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($38M raised; a16z) Convey Founder, Rohan Chopra: What Happens When AI Stops Helping Employees and Starts Becoming the Employee? (A16z, Khosla Ventures, Pear VC invested)

($23M raised) Namespace Founder, Hugo Santos: #1 Startup Insight – Why Trust and Network Are the Real Infrastructure for Product-Market Fit and Fundraising Success (Backed by NEA & Susa Ventures)

$100M Security Problems: 4 AI Cybersecurity Startups Pitch Tonic AI CSO Robert Lowry (

($70M+ raised) DOSS Founder, Wiley Jones: How to actually build an AI native company (don't miss this one)

($22M Raised) Sequoia India & Naval Ravikant-Backed TrueFoundry Founder Nikunj Bajaj: Balancing Short-Term Execution with Long-Term Vision

($22.5M raised) Koah Labs Founder, Mike Choi: Internal Squad Operating System, Why End User Experience is the North Star for AI Ad Networks

($650M+ raised) Temporal Founder, Samar Abbas: #1 Startup Insight – Give the Problem a Name Before You Solve It (Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, Index Ventures, Sequoia invested).

($30M raised) Kintsugi Founder, Jeff Gibson: Building “Boring” Fintech for Global Tax Compliance—Why Trust and Customer Support Win in Massive, Overlooked Markets

($5M+ raised) Lava's Founder, Mitchell Jones: #1 Startup Insight – The Power of Iteration, Tracking Micro Signals, and Staying True to Your ICP

(YC W25) FuseAI's Founder, Saurav Bubber: How to deliver a 10x improvement in of the most crowded markets

($105M+ raised) Rocketlane Founder, Srikrishnan Ganesan: #1 Startup Insight – How Relentless Prospect Interviews and a Unique Go-to-Market Unlocked PMF

($300M raised) Nile Founder, Pankaj Patel: #1 Startup Insight – Simplicity is Innovation: How Disrupting Enterprise Networking Might Mean Unlearning Decades of Complexity

Forum Ventures Managing Partner, Jonah Midanik: #1 Startup Insight – Why Fundraising Is a Game, Valuations Are Made Up, and Seeing Past the Pitch to Find Venture-Scale Outcomes

($150M raised) Sendoso Founder, Kris Rudeegraap: #1 Startup Insight – Don’t Let Early Pricing Give You False Product-Market Fit

($20M raised) Quanta Founder, Helen Hastings: #1 Startup Insight – Your Scariest Customers Are Actually the Best Ones

($110M raised) Augment Founder, Harish Abbott: #1 Startup Advice - Are You A Better Seeker of Truth Than Your Competitors?

($70M raised) Craft Founder, Ilya Levtov: Pivot Decision, Top Funding Insights, and Journey to PMF

(YC S21) Baubap Founder, Roberto Salcedo: Gratitude As A Growth Strategy, Insights Raising $100M+

($20M+ Raised) UneeQ Digital Humans Founder, Danny Tomsett: Enjoying The Journey, Two Phases of Fundraising & Making A Massive Pivot

($2.4B AUM) Amplify Partners Founder, Sunil Dhaliwal: Difference Between Investments & Passing, Startup Investing In 10 Years

Sequoia Led $75M Series B, Serval's Founder, Jake Stauch, Shares His Journey to PMF & Raising $127M

(YC S25) Phases’s Founder, James Wall: IRL, Donuts & A Rental Car To Hit PMF?

($80M raised) Spellbook Founder, Scott Stevenson: 30k Waitlist Signups in 3 Months & The True Discipline of PMF

($70M+ Raised) Merge Founder, Gil Feig: Nailing Customer Discovery Interview To Hit PMF Faster

($25M raised) Indomo Founder, Rick Bente: Estimating Value Milestones, Raising $25M, and more

(Silicon Valley Investor) Platform Venture Studio's Founder, Jeremy Burton: Why Now Is The Time To Build A Marketplace Startup

(YC W22) Cotera Founder, Tom Firth: Getting Into YC & Hitting PMF

Building A Unicorn: Chargebee's Co-Founder, Krish Subramanian & CMO, Guy Marion (formerly Brightback Founder, sold to Chargebee): hitting PMF, idea to 1st dollar & decision to exit

Amazon Invested In Glacier; This Is Their Founder's Story, Rebecca Hu-Thrams

(2000+ investments) Dave Lambert, Managing Director at RSCM, Shares Traits of Successful Founders

($100M raised) RetailNext Founder, Alexei Agratchev: Earned Insights From 18-Years (funding, growth, & scaling)

(YC S21) $10M ARR, Storylane Founder, Nalin Senthamil: PMF Unlock - Are Prospects Interrupting You?

