How We CLOSED OUR PRE-SEED ROUND and raised $1 MILLION (!!) | First-time Startup Founder

Great video. Did you had a working product before searching for investors ?

Hey! I loved your video. I learnt a lot. I am an entrepreneur, can you tell me about how you found your first hires?

So insightful 🙏

how much equity did you guys end up giving out after raising $1M?

How about link the actual podcast next time have me searching for 5 minutes. I ain’t subscribing for that

Its really hard to find an Investor for pre-seed round if you dont have connections, when you say that, I felt that. for real. But yeah, thanks for sharing ideas. Its just you need to move and go somewhere, where investors are there and make a connections if you dont have one.

This is so helpful!

Thank you so much honey, so insightful!

Hey Natalie, How did you do your valuation in order to determine the terms from your side. I am in the Angel round, pre-seed. A valuation would help determine our terms as we have our first offer on the table and have been asked to send a term sheet and valuation

Can you share on how you collected email base and maybe you used any of existing ?

Great story, Natalie! Thanks for sharing! Wishing you all the best with Rella!

Congratulations

Really excited for this video! I’m a startup founder and have gone through the gambit of accelerators. Would love to know how you assessed which investors would be good partners + how you got introductions to them! Excited to listen to the video and podcast

Hey Natalie, I had much fun listening to you, and it was helpful as well. Thank you! We are building a marketplace, and we are in a very early stage. I wonder if you needed a business plan for raising the money or if your pitch deck was enough? I would appreciate for the answer

great vid super informative - Im a data analyst building a roommate matching application to help people find an ideal roommate based on criteria on like whether you enjoy hosting guests or thermostat preferences 👍

im interested in more videos!

Congrats on the huge milestone 🎊

Think a cool follow up to this video would be introducing the team along with the actual pitch you gave to investors.
I can relate to the mental challenges, especially when doubt starts to creep in. Making it this far proves that you have what it takes to come out on top.
Keep your head up, don't let the crown tilt.

Nice to see you progressing with your start up. It's extremely hard to get funding. You should be proud. I hope you can secure a next round of funding too. I'll checkout your pod.

Thanks for the insight Natalie! Going through it right now as a Founder for a SaaS - the rejections are real! But definitely more motivated now with your insights! Merci!

Yes please share how to pitch

This Uber code doesn’t work

Look Natalie I was watching this while goal setting for 2023 and when you got to the fast forward part I thought I clicked the wrong button and my laptop had broke! Love your content as always <3

This was such a great video Natalie! It was so informative. I would love a series on this and maybe even more into your team, what everyone’s role is and how you all came together ❤

Congrats on raising money. Excited to see how things go next year!

congratulations!!🎉🎉

congrats！

Next video elaborate how the money flows. For example when an investor hands you a $100K check, what does it specifically fund or where is it deposited? How are those things agreed upon and determined?Things like that

Yay congratulations Natalie! Been following you and your journey for a while! I've learned so much from your videos and recent webinars and I'm so excited for you and Rella!

woohoo! my bf is in the startup world so i know this means a lot!!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

This was so informational.

wonderful, woohoo, congrats!

Impressive! Congrats 🎉🎉

That’s incredible 🎉🎉🎉🎉 how much time a day on average would you say you spent on fundraising? We are doing it part time only (couple hours a day or so) and it’s never ending 😂😂

Are you going to start hiring developers one day?

That’s amazing congrats on that achievement many more to come for your start up in the new year 🥰🤩🤩

Congrats!

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Wow, this is incredible!! Congratulations! One thing that I learned from working at a start-up is 'no' just means later :)

This is awesome, congratulations. Just out of curiosity when are you going to do the Q&A?