Startups: Funding, Building and Growing

Waveup’s 2026 founder research, drawn from advising more than 600 startups tied to over 3 billion US dollars raised, found that free …

Venture capital data tracking Series A funding round requirements consistently shows the genuine bar for Series A funding has risen meaningfully compared …

Paul Graham wrote in 2008 that startups should “launch early and iterate.” The Lean Startup methodology, popularised by Eric Ries in 2011, …

The founding team is the most scrutinised element of any early-stage startup by experienced investors. A strong solo founder with a great …

Angel investors fund companies that are too early for venture capital and too ambitious for friends-and-family rounds. They are typically writing cheques …

The question of how to fund a startup is not primarily a financial question. It is a question about what kind of …

Not all business models are equal right now. Some are benefiting from AI, regulatory tailwinds, and shifting buyer behavior. Others are getting …

Eric Ries published The Lean Startup in 2011. Fifteen years later, the framework’s core vocabulary MVP, validated learning, pivot, build-measure-learn  is so …

The fintech sector raised $11 billion in Q2 2025 alone, the strongest quarter since late 2022. Forecasts project compound annual growth of …