Episode Details

Produced by Foundersuite.com, "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders who have raised capital. This episode is with Emily Best of Seed&Spark. Seed&Spark is a crowdfunding and digital distribution platform. The platform helps filmmakers and audiences join forces to fund, promote and watch new independent films, enabling filmmakers to support new film projects and audiences to watch more independent movies. In this episode, Emily talks about the realities vs. perception of fundraising, building a diverse cap table, the similarities of funding a film vs. a startup, and much more. Note: to put some of the conversation threads in context, it might be useful to read this Medium post: https://medium.com/techstars/how-raising-a-2-m-seed-round-really-actually-went-b1c53ff9096a