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Produced by Foundersuite.com, makers of the leading software stack for raising capital: Investor CRM + VC/Angel database + Pitch Deck Hosting + Investor Update tools. Used by startups to raise > $2.5 Billion.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Fundraising becomes a sequence of practical choices through Nathan Beckert's detailed conversations with founders, investors and advisers.
How I Raised It keeps fundraising close to the actual work: preparing materials, approaching investors, sharpening a pitch and moving conversations toward a commitment.
That awkward pause after your investor meeting? The data room can be your next move.
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A practical look at Latin American startup and VC dynamics, with a clear focus on regional structure and cross-border growth.
Ep. 315 treats Latin America startup and VC dynamics through a conversation with David Alva of Impacta.VC, a Latin America VC fund and accelerator.
A grounded founder story that shows how detectability moved from a research idea to a product after GPT-4 sharpened the problem.
Max Spero's story stays strongest when it is kept close to the founding arc: a co-founder partnership that started in a Stanford freshman dorm and carried through work at Stanford, Tesla, Google, Neuro, and Abcide before GPT-4 turned detectability into a real business problem.
A grounded look at how a data-led food brand thinks about product discovery and fundraising.
Chas Flexman's story centers on a food company using AI to spot unmet consumer needs and turn them into brands. Most of the episode stays on the practical side: product discovery, how the opportunity was framed for investors, and why the fundraising plan depends on building a…
A close look at grants, investor fundraising, and the slow path to securing capital.
This episode follows Noah Hellman of Industrial Microbes as he talks through the work of funding a fermentation startup built to replace chemicals that usually come from oil.
A candid look at European VC fundraising when the easy money disappears.
How I Raised It moves quickly into the practical side of fundraising: a founder-to-founder conversation about how Auxo Female Catalyst Fund grew from angel investing into a proper VC fund for female-founded startups in Europe, and how much harder fund number two was to raise.
A practical, founder-friendly guide to crowdfunding platforms and raise mechanics.
How I Raised It gives a practical look at crowdfunding, not a broad survey. Woody Neese of Crowdfund Capital Advisors walks through rewards-based, equity-based, and donation-based crowdfunding, then separates Reg CF, Reg D, and Reg A in plain language.
A practical fundraising conversation that keeps the focus on milestones, timing, and whether the numbers still hold up.
Andrew Ackerman treats fundraising like a practical checklist: how much to raise, what milestone the money should buy, how long the path should take, and whether the use of funds actually matches the plan.
A tactical fundraising episode with concrete guidance on prep and investor materials.
Nathan Beckerton and Yorian Hoover keep the focus on fundraising prep, laying out what needs to be ready before a company starts raising. The episode moves in a practical line through investor materials, data room structure, pitch-deck hosting, investor updates, email tools, and…
Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.
Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.
Naval Ravikant on epistemology, startups, and crypto, from David Deutsch to Vitalik Buterin.
Alex Theuma interviews SaaS founders and investors on scaling to $10M-plus ARR.
Guy Raz traces founders' origin stories and fields live advice-line calls from entrepreneurs.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
Sam of Slow Ventures joins How I Raised It.
Danielle Patterson says Family Office List started in 2001 as an Excel spreadsheet and now has about 4,500 curated family offices, with roughly 50 added each month.
Joe Ruscio, a partner at Heavybit, explains why the firm focuses on infrastructure software and developer-first startups that sell products like PagerDuty, CircleCI, Snyk, Netlify, Tailscale, and LocalStack.
How I Raised It sits down with Pablo Shrugo of Mistral.VC for a founder story that takes a hard turn.
Carolyn Winnett, Executive Director of UC Berkeley SkyDeck, explains how a university accelerator runs 4 programs, serves about 250 startups a year, and uses the Berkeley SkyDeck Fund to invest $200,000 for 7.5% equity.
Yoav Oz of HelloRepAI says the company built an AI sales chatbot with more than 500 behavioral data points and about 92% accuracy at detecting when a shopper is about to leave.
Mark Phillips, founder of Eleven Tribes Venture Fund in Chicago, says his first startup, Diasense, was a hardware device for type 1 diabetics that got leapfrogged by better technology and then failed to raise enough capital.
Nisha Dua says BBG Ventures backs “underestimated founders” and founders building a “polycultural future of America,” with early-stage bets in pre-seed and seed across health, work, wealth, climate, and consumer.
Jed Ng says AngelSchool.vc is an accelerator for angel investors, not founders, and he frames the job as learning venture through “skills acquisition” and repeated reps.
Laura Epstein founded Pulse Charter Connect, a healthcare logistics platform in Chicago that moves hearts, livers, kidneys, and surgical teams by air.
Nathan introduces David of Impacta.VC.
Rando Rannus says Sienna Secondary Fund is a VC direct secondary fund that buys shares from founders, employees, and early investors in late-stage scale-ups from the Nordics and Central Eastern Europe.
Marlon starts with constraints, not mythology.
Kiran Kalia talks pitch craft.
Noah Hellman of Industrial Microbes walks through the fundraising path for a fermentation company.
Nathan Beckerton talks with Matt Burris of Venture Studio Associates about venture studios and how they work.
Nathan Beckert talks with Chas Flexman about how Starday Foods raised an $11 million Series A.
Nathan Beckerton welcomes Yorian Hoover for a practical talk about fundraising prep.
Nathan Beckert talks with Woody Neese of Crowdfund Capital Advisors about how founders raise money through crowdfunding.
Nathan Beckert talks with Naveen Verma of nCharge AI about building chips for very energy-efficient AI inference.
Renata Quintini joins Nathan Beckert to unpack how Renegade Partners backs startups right after product-market fit and helps them scale quickly.
Max Spero traces the path from a Stanford freshman dorm to Pangram.
Nathan Beckert sits down with Andrew Ackerman for a conversation about raising capital.
Nathan Beckert opens by asking how family offices are actually found.
Stacey Havener of Havener Capital tells Nathan Beckert that she has raised $8 billion for “firms who on paper shouldn’t be succeeding,” including startups, emerging managers, and boutiques.
Nick Talreja says Sidecar was built to remove the pain points around forming SPVs, opening bank accounts, handling tax advisors, and launching early venture funds.
Stephen Schenk says Stapelstein began in 2015 from product-design studies in Germany and a concern that about 90% of children age six and up are not moving enough to meet World Health Organization guidance.
Lloyd Danzig of Sharp Alpha VC discusses raising his second venture fund, focusing on competitive entertainment investments in sports, gaming, and betting.
Courtney McCrea of Recast Capital discusses her fund of funds that invests in emerging, diverse venture capital managers.