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RSVP: https://www.skool.com/fundraise-collective-4446/about I’ll also give away 10 free resources to attendees (only attendees). Half of fundraising is just simply showing up. See you there, Don Stein
Spatial Collective Preview and Recap Your Weekly Digest of the Best Conversations & Insights At the end of the newsletter, I’ll share more details on why to RSVP for our Wednesday Conversation where we are thrilled to be joined by Angelo Del Priore, An Investor, Board Member and Advisor leading team's work for HP's $45B+ Personal Systems group and currently focused on Data Science picks and shovels, Edge Computing, Future of Work and AR/VR. Last Wednesday - Top Moments Yesterday’s session,...
$10.8M Worth of Fundraising Lessons Fundraising is AWESOME... ....if you re-frame it to networking. My startup journey over the last 10 years has been a wild one; starting three companies raising $10.8M building a company to 20 employees while living in London hosting 30+ networking events for VCs while living in San Francisco working for Meta and funding VR startups hosting 5K+ attendees for virtual events in 2024 and finally, again going indie by building a founder-only community of 150+...
Meet the Founder who partnered with Qualcomm to compete with Apple & Meta on Hardware The world of extended reality (XR) is evolving slower than AI or Crypto, yet still major tech giants like Meta and Apple are pouring billions into the field. Amongst this landscape of industry titans, a startup like Immersed is defying the odds with it's product, Visor — strapped, agile, and fiercely determined to prove out their vision. Renji, the founder of Immersed (Visor), recently shared his journey,...
Spatial Collective Preview and Recap Your Weekly Digest of the Best Conversations & Insights Hope your week’s been awesome! We've been busy on SKOOL—thrilling convos, buzzing posts, and even an avatar event that took our member networking to *virtually* a whole new level. Scroll down for photos from our event. At the end of the newsletter I’ll share more details on why to RSVP for our Wednesday Conversation where we are thrilled to be joined by Catalin from Ello AI, a founder with multiple...
Spatial Collective Preview and Recap Your Weekly Digest of the Best Conversations & Insights Hope your week’s been awesome! We've been busy on SKOOL—thrilling convos, buzzing posts, and even an avatar event that took our member networking to *virtually* a whole new level. Scroll down for photos from our event. At the end of the newsletter I’ll share more details on why to RSVP for our Wednesday Conversation where we are thrilled to be joined by Catalin from Ello AI, a founder with multiple...
Dress to Impress The best avatar outfit wins a free feature in my newsletter :), 2K words :) Tomorrow's a special day for the Collective. Or, should I say a spatial day. Below is a preview of what you can expect when you join tomorrow's event, let's see if the power of virtual worlds and 3D avatars can actually enhance a community bond. RSVP Here in SKOOL Featured Guest Jose Antonio Tejedor Garcia Check him out, and come meet him tomorrow as an avatar! RSVP now Don Stein Serving as host, and...
Venture-Backed Founder Convo A reality check for venture-backed founders from a top CEO It's my honor to invite you to RSVP now to the hottest venture-backed conversation of 2025. We've arranged for the top founder of AEXLAB to share his fundraising perspective on VC's. The audience will be full of venture founders. Conversation will be curated by myself, it's going to be extremely helpful for CEO's. Founder Extraordinaire AXELAB Legendary emerging tech CEO, and Forbes 30 Under 30, Jonathan...
The median sized round of an AR/VR/3D startup raising in Q1 2024 is between $2M to $4M according to Crunchbase, signaling the majority raising right now are at the Seed stage. AR/VR Funding Trend This is in stark contrast to A.I. startups which have seen 298 funding rounds announced in Q1 2024 with the majority of round sizes between $20M to $40M. AI Startup Funding Trend However, AR/VR is still very much alive thanks to Apple's new device, and the Quest 3 (and Orion) announcements from Meta....
Last week we hosted an incredible conversation with Sam Cole, Founder and CEO of FitXR. He's raised nearly $30,000,000 for his company, and has become one of the leading players in XR Fitness. You can watch the full recording of our conversation below: How did Sam Cole come up with the idea of fitness in virtual reality? Sam explained his interest in VR and AR (referred to as XR) began around 2013-2014, particularly with companies like Magic Leap and Oculus. He mentioned, "I remember thinking...