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.

In this episode of #DreamitLive, Dreamit’s Steve Barsh speaks with Gil Beyda, Managing Director at Comcast Ventures and Founder & Managing Partner at Genacast Ventures. Steve and Gil dive into why pre-IPO unicorn startups are failing and post IPO valuations are dropping.

It's been about a year since Slidebean’s first Youtube video breakthrough. Since then, they’ve added around 20,000 subscribers, and their videos have been watched over 1.7MM times. To celebrate their success, we collaborated with Slidebean to host a Fireside Chat in New York City on October 10th featuring Caya, founder of Slidebean, and Steve Barsh, Managing Partner at Dreamit. from DreamIt Ventures.

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

Read about 5 game-changing cybersecurity companies re-shaping the way companies stay secure.

In this #DreamitLive, Healthtech Managing Director Adam Dakin speaks with Graftworx founder and CEO David Kuraguntla about his startup’s path to commercialization.

In this DreamitLive, Securetech Managing Director Bob Stasio speaks with ForMotiv Partner Bill Conners about the complex problem of insider threats.

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.  

In this DreamitLive, Urbantech Managing Director Andrew Ackerman speaks with StringBean founder and CEO Reuben Levine about the do’s and don’ts of selling into real estate, including how to get into the mind of the buyer, how to de-risk your product to increase the likelihood of making a sale, and how to pursue product-led growth. 

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.

Dreamit’s Steve Barsh speaks with AJ Bruno about scaling B2B sales from seed to exit. AJ co-founded TrendKite, where he was responsible for all growth operations ($0-$25 million) and which was acquired for $225m by Cision (NYSE: Cision).

In this #DreamitLive event, Dreamit Healthtech Managing Director Adam Dakin speaks with Subha Airan-Javia, CEO of TrekIT, to understand how she turned her passion for creating clinician-friendly tech into a new healthtech startup on a mission to empower clinicians.

An Impact-Investing Success Story: Goldman Sachs-Backed Fintech Fuels Double Bottom Line by Investing in International Students

We’re thrilled to announce the newest Dreamit startups that will be participating in the 14-week Securetech, Healthtech, and Urbantech programs. 

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.

This is part two of a multipart series on corporate innovation from Dreamit Ventures, focusing on why corporate venture capital initiatives fail.

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 Jose ‘Caya’ Cayasso from Slidebean discusses 5 big lessons he learned about raising capital and startup funding.

Too many startup founders don’t directly answer potential investors’ and customers’ questions during initial pitch meetings. As a result, they lose credibility, momentum, and the opportunity to raise new funding or earn more revenue. In this article, we share a simple acronym—BLUF—you can use to remind yourself to give direct answers to questions after you’ve pitched your company. BLUF, short for Bottom Line Up Front, will help you remember to not make this common mistake.