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Fundraising 101 - How to Present Your Traction

For part two of our Fundraising 101 series, we focus on how to present traction effectively on investor calls. We cover the three main traction stories: We're growing really fast. Our customers love us. We're great at acquiring new customers. And provide tips on how to make them resonate with investors. For more fundraising resources visit pitchdoctor.app/masterclass. Subscribe here or via the Associated Collective Substack.

Fundraising 101: The 4 Stories Investors Want to Hear + How to Talk about Your Product (Associated x Pitchdoctor)

We're bringing you a series on how to ace first meetings. In collaboration with our friends at Pitchdoctor. We cover the four key narratives that investors want to hear as well as how to frame what your product does effectively. Sign up to our Substack - theassociatedcollective.substack.com Check out Pitchdoctor's masterclasses - www.pitchdoctor.app/masterclass

Deeptech x Equity Financing

This is a partner episode to a blog post written on our newly launched Associated, The Collective Substack! Join Associated co-host Danielle as she unpacks a searing question the group has discussed internally for years... are companies from all industries compatible with venture capital financing? The blog post lists out our perceived challenges of being a deeptech company working with alternative capital options and this episode is an interview with a deeptech founder, Barry Bennett. He also happens to be Danielle's father. He is the CEO of Metals & Materials Engineers (MME) and started his company officially in 2001 after spending time running the metallurgy division of an engineering firm, working for government in an engineering capacity and studying at at top engineering schools in London, Jamaica, New York and Georgia. We are excited for you to hear this episode. Let us know what you think on X/Twitter or LinkedIn at Associated_Pod. Links: https://mmelab.com/ https://theassociatedcollective.substack.com/ https://twitter.com/associated_pod?lang=en https://uk.linkedin.com/company/associatedpodcast

Season 9 - Switching it up

We're back! Associated is now Associated, The Collective. A minor detail change, we know, but it means a lot to us. Over the last six months our team has thought deeply about the sustainability of this group and we wanted to ensure that whatever we did next could encapsulate every mode of expression we'd like to showcase. We will now come to you via substack with not just podcasts, but blog posts and much more. All the while, having the same north star: making Venture Capital more accessible.  So without further ado welcome to The Collective !

How to Raise a Venture Fund | Associated Team Synthesis Pt.3

Notice: If you want to get in contact with us you can reach us via email at ⁠⁠associatedpodcast@gmail.com⁠⁠ as well as on ⁠Twitter⁠ (@associated_pod). We are trying to understand our listeners better, so we can make better content. Please consider filling out our listener survey which can be found ⁠here⁠ (https://airtable.com/shraJVvUNv6D7PkDP). Description: For the last episode of our series on ‘How to Raise a Venture Fund’, Danielle, Francesca and Tunde reunite again to discuss their key takeaways from the previous three episodes, where we interview the founding partners of funds with novel strategies and structures. Our interviews with Adrian (Übermorgen), Ian (Syndicate) and Alice (Entrepreneur First) yielded fantastic insights which we got to unpack. Some of the key themes we discussed were: The motivations behind their atypical structures (2 of 3 are structured as companies rather than funds) Raising capital outside mainstream LP circles Earning the right to innovate on structure and strategy simultaneously  We took so many learnings away from each episode and we cannot thank our guests enough for coming on the show!