Ask HN: How do startups decide which VC firms to approach first?

Re:Ask HN: How do startups decide which VC firms to approach... by muzani on Thursday February 03, 2022 @02:06AM (#30189578)

I know a guy who was very effective at this. He just made a list of every VC in the region (SE Asia) and pitched to all of them. There's probably more VCs in California than the all of SEA though. VCs try to make themselves visible.

I'd say accelerators/incubators take the place of agents. You don't really need the starting investment much of the time, but selling part of the company for 10% early on to handle networking is often a pretty good deal.

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Re:Ask HN: How do startups decide which VC firms to approach... by Wangta on Thursday February 03, 2022 @06:56AM (#30191341)

Great point. Hadn't thought of the accelerators like that - we're fortunate to have our first employees willing to work without needing much cash and we can self-fund for awhile, so we didn't think accelerators were necessary.

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