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£2M in 14 days. No endless investor loops.
@danmurrays raised @yourheights' round faster than most founders even draft their first deck.
But the speed wasn't luck - it came down to knowing exactly what they would and wouldn’t accept before the first investor conversation. And not being greedy.
In this episode of the RAISE podcast, Daniel breaks down the anatomy of that raise:
→ How long-term thinking (and serious investment in clinical trials) shaped their investor story
→ The deal-breaker terms they refused before speaking to a single investor
→ Protecting control even when capital was on the table
The emotional side of fundraising rarely gets talked about honestly. Daniel goes there. Fundraising messes with your head. Daniel doesn’t sugarcoat that either.
If you’re raising or thinking about it, this is worth your time.
Watch here 👇
youtu.be/ovQlN162nMk?is=N8OX…
So what’s the deal with Space Bunny Alpha and why are people obsessively using it?
Super curious to hear use cases, work flows and anything else.
Learn how @AlfieGWhattam raise £1m for @welovealfa_ai in a matter of months, while changing gears and company strategy part way through the raise. It’s a smart playbook you can steal from: linktr.ee/nickrkatz
The world's most forested countries aren't the ones with the most forest.
Suriname is 94% trees. Gabon 91%. Finland 74%.
All fifteen of them hold about 3.5% of the world's forest between them.
Russia has 20% - and is only half covered.
It’s just nuts to me that I can water my garden and code multiple products at the same time using Claude code
Alguém conhece alguém que esteja desenvolvendo soluções de *proptech* para o mercado de locação em Portugal? Marque essa pessoa aqui.
Anyone out there know someone building rental market #proptech in Portugal tag them into this. theportugalnews.com/news/202…
Enterprise #proptech at pre-seed (and often seed) is brutal: 6-12 month sales cycles, tiny logo counts, VCs squinting at your traction slide.
The founders breaking through aren’t landing more logos. They’re making each logo compound.
Land one building. Expand to the portfolio. Then the department next door.
NRR is the whole game when new logos arrive slowly.
No one knows who the outer hamster is anymore.
The internet started as humans using tools.
Then it became humans using AI.
Now it's increasingly AI using other AI.
One agent spins up another agent.
Which calls another agent.
Which prompts another agent.
Which debugs another agent.
Meanwhile the human is watching Instagram Shorts.
The hamster wheel isn't the joke.
The fact that the wheel itself is made of smaller hamster wheels is the joke.
The most surreal conversation I had this morning was someone explaining a plugin that lets you watch short-form content while your agents work.
I laughed.
Then realised watching agents build other agents is basically becoming its own form of entertainment.
At some point, nobody is quite sure who's working anymore.
🐹
It also tapped into this concept that seems to be obsessing the world of AI right now, which is recursive AI. What's more recursive than an infinitely recurring hamster in a wheel?! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurs…
3 rounds and companies I’m working with now. Let me know if interested.
We want angels and funds who
- care about teams and HR and next level recruitment systems
- a way to accelerate property transactions by 1900%
- a global space optimisation platform
for hybrid workforces already at enterprise scale.
#angel #investor #venturecapital
The best seed decks in 2026 all feel the same in one way:
Less “the market is huge.”
More “here’s why we’re winning already.”
VCs are rewarding traction density over TAM theater 🎭
I invested in Fifth Dimension back in 2023 because the thesis was simple:
Real estate runs on PDFs, spreadsheets, disconnected systems and institutional chaos.
AI was always going to eat that stack.
Now Fifth Dimension has announced a $26M Series A led by HV Capital. 🚀
Trillions in assets run through the platform already.
This is what vertical AI looks like when it targets real workflows, real pain and real enterprise ROI.
Big congrats to Kate Jarvis, Johnny Morris and the whole team 👏 and other investors @seedcamp @speedinvest @anthemis @morris_manuel @FoundationVC
