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We leveraged the groundswell of support to close the round. By this point, we’d raised $2.3M without a single pitch meeting. It was a result of natural enthusiasm: taking care of the people who made us who we are, giving them the chance to move first, and letting their enthusiasm drive our leverage with VCs — who, by this point, got interested.
How We Just Raised $6M At An $80M Valuation From 100+ Investors Using A Link (Without Pitching)
Semil Shah
Abie Cohen • 1 card
Accel Partners, one of the top brand-name VC firms, invested a small part of its ninth fund to lead the series A round in Facebook. Seven years later, Facebook had an IPO valuing the company at $100 billion, giving the initial investment at least a 300x return.
Ali Tamaseb • Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups
UpEquity - latest YC batch.
Tomio Geron • Startups That Offer New Paths to Homeownership
WeWork raised $40 million from investors, led by DAG Ventures, a private equity firm that often invested bigger checks into companies that Benchmark had already backed. The Series B round valued WeWork at $440 million—double the offer from Goldman Sachs.
Reeves Wiedeman • Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
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