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Hosted by Helena Fogarty · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 32 episodes
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Inside Startup Funding is a multi-format podcast, content platform, & community— sponsored by Bamboo X and hosted by Fundraising Expert Helena Fogarty —designed to demystify how startup capital really moves, from the first check to the pressures of scale. Follow us on YouTube, LinkedIn and Substack to get notified of new episode drops, monthly events, and special livestreams. Inside Startup Funding is sponsored by Bamboo X, a New York and Bay Area recruiting partner to startups building technical and design teams. Their team of recruiters have supported over 200 startups in building elite teams from mid-level hires through to executive leaders. For more info visit bamboo-x.com
Helena Fogarty hosts Inside Startup Funding, a business show with 32 episodes published.
Jenny Duan, CEO & Co-Founder of Clair Health, and Abhinav Agarwal, CTO & Co-Founder, join Inside the Round to break down how they went from meeting at Stanford to building a hormone-aware wearable and raising $11.6 milli
Having a great company and knowing how to raise money are two different skills. Lucia Mari Sanguino, co-founder and CEO of AIVA TECH, joins Inside Startup Funding to break down the strategy behind her $1.5 million pre-se
Laura McDonald and Dr. Christy Lane are the co-founders of Flora Fertility , the first individually owned fertility insurance platform. After raising a pre-seed round in 2024, Flora recently closed a $5M seed round led b
Mark Volchek, Founding Partner at Las Olas Venture Capital, joins Inside the Fund to talk about the full founder-to-investor journey. Before becoming an investor, Mark co-founded Higher One as a college senior and helped
Charlie O’Donnell, 20-year VC turned VC coach and author of Founder Unfriendly: What Investors Won’t Tell You About Getting Funded , joins Helena Fogarty on Inside the Fund to break down how venture capital decisions act
In this episode of Inside the Fund , we sit down with Zoe Jakubowich, a fractional Chief of Staff and a member of the investment team at VHS Ventures, to unpack a common misconception in consumer startups: venture capita
Andrew Ackerman, 2x startup founder, venture capitalist, and author of The Entrepreneur’s Odyssey, joins us on Inside the Fund to talk about valuation, investor psychology, and what founders get wrong about fundraising p
Fundraising isn’t about getting to a yes. It’s about how you handle all the no’s along the way. Maria Intscher-Owrang, CEO of Simplifyber, joins us on Inside the Round to break down how founders should really think about
How much of a startup’s outcome is shaped before anything goes wrong? In this episode, Yashreeka Huq, Partner at Perkins Coie, shares a behind-the-scenes look at the legal side of venture. From board control and investor
Maddi Holman, General Partner at Daring Ventures, joins Inside Startup Funding to break down what actually matters for founders building today. In this conversation, Maddi shares how the landscape has shifted from buildi
What actually makes a startup defensible now that it’s easier than ever to build? In this episode of Inside the Fund, Helena Fogarty sits down with Jess Schram, Partner and Director of Investments and Incubations at Reme
Andrea Hippeau, Partner at Lerer Hippeau, joins Inside the Fund to discuss how early-stage investors actually evaluate founders. Andrea breaks down what she looks for before traction exists, why conviction often forms lo
Oren Michels, CEO of Barndoor AI, joins us on Inside the Round to break down how Barndoor raised $13.6M pre-product, why enterprise security can’t ship a janky v1, and how “fast fundraising” is usually the payout for yea
Don’t follow capital. Let capital follow. In this episode of Inside the Round, Nima Roohi of Blooming Health shares the fundraising hot take he wishes more founders lived by, plus the real mechanics of how he pushed thro
What does a valuation actually mean once you take venture math seriously? In this episode of Inside the Fund, Justin Kang of Visible Hands breaks down the mechanics most founders never fully internalize. A valuation is n
In this episode of Inside the Round, host Helena Fogarty sits down with Caroline Dell, CEO and Co-founder of Goodword, to break down the real realities of raising their $4 Million Seed Round led by Human Ventures. Caroli
In this episode of Inside the Round, Helena Fogarty sits down with James Zahn, Founder of Ranger AI, to break down the real realities of fundraising that most founders don’t talk about. James shares his journey from solv
In this episode, Michael Martin shares the real story behind how Circadian Risk raised $10M after being ghosted by VCs. We break down: Why investors initially passed on the idea How the team built conviction before conse
In this conversation, Jacyln Siu of Starcycle shares her journey from growing up in Hong Kong to becoming a successful entrepreneur in the U.S. She discusses the emotional challenges of shutting down startups, the import
In this insightful episode of Inside the Process, Helena Fogarty, interviews Samir Bakhru from Orrick, Harrington, and Sutcliffe. They discuss the intricacies of raising capital, the importance of choosing the right lega
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