Helfrich: Instarail is raising a $1M pre-seed at a $5M pre-money valuation
Thomas Helfrich · Watch him pivot from $20k/mo consulting to pure play SaaS · Jun 3, 2022 · at 7:01
Thomas Helfrich, founder of Instarail.ai, outlines his upcoming fundraising terms and target to Nathan Latka.
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“We're starting to go through our seat. I'm going to call it a seat round, but it's probably actually a formal pre C round where we're going to Raising the one million five million pre money and come in.”
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