Strong relationships with venture capitalists, built through prior successful collaborations, can enable founders to secure funding quickly without traditional pitch decks, as demonstrated by Kirk Donohoe who raised $5M in 48 hours by simply communicating his readiness to Harry Stebbings after establishing trust through previous work together.
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I'd worked with Harry Stebbings previously in Stride, which is a VC that Harry was part of with Red Swan.
And we also brought in NAP into the round, which is probably re-brands. We work with them and we went down as well. So the relationship has always been strong.
And so really, you know, I'd met with Claude a few times, we'd had a couple of chats. He knew exactly where I was at, didn't really know if I wanted to go again or not and and everything else with that. And then I said "I'm ready." And he's like, "Okay, we're ready." And it was that simple.
And then I WhatsApp'd Harry and I said, "I think I'm about to go again." And he's like, "Let's chat."
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