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YC hands you $500K on founder-first terms and that’s almost the smallest part of it. You also get mentorship from people like Sam Altman or partners who helped scale Airbnb, Stripe, and Scale AI, plus access to a private network of alumni who’ve raised tens of billions in follow-on capital.

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And this isn’t only about the moment someone asks. These are the documents the whole life of the startup runs on.

This is a curated collection of the 10 Templates and Databases every founder should have ready, always. They matter on the day you raise and they matter far more on all the ordinary days in between.

Here's what's inside:

1. Pitch collection: 90+ decks from the most successful startups ever, from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Perplexity to Airbnb and Revolut, plus fill-in templates from Sequoia and Creandum

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3. Data room template: the complete Creandum structure investors expect the moment they start diligence.

4. Cap table plus SAFE dilution template: the template to check the right dilution and manage how your SAFEs dilute you as they convert

5. Valuation model: a defensible way to frame what your company is worth before the number comes up

6. Financial model template: the complete Creandum’s SaaS Model

7. Runway and burn template: how much you spend a month and how many months of cash that leaves

8. KPI and metrics dashboard calculator: the few numbers that describe the health of your business, computed right

9. Investor update template: the monthly note that keeps investors warm between rounds (by 500 Global)

10. The Startup Press Access Database: 500+ verified press touchpoints, journalists and publications that cover startups

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The package comes with two things on top:

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1. The Five Documents That Get You Funded

2. The Three That Tell You If You’ll Survive the Year

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Today I’m sharing a curated list of the angel investors behind many of the biggest AI funding rounds of 2026.

We started from the most notable AI companies that raised capital this year, including and for each investor, we included the essentials you’d actually want if you were researching them or planning outreach:

• Name

• Role (founder, operator, CEO, angel investor, etc.)

• LinkedIn profile

• Company backed

So instead of just knowing who these angels are, you can also quickly understand why they matter, what kind of operator or founder they are and which breakout AI companies they’ve backed.

If you’re a founder, operator, or investor, this gives you a much clearer view of the people showing up behind the most important AI companies being funded right now.

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Let’s dig in! Below are the companies covered in the database:

ElevenLabs

AI audio platform building models for speech generation, dubbing, sound effects, music and conversational voice agents.

Funding: Raised a $500M Series D at an $11B valuation in February 2026, led by Sequoia, with participation from a16z and ICONIQ. The round brought total funding to $781M.

Angels in the database: 19

Lovable

AI software-development platform that enables users to build and deploy applications through natural-language prompts.

Funding: Raised a $330M Series B at a $6.6B valuation in December 2025, led by CapitalG and Menlo Ventures, with backing from Accel, Khosla Ventures, DST Global, Salesforce Ventures and others. It has raised approximately $552.5M in total. Lovable is included as a particularly relevant exception to the 2026 funding criterion.

Angels in the database: 18

Basis

AI agent platform designed to automate complex accounting, tax and audit workflows.

Funding: Raised a $100M Series B at a $1.15B valuation in February 2026, led by Accel, with participation from GV and existing investors. Total funding is approximately $138M.

Angels in the database: 12

Decagon

Enterprise platform for building conversational AI agents that automate customer-service operations.

Funding: Raised a $250M Series D at a $4.5B valuation in January 2026, led by Coatue and Index Ventures. Other backers include a16z, Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, Forerunner and Ribbit Capital. Total funding is approximately $481M.

Angels in the database: 9

Runway

AI research and creative platform developing generative video models and general-purpose world models.

Funding: Raised a $315M Series E at a reported $5.3B valuation in February 2026, led by General Atlantic, with participation from NVIDIA, Adobe Ventures, AMD Ventures, Fidelity and others. Total funding is approximately $860M.

Angels in the database: 8

TwelveLabs

Video-intelligence company building multimodal models capable of understanding, searching and reasoning over video.

Funding: Raised a $100M Series B in July 2026, co-led by NEA and NAVER Ventures, with Amazon among its strategic backers. Public databases place total funding at approximately $150M–$210M.

