Learn how to fundraise and get accountability from founders who raised over $180M🤑
If you're fundraising this fall, don't miss this opportunity to easily 3x your chances to walk away with money in the bank vs broken hopes and dreams. Learn from the top founders/investors who have raised a combined $1B in venture funding over their careers and apply our "parallel fundraising" playbook to practice. You'll get to be a part of a committed group of peer founders, possibly getting a shit ton of intros from each other.
Hosted by Socap.ai & Alexander Nevedovsky with expert participation of ​Slava Solonitsyn.
They're both repeat founders (Slava is also an ex-VC with 2 unicorns from his seed portfolio) backed by YC/bunch of Silicon Valley VCs. They've raised over $180M in their careers so know a thing or two about this and can share it with you 🙈
Join the next async cohort in February 2025 to increase your fundraising chances
Fully remote/online and async with occasional community sessions
In our mission to democratize knowledge, we want to give opportunity to everyone, no matter where you're located (with the sanctioned countries being the exceptions — you wouldn't be able to raise anyways if you're living there).
Most of our alums are based either out of the US (50%) or the EU (40%) with the remainder located in various Asian countries.
Active bootcamp commitment lasts 4 weeks
  • Every week, you'll be given an assignment with content to read and watch (1.5-2h), and some tasks to do
  • At the start of the bootcamp you'll be given access to the Socap.ai Fundraising Bootcamp playbook with guides, templates, databases and basically everything you'll ever need to support your fundraise
  • Occasionally we host group Office Hours (some with invited guests!) where we help you dig through the progress you're making and challenges you're facing
Meet the instructors
Slava Solonitsyn is a two-time Y Combinator alum, having founded Intently (W23) and Mighty Buildings 2 (W18), and has successfully raised over $180M from top Silicon Valley and international VCs, including Khosla Ventures.
Previously, he ran his own venture firm, investing in seed-stage companies, with 2 out of 17 investments, Boom and Solugen, becoming unicorns. Slava boasts a strong connection with over 500 VCs globally through his personal CRM. His expertise extends beyond Silicon Valley, with significant experience in Singapore/South-East Asia and Europe.
Alexander Nevedovsky is a seasoned AI entrepreneur who was on the founding team of WANNA (acquired by Farfetch in 2022) and an EiR at Palta (100M users).
Alex also co-founded (and failed) a bunch of other smaller startups like Writingmate, Alms, and others.
Read alum testimonials
Immersive Valley Experience
"This bootcamp gave me the actual Valley vibes even though we're located in Frankfurt."


Eric-Jan Krausch,
Founder of 1-CP
Grateful for the Community
"Really glad to be a part of the bootcamp and cohort – thanks for running this! Would love to be involved in the community in the future. Thanks guys!"

Marcelo Andrade,
Founder of Dreamwriter
Networking sessions with prominent founders and VCs
"It is invaluable to see actions and hear grounded ideas from dreamer-executors who are peers and experts like Slava and Alex."
Amit Pande,
Founder fo Parametr AI Labs
Useful content to refine your strategies
"I did fundraising before and raised $10M for the company. This event help us check what I have missed and refinded my fundraising strategy. It is really helpful. "
Junhao Hu,
Founder of CardioStory
Why you should absolutely join our bootcamps if you're raising?
Most founders don't really understand what fundraising is. They are driven by leads — running towards them when they come, a classic example of sequential/random fundraising, where there is virtually no system.
If you’re raising for 6 months — you're already a spoiled product, stale fruit 🍎
The right way to approach this is to build a process around fundraising: maximally concentrated in time, with lots of warm leads, activated at the right moment ⏱️
If you have good traction/metrics and use this process, you're almost guaranteed to close the round. Investors are sitting on piles of money and they need to invest in something not to have their asses kicked by LPs. There’s always 1% of startups that consistently raise and your goal is to get to this 1% (outcompeting other less experienced founders) 💰🌟
2024 is all about even more prep work in order to understand who’s active, and how’s bluffing (wasting your time). We’re going to share how to NOT do the prep and what/who you should avoid.
With the bootcamp, we provide you with a deep dive into YC style best fundraising practices and give you a supportive environment to go and raise, period:
  1. Share the “off the record” ins and outs of parallel fundraising playbook with real-life examples/stories we’re never going to share anywhere else publicly
  1. Help you understand your momentum and fundraising timeline not to make the wrong (too early/too late) decision
  1. Provide you with an accountability group of peer founders (your first taskforce members if you don’t have any yet!)
  1. Help you to refine your story/narrative and pitch materials to meet the expectation of top VCs
  1. Share with you our exclusive Socap.ai playbook with tons of useful content: from investor databases to guides, tools, templates and much more
We have already successfully run over 8 cohorts in the last year or so! Over 150 companies have participated in the bootcamp, including a bunch of YC alums, exited founders, deeptech founders and more.
Dozens and dozens of them have went on to successfully raise — we've recently started a regular "community spotlight series" on our socials in order to share their wins.
Explore detailed curriculums for the 4-week bootcamp (expandable)

