Y Combinator's Guide to Seed Fundraising

The ini­tial cap­i­tal raised by a com­pany is typ­i­cally called “seed” cap­i­tal. This brief guide is a sum­mary of what startup founders need to know about rais­ing the seed funds crit­i­cal to get­ting their com­pany off the ground. This is not in­tended to be a com­plete guide to fundrais­ing. It in­cludes only the basic knowl­edge most founders will need. The in­for­ma­tion comes from my ex­pe­ri­ences work­ing at star­tups, in­vest­ing in star­tups, and ad­vis­ing star­tups at Y Com­bi­na­tor and Imag­ine K12. YC part­ners nat­u­rally gain a lot of fundrais­ing ex­pe­ri­ence and YC founder Paul Gra­ham (PG) has writ­ten ex­ten­sively on the topic 1, 2, 3, 4. His es­says cover in more de­tail much of what is con­tained in this guide and are highly rec­om­mended read­ing.

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