<aside> 🛠 We’re Slava Solonitsyn and Alexander Nevedovsky, experienced founders who have been where you are (and further), and we want to give back with the “from founders for founders” approach to sharing how to successfully fundraise at the Institutional Seed/Series A stage 🚀

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<aside> 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 We do this by hosting 1-month fundraising bootcamps. 2nd bootcamp cohort starts on the 5th of May and there are only a few spots left.

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<aside> 🖱️ Click here to apply: Read/watched everything and want to apply? Here are the details

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What the bootcamp is about

Most founders don't really understand what fundraising is. They are driven by leads — running towards them when they come, a classic example of sequential/random fundraising, where there is virtually no system.

If you’re raising for 6 months — you're already a spoiled product, stale fruit 🍎

The right way to approach this is to build a process around fundraising: maximally concentrated in time, with lots of warm leads, activated at the right moment ⏱️

If you have good traction/metrics and use this process, you're almost guaranteed to close the round. Investors are sitting on piles of money and they need to invest in something not to have their asses kicked by LPs. There’s always 1% of startups that consistently raise and your goal is to get to this 1% (outcompeting other less experienced founders) 💰🌟

2024 is all about even more prep work in order to understand who’s active, and how’s bluffing (wasting your time). We’re going to share how to NOT do the prep and what/who you should avoid.

With the bootcamp, we provide you with a deep dive into YC style best fundraising practices and give you a supportive environment to go and raise, period:

1. Share the “off the record” ins and outs of parallel fundraising playbook with real-life examples/stories we’re never going to share anywhere else publicly
2. Help you understand your momentum and fundraising timeline not to make the wrong (too early/too late) decision
3. Provide you with an accountability group of peer founders (your first taskforce members if you don’t have any yet!)
4. Help you to refine your story/narrative and pitch materials to meet the expectation of top VCs
5. Share with you our exclusive FundraisingHackers.com workspace with tons of useful content: from investor databases to guides, tools, templates and much more

We have already ran bootcamp cohorts like this one 5 times over the last year or so! 4 have been pre-seed and 1 have been seed+. Over 14 companies have participated in our latest “Seed+ bootcamp” including YC alums, exited founders, deeptech founders and more. Many of them have went on to successfully raise.

What the bootcamp is NOT about

• It’s not a course. We provide the basics of our playbook for free for anyone to follow. During our bootcamp workshops, we dive into the nitty-gritty and share things we would never be able to share publicly otherwise. The bootcamp is meant to boost your fundraising — and it’s usually worth a lot to our kind of founders.
• We don’t fundraise for you. Most of “fundraise helpers” are a scam. No one likes them. Do yourself a favor and learn how to properly fundraise. Yourself. It’s not an outsource job.
• It’s not meant for passive participation. We expect you to be actively prepping for fundraising and that requires significant time commitment — to our workshops, to homework and to other cohort members.

Meet the instructors