How to Fundraise for Your Startup
Learn how to nail your pitch, build momentum with investors, and fundraise successfully from Andrew Chen.
Course Overview
Fundraising is undeniably tough. As a startup founder, you're not just seeking funding – you're navigating a complex landscape filled with uncertainty, rejection, and high stakes. Investor feedback can be confusing or nonexistent, market fluctuations create unpredictability, and a competitive ecosystem of ambitious founders vying for the same pool of capital adds to the pressure.
However, despite the daunting nature of fundraising, you can significantly improve your chances of success and minimise the pitfalls with the right tools, knowledge and strategies.
Take this course to gain invaluable insights into the investor mindset, learn to craft a winning pitch, and adopt a structured framework to build outreach momentum.
Key Takeaways
Who Is This For
- Aspiring Founders – You plan to launch a startup in the future. If you want to understand the fundamentals of fundraising, this course is for you.
- Early Stage Founders – You are actively raising for your startup. If you're frustrated by confusing feedback and struggle to focus your fundraising efforts, this is the course for you.
- All Founders – You're preparing to fundraise. If you want to build momentum in your fundraising strategy and refine your pitch deck, this is the course for you.
You are actively working on your idea full time and are struggling with early traction. If growth is slow and you're not sure why, this course is for you.
What Founders Are Saying About Us
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Meet the Creators
Andrew Chen General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
Andrew is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he invests in consumer startups across marketplaces, social apps, games, and more -- including being on the boards of Reforge, Substack, Clubhouse, and others. He previously led growth teams at Uber during their hypergrowth period focused on riders and drivers.
This Course Includes
📚 Immediate access to all course material
📓 14 detailed lessons
📄 Digital and printable worksheets
📝 4 assignments to apply learnings
🧑🏫 2 live sessions with instructors
🎓 Certificate of completion
Course Content
Week 1: 20 May to 24 May
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Week 2: 27 May to 31 May
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Week 3: 3 June to 7 June
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Raise Money Successfully.
Don't let fundraising frustrations hold you back. Created by 3x founders turned investors who have raised over $700M. And it's completely free.
FAQs
It's completely free.
There are optional assignments we recommend you do to apply your learnings.
It will take 2-3 hours per week for 3 weeks to complete this course.
No, you don’t need to know anything about being a founder or startups before taking this course.
Email melissa@iterative.vc with your questions and for more information.
Iterative is a YC-style accelerator focused exclusively on Southeast Asia. Iterative invests up to US500K in a batch of startups twice a year. The investment includes 3-months of targeted growth and fundraising support, which culminates in a Demo Day to a network of 400+ investors.
Iterative’s portfolio companies have raised $168 million in follow-on funding and are collectively worth more than $1.2 billion. Iterative companies include: fintech startup Spenmo (W21) that closed an $85M Series B round led by Tiger Global; travel startup GoZayaan (W21) which closed $8M in capital and acquired it’s counterpart in Pakistan; proptech startup Propseller (S20) which raised $12M Series A; Sendhelper (S20), a home services startup acquired by PropertyGuru.