Seed Round Fundraising Second Time Founder's Unique

Abhi Sharma, a second-time founder, raised over $60M for Relyance AI from top-tier investors. This episode delves into his unique strategies for seed-round.

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Abhi Sharma, a second-time founder, raised over $60M for Relyance AI from top-tier investors. This episode delves into his unique strategies for seed-round fundraising, emphasizing adaptability and a structured approach to team scaling and product development.

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Although overall net net we did not have a big challenge raising our seed round because as second time founder you always have a little bit more credibility. We had a great network of people and I do think that um people saw the uniqueness of how we were approaching the problem because seed runs are always about the far founder more than what the idea was and so we had a unique ying and yang of a deep machine learning expert subject matter expert coming together to solve a problem deep passion uh but it was interesting fundraising in that environment because we had uh all kinds of uh whatever we thought would happen in the plan it went opposite because of COVID in terms of just the time and logistics of of the fundraising.

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