How we raised a $1.5M pre-seed on our own terms, using our own app (2021)

tldr:

- have investors register their interest and learn all the general details about product, team and mission before you actually accept to meet with them! set the terms and tell investors that these are the terms they are looking for ;) also tell investors that if they ever drop communications for more than 48h, they are considered out/not interested.

all together, go into the raise with high confidence and try to create as much deal pressure (in terms of time window and building interest) as possible.

we sent everyone from tiger capital to sequoia through this process, with nobody dropping of at the registration/quest step.

there were also a few other startups that used our template successfully for their first or subsequent raise.

let it bang!