(YC S23) Gleam Founder, Oliver Keh: Investigative Journalist Approach To PMF

(YC W21) Sold to Dropbox, Promoted.ai's Founder, Andrew Yates: GTM Lessons Learned & Deciding What To Build

Roo Capital's Founder, Nate DaPore: Most VCs Are Like Seagulls, Is This The Future of Platform?

(YC F25) Denied 6x By YC: Hyperspell's Founder, Conor Brennan-Burke: Your Startup Is Not About You

a16z Partner Interview, Seema Amble: 3 things she looks for in early-stage startups, how to get a meeting with her, & more

($70M+ Raised) Future Family Founder, Claire Tomkins: Surprising Key To Fundraising, Journey To PMF

($55M Raised) Benchmark & Mayfield Invested; Sema4.ai's Founder, Ram Venkatesh: Getting Early Conviction, Hitting PMF & Raising $55M

a16z Invested; $55M Raised, CYGNVS' Founder, Arvind Parthasarathi, why you must first define PMF & how to raise from top VC

YC Founder & Thiel Fellow; Arist's Founder, Michael loffe: selling to enterprises, PMF, & articulating $100M to VCs

$13B VC; Promod Haque, Former Managing Partner at Norwest; Learning From 35 Years of Investing

VCs Don't Know The Future; $55M Raised, Radical.ai's Founder, Joseph Krause Shares His Story

[Pitch] ex Lightspeed VC & Founder of Meshly.ai: Mercedes Bent & Sandra Bustos Real VC Pitch

$30M Seed; Largest Seed In YC History? (YC S24) Wordware's, Founder, Robert Chandler, Journey To PMF & Getting Funded

(YC W25) How To Nail Your YC (or any VC) Interview; Nitrode's Founder, Ben Kim

Nailing PG's 10% WoW Goal, Getting Accepted to YC; David Head, Founder of Endorsed.ai

Real Pitch of a $2B VC, Cybersecurity Founder, Ajay Gulati & Sierra Ventures's Partner Vignesh Ravikumar

a16z Invested; $231M Raised Sub 2-years; Decagon's Founder, Jesse Zhang & Amex Ventures's Managing Director, Kevin Weber; Building & Funding Unicorns

YC S24 -Accepted After 3:00am Interview, Hitting PMF Via Onboarding Research?

Accepted to YC, no product, website, or co-founder: Coval's CEO, Brooke Hopkins; PMF & funding journey

a16z & Sequoia Invested in Rillet; Nic's Journey to PMF & Closing $100M+ In Funding

[$50M+ Raised] From 4 Weeks To Shutdown To Round Closed; Metadata's Funding & Growth Story

Stanford Dropout Raises $42M; Teddy Solomon, Founder of Fizz

[VC Pitch] YC Founder Pitches NEA ($25B AUM) Partner in San Francisco

Uber's Former Head of AI; Now Founder of Proshort; PMF Journey & Landing First Customer

[$200M VC] How To Cold Email A VC, Importance of Founder Evangelism; Urban Innovation Fund's Julie Lein

Harvard Dropout Builds Fastest Fintech App To Hit 1M Downloads, Raises $47M; Steven Wang, Co-Founder of dub

MasterClass's Pre-Revenue Investor, Alex Gurevich, Managing Director, Javelin Ventures; Top Changes In Early Stage Investing, Investment Decisions, etc

[Stealth Founder] $7.5M Round, Blok's Co-Founder, Tom Charman; First Customers, Closing Round, & Moving to San Francisco

[Real VC Pitch] $5B Lux Capital Partner, Shaq vs. ex Google/Apple Engineer, Founder Hoa

