Raising a Series D. By Sid Viswanathan, Co-Founder at Truepill.
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Sid Viswanathan Co-Founder & President at Truepill talks about raising a Series D and how it is different from earlier rounds. We\'ve also touched onto the story of how prior to Truepill, Sid founded CardMunch, a business-card scanning app that was acquired by LinkedIn soon after its founding.
\\nSid\'s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sidviswanathan
\\nTruepill\'s site: www.truepill.com
\\nAnd of course, link to our course on fundraising at 70% discount (only until the 15th of January): https://bit.ly/StartupFundingCourse
\\nQuestions covered in this episode:
\\n- you\'ve spent 4 years at linkedin, when was the moment when did you decide to start the second company and how did you bump into the idea?
\\n- how did you meet your co-founder?
\\n- you recently raised a round D of 142 million dollars, how did you get there?
\\n- at round D, what\'s the major problem for a company?
\\n- looking back at your post-YC seed round, what do you think was your major mistake while raising it?
\\n- how much of Truepill\'s success is due to the fact that it got into YC a year after it was started?
\\n- you\'ve recently expanded into diagnostics, did you raise any money to fund the expansion specifically?