If you’re trying to figure out where to start, what strategy to use, or what key information you need to know before you dive into fundraising

Week 1 Fundamentals of parallel fundraising and the importance of building a strong task force. Week 2 Understand the VC industry dynamics and the power of networking. Week 3 Craft a compelling pitchdeck and how to set up key milstones of fundraising process Week 4 Coffee vs. Pitch meetings. How to differentiate your approach when reaching out to angels and VCs.

If you’re already in the fundraising process, and want to stay on track, making sure you’re aligned with best practices

Week 1 Streamlining your fundraising process, ensuring your materials are cohesive and impactful. Week 2 Timeline of your fundraising. How and when to conduct meetings with investors. Inside of their decision-making process. Week 3 Financial and legal considerations, due diligence, and effective outreach strategies. Week 4 Investor relations practices and manage post-investment updates.

Join now to get a boost to your fundraising
You can choose one the 2 ways to participate:
Once you do this, we'll follow up with all org details:
  • Workspace and playbook details
  • Regular emails/comms
If you have any questions left, email us at sergei@socap.ai and we'll help you!
FAQ (expandable)

Who are the bootcamps for?

Pre-seed founders Raising from angels and/or syndicating VCs Seed founders Raising from a lead investor Seed+ founders Raising your second institutional round 🙋 It would definitely be a good fit if you are raising (or planning to raise) a proper pre-seed/seed/seed+ round this fall

What is the goal of our bootcamps?

🔥 By the end of the bootcamp, you’ll have a proven YC’s style fundraising playbook (working fundraising process). You will also get access to the closed accountability group: you’ll be able to share updates, receive deck feedback, and get help with introductions. Lastly, you will get the opportunity to use us, the instructors, for real-time feedback. The ideal outcome of learning about startup fundraising is successfully fundraising for your current startup. The teaching method, curriculum, logistics, and everything else are worked backward from this goal. However, the business of fundraising is tricky. We can guarantee that you will be able to raise the funding you want at some point, but when and how much largely depends on you and your startup. “Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime”.

What will I get out of participation?

✅ Our personal guidance and attention ✅ A limited number of participants ✅ Closed chat and accountability group ✅ Lifetime access to the community ✅ Personalization of curriculum according to your needs/questions ✅ Live participation in networking sessions with other folks

Why is the bootcamp paid?

Socap.ai is a venture-backed startup and our main product is not the bootcamp — it's the software platform which helps entrepreneurs unlock the hidden value of their networks and find intro paths to whoever they need talk to. We host these bootcamps because we want to share our knowledge and YC-style playbook with the broader community of founders — also providing them with the discount to try out our software. We've tried hosting bootcamps for free as an experiment — and while some founders (about 25% or 1/4 ) found a lot of value and were highly engaged, most (3/4) treated the bootcamp poorly, not showing their commitment. Not to us — to their own fundraise! Let's face it — free things are always worse than non-free things. With that knowledge in mind, we want to make sure that founders who are participating do this not because they saw this shiny free thing, but because they want to actually learn and raise — which is why we ask every founder to commit $499 for their participation (or $149, if you'd choose a reduced tariff). You can also add another founder for 50% discount ($249). Since we're not focused on making money on these bootcamps, we also provide limited amount of scholarships — so if you think that you really need to participate in the bootcamp but absolutely can't afford it, please contact us and share your story.