Fundraising for the first time might be hard - persistence and tenacity will get you through it. Put together a pitch deck, demo, maybe a 1-pager, and a spreadsheet of every founder and investor you know. Start lining up meetings, and your pitch will get better every time. You might do hundreds of them. Your first check will likely come from a personal connection, then it will snowball from there.

Take checks as SAFEs - YC has a standard one you can download that everyone trusts. I would watch all the YC startup school videos on fundraising if you haven’t already, lots of great advice in there.

It only takes 1 yes for a round to come together.