When looking at angel investors vs. venture capitalists, there are a few differences regarding when to reach out to them and what motivates them to do deals. Jason, an experienced angel, gives his insight on what motivates angel investors, and how you can most effectively get an angel to be part of your team.

Bullpen Capital General Partner Paul Martino on the state of the VC ecosystem in the current economic crisis, the two types of crisis we might be facing over the coming months, the ways that VC deal terms and investment activity might change during the slowdown, and more.

Getting ready for the CARES Act? Here's how your startup can receive financial support. We highlight practical insight founders can use to take advantage of this newly released economic relief.

NarrativeDX (Healthtech - Fall 2014) is the latest win for the Dreamit portfolio. Today, the company announced that it is being acquired by health care performance improvement pioneer Press Ganey.

NeuroFlow is a platform for getting patients with behavioral health issues better by supporting clinical teams with collaborative and measurement-based tools in all care settings. The company announces a $7.5 million Series A financing round led by San Francisco-based Builders VC.

RaySecur (Dreamit Securetech Spring 2019) closed a $3M seed funding round. The startup’s mission is to be the first line of defense to safely detect suspicious powders and liquids, as well as conventional mail threats.

Fundraising is hard, and it’s critical to have a game-plan and process for raising capital. In this episode, Steve Barsh discusses some strategies that founders can use to close a new round of funding. He talks about how to create momentum, revenue metrics you’ll need to show for seed and Series A funding, what a typical timeline looks like, how to determine the amount of capital you need to raise, and more.

BrainCheck (Dreamit Healthtech Fall 2016) raised $8M in funding. The startup helps physicians assess and track the mental health of their patients.

TrekIT Health, a clinical workflow management and analytics company, announced their newest round of funding from IP Group, Inc. and Dreamit Ventures. The startup will use the funding to enhance product capabilities and accelerate sales growth with key hires.  

Dreamit Managing Partner Steve Barsh talks about how early-stage startups and their founders should avoid discussion exit strategy with investors and why it’s important to paint a powerful vision for VCs about how you’re going to dominate your market and grow a big, powerful, profitable, and meaningful company. If that all occurs, the right exit strategy will come along.

Steve Barsh speaks with Anthony Bucci about bootstrapping RevZilla from $0 to 250+ people and a successful exit. They talk about Bucci’s ups and downs, leadership ideas, growth, surprises along the way, and key learnings. And they touch upon the founder and startup attributes Anthony finds compelling now that he is angel investing in the next generation of startups.

Investors want to hear clear targeting criteria about who will be the early buyers of your product, why these customers are selecting your product, who will be getting the greatest value from it, and how you’ll be distributing your product. Here’s some advice on how to create a strong G2M pitch for venture investors.

Investors are giving you capital to make 10x, 20x, or 100x their investment. To realize this, there must be an exit. Here's how to speak to VCs about exit opportunities without scaring them off.

Dreamit alum MPOWER Financing, a fintech company providing educational loans to high-potential international and DACA students, has completed its largest funding round to-date with $110 million in new financing for students enrolling in major US universities.

Cherre, a real estate data platform that completed Dreamit UrbanTech in 2018, announced a $9 million seed funding round led by Navitas Capital. Cherre provides large enterprises, insurance companies, banks and investors with a platform to collect, augment, and resolve property data in real-time from thousands of public, private, and internal sources, allowing them to evaluate investment and underwriting opportunities more accurately and efficiently than ever before.

Dreamit SecureTech startup CYR3CON, which helps companies predict and prevent cyber attacks using artificial intelligence, announced a $1.5 million seed round led by Scout Ventures, with participation from Michael Sutton (former CISO, Zscaler), Aleksandr Yampolskiy (CEO, SecurityScorecard), Steven Witt (former CEO, Onyara and Partner/Co-Founder of DataTribe), and Steve Hassell, (former CIO, Emerson).

Dreamit portfolio company LevelUp was acquired by Grubhub in a “spectacular outcome” for the accelerator and venture fund. Founder and CEO Matt Maloney told TechCrunch that while previous Grubhub acquisitions like Eat24 were designed to give the company’s delivery business more scale, “This is kind of a different acquisition. It’s a product and strategic positioning acquisition.”

Headout, a mobile app that lets consumers book last-minute activities in 15 major cities, has raised $10 million in Series A financing. Nexus Venture Partners and Version One Ventures led the investment in the New York City-based startup, which has raised $12 million to date.

Mark Suster of Upfront Ventures wrote a fantastic piece on Medium about the importance of creating a process around fundraising. The full piece is definitely worth taking the time to read, but we jotted down 10 key takeaways from the piece.

Every day at Dreamit UrbanTech, we interact with new startups transforming this supply chain, and as part of our 14-week growth-focused program, we bring select startups on a 2-week "Investor Roadshow" where they meet with dozens of investors from both generalist firms and from firms focused on real estate, construction, and products for smarter cities. We wanted to share some of our favorite firms focused on the built environment so you can use it as a resource for fundraising. We will continue to maintain this spreadsheet and will be updating it regularly with new venture investors who we meet who are committed to transforming real estate, construction, and the built environment.