Venture Capital

How Behind Genius Ventures Drives Community-led Investing for the Next Generation of Founders

We are distribution-focused, which means we help the founders we partner with on developing strategies and experiments around building community and content. Here's how we raised $1.625M for our first fund, Behind Genius Ventures.

May 27, 2021

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Startup Resources

How to Create an Investor Strategy for Your Pre-Seed Fundraise

VCs who invest in your pre-seed round will be with you for the life of your business, so pick people you like. Here's what our data says about creating a pre-seed investor strategy.

May 20, 2021

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Founder Advice

How Ryan Holmes is Helping People Go from Idea to Startup

People use different mediums to test their ideas or early stage products from Kickstarter to Product Hunt - but what about pre-company? Here's how and why Ryan Holmes is helping new ideas grow.

May 13, 2021

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Product Insight

Data Rooms for Investors: Everything You Need to Know

Founder Advice

How the best startups are fundraising in 2019

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Venture Capital

How to See More High Quality Deal Flow as a VC

As a VC, you know that getting a high-quality deal flow isn’t always a walk in the park. The newly-launched DocSend Deal Flow Newsletter is here to make it a bit easier.

May 12, 2021

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Startup Resources

Q1 Startup Fundraising Trends from the DocSend Fundraising Network

We've reviewed more than 2,000 Pre-seed, Seed and Series A pitch decks through the DocSend Fundraising Network. Read about some of the fundraising trends we've seen and how we plan to grow our network even further.

May 4, 2021

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Startup Resources

How To Structure A Pre-Seed Pitch Deck: Beyond The “Minimum Viable PowerPoint”

If you’re going to raise a pre-seed round, you need a good deck. The purpose of the pitch deck is to get you meetings with potential investors. Here's our research on what to include in your pitch deck, how VCs read it, and what it takes to raise.

April 29, 2021

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Founder Advice

Nailing the Narrative: How The Founders of Swell Learned to Tell Their Story and Raise Their Seed Round

Even though Swell had introductions or inbound contacts with many firms from the beginning, their pitching strategy ended up being a bit counterintuitive. Here's how they crafted a narrative and landed their lead investor.

April 23, 2021

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Startup Resources

The Odds of Raising a Pre-Seed Round: Factors That Can Affect Your Raise

Factors like team gender mix and geography can affect startup fundraising at the Pre-Seed stage. Russ Heddleston, CEO of DocSend, shares thoughts on recent fundraising trends and offers advice to Pre-Seed founders.

April 17, 2021

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Founder Advice

A Perfect Proposal: How Rock Paper Coin Raised $1.625M After the Wedding Industry Came to a Halt

The pandemic won’t last forever, and weddings are poised to come roaring back, so we spent extra time on our deck to assure potential investors that the rebound is much sooner and more profitable than they thought.

April 1, 2021

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