Podcasts Business Fundraising Radio: Early Stage Startup Fundraising Attracting technical co-founders early on, raising from a corporate VC and how technical founders influence the fundraising - by Ahmad Abdulkader.

Attracting technical co-founders early on, raising from a corporate VC and how technical founders influence the fundraising - by Ahmad Abdulkader.

Published: May 20, 2020, 3:44 a.m.

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In this episode by Fundraising Radio, our guest speaker is Ahmad Abdulkader, the CTO and co-founder of Voicea that raised about $20 million and was recently acquired by Cisco. Ahmad tells about the role of technical people in the fundraising process, explains how to attract talent early on and how even a bad pitch can lead to an acquisition.

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Articles by Ahmad: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HZxrGFIAAAAJ&hl=en

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Article on how Voicea raised $14.5 mil: https://venturebeat.com/2018/03/07/voicera-raises-14-5-million-for-ai-that-draws-insights-from-meeting-notes/

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Invest in your host through an IPO: https://humanipo.app/id/konstantin.dubovitskiy

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