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Fundraising

How to raise capital: rounds, investors, valuation and the documents that matter, with data from Europe and Latin America.

Fundraising

Fake investors: how founders get scammed, and how to check

Upfront 'due diligence' fees, fake term sheets, cloned VC firms and unauthorised crowdfunding sites: how scams aimed at founders work,…

October 7, 2026 · 10 min read

Fundraising

Y Combinator's Winter 2027 deadline is 2 November. What YC invests, how the form, the one-minute video and the interview…

October 7, 2026 · 10 min read

Fundraising

Crunchbase's Q3 2026 count, read from a founder's chair: the global total, the AI share, the billion-dollar rounds, seed and…

October 7, 2026 · 11 min read

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How to build a target list by stage, ticket size, sector and place, where Italian founders can look, how to…

October 6, 2026 · 10 min read

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What it takes to be an innovative startup in Italy in 2026, how long the status lasts, what you get…

October 6, 2026 · 10 min read

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Equal or unequal? Carta's latest data on founder splits, five factors worth weighing, how vesting and the cliff work, a…

October 6, 2026 · 9 min read

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What to put in the first email to an investor who doesn't know you: fit, subject line, five sentences, attachments,…

October 5, 2026 · 11 min read

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Carta puts the median seed-stage pool at 11.8%. How to size yours, why a pool inside the pre-money comes out…

October 5, 2026 · 10 min read

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Ten mistakes that get a deck closed in two minutes, each with a before-and-after rewrite of an invented startup's slide,…

October 5, 2026 · 9 min read

Fundraising

The six building blocks of a 36-month startup financial model, why hiring in Italy costs more than the salary, and…

October 5, 2026 · 9 min read

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