
Inside Startup Funding
Hosted by Helena Fogarty · Helena Fogarty
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- 23
- Episodes
- 5
- Transcribed
- 1
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About Inside Startup Funding
Inside Startup Funding is a multi-format podcast, content platform, & community— sponsored by Bamboo X and hosted by Fundraising Expert Helena Fogarty —designed to demystify how startup capital really moves, from the first check to the pressures of scale. Follow us on YouTube, LinkedIn and Substack to get notified of new episode drops, monthly events, and special livestreams. Inside Startup Funding is sponsored by Bamboo X, a New York and Bay Area recruiting partner to startups building technical and design teams. Their team of recruiters have supported over 200 startups in building elite teams from mid-level hires through to executive leaders. For more info visit bamboo-x.com
- Publisher
- Helena Fogarty
- Category
- business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 3 Sept 2025
- Latest episode
- 18 Mar 2026
Latest episodes
5 of 23 episodes have a transcript.

18 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT
Jess Schram on Founder Fraud, Defensibility, and What VCs Really Look For

11 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT
Founder Quality, Investor Fit, and Early-Stage Fundraising with Andrea Hippeau of Lerer Hippeau

4 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT
Oren Michels (Barndoor AI): Raising $13.6M Pre-Product and Why Fundraising Is Theater
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Jess Schram on Founder Fraud, Defensibility, and What VCs Really Look For
Published 18 Mar 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So I'm speaking on behalf of myself, but I've seen a massive shift on about the archetype of which type of founder is going to be super successful. I think in the past, it used to be the engineer archetype or if you're a founder, you need some type of engineer co -founder CTO. Now before people come at me in comments of this, you know, of this podcast, there's still it is still true that there are some foundational technology where if you're building for developers or if you're building a biotech or life sciences company, first mover advantage really is your mode. Just building the thing is defensible because it is so hard to build and requires a lot of time, attention, energy, and approvals from government, et cetera. […]
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- Jess Schram
- Andrea Hippeau
- Oren Michels
- Nima Roohi
- Justin Kang
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