0-600 Customers: How Dan Bladen, Hit PMF After A Massive Pivot - and Landed Intel & Porsche

(YC W21) Indian Startup Denied 3x by YC, Accepted 4th; Sarthak Goel, Founder of Invoid

Small Town Founder, Got Into YC Without Pedigree; Joseph Johnson, CEO, LedgerUp

[$25M Raised] Getting Into YC, Top Fundraising Learnings & Hitting PMF, Matthew Watts, Co-Founder, Lendflow

From Rejection to $2.5B GMV: The Product-Market Fit Playbook

[$4B VC] Greycroft's Partner, Mark Terbeek, Behind the Curtain - intros, top sectors, etc

How Rinse Raised $70M: The Fundraising Lesson Every Founder Needs

(YC S24) How Offstream Got Into YC With Screenshots, a Deck, and Low Traction — Varsha’s Blueprint for Founders

[$370M Exit] Neubird's Founder, Gotham Rao; selecting your next startup idea

[$70M raised] LucidLink's Founder; near shutdown to $50M ARR - PMF journey & closing your first round

[VC Pitch] Hustle Fund's GP, Eric Bahn & Feather Robotics's CEO, Hoa Mai

The Funding Framework, ex 500 Global, Vijay Rajendran - unique steps used by successful founders to get funded

[VC Pitch] Eventbrite's Founder (now VC at A*) reviews a pitch: Peter Fitzpatrick, Founder of Fawn

[VC Pitch] Foundation Capital's ($6B AUM), Partner Sid Trivedi <> Cofactory's, Founder Josiah Spartz

450 early stage investments; Founder & GP; Michael Cardamone

[$300M AUM] Navy SEAL & Olympian to Harpoon Ventures, Founder & GP; Larsen Jensen's Story

[$70M raised] Productiv's funding & product-market-fit journey

Immigrant founder to $10M+ raised; Oana Manolache, Founder of Sequel.io

[$13M Raised] YC Space Tech startup, how they got funded; AstroForge's Founder, Matt Gialich

What VCs expect during a pitch: Emil Capital's Managing Partner, Marcel Bens

[$23M Raised] Getting into YC (no website) & how they hit product-market fit; CommandBar's Founder, James Evans

8 Unicorns (Deel & Miro); Altair Capital's, Igor Ryabenkiy shares what he looks for when investing

[Exit to Salesforce] Troops's Founder, Dan Reich: How to fundraise without a product or customers

Exits to SAP & Medallia: Shreesha Ramdas, Founder of Lumber, why founder-market-fit is overrated & how to select the right industry

[1,500 startups reviewed] Zamir Shukho, GP at Vibranium VC; founder motivation & customer discovery pitfalls

Former a16z Partner, Rex Salisbury, now GP at Cambrian; Speed of execution & career highs and lows

Navigating Fundraising Challenges: Insights from Whizz's Co-founder Mike Peregudov, Post $1.5M Seed Extension

[$75M* Raised] Solve for: VC engagement; Matt Martin, Founder of Clockwise

[$5M Raised] Power Through Funding Doubt: Black Founder Success, Devo Harris, Founder of Adventr

MARL Accelerator's GP: Integrity, Due Diligence, and Early-Stage Investing

1# Correlation to Startup Success: $340M AUM, Clear Ventures's GP, Rajeev Madhavan (2x founder)

[$9.9M Raised] Do you have a moat? Answering VC's, funding 101: David Fink, CEO Postie

[$29M raised] Getting Sequoia to Invest In Your Seed; Brian, CEO of Doppler

Inside the Mind of a Solo Capitalist; Itamar Novick, Managing Partner of Recursive Ventures

Investor in Gusto & Robinhood; Chamaeleon's Managing Partner, Nuno G. Pedro; how VCs evaluate founders, DD process unpacked, and pitching without slides

Founder Market Fit - what are investors actually looking for? VC, Emma Silverman, from TMV shares her perspective

Sequoia & Kleiner invested pre-product; Shane Curran, Founder of Evervault shares what he did

[$0-IPO] Braze's Founder, Mark Ghermezian; now running m]x[v Capital; how to evaluate early stage founders