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Inside Startup Funding is a multi-format podcast, content platform, & community— sponsored by Bamboo X and hosted by Fundraising Expert Helena Fogarty —designed to demystify how startup capital really moves, from the first check to the pressures of scale.
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A VC Explains Why Female Founders Get Under 2% of Funding | Nasim Sayani (opens the original)
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If you've ever walked out of an investor meeting that felt great and then never heard back, this one is for you. Nasim Sayani has been on both sides of the table — Booz, BCG, a product studio that became a venture incubator, then Emmeline Ventures in 2021 and a hand in launching four funds since. Today she runs the Innovator Circle at WHAM, coordinating the early-stage women's health ecosystem, and hosts The Capital Flex. She walks through the three things she looks for in a founder, how she fil
40% of VC Money Went Into 8 Companies. Here's What That Means for You | Jake Yormak & Samir Bakhru (opens the original)
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For our first-ever live taping of Inside Startup Funding: Unfiltered, I sat down in front of a room of founders with two people who see the funding market from opposite sides of the table — and got the version of the AI story that doesn't make it online. Not the headlines. The version happening inside pitch meetings, term sheet negotiations, and board decisions right now. If you are planning a seed or Series A in the next eighteen months, this conversation will change what you think a fundable c
Why 95% of Founders Fail | Mike Chan, Deep Ventures (opens the original)
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What does an early-stage investor actually need to see before writing a check? Mike Chan, Managing Partner at Deep Ventures, joins Helena Fogarty to break down how he evaluates startups at the earliest stages, including companies that are still pre-product and pre-revenue. Mike explains why founders still need to show proof of demand, how he evaluates founder-market fit and distribution, and why saying you'll start executing once the funding arrives is a major red flag. They also unpack how Deep
Clair Health: Raising $11.6M to Build a Hormone-Aware Wearable (opens the original)
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Jenny Duan, CEO & Co-Founder of Clair Health, and Abhinav Agarwal, CTO & Co-Founder, join Inside the Round to break down how they went from meeting at Stanford to building a hormone-aware wearable and raising $11.6 million in total funding. Clair Health is developing a wrist-worn device designed to track estrogen, progesterone, LH, and FSH. Jenny and Abhinav explain why they saw a gap in existing women's health technology, how advances in sensors and machine learning made their approach possible
The Fundraising Rules Nobody Teaches with Lucia Mari Sanguino of AIVA Tech (opens the original)
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Having a great company and knowing how to raise money are two different skills. Lucia Mari Sanguino, co-founder and CEO of AIVA TECH, joins Inside Startup Funding to break down the strategy behind her $1.5 million pre-seed raise. Lucia shares how she and her co-founder condensed investor meetings to create urgency, built warm introductions through other founders, refined their pitch from investor objections, and divided responsibilities so fundraising did not stop the company from building. She
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