Learn how to fundraise from founders who raised $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.
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 last (in 2024!) 4-week cohort starting on 2nd of December
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 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.
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:
- 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
- Help you understand your momentum and fundraising timeline not to make the wrong (too early/too late) decision
- Provide you with an accountability group of peer founders (your first taskforce members if you don’t have any yet!)
- Help you to refine your story/narrative and pitch materials to meet the expectation of top VCs
- 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.