Having been a founder and helped others raise capital, I know firsthand how difficult it can be to navigate the process. I’m excited to share DocSend’s Startup Fundraising Playbook, a bundle of research for early-stage founders to raise with confidence and insider knowledge. 🚀

A true resource for any startup founder. Thanks DocSend for putting this together!

Hey PH friends! I've raised roughly ~$16m over the last 10 years and two startups. This was only possible because of advice from my peers and mentors. Excited to give back to founders by aggregating DocSend’s 2021 fundraising research into a playbook founders can use to benchmark and optimize their strategy. With that, we launched The Startup Fundraising Playbook! 🎉 Based on DocSend’s years of fundraising research from pre-seed to Series A, we’ve gathered all of it into a one-stop-shop for startup fundraising. Here’s what it is and why founders should bookmark it to use when fundraising: 🤷‍♂️ What: The Startup Fundraising Playbook bundles fundraising trends, bias, and do’s and don’ts in early-stage fundraising into a guide for founders raising capital. 🤔 Why: Our research demystifies the startup fundraising process and answers many questions founders have about raising $$. ✅ How: Our research combines survey data (from founders like you) on elements like demographic trends and investor outreach strategies with proprietary data from DocSend’s platform that reveals how founders structure their pitch decks and how investors read them. Founders use our research as a way to benchmark and develop their fundraising strategy. For each funding stage, founders can learn: • How many investors to contact • How many meetings to have • Which pitch deck slides matter most • Benchmarks for fundraising timelines 💰 Raising capital now or planning to soon? Dig into the Startup Fundraising Playbook to optimize your process and outreach. 📚 Bookmark our research and use it to benchmark your fundraising strategy. 👉 Get the research here: https://www.docsend.com/index/st... 🚀 Happy fundraising! Leave a comment or reach out on Twitter @rheddleston if you have any questions or feedback

What a valuable resource DocSend team!

Seems like a great resource for new founders! Congratulations!

Awesome job team DocSend! This is must have resource for all startups.

Love how this bundles fundraising trends, bias, and do’s and don’ts in early-stage fundraising into a guide for founders raising capital!

Bookmarked! Looking forward to using this in my fundraising strategy.

Thanks for this @rheddleston coming from a person who has proven it in practice is sooo valuable!

A startup founder's bible! Thanks DocSend.

Great resource! Thanks for sharing!

Wow - this is great @matthew_browne1 have you seen this! This will be massively useful for us!

Wow. This is such a great resource for founders. Thanks for sharing!

amazing

Sounds like a very useful resource for founders. Thanks for building it!

This is great! Thanks everyone who contributed 🤙

A great way to optimize your process and outreach! Thanks DocSend!

This is a cool product. Good luck guys.

Super timely for us. Thank you. @thinker @rheddleston 🤜✨🤛

Congrats on the launch!