Cutting through the Noise
Michael SchneiderFundraising stories that don't waste your time. One founder story per edition.
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Both of His Co-Founders Left reebuild. He Raised €3M Anyway.
Two exits, a cap-table rebuild, and a seed round that came out the other side.
On October 13, Alexander Kornell announced that reebuild, the Vienna construction-tech startup he co-founded in 2022, had raised a €3 million seed round led by...
A $60M Seed, Priced Like a Series B, Four Months After Founding
Benchmark and Index co-led it. His old boss personally wrote a check. The product had barely shipped.
Moritz Stephan spent two years at Cognition building the planning-and-execution harness behind Devin, then became chief of staff to CEO S...
Rejected by a Bank in 2023, $6.5M, Then $35M: How Baselayer Built the Identity Layer for AI Agents
How a failed bank account turned into the identity layer for AI agents, and the year it took one investor to see it.
The Founder and the Company
Six Products, One Weekend: How Firecrawl Turned Its Own Frustration Into $90M
Six failed products, one open-source weekend, and a customer who became an investor twice.
Three CS students, zero fundraising ecosystem
What Happens When the Customer Is an AI Agent, Not a Person?
SolvaPay raised on a bet that nobody has designed for this yet. Visa, Mastercard and Stripe now seem to agree.
In June, Mastercard rolled out something called Agent Pay for Machines. A month before that, Visa, Stripe, Google, AWS, Cloudfla...
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