Angels in the database: 8

Cognition

Developer of Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer capable of handling complex development tasks.

Funding: Raised more than $1B at a $26B post-money valuation in May 2026, co-led by Lux Capital, General Catalyst and 8VC, with participation from Founders Fund, Ribbit Capital and Atreides. Reported total funding now exceeds $2.5B.

Angels in the database: 7

Norm AI

Legal and compliance platform using AI agents to interpret regulations and execute regulated workflows.

Funding: Raised a $120M Series C at a $1.2B valuation in July 2026, led by Khosla Ventures. Total funding is approximately $256M.

Angels in the database: 5

OpenEvidence

Clinical AI platform that gives physicians evidence-based answers sourced from medical literature and clinical data.

Funding: Raised a $250M round at a $12B valuation in January 2026, co-led by Thrive Capital and DST Global. The company said it had raised approximately $700M over the previous 12 months. Other backers include GV, NVIDIA, Kleiner Perkins and Mayo Clinic.

Angels in the database: 4

Factory

AI software-engineering platform building autonomous “Droids” for enterprise development teams.

Funding: Raised a $150M Series C at a $1.5B valuation in April 2026, led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Sequoia, Blackstone, Insight Partners, NEA and others. Total funding is approximately $220M.

Angels in the database: 3

Harvey

AI operating system for law firms and professional-services teams, covering research, due diligence, compliance and other legal workflows.

Funding: Raised $200M at an $11B valuation in March 2026, co-led by GIC and Sequoia. Other backers include a16z, Coatue, Kleiner Perkins and Conviction. Harvey has raised more than $1B in total.

Angels in the database: 3

Odyssey

AI research company developing world models that can understand and simulate dynamic physical environments.

Funding: Raised a $310M Series B at a $1.45B valuation in June 2026, led by Natural Capital, with participation from Amazon, AMD Ventures, GV, EQT and In-Q-Tel. Total funding is approximately $337M.

Angels in the database: 2

Replit

AI-native software-creation platform that allows users to build, deploy and manage applications from natural-language instructions.

Funding: Raised a $400M Series D at a $9B valuation in March 2026. Public funding estimates range from approximately $852M to $922M, with PitchBook reporting about $878M.

Angels in the database: 2

Suno

Generative AI platform that enables users to create complete songs and other music from text prompts.

Funding: Raised a $400M Series D at a $5.4B valuation in June 2026, following a $250M Series C in late 2025. The company has raised approximately $775M across its disclosed rounds, backed by firms including Menlo Ventures, Lightspeed, Matrix, IVP and Bond.

Angels in the database: 2

Flourish

AI research company combining neuroscience and machine learning to develop more efficient, continuously learning AI architectures.

Funding: Launched with approximately $500M in funding at a reported $2.5B valuation in 2026, with backing from Bezos Expeditions, Lux Capital, GV and Catalio.

Angels in the database: 1

Garner Health

Healthcare-navigation platform using claims data to identify high-quality doctors and guide employees toward better care.

Funding: Raised a $118M Series D at a $1.35B valuation in February 2026, led by Kleiner Perkins, with participation from Redpoint, Maverick, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Mercy and Plus Capital. Total funding is approximately $200M.

Angels in the database: 1

General Intuition

Frontier AI lab training agents on gameplay data to develop spatial reasoning and real-world intelligence.

Funding: Raised a $320M Series A at a $2.3B valuation in June 2026, led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from General Catalyst, Hedosophia, Innovation Endeavors and other backers. Total disclosed funding is approximately $454M.

Angels in the database: 1

Modus

AI-native audit technology platform and holding company investing in and partnering with accounting firms.

Funding: Announced $85M across its seed and Series A financing in April 2026, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Comma Capital and Garry Tan. This represents its total publicly disclosed funding.

Angels in the database: 1

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But there’s a third category that it’s been quietly writing a lot of cheques: family offices.

They’re private capital with deep pockets and long time horizons.

No fund cycles, no rush to exit. That means they can back niche ideas, spend real time with founders and stay involved well beyond the first cheque, often bringing operator experience and serious networks.

