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Welcome to Fun Raising, the podcast where the best early-stage investors pull back the curtain on the fundraising process, one founder question at a time. If you're a pre-seed or seed-stage founder trying to figure out how to get your first check, navigate a term sheet, or just understand what VCs are actually thinking when you walk out of the room — this is the show for you. Every episode, we sit down with top early-stage investors and put them on the spot with real questions from real founders. No fluff, no recycled advice, just honest, tactical conversations about what it actually takes to raise in today's market. From crafting your pitch to closing the round, we cover the moments that make or break a fundraise. We put the "fun" in fundraising. Because someone has to.
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Signup to Generate a PitchWelcome to Fun Raising, the podcast where the best early-stage investors pull back the curtain on the fundraising process, one founder question at a time.
Fun Raising is hosted by Mat Vogels. The show has published 56 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Alex Moore | 8VC" (13 October 2026, 30 minutes), "Morgan Hitzig | Overmatch" (6 October 2026, 33 minutes), and "Caie Kelley | Lowercarbon Capital" (29 September 2026, 38 minutes).
Fun Raising publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 44 minutes across 56 episodes.
Booking probability for Fun Raising is 33%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Fun Raising requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Fun Raising's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Fun Raising are Investment Banking & Trading and Business & Management Consulting. Fun Raising has a business audience.
Mat Vogels hosts Fun Raising, a business podcast with 56 episodes published.
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Alex was employee number one at Palantir and now sits as a partner at 8VC, which is celebrating its ten-year mark and writing larger checks as the firm has grown. He set up 8VC's build program, which incubates a handful...
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Morgan's path starts with 9-11 in New York. That day shaped nearly every professional choice that followed: NYPD counterterrorism, Navy reserve time overseas, then nearly a decade building companies, including Data...
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Caie's path is late-stage finance into hardware growth. Econ undergrad, JP Morgan tech investment banking in the DTC-goes-public era (including WeWork), then private equity, then a move west when talent started...
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Michael Gibson likes to say he has no business being in this business. He was working on a doctorate at Oxford in moral and ancient philosophy, following a T.S. Eliot-shaped plan to be a professor who wrote on the side...
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Ian came up as an operator first. He joined SoFi at about 25 people, then became founding chief of staff at Invisible Technologies, where he and the CEO pitched roughly 100 investors, took 99 nos, and got one angel yes...
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Patty Wexler is not a default VC. She spent the first half of her career funding consumer internet at a $1.9B firm, then made a deliberate bet around 2015 that "so much IQ and so much capital in this little zip code"...
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Arkady is a scientist and repeat founder who moved into venture specifically to solve a translation problem he kept watching play out: deeply technical founders who can't tell their story, meeting VCs who can't tell...
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Matt Logan is a GP at Earthshot Ventures, a climate fund spun out of the nonprofit Elemental. What separates him from a default climate investor is that he doesn't lead with decarbonization. He looks for companies that...
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Sarah Kunst is a sole GP who has been on both sides of the table: operator roles at companies like Chanel, Red Bull, and Apple, a founder whose own startup wound down, and a Sequoia scout before raising a roughly $3M...
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Jason is an operator before he was an investor. He ran a division at SunEdison up to roughly $250M in revenue, went through YC in 2015 as a founder, and built Pioneer Fund out of the alumni network he kept gravitating...
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Chisa comes to investing from the founder side. She co-founded Darklang, a programming language, and boldstart had backed that company before she joined the firm. That background shapes a specific lens: she evaluates...
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David Goldman came to venture from the other side of the table. He started as a semiconductor investment banker, then worked at a multifamily office that was an LP in Celesta, evaluating co-investments alongside the...
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Vidyuk is not a generalist software investor applying pattern-matching to hard science. She has a physics degree, three PhDs and a Nobel laureate on her team, and she writes $500K to $2M checks from pre-seed to Series B...
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Paige Doherty is a former engineer (Northrop Grumman, working on unmanned autonomous systems) who got into venture after writing a children's book about VC, and that background shapes a thesis most generalist seed...
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Aaron isn't a default VC. He spent ten years as an Army helicopter pilot and a West Point grad before an MBA pulled him into startups, and in 2015 he co-founded FirstMile with Bill Miller to be the first check for...
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Winfield is a four-time operator (two IPOs, two acquisitions) who spent two years as investor-in-residence at the Allen Institute for AI before launching Ascend in 2019. That background drives a blunt thesis most...
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Adam's route to running a venture studio puts him in a different position than most people giving fundraising advice. He came up through investment banking at Goldman Sachs, then spent time at Eric Schmidt's family...
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Bob Mason isn't a finance-first VC. He spent his career as a software engineer and CTO, building two enterprise companies from team formation through public offering, and he invests the way an operator reads a room...
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Santiago Pliego built his thesis around a specific macro claim: the last 70 to 100 years represent an anomaly characterized by globalized Pax Americana, the offshoring of physical industry, and a massive over-rotation...
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Rishabh is a pre-seed deep tech and frontier specialist at Gaingels, a 12-year-old venture syndicate that does not lead rounds. Instead it co-invests behind a lead at roughly 10% of the round (typically 250K and up at...
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