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Expert insights, tips, and tools to help you raise the funds you need to grow your business.
Startup Market Swings Call for a More Balanced Fundraising Plan
This article was originally published on The Information’s Forum. As a founder, the market’s wild mood swings can leave you feeling like no matter what you do, your business is never good enough. In 2021, the market message was that companies weren’t ambitious enough and should be raising more capital to grow faster. If you…
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Hum-an Stories: Q&A with VP of Sales Chris Reilly
This interview is part of Hum-an Stories, a Q&A series with Hum Capital leadership and employees providing a look under the hood at what drives Hum and its funding platform, the Intelligent Capital Market. Chris Reilly is one of Hum’s longest tenured employees, starting in August 2020 as one of the company’s first hires focused…
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Hum Client Spotlight: Passport Technology
Our Client Spotlight series features business leaders, entrepreneurs, and company executives from high-growth companies who have successfully fundraised via Hum’s Intelligent Capital Market. Each Q&A will discuss why they started the company, challenges they faced in scaling, and why they chose to partner with Hum. Passport Technology is a leading developer of tech-based solutions and…
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Examining a SaaS Company’s Product-Market Fit and Unit Economics During Fundraising
In part 1 of our 3-part blog series on analyzing customer transaction data, we identified 5 types of customer transaction analytics to gather and understand prior to raising capital. For part 2, we’ve taken a real company that has fundraised via our Intelligent Capital Market (ICM) to showcase an actual customer transaction analysis to help…
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Hum-an Stories: Q&A with VP of Design Krista McDonald
This interview is part of Hum-an Stories, a Q&A series with Hum Capital leadership and employees providing a look under the hood at what drives Hum and its funding platform, the Intelligent Capital Market. Krista McDonald has been at Hum a little over a year leading product design and UX. In essence, she’s the design…
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5 Reasons to Raise Venture Debt Immediately After Your Equity Round
A version of this article was originally published on Entrepreneur. Every founder knows how stressful it can be to raise equity for their company, especially when markets are in turmoil and venture dollars are drying up. When you have finally closed a funding round, all you want to do is get back to running your…
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Hum Client Spotlight: Gluteboost
Our Client Spotlight series features business leaders, entrepreneurs, and company executives from high-growth companies who have successfully fundraised via Hum’s Intelligent Capital Market. Each Q&A will discuss why they started the company, challenges they faced in scaling, and why they chose to partner with Hum. Susana Campanella is the CEO of Gluteboost, a health and…
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Hum-an Stories: Q&A with Director of Product Marketing Tony Ouk
This interview is part of Hum-an Stories, a Q&A series with Hum Capital leadership and employees providing a look under the hood at what drives Hum and its funding platform, the Intelligent Capital Market. Tony Ouk has been at Hum a little over a year leading product marketing. He serves as the bridge between Product,…
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