Venture Capital
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How to raise a funding round in 2027?
A guide for tech startup founders: from defining what the round will fund to building an investor pipeline and turning meetings into capital.
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What is a seed round?
In a hypothetical example, a $1 million investment at a $4 million pre-money valuation means giving up 20% of the company. Understanding a seed round also requires looking at rights, instruments, and runway.
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What do the best startup pitch decks have in common?
What makes an investor want to be part of your story? We analyzed 110 slides across four startup pitch decks to see how Kalshi, Daytona, ElevenLabs, and Perplexity make the opportunity tangible, show why their team can win, and give investors a reason to act now.
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What does Y Combinator want to fund today?: The Request for Startups W27, with its bull case and its bear case
Y Combinator published 11 requests for its Winter 2027 batch, and only one mentions agents. We analyzed each one with data for and against: from 128-week waits for a transformer to the 2027 Medicaid renewals.
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Productized services: Past or future?
Y Combinator and Sequoia say a services firm that sells finished work at a fixed price could have software-like margins. We examine what a productized service is and isn’t, which pricing model wins with AI, and why the evidence supports a more modest version of the thesis.
