Zyper

6 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 18, 2019 by Amber Atherton · said 4 times in 1 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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Dec 18, 2019 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Atherton: Forerunner Ventures led Zyper's $4M seed pre-Demo Day
“Forerunner Ventures led our seed pre-demo day, and that was exciting. So we raised four million then”
Amber Atherton Dec 18, 2019 ▶ 4:24 Amber Atherton of Zyper and Iba Masood of TARA on Raising a Series A as a Female Founder · Y Combinator
Dec 18, 2019
Disclosure
Atherton: Zyper conducts board meetings only twice a year
“I think that we have, our cadence currently is twice a year.”
Amber Atherton Dec 18, 2019 ▶ 58:48 Amber Atherton of Zyper and Iba Masood of TARA on Raising a Series A as a Female Founder · Y Combinator
Dec 18, 2019 neutral
Opinion
Atherton: Founders cannot blame missing term sheets on gender or race
“Like, if you have a great product and great traction, then you have a hot deal, and like, any other kind of justification as to why you're not getting term sheet is, you can't really say that. Like, you either have product market fit and a hot deal, and that's…”
Amber Atherton Dec 18, 2019 ▶ 34:27 Amber Atherton of Zyper and Iba Masood of TARA on Raising a Series A as a Female Founder · Y Combinator
Dec 18, 2019
Assertion Supported
Atherton: Zyper raised $1.2M in London before applying to Y Combinator
“Started the company in 2017, and I raised raised 1.2 seed in London from a VC in London, and a lot of angels involved in that, great angels involved in that round two and then and then I applied to YC, and got in then.”
Amber Atherton Dec 18, 2019 ▶ 1:18 Amber Atherton of Zyper and Iba Masood of TARA on Raising a Series A as a Female Founder · Y Combinator
Dec 18, 2019 positive
Disclosure
Atherton: Zyper wrote its own investment memos to send to VCs
“What we did was kind of do the VC's jobs for them and Write, you know, a memo as to why you should invest in us. And that sort of went out, you know, with the deck after the first meeting.”
Amber Atherton Dec 18, 2019 ▶ 6:21 Amber Atherton of Zyper and Iba Masood of TARA on Raising a Series A as a Female Founder · Y Combinator
Dec 18, 2019 neutral
Opinion
Atherton: Female founders pitch market sizes less aggressively than male peers
“I feel like the appetite for risk for a lot of female founders to really answer that question, you know, how big can this be is it's more realistic perhaps of like, okay, well, we have product market fit, the product's going to change a bit. So, Realistically,…”
Amber Atherton Dec 18, 2019 ▶ 39:52 Amber Atherton of Zyper and Iba Masood of TARA on Raising a Series A as a Female Founder · Y Combinator
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