If you’re looking for investors who actually get what you’re building (and aren’t just optimising for the next round), family offices are worth paying attention to.

Anyways, so what did I do? 😅

I built a market-by-market curated list of family offices actively writing cheques.

And because a list is only half the job, I did one more thing. Family offices don’t run open application processes, they don’t publish a thesis page and most of them will never answer a generic deck blast.

So I wrote a hands-on guide to building the outreach system that actually works on them: the Claude prompts that map warm intro paths through your network, write outreach personalized to each office and run the pipeline week by week without losing a thread.

Inside you will find:

1. The Family Office List of Lists

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3. How to Map a Warm Path Into a Family Office Before You Send Anything

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5. How to Run the Pipeline Without Losing a Thread

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• Stage focus (Idea → Pre-IPO)

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This is one of the most interesting moments in decades to launch a venture fund.

AI is creating a new generation of founders, startup formation is accelerating and many of tomorrow’s iconic companies are being built right now. As a result, we’re also seeing a new wave of emerging managers raising specialized funds to back them.

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Your startup is rarely the most interesting story.

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Alex Karp and Palantir are one of the clearest examples.

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We analyzed all 196 companies in YC’s Spring 2026 batch. 395 founders. Every company, every founder background, every traction number I could find.

95% touch AI. Only 10 companies in the entire batch don’t. Last batch I thought the ceiling was close. It wasn’t.

But AI isn’t the number that matters. Agents are. 137 companies are building LLM agents, more than every other category combined.

The question stopped being whether you use agents. It became: which job are you pointing them at, and what does the agent need to function once you deploy it.

And the job titles are gone. Nobody in this batch pitches “augmentation.” They pitch replacement. Headcount reduction. Outcomes. Not a single seat expansion in 196 decks. This is the first YC batch built entirely in the post-SaaS world, and today you’ll see all of them walk on stage.

That’s the story of P26.

Here’s everything you need to know 🔥

1. 137 of 196 are building agents. Here’s what changed

2. The 8 verticals YC is betting on harder than anything else

3. 26 hardware companies. 13 in defense.

4. Where the founders came from and what that tells you

5. The companies worth watching today and why

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Getting into Y Combinator is harder than getting into Harvard 🤯

But here’s the uncomfortable truth: most founders don’t get rejected because they lack access. They get rejected because they never learned how YC actually thinks.

YC is not just capital. It’s a way of building, how you find your first users, how fast you move, what you choose to ignore. And almost all of it is public.

Internalize these principles and you raise your odds of getting in. More importantly, you raise your odds of building something that survives the next two years.

This is the closest thing to a YC curriculum you can study on your own.

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6. How to Build a Successful MVP

7. How YC Tests for Contrarian Thinking

8. 60 Questions to Stress-Test Your Startup

9. YC Ultimate Startup Job Guide

10. Real YC Applications: Accepted and Rejected

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Hey everyone, welcome back to the Product Market Fit Newsletter 🚀🚀

I’ve put together a curated list of the 1,000 most active angel investors from around the world. This isn’t just a bunch of names—you’ll get their investor types, the stages they invest in, the regions they’re focused on, and best of all, their LinkedIn and Twitter profiles. So you can reach out to them directly.

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• Investor Type: Whether they’re solo angels, part of a syndicate, or super angels with multiple investments.

• Investment Stages: The stages they typically invest in—pre-seed, seed, Series A, etc.

• Regions: The geographical areas they’re focused on, so you can find investors active in your market.

• Industries and Sectors: Their areas of interest or expertise, helping you align your outreach.

• LinkedIn Profiles: Direct links to their LinkedIn profiles for easy connecting and networking.

• Twitter Profiles: Follow them on Twitter to get a feel for their thoughts and stay updated.

• Additional Info: Any other relevant details that can give you an edge when reaching out.

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Getting into Y Combinator is harder than getting into Harvard 🤯

But here’s the uncomfortable truth:

Most founders don’t get rejected because they lack access.

