# Fundraising Articles

## [Building a Deep Tech Company? Most Startup Advice Doesn’t Apply — Read This Instead](https://review.firstround.com/building-a-deep-tech-company-most-startup-advice-doesnt-apply-read-this-instead/)

Learn from Loyal founder Celine Halioua’s rigorous approach to milestone-based planning, fundraising and multi-product strategy.

## [Here’s What You Can Really Expect When Pitching Your Seed-Stage Startup at a VC Partner Meeting](https://review.firstround.com/heres-what-you-can-really-expect-when-pitching-your-seed-stage-startup-at-a-vc-partner-meeting/)

There isn't much advice to guide founders on navigating their first VC partner meeting. So First Round Partner and former founder Liz Wessel shares her playbook for seed-stage startups tackling one of fundraising's most opaque processes.

## [The Not So Cookie-Cutter Approach to Company Building — 8 Lessons from Zapier](https://review.firstround.com/the-not-so-cookie-cutter-approach-to-company-building-8-lessons-from-zapier/)

Wade Foster, founder and CEO of Zapier, shares his contrarian takes on building a billion-dollar company — from fundraising advice, go-to-market strategy, and hiring mistakes.

## [AI Hot Takes and Unusual Twitter Fundraising Strategies with Dan Siroker (Rewind AI)](https://review.firstround.com/podcast/ai-hot-takes-and-unusual-twitter-fundraising-strategies-with-dan-siroker-rewind-ai/)

Dan Siroker is the co-founder and CEO at Rewind AI, a personalized AI powered by everything you’ve seen, said, or heard. Dan launched Rewind to an emphatic response on Twitter, and used a public pitch video to fundraise at a $350m valuation.

## [Step-by-Step Fundraising Tactics from the NYC Legend Who Raised $750M](https://review.firstround.com/step-by-step-fundraising-tactics-from-the-nyc-legend-who-raised-750m/)

Kevin Ryan has spent decades on both sides of the fundraising table. Here, he provides secrets seldom shared for getting and keeping VCs interested before closing the deal.

## [How Zapier Pulled Off Its One-and-Done Approach to Fundraising](https://review.firstround.com/how-zapier-pulled-off-its-one-and-done-approach-to-fundraising/)

Zapier CEO and Co-founder Wade Foster is a fundraising contrarian. But he doesn't think he should be. He shares how it's possible to approach financing as a boost — not a crutch — and ways to approach key business decisions early on to keep the itch to fundraise at bay.

## [The Fundraising Wisdom That Helped Our Founders Raise Billions in Follow-On Capital](https://review.firstround.com/the-fundraising-wisdom-that-helped-our-founders-raise-18b-in-follow-on-capital/)

First Round launched its Pitch Assist program to help founders raise follow-on capital. Here are the most important fundraising lessons we share.

## [AppNexus' First Pitch — Before It Steered Around the Cloud to Win Big in AdTech](https://review.firstround.com/appnexus-first-pitch-before-it-steered-around-the-cloud-to-win-big-in-adtech/)

AppNexus opens the vault and shares its very first seed funding pitch deck, created before its impressive pivot.

## [What the Seed Funding Boom Means for Raising a Series A](https://review.firstround.com/what-the-seed-funding-boom-means-for-raising-a-series-a/)

Josh Kopelman on why raising a Series A is harder than ever, and how startups can adapt to survive the changing investment landscape.

## [You Aren't Getting the Most Out of Your Investors — This is How to Start](https://review.firstround.com/you-arent-getting-the-most-out-of-your-investors-this-is-how-to-start/)

Angel investor Paul Arnold has seen many companies fail to capitalize on the wisdom and resources of their investors. Here's how others have succeeded.

## [Not Another VC Blog - First Round Review](https://review.firstround.com/not-another-vc-blog-first-round-review/)

Introducing The First Round Review, the first VC-run publication providing actionable insights from the top people in technology.

## [Zach Sims of Codecademy on Lessons in Raising $12.5 Million for the First Time](https://review.firstround.com/zach-sims-of-codecademy-on-lessons-in-raising-125-million-for-the-first-time/)

Codecademy CEO and Co-founder Zach Sims shares what he learned about choosing the right investors for his company.