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December 20, 2023 63 mins

Learn about raising money for your startup, how to raise money for your Pre-Seed and Seed round from investors and a story about how Martin lost $500m and STILL won.

ABOUT MARTIN TOBIAS
Martin Tobias is the Managing Partner and Founder of Incisive Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in the first institutional round of technology companies that reduce friction at scale. 

Martin was previously at Accenture and Microsoft and is a former Venture Partner at Ignition Partners. 

Martin is a 3X venture-funded CEO rising over $500M as CEO with two IPOs who has also invested in hundreds of companies and is a limited partner in over a dozen VC funds.

Martin was an early investor in Google, Docusign, OpenSea, and over a dozen Unicorns.

Martin is the father of three daughters, a cyclist, surfer, poker player, and life hacker.

Martin tinkers with motorcycles on the weekends.  He writes about Venture Capital on  Incisive Ventures Blog. https://incisive.vc/insight/

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