They get rejected because they never learned how YC thinks.

Everyone knows this, YC is NOT just capital. It’s an entire culture and philosophy about how to build product, growth, speed, and focus 🔥

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6. How to Build a Successful MVP

7. How to Hack Systems

8. 60 Questions to Work on Your Startup

9. YC Ultimate Startup Job Guide

10. Veed.io’s YC Application (S19)

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Hey everyone, welcome back to the Product Market Fit Newsletter!

Lately, most funding talk is VCs and angels.

But there’s another group that’s been quietly writing a lot of cheques lately: family offices.

They’re private capital with deep pockets and long time horizons, no fund cycles, no rush to exit. That means they can back niche ideas, spend real time with founders, and stay involved well beyond the first cheque, often bringing operators’ experience and serious networks.

If you’re looking for investors who actually get what you’re building (and aren’t just optimising for the next round), family offices are worth paying attention to.

Anyways, so what did I do? 😅

I spent this week building this:

Instead of one massive, messy database, this is a curated map of the best family office lists, organised by where they actively invest, not where they’re headquartered.

Markets covered:

1. 🇺🇸 USA

2. 🇬🇧 UK

3. 🇩🇪 Germany

4. 🇮🇱 Israel

5. 🇪🇺 Europe (pan-European)

6. 🌎 Rest of World

What you get in each list:

• Investor name + website (so you can verify and research fast)

• Investor type (single-family, multi-family, personal FO)

• Global HQ (where the team is based)

• Countries they invest in (where they actually deploy capital)

• Stage focus (Idea → Pre-IPO)

• Thesis (what they like + what they avoid)

• Minimum / maximum cheque (so you don’t waste time pitching the wrong size)

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Startups don’t fail in dramatic ways, but they fail quietly, inside spreadsheets no one is really looking at.

Either runway disappears faster than expected, dilution compounds invisibly, growth looks healthy until unit economics say otherwise, and pricing caps upside long before product market fit ever settles.

The difference between founders who survive and founders who don’t isn’t intelligence or ambition, but knowing whats happening.

These are the exact models used to:

• Understand whether growth creates value or accelerates burn

• Make hiring and pricing decisions with conviction

• Avoid irreversible ownership mistakes

• Stress-test assumptions before the market does

Use these to run the business first.

Table of Contents

1. Full-Stack SaaS Financial Model (Investor-Ready)
→ Growth, costs, unit economics, and cash — all in one system

2. Runway & Burn Calculator
→ Survival math, hiring impact, and scenario planning

3. Cap Table Template (Early-Stage)
→ Ownership, dilution, and control — fully diluted

4. SAFE / Valuation & Dilution Calculator
→ How SAFEs convert and what they really cost you

5. Unit Economics Calculator (CAC / LTV / Payback)
→ Is growth compounding — or leaking?
(Template by Maxio)

6. VC Startup Valuation Model (VC Method)
→ How investors price risk, time, and outcomes

7. Berkus VC Valuation Model (Pre-Revenue)
→ Valuation before traction, grounded in risk reduction

8. Go-To-Market Funnel & Conversion Model
→ From leads to revenue — where growth actually happens

9. Sensitivity Analysis Table
→ Which assumptions matter and where the business breaks

10. SaaS Pricing Worksheet Calculator
→ Pricing architecture, not guesswork

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1. Full-Stack SaaS Financial Model Template (Investor-Ready)

A good founder is one that knows his numbers. This template gives you a clear view of growth, costs, and cash that stress-tests whether scaling creates value or just accelerates burn.

Operating & Decision Layer

This model ties revenue, costs, unit economics, and cash into a single system, showing whether growth compounds value or accelerates burn. The dashboard then compresses this into clear outcomes (runway, break-even timing, peak cash need, and long-term scale) so decisions can be made quickly and with conviction.

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So, I’ve always been obsessed with web design.

I would see these amazing websites and would dream of having one like them for my company.

The problem?

I didn’t have the 30K to hire a great designer + developer team nor the time to manage them.

