💶 Best Times To Fundraise

👋 Hi there - it’s Egemen. Thanks for reading this edition of Scalable.

Wow, what a quarter…

Summer / late-summer periods were supposed to be the low-touch, easy times. This was quite the opposite - great problem to have 😄

I’ve prepared a Q3 recap for you, so in case you missed any frameworks, or top-rated templates and news we had, sharing the best ones in this edition.

Here’s a snapshot of what’s on the menu today:

☝️ Scaled This Quarter

This has been quite an eventful Q3 for early stage (Pre-seed to Series A) level funding.

Here are some of the highlights that you should check out:

👉 There is clearly a dominant trend around Gen AI and Fintech startups, watch out!

🧠 Deep-Dive: Best Times to Fundraise

As we close off Q3, let me share a golden tip I learned recently in an e-book I read.

👉 The time period between September, October, and November (up until Thanksgiving) is the peak fundraising window for a lot of VCs before the year ends.

VC firms host annual meetings in the Fall to bring their LPs together and they also invite some of their portfolio founders to meet everyone. Investors rush to do deals before the end of the year. There’s great activity happening everywhere during the autumn months.

After Thanksgiving (3rd Thursday of November) until January is pretty stale, so beware.

January and February, the first parts of the year, are a good window of time to start fundraising. The first week of January is an extension of the end-of-year holidays. So if you raise in the new year, wait until the 2nd or 3rd week of January.

Apparently, best times to fundraise are the Spring months: March, April, and May. There aren’t too many major holidays. Right before Summer before everything slows down and people start taking those PTOs.

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