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💸 $4M+ of Investor Interest in Less Than Hour

Here's the recording and slide decks of the founders who pitched

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Joel Hansen
July 26, 2024

Happy Friday Friends,

The last couple days have been a doozie — but in the best way possible:

  • Lady Gaga, Celine Dion, Snoop (& some v talented athletes) are chillin’ in Paris this week

  • Legaltech unicorn, Clio, raised $900m

  • USA’s Secret Service had a big boo-boo last weekend

  • The founders from our June event successfully closed their rounds

  • The Wolverine / Deadpool movie finally dropped

  • Living in the city feels like summer camp at night

  • Anddddd most importantly: we helped 4 high signal founders raise over $4M in less than an hour

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Now, onto our goods for the day.

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P.S. Know a good AI founder, sponsor, or investor panellist? We wanna meet them for our next event. Email [email protected] to make an intro 👋

💰Seed Fundraising is Alive and Well

A couple months ago, our team was debating whether or not to host demo days this summer.

  • Techcrunch was writing about how funding levels were down

  • Founder were complaining they could raise $$

  • Europe selfies were on the rise

Fast forward to today: it’s the dead middle of summer and 48 hours ago we saw

  • 800 of you RSVP to a pitch event where

  • 4 founders raised over $4M of investor interest

  • all in less than an hour

If that’s a “slow summer” we can’t wait for what a “normal September looks like.

Oh and if you missed the event and wanna get in on the action, click below to connect with the 4 founders.

The 4 B2B Founders that pitched:

🥁 Next Pitch Event: August 29th

Turns out so many of you liked our B2B event that 100+ of you signed up on the spot to save a seat at our next one.

Well, it makes sense.

Cuz it’s gonna be a great one.

And which investor in the right mind doesn’t hear the word “AI” and immediately hit the “RSVP” button?

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Have an amazing weekend friends.

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