The Hum Capital Blog
Expert insights, tips, and tools to help you raise the funds you need to grow your business.
Hum Webinar Recap – Renaissance in the Private Markets: How Fundraising is Changing for Founders
On February 15th, 2022, Hum Capital brought together leaders who are disrupting the private capital markets. The panel featured: Lucinda Shen, Axios Fintech Reporter (moderator) Blair Silverberg, Hum Capital CEO Miguel Larrea Fernandez, Capchase CEO Ben Wu, Brex Asset Management CEO This webinar was a first-of-its-kind conversation that shed light on the rapid changes happening…
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Hum-an Stories: Q&A with COO Chipp Norcross
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. After serving as a consultant in the latter half of 2021, Chipp Norcross officially joined the Hum Capital team as COO at the…
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How Hum Capital & Capchase’s Partnership Helped SetSchedule Revolutionize Real Estate
The rise of SaaS and cloud-based technologies has made it easier than ever before to build a transformational business. While capital to help grow these businesses is abundant, the fundraising process is inefficient, lacking in transparency, and often a barrier for potential growth. The rise of alternative capital providers offering newer startup financing options and…
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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, an American technology…
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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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