#140 - Aaron Harris on Fundraising and Meeting with Investors

Aaron Harris is a Partner at YC and before that he cofounded Tutorspree. He’s on Twitter @harris . The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon . Y Combinator invests a small amount of money ($150k) in a large number of startups (recently 200), twice a year. Learn more about YC and apply for funding here: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/ *** Topics 00:00 - Intro 00:42 - Seed fundraising process 3:32 - Emailing investors 9:32 - Parallelized fundraising process 12:17 - Meeting with investors 14:17 - Overcapitalization 17:07 - Communicating your plan to investors 19:02 - Evaluating investors 22:57 - Fundraising process for a Series A company 27:02 - Meeting Series A investors 28:57 - Post-Demo Day psychology