Additional Crunch Reside is all about serving to founders construct higher venture-backed companies. Naturally, we do that by having candid conversations with founders and their buyers.
On an upcoming episode of Additional Crunch Reside, we’ll sit down with MaC Enterprise Capital founding managing companion Marlon Nichols and Wonderschool co-founder and CEO Chris Bennett. REGISTER HERE FOR FREE!
Not solely will we talk about how they got here collectively for Wonderschool’s seed spherical in 2017, however how that translated into what has turn out to be a complete of $24 million in funding from VCs like a16z and First Spherical Capital.
We’ll additionally host the Additional Crunch Reside Pitch-off, the place of us within the viewers can pitch their startup to Nichols and Bennett to get their reside suggestions.
Nichols is a former Kauffman Fellow and Funding Director at Intel Capital. His portfolio contains Gimlet Media, MongoDB, Thrive Market, PlayVS, Honest, LISNR, Mayvenn, Blavity and Wonderschool. Nichols is aware of greater than most of us will ever find out about seed-stage fundraising, and even gave a chat at TechCrunch Early Stage in April that outlines 4 methods for securing seed funding.
We’ll get even deeper on that topic with Nichols, and listen to the angle from the opposite facet of the desk with Bennett.
Wonderschool is a community of early childhood packages that mix the standard of top-notch early schooling with an in-home setting.
Bennett can discuss extensively on edtech as a sector, and we’ll choose each his and Nichols’ thoughts on that fast-growing house.
Don’t overlook that this episode will function an Additional Crunch Reside Pitch-off, so founders within the viewers must be able to “increase their hand” and get within the combine.
The episode goes down on Wednesday, June 16 at 3 p.m. ET/midday PT. Additional Crunch Reside is accessible to anybody who desires to attend, however on-demand entry to the content material, together with the whole library of ECL episodes, is reserved solely for Additional Crunch members. Be a part of now to take a look at what Aileen Lee, Roelof Botha, Mark Cuban and extra needed to say on earlier episodes of ECL.