Having a great website used to be limited to companies with big budgets.

Well, not anymore.

I created website templates that look amazing, inspired on the fastest growing tech companies.

But not only that,

I also created a working Lovable using Lovable itself (I called it Agentic)

In it, I tried replicating the same templates I had built in Lovable previously. Crazily enough, it works. It’s not perfect but if i dedicated a couple of weeks to it it would be.

Try it here

DISCLAIMER: This is an experiment, the software is not perfect and doesn’t mean to suplant lovable, but it’s still crazy to see what it can do. If you try it let me know.

Here are some of the website templates I did on my selfbuilt Lovable (pretty wild).

(I’m not sharing my working Lovable template, but happy to sell it! email me if you want it (base44 sold for 80M in months)

Notion Style Website

I always loved Notion Style and it’s amazing how easy it is to mimic now. Definitely one of the best designs in the world because of its simplicity.

Replit Style Website

Crazy how good this one is.

Reddit Clone

My Lovable clone even did a pretty close interface clone of Reddit 🤯

Now, although these website templates are very basic, and not fully working it’s crazy I was able to do them with a Lovable clone I built on Lovable.

Now, this isn’t where I finished.

Back on Lovable, the real Lovable, I created great templates of some of the webs of the fastest growing startups, so you can

1. Get them

2. Edit them and adapt them to your brand

3. Boom, you have a world class Website

Use these templates to create a world class website for your company

(I’m not sharing my working Lovable template, but happy to sell it! email me if you want it (base44 sold for 80M in months)

1. Legora Style Template: for Legal tech Startups or Lawfirms

   

2. Elevenlabs Style Website
   For VoiceAI startups

3. Replit Style Website: for AI startups

   

4. Gamma Style Website: For visual/design startups

   

5. Substack Style Website

   

6. Mercor Style Website

   

7. Clay Style Template: for Saas startups

   

8. Linear Style Template: For dev tool startups

   

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More than 100 startups crossed the $1B valuation mark in 2025 many of them doing it earlier, faster, and with less traditional validation than ever before.

The headline explanation is obvious: AI ignited an investor frenzy.

But if you go past the headlines and actually analyze the full list tracked by Crunchbase and PitchBook data, a much more precise story appears.

2025 didn’t just reward “AI companies.”

It rewarded specific layers of the stack, specific narratives, and specific investor behaviors.

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This newsletter breaks down:

1. The “most successful” spaces in this 2025 class

2. What kind of companies got the biggest valuations in this list

3. How the unicorn-making mechanism itself changed

4. Which VCs consistently set $1B+ pricing

5. And what this means if you’re building or investing going into 2026

6. The Full 2025 Unicorn List

   

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If you read startup news every week, you’ve seen the pattern: a company you barely recognize announces a round or a launch and, within hours, it’s everywhere. Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Wired, Fast Company.

Meanwhile, you might be building something just as real (sometimes with more traction), but your announcement disappears into the void.

The reason usually isn’t quality, or even network; it’s distribution.

Press isn’t random, and it isn’t reserved for famous founders. It’s a system driven by beat fit, timing, and whether you make it easy for a journalist to write something relevant right now.

That’s why I built Startup Press Access Database a curated database + a practical guide that turns “getting covered” from luck into a repeatable process.

Inside you’ll find

• 500+ verified press touchpoints, including tech journalists (with direct emails), startup-friendly outlets, directories that still drive discovery, and communities where stories surface early.

• Journalists from outlets like Bloomberg, CNBC, TechCrunch, Wired, The Verge, Business Insider, Fortune, Vox, WSJ, NYT, and more.

• Coverage across the US, Europe, UK, and Asia, so you don’t pitch the wrong story to the wrong outlet.

• A detailed guide to approaching journalists and getting replies, including how journalists evaluate pitches, how to find an angle that isn’t PR spam, cold email structures that work, 4 cold email templates, timing rules, follow-ups, and how small coverage compounds into big coverage.

If you’re announcing a round, launching a product, shipping a major update, or simply want inbound from users, partners, and investors, this is the kind of “quiet infrastructure” that changes outcomes.

