Securing $135M Our Rare Silicon Valley Funding Strategy

This video describes how Celona raised $135M by targeting top-tier VCs and strategically using fundraising to block out competition.

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This video describes how Celona raised $135M by targeting top-tier VCs and strategically using fundraising to block out competition. The founder shares advice on patience and surrounding oneself with the right people to raise capital smarter and faster.

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And so there was an opportunity in our very first round to potentially take less dilution, raise a smaller round and defer having all of them in our board. But we consciously said no, we're going to actually take the extra dilution. But what that will do is in 18 months or 24 months when the idea becomes obvious to other people, they will not have access to these investors anymore. And I think that has been very big element of where we are. So 6 years after we have started the company, we have raised 135 million in a market that is growing quite well. And believe it or not, this is such a rare thing in Silicon Valley. Not a single company has raised anything close to what we have done. Just think of that,

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