Resources for Founders

Resources and guides to help move founders forward. Explore our popular topics below:

Investor Updates

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How to Build a Strong Investor Relations Strategy

Raise capital, update investors and engage your team from a single platform. Try Visible free for 14 days. Quick Navigation What is an investor relations strategy? Challenges in investor relations…

The Most Common Update Content Blocks

Best-in-class founders use investor updates to help with hiring, fundraising, strategy, and more. To help understand what is included in their Updates, we took a look at our own data.…

The Top VCs Investing in BioTech (plus the metrics they want to see)

Raise capital, update investors and engage your team from a single platform. Try Visible free for 14 days. Quick Navigation Set up Your Biotech Company for Success Biotech Metrics to…

Fundraising

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11 Steps for Building a Successful Tech Company

Raise capital, update investors and engage your team from a single platform. Try Visible free for 14 days. Quick Navigation How to Start a Successful Tech Company What Makes a Tech…

20+ VCs Investing in E-commerce and Consumer Products

Raise capital, update investors and engage your team from a single platform. Try Visible free for 14 days. Quick Navigation E-commerce Investment Trends & Insights Evolving E-Commerce: Bridging Offline Discovery…

A Marketplace Founder’s Guide to Fundraising in 2023 + The VCs Investing

Raise capital, update investors, and engage your team from a single platform. Try Visible free for 14 days. Quick Navigation: The Current Marketplace Investment Landscape What Do Marketplace VCs Look for…

Leadership

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What Is Form 3921, and How Does It Affect Your Employees?

What Is the Purpose of IRS Form 3921? How Does Form 3921 Impact Employees Who Exercise an Incentive Stock Option (ISO)? When Should a Startup Owner Receive a Form 3921?…

Advisory Shares Explained: Empowering Entrepreneurs and Investors

Raise capital, update investors and engage your team from a single platform. Try Visible free for 14 days. Quick Navigation What Are Advisory Shares? Advisor Shares vs. Regular Shares (or…

From IPOs to M&A: Navigating the Different Types of Liquidity Events

Raise capital, update investors and engage your team from a single platform. Try Visible free for 14 days. Quick Navigation What is a liquidity event? Types of liquidity events Realistic…

Metrics and Data

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[Webinar Recording] Using SaaS Metrics to Build Your Fundraising Narrative with Forum Ventures

Over the course of a fundraise, founders are expected to share the data and financials that fuel their business. Jonah Midanik of Forum Ventures joined us on March 21st to…

Important Startup Financials to Win Investors

Raise capital, update investors and engage your team from a single platform. Try Visible free for 14 days. Quick Navigation What are startup financials? Why are startup financials important for…

How to Calculate the Rule of 40 Using Visible

Since the start of 2022, there have been major macroeconomic changes taking the startup world by storm. Rising inflation, paired with the tumultuous public markets (especially in the technology sector),…

Product Updates

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A Refreshed Look

We last updated our brand identity in October 2020. Since then, Visible founders have gone from sending 8,000 investor updates per month to over 75,000 — we also launched Visible…

Manage Every Part of Your Fundraising Funnel with Visible Data Rooms

Data rooms are the next step to help us on our mission of giving founders a better chance of success. Data rooms are the culmination of a fundraise, diligence, or…

Level up Your Fundraising Process with Email Syncing

Raising venture capital often mirrors a traditional B2B sales & marketing funnel. At the top of your funnel, you are identifying potential investors through research, direct outreach, and intros from…