Startup Press Access is available only to paid subscribers.

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I compiled the list of early angel investors of Lovable, Cursor, Mercor, Polymarket, Synthesia & ElevenLabs 🔥

One angel investor can change the future of your company. Most of these people are connected to biggest VCs & companies in the world and their validation can move mountains.

While most VCs tried investing in these companies very few could, and still, some of these angels outcompeted VCs

So I decided to compile this list to help founders 100x their valuation 🚀

It includes the early angel investors of:

1. Lovable

2. Cursor

3. Mercor

4. Synthesia

5. Legora

6. Polymarket

7. ElevenLabs

Let’s get to it 🔥

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You know how every founder says,
“I just need the right intro to investors”?

What if you didn’t?

Because the truth is, not every investor needs a warm intro.
Some of them back founders who reach out cold — if you do it right.

That’s where today’s drop comes in:

🧩 The No-Warm-Intro-Required Investor List

160+ investors who have actually written checks to founders who DM’d, cold-emailed, or pitched them without an intro.

These are investors who don’t care if you know a VC, went to Stanford, or have a famous angel on your cap table — they care about your product, traction, and story.

What’s inside:

• Names & roles of investors and funds

• Stage focus: Pre-seed, Seed, Series A

• Verticals: B2B, SaaS, AI, Productivity, Future of Work

• Contact info & LinkedIn for direct outreach

• Portfolio examples to tailor your message

• Notes on past cold deals (yes, real ones)

And yes — almost half of them have led rounds from cold outreach.

How to Use It (and Actually Get Replies)

Here’s the playbook to go from “cold” to “funded”:

1. Do your homework.
   Check if they invest in your stage, your sector, and your geography. Don’t spray and pray.

2. Tailor your pitch.
   Reference something specific about their investments, thesis, or public posts. Make it human.

3. Keep it short.
   4–5 lines max. What you’re building, key traction, and what makes you unique.

4. Triple-check spelling and names.
   Nothing kills a cold pitch faster than “Hi Adam” when their name’s Alex.

5. Don’t spam.
   Treat this like the start of a 7–10 year relationship — because it might be.

With Investors like:

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With the subscription, you will also get full access to:

Other resources you’ll be able to access with PMF’s premium subscription:

The Family Office List

The Angel Investor List

Creandum fundraising Toolbox, from Seed to Series A

The Sequoia Fundraising Pack

How ElevenLabs Grew From $0 to $200M ARR in 2 Years + Their Pre-Seed Deck

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In this guide you’ll find:

1. Martin Mignot’s investment mindset first person: Full Interview

2. How to get Invested by Index Ventures

   1. Introduction Index Ventures Investment Thesis

   2. What Index Looks for in an Investment

   3. How Index finds deals and what you can do to get noticed by them

3. Index Ventures top resources for founders:

   1. Scaling from 0 to 1,000: The Lifecycle of Startups

   2. Index Ventures' Guide to Hiring, Managing and Retaining People

   3. Index Ventures' Guide to Scaling your technical & Go to Market Teams

   4. Expanding to the US Playbook for European Founders

4. Martin Mignot’s 9 Tips to Build a Standout Pitch

5. The Index Ventures Playbook to win in the US from Europe 🌍

1. How Martin Mignot invested in Revolut & how Index became top VC in Europe

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1. How to get Invested by Index Ventures

   1. Introduction Index Ventures Investment Thesis

   2. What Index Looks for in an Investment

   3. How Index finds deals and what you can do to get noticed by them

2. Index Ventures top resources for founders:

   1. Scaling from 0 to 1,000: The Lifecycle of Startups

   2. Index Ventures' Guide to Hiring, Managing and Retaining People

   3. Index Ventures' Guide to Scaling your technical & Go to Market Teams

   4. Expanding to the US Playbook for European Founders

3. Martin Mignot’s 9 Tips to Build a Standout Pitch

4. The Index Ventures Playbook to win in the US from Europe 🌍

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