The Hum Capital Blog
Expert insights, tips, and tools to help you raise the funds you need to grow your business.
Hum Client Spotlight: SetSchedule
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. Udi Dorner is the COO at SetSchedule, a real estate…
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Building the Perfect Fundraising Data Room
In a recent post titled Right-Timing Your Fundraise, Wavemaker Partners’ Mikal Khoso described fundraising as telling a story illuminated by relevant metrics. Those metrics are consolidated in a fundraising data room. A natural next question for anyone raising capital should therefore be “What does the perfect data room look like?” As Hum Capital’s Co-Founder, President,…
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Hum Capital 2021 Year in Review
2021 has been an exceptional and exciting year at Hum Capital. We’ve grown our team and put together a dynamic executive leadership team, introduced our funding platform to the world, and closed our next round of funding — all in support of our continued mission of “connecting great companies with the right capital.” After two…
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Right-Timing Your Fundraise
For a founder, startup fundraising often lurks like the monster in the closet. It’s one more thing on a to-do list. But without a clear sense of when to start, it’s easy to push off your fundraising. We caught up with Wavemaker Partners’ Mikal Khoso, an investor in Hum, to learn more about right-timing your…
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Hum-an Stories: Q&A with EVP of Research and Development Chris Dolezalek
This interview is part of Hum-an Stories, a Q&A series with Hum Capital Leadership, companies, and investors providing a look under the hood at what drives Hum and its Intelligent Capital Market. Chris Dolezalek (CD) has been in the startup game a long time — five stints, seeing two IPOs and three acquisitions. But his career…
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Hum Webinar Recap: Ready to Raise? Time Your Fundraise Like a Pro
On November 18th, 2021, the Hum Capital team convened a panel of experts to discuss fundraising readiness, how to tell your company’s story, and when to pursue different types of financing when raising capital. Basile Senesi, Hum’s Chief Revenue Officer, moderated the panel, which included the following rockstar lineup: Mikal Khoso, Investor at Wavemaker Partners…
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Hum Capital Expands into Equity Financing, Bringing True Choice to Fundraising
Less than 6 months after launching our Intelligent Capital Market (ICM), an AI-driven funding platform offering private companies a new way to raise non-dilutive financing, we are excited to announce our expansion into supporting equity financing. With our newly-secured broker/dealer license, Hum can now advise companies on equity raises, advancing our mission to become the…
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Flexstrapping: The Flexible Financing Model
At the heart of building a company is funding ongoing operations. Typically, the founder has an idea, maybe even an operating company, but needs more capital to grow. To bring that idea to fruition, the founder can sell equity to venture capitalists; self-fund through reinvesting revenues (also known as bootstrapping); or borrow money from banks…
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