Fundraising Process Tips from Founder and CEO of Pilot

An article we liked from Thought Leader Emily Man of Redpoint Ventures:

Standing out in Your Fundraising Process: Key Takeaways from Office Hours with Waseem Daher, Founder and CEO of Pilot

Fundraising can too often feel like a black box. 

So for our latest Office Hours, we asked Waseem Daher, Founder and CEO of Pilot, to join us for an inside look at how he manages the fundraising process. As a 3x founder who has successfully navigated two exits — selling Ksplice to Oracle in 2011 and Zulip to Dropbox in 2014 — Waseem is a fundraising expert. His current company, Pilot, specializes in bookkeeping, tax, and CFO services for high-growth technology companies and has raised more than $150 million to date.

The candid conversation touched on a wide range of topics spanning the entire formal fundraise process, with a ton of great insight from Waseem’s experiences. For those who weren’t able to join live, here are some of the core takeaways from the conversation:

Good operational hygiene makes for a smooth fundraising experience

There are three major categories that investors typically want insight into or from: financial data, customer references, and...

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Thanks for this article excerpt and its graphics to Emily Man, Investor at Redpoint Ventures.

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