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To understand what’s happening with seed rounds in 2024, TechCrunch+ spoke with three seasoned investors who offered advice for founders looking to raise.

Seed funding: Everything founders should know about fundraising, seed rounds and more for 2024

Before you start planning how you’ll demonstrate your product, you first need to consider whether you need a demo at all.

Demos aren’t as important as you think for your VC pitch

If you haven’t found traction with customers and aren’t generating revenue, you should be in fundraising mode already.

How to stretch your venture dollars

It’s OK for a founder to jump into an emerging hype cycle, but only if they have a genuine interest in that area that reaches back in time.

3 VCs weigh in on when to follow the hype cycle — and when to ignore it

If you’d like to know what investors are looking for, how they want to be approached and what they’re most likely to ask, keep reading.

How to pitch me: 7 investors discuss what they’re looking for in September 2023

Companies often attempt to raise from VCs despite knowing they can’t possibly deliver venture-scale returns.

Not all companies need to be venture-scale

If AI is essential to your solution, you should be prepared to explain the measurable impact it has on your product offering.

Here’s how we raised a Series B for our AI startup during a downturn

There is no question that this market is tough for tech startups. But even in tough markets, there are many survivors.

Operational and finance tips for early-stage startups in a tough market

As we meet with many AI-native founders, here are the top five pieces of company-building advice we’re sharing with them.

5 questions investors should be asking inception-stage generative AI founders

Fund of funds are designed to give funds access. Newer FoF strategies can help LPs get access to emerging managers.

Fund of funds are starting to play a different role for venture LPs

The CFO stack has some investors quite excited, but the data so far describes a trend that may not be in these companies’ favor.

Will software for CFOs create a bright spot in a battered fintech market?