ahmad Abdulkader, the CTO and co-founder of Voicea that raised about $20 million and was recently acquired by Cisco. Ahmad tells about the role of technical people in the fundraising process, explains how to attract talent early on and how even a bad pitch can lead to an acquisition. Articles by Ahmad: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HZxrGFIAAAAJ&hl=en Article on how Voicea raised $14.5 mil: https://venturebeat.com/2018/03/07/voicera-raises-14-5-million-for-ai-that-draws-insights-from-meeting-notes/ Invest in your host through an IPO: https://humanipo.app/id/konstantin.